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Peer Reviewed Journals

To determine whether a journal is peer reviewed, search for it in Ulrich's Periodicals Directory and look for the little referee symbol: .

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Articles - Environmental Science

Use these databases to find journal articles and more.

Environment Complete This link opens in a new window This database covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning. Contains records from domestic and international journals going back to the 1950s as well as from selected monographs.
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Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Web Of Science Core Collection includes Citation Indexes for Arts & Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences
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Scopus This link opens in a new window Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in science, technology, medicine, and the social sciences.
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Environmental Studies: Gale in Context This link opens in a new window Also known as: |Global Reference On The Environment/Energy/And Natural Resources| Formerly known as |GREENR| This database focuses on the study of sustainability and the environment, and covers content in the areas of the environment, and energy and natural resources. Topics covered include global warming, food safety, access to health care, and the impact of economic development on international relations.
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CBCA: Science & Technology This link opens in a new window This collection is a subset of the Canadian Business & Current Affairs database with a focus on Science and Technology-related topics.
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Also known as: |Academic Search Premier| Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for a large number of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for a subset of these journals.
Contains text in Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Flemish, French / Français, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Iranian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian and Urdu languages.

Background Information

Are you looking for an overview of a particular environmental issue or a definition of a term? these are examples of the types of information you can find using the resources below. For more resources, visit Finding Background Information.

Environmental Encyclopedia Contains articles covering the field of environmental studies. Covers the terms, concepts, and history of the field.
A Dictionary of Environmental History Includes "almost 1,000 entries covering key terminology, events, places, dates, topics, as well as the major personalities in the history of the discipline. Entries range from shorter factual accounts to substantial mini-essays on major topics and issues."

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (eLS) This link opens in a new window The Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences is a work in progress. When complete in 2001 it will comprise over 12 million words, 4,000 articles, 7,500 illustrations, 180,000 index entries and 26,000 links. It will be constantly updated online
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Also known as: |Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences|
Gale Ebooks This link opens in a new window Also known as Gale Virtual Reference Library, this is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research
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Audio, Video, and Images

The following audio and video resources focus on environmental science. For more AV content, visit the Audio & Video Resources guide.

Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new window This database brings together multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. It is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries, and content is drawn from the social sciences, ecology and earth science, and the humanities.
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Environmental Studies in Video This link opens in a new window This video collection covers all realms of Environmental Studies, particularly Ethics, Policy, Economics, Law, Sociology, Planning, and Environmental Science. Specific topics include alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.
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Includes content in Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dari, English, Finnish, French / Français, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Ladakhi, Laotian, Mandarin, Mongolian, NorthSaami, Norwegian, Portuguese, Raji, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai and Vietnamese languages.

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