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Journal Articles for Environmental Sciences

• Academic Search Premier An index to almost 5,000 scholarly journals in all disciplines, many of which have full text.
• Agricola The major sources for articles, books, pamphlets, and other material on all areas of agriculture.
• BioOne A full text source of about 150 journals.
• Wiley-Interscience (formerly Blackwell) Journals in Science, Technology, and Medicine Over 1300 current full-text journals in the sciences, technology, medicine, psychology, and education.
• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) database provides access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from published, international, and scientific literature on dietary supplements. IBIDS is a collaboration between two US government agencies: the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Library (NAL).
• GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Composed of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet.
• PubMed The major index to medicine, animal and human.
• ScienceDirect College Edition A full-text database for journals in the life, medical, social, behavioral, and physical sciences.
• JSTOR (Journal Storage) Scholarly articles in over 150 academic journals. Articles date from the 1800s up to a "moving wall" of between one and eight years before the present. That means that there are no current articles. Coverage includes the arts, business, general science, the humanities, and social science.

Web Sites for Environmental Sciences

• Academic Info A directory of Internet resources in biology and biological sciences tailored to a college audience. See especially the page on global warming.
• Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Annotated Dictionary
• BIOTN: Best Information on the Net In addition to a listing of resources by academic subject, including environmental management, this site offers an interesting collection of Hot Paper Topics.
• Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center is the central source of data and information pertaining to global climate change. The site provides data about atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and the role of the earth's biosphere in biogeochemical cycles.
• Climate Change: The Discovery of Global Warming A good source from the American Institute of Physics.
• Climate change -- Methane and Other Greenhouse Gases An excellent source of information for research projects from the EPA. Full text of many EPA reports.
• EarthTrends: The environmental information portal Provides access to global or country-specific environmental data. There are 10 topics, from coastal and marine, to climate and atmosphere. From the World Resources Institute.
• Ecology, Biodiversity, and the Environment Covers global sustainability, endangered species, pollution, exotic introductions, and other topics of current environmental interest. Provided by the Virtual Library.
• EcoPort.
• EnviroLink "The largest online environmental information resource on the planet"
• Environment Sites on the Internet A database from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden that allows you to search by subject and provides links to electronic journal articles, organizations, and people.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sites:
  • EPA Global Warming Information on the very broad issue of climate change and global warming.
  • EPA National Library Network Program. Links to EPA libraries around the country and the National Service Center for Environmental Publications. Good for general information about the environment and environmental regulations and policy.
  • EPA New England, which provides information specific to this region.
• Forest History Society Archival Guide A bibliography to information on forests and forestry. No full text. This just leads you to sites that MIGHT have the material.
• George Environmental and sustainability studies resources page, provides a basic bibliography and a portal to World Wide Web sources. This page is a research tool and an introduction to the many faces of environmental and sustainability studies. From Goddard College.
• Global Change The gateway to global change data and information. The site includes "Ask Dr. Global Change," which provides help in accessing data to answer specific questions.
• Global Warming/Climate Change books. Full-text.
• The Harmful Algae Page includes photos, descriptions of algal-caused harm, maps, and references to related sites. Also has a graphic algae identification feature. From the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
• Life Sciences Dictionary
• National Academies Press Books on environmental issues. Full-text.
• National Library for the Environment An excellent site for full-text documents in all areas of environmental science.
• NatureServe Explorer A searchable database of more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the US and Canada. Includes rare and endangered species as well as common plants and animals too.
• NOAA Paleo Global Warming The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updates and links together the critical information that impacts on the important societal phenomena related to climate variability. The site provides data, models, maps, reports, and publications.
• The Ozone Depletion Phenomenon
• Science and Sustainable Development books. Full-text.
• Science in the Headlines Provides summaries of reports on hot science topics, from AIDS to Urban Development. Link to the full text of reports and to related publications. From the National Academy of Science.
• SciTechResources.gov The catalog of the government's science and technology Web sites.
• TOXNET Technical information on the toxicology of plants. Covers environmental health, public health, and hazardous materials.
• Transgenic Crops: An Introduction and Resource Guide An excellent summary of the work being done on transgenic crops. A useful guide for anyone interested in the production and use of genetically modified organisms.
• The Virtual Earth An introduction to the Web for earth scientists.