Databases by Subject - Environmental Studies and Engineering

See also Civil & Environmental Engineering, Energy and Biology & Biotechnology.

Database Title	Description	Coverage	Some Full Text	Restricted to...^†
Academic OneFile	Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included	1980-	Y
BioOne	Aggregation of full-text bioscience journals, most published by small societies and non-commercial publishers. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
EBSCOhost Business Source Premier	Includes full text for 2,300+ business journals, indexes 3,300+ titles, as well as industry reports and company profiles from Datamonitor. Journals Included \| Other Sources \| Tutorial	1922-	Y
EBSCOhost GreenFILE	Contains abstracts of articles on all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.	Varies	N
Encyclopedia of Environment and Society	Contains 1200 entries written by experts on a range of environmental topics from agroecosystems to zero population growth.	2007	Y
Encyclopedia of Water Science	Covers water issues encountered in agriculture and env2ironmental science. Coverse a wide spectrum of design concepts, methodologies, and solutions for enhanced performance of water quality, treatment, conservation, and irrigation methods.	Current	Y
ENVIROnetbase	More than 300 full text environmental handbooks on such topics on Water Science, Technology, and Engineering, GIS, environmental chemistry, ecology, and earth science. How it Works	Current	Y
Google Scholar	Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities.	Varies	Y	For best results, use Proxy
HighWire Press	From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included \| Search Tips	Varies	Y
Journal Citation Reports	JCR within ISI Web of Knowledge helps measure research influence and impact of journals and journal categories, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. ThomsonReuters provides Journal Impact Factors with current and five year trends.	Current	N
JSTOR	Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1800s-	Y
Knovel	Collection of 1600+ science and engineering handbooks, including the Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology and Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine. Titles Included \| Help Center	Current	Y
Oxford Journals Online	Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas.	1995-	Y
PAIS International	Contains references to articles on public affair and government issues from journals, books, government documents and statistical directories. Titles Included \| Search Tips	1915-	N
ScienceDirect	Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips \| Tutorial	Varies	Y
SciFinder Scholar	Electronic access to Chemical Abstracts, indexing the literature of chemistry. Search Tips	1907-	Y
SpringerLink	Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included	Varies	Y
TOXNET	A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.	Varies	N
Web of Knowledge - Web of Science	Interface to Arts &Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products) and login to your Web of Science account for cited reference alerts and customization. Tutorial \| Cited Reference Tutorial	1980-	N
Wiley Interscience	Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips	1946-	Y

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Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Environmental Protection Agency
FAO AGRIS/CARIS - agricultural science and technology literature

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