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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

This is a trial resource, with access scheduled to end December 31, 2009.
GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment and provides authoritative content in the area of the environment, energy and natural resources.

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to provide a guide to the principal contributions of the field.

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All articles since November 1991 (Vol. 16)

Annual Reviews

Indexes review articles published in Annual Reviews series. Primarily science & technology.
Also access to full-text for all series. Enters at the Advanced Search page.

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Conference Papers Index

Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences.

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Covers from 1982 - current.

Environment Complete

Covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.

GreenFILE

This database is also freely available at www.greeninfoonline.com

GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

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History Cooperative

This non-profit humanities resource has the full-text of thousands of articles from some of the most prestigious history journals, all free. You can search all the articles by subject or limit a subject search to a certain journal. You can also browse the tables of contents for each issue.

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PSYC 338: Animal Behavior

A course guide that helps students understand that the method in which they search databases can create very noticeable differences in the success of their results. Additionally, this site provides a number of starting points for research, a few animal-specific websites, and links to suggested book and article databases accessible through Milne Library.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

Environmental Fate Database (EFDB)

Covers physical properties, environmental degradation and transport studies, and ambient, effluent, food, and occupational monitoring data on over 16,500 chemicals and 35,000 references.

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Encyclopedia of Earth

”An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.”

Environmental Encyclopedia

Marci Bortman, Peter Brimblecombe, Mary Ann Cunningham, William P. Cunningham, and William Freedman, Eds. 3rd ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2002. 1641 pp. 2 vols.

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Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues.

Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles