Environmental Studies Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Excellent basic index to articles in key peer-reviewed journals and selected popular magazines (1984 - present)
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• GreenFile
  Index to over 200,000 articles related to the human impact on the environment published in over 600 periodicals (including over 200 peer-reviewed journals).
• General Science Full Text
  Abstracts and some full-text of articles from leading science journals published (1984 to the present)

Most Comprehensive:

• Biological Abstracts
  Citations to over 7 million articles published in 4,000 life science and biomedical journals (1969 - present)
• GEOBASE
  Index to selected research (journal articles, books, conference proceedings) on geography, geology, and ecology (1980 - present)

Other Useful Databases:

• JSTOR
  Full-text of older (pre-2005) articles from selected academic journals (including selected ecology and biology journals)
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• ScienceDirect
  Full-text access to over 900 journals in the fields of science and social science, with coverage from 1998-present.
• Social Sciences Full-Text
  Searches the abstracts (descriptions) and selected full-text of 700,000 articles published in over 600 leading social science journals, including a dozen environmental studies journals (1984 - present)
• Wiley InterScience
  Full-text access to over 300 journals published by John Wiley & Sons. The journals focus mainly on the field of science, and the coverage is from 1997-current.

See Also:

• Enviromental Studies Databases on the Web
• Agriculture databases
• Biology databases
• Economics databases
• Government Information databases
• Politics databases
• Online Environmental Science Journals
• Environmental Studies Subject Guide