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Articles - General Science and News

Web of Science
Index of articles from over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to multidisciplinary searches, Web of Science provides tools to track citations to individual articles from their date of publication to the present. Now includes Book Citation Index and Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Coverage: 1900-present.

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ScienceDaily.com
News articles report hot topics and science “breakthroughs”. A link at the end of the article will often take you to data analysis and research methods.

ScienceDirect
Full text of Elsevier Science articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books covering the scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature published in 24 fields of science. Coverage varies by title.

Articles - Environment & Ecology

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
Includes AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. Coverage: 1960-present.
BIOSIS Citation Index
The most comprehensive coverage of the literature in the life sciences. Includes content from journals, reports, reviews, and meetings. Discover high impact articles with cited reference searching on the Web of Knowledge platform. Coverage: 1969-present.

BIOSIS: Getting Started
Zoological Record
The most comprehensive index to the zoological and animal science literature. Coverage: 1864-present

Zoological Record: Getting Started
GreenFile
Index of scholarly journals, government publications and general interest magazines on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and other aspects of human impact to the environment. Coverage: 1974-present.

Background Information

Oxford Dictionary of Ecology
4th edition.
Over 6,000 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric science, and oceanography.
Dictionary of Environment & Ecology
5th edition, Bloomsbury, 2011
Over 8,000 terms from all aspects of ecology and environmental fields, including climate, pollution, waste disposal and energy conservation.
Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Macmillan Reference, 2009
Examines the philosophical and ethical issues underlying contemporary and historical environmental issues, policies, and debates. Covers concepts, institutions, topics, events and people, including global warming, animal rights, environmental movements, alternative energy, green chemistry, industrial ecology, and eco-sabotage.
Green Issues and Debates
Sage Reference, 2011
Explores the multitude of threats to sustainable life on earth and the myriad of controversies surrounding potential solutions.
Standard Handbook of Environmental Science, Health, and Technology by Jay H. Lehr; Janet K. Lehr
Call Number: REFERENCE GE123 .S73 2000

McGraw-Hill
A comprehensive handbook for all areas of environmental science, including sampling methods, monitoring methods, testing methods, control techniques, and calculation methods.
Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resource, and Environmental Economics
Elsevier, 2013
Explores the relationship between economics and energy policy, environmental protection, and natural resource management.
Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
6th edition, Wiley, 2003
Subject areas include inorganic and organic chemicals, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys, biotechnology, food chemistry and environmental protection. Chemical substances are described in detail: physical and chemical properties, production, applications, economic data, toxicology and occupational health data is provided for each substance.

Data Sources

NOAA National Climatic Data Center - Global Warming
Overview and links for: Green House Effect, Green House Gases, Global Temperatures, El Niño, Ocean Heat Content, Sea Level Rise, Hydrological Cycle, Cryosphere, Climate Variability and Extremes, Future Climate Projections and Additional Resources.

Statista
A statistics portal with data from over 18,000 sources -- private, public, and proprietary from North America, Europe, and Asia. Also included are U.S. industry reports, country reports, and colorful infographics.

All statistics can be downloaded as PowerPoint, Excel, and JPEG files, along with the original source with full citations in APA, Chicago, Harvard, and MLA formats.

National Climatic Data Center - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
NOAA's NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data.

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NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world. NCDC supports a three tier national climate services support program - the partners include: NCDC, Regional Climate Centers, and State Climatologists.
World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas Series - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Worldwide data sets and products from NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The WODselect interface allows searching by user-specified criteria.
Coral Reef Information System
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) is designed to be a single point of access to NOAA coral reef information and data products, especially those derived from NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program.
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) facilitates the collection, management and processing of species data for publication on the IUCN Red List.
Global Invasive Species Database
Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG), SSC- Species Survival Commission of the IUCN -International Union for Conservation of Nature. The GISD was developed as part of the global initiative on invasive species led by the Global Invasive Species Programme. The GISD focuses on invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity and natural ecosystems and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants in all ecosystems. Species information is either supplied by or reviewed by expert contributors from around the world.
Water Resources of the United States
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects information needed to understand the Nation's water resources, and provides access to water data, publications, maps, and recent water projects. Water data by state is also included.
Adirondack Ecological Center
The Adirondack Ecological Center was established in 1971 by the State University of New York College of Environmental Forestry in Syracuse to provide the science that underpins the management of Adirondack Park as one of the world's foremost experiments in conservation and sustainability.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
United States Environmental Protection Agency

Environmental Impact Statements: Digests
Abstract summaries of the environmental impact statements issued by the federal government. Each record includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates. Coverage: 1985-present.

Note: Environmental Impact Statements: Digests is now part of Environmental Science Index. By default, your search will be limited to Environmental Impact Statements: Digests content only. Deselect the checkbox to expand your search and get more results.

Hazardous Substances Data Bank
Peer-reviewed toxicology data for over 5,000 hazardous chemicals.
Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), United States Department of Labor
Material Safety Data Sheets
Internet Resources for MSDS - General Sites
These sites have large collections of MSDS and are a good place to start your search.

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Produced by individual manufacturers, data sheets vary widely. Try to locate applications, dates and countries of origin that fit your research.
New York State Department of Health
A Research Guide to the Marcellus and Utica Shales
A project of Carnegie Mellon and the PA State Association of Boroughs. Carnegie Mellon University, 2012. Debate on natural gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) of shale rock formations center on arguments about energy, the economy, and the environment.

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There has been considerably less attention paid to the societal and social impacts of hydraulic fracturing, including impacts on tourism, patterns of housing development, crime, social services usage, road quality, and urban planning and population issues. The urgency to understand these concerns brought together researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and officials from the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs and the Chrostwaite Institute to create the Research Guide to the Marcellus and Utica Shales. The purpose of this project is to catalog the literature on natural gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing in order to help policymakers and researchers comprehend the existing research on this topic and identify issues for further study.
New York State Rural Soil Background Survey, 2005. Appendix D.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

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Provided by by Peter Taylor, Oneida County Remediation Department and Jim Harrington, New York State Remediation Department, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Study of State Soil Arsenic Regulations.
Conducted by the Association for the Environmental Health of Soils, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1998.
Modern Shale Gas Development in the U.S.: An Update, 2013
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), U.S. Department of Energy, 2013
This Primer provides information on the technology advances and challenges that accompany deep shale gas development.
Revised Draft SGEIS (Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement on the Oil, Gas and Solution Mining Regulatory Program (September 2011)
“Well Permit Issuance for Horizontal Drilling and High-Volume Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale and Other Low-Permeability Gas Reservoirs”.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Course Guide ~ BIO 100J / EXB: Our Blue Planet: Research Databases

Research Databases

Articles - General Science and News

Articles - Environment & Ecology

Background Information

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Citation, RefWorks and Avoiding Plagiarism

Citation Style, Avoiding Plagiarism & RefWorks

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