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Library Resources for Sustainability

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Environment Complete: Covers the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database also contains full text for 400 journals, full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes) and Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, and the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
GreenFILE: GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
InfoTrac Environmental Issues & Policy eCollection: A custom collection of nearly 200 journals providing robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Academic OneFile: Academic OneFile is a source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's English language journals and reference sources. It has extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, & millions of full text articles available in both PDF and HTML.
Academic Search Premier: The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. 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.

Encyclopedia of environmental science
See catalog for call number: Provides information related to environmental science; defines terms and identifies key people, organizations, events, statutes, treaties, places, creatures, and technology; and includes a chronology from 1798 to 2000.
Environment : a revolution in attitudes (published every 2 years)
See catalog for call number: Table of contents: The state of the environment-an overview -- Air quality -- The enhanced greenhouse effect and global warming -- A hole in the sky: ozone depletion -- Acid ain -- Nonhazardous waste -- Nonhazardous materials recovery-recycling and composting -- Hazardous and radioactive waste -- Water issues -- Toxins in everyday life -- Depletion and conservation of natural resources.
Environment : an illustrated guide to science (2006)
Call number: REF GE105.D536 2006: Offers color diagrams, graphs, charts, and maps that illustrate the essential elements of the environmental sciences, while the accompanying text provides key definitions and step-by-step explanations. Table of contents: Human factor -- Food and water -- Land and habitat -- Land and sea -- Air pollution -- Nature under threat -- Environmental disasters

Encyclopedia of Global Change: Encompassing tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt, the 300 authoritative articles in this unique and wide-ranging encyclopedia investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth. The entries cover a range of general research categories: altered ecosystems, climate change, food and water supply, population, politics and global change, institutions and policies, biographies, and case studies.
Energy: Supplies, Sustainability, and Costs 2005: The Information Plus Reference Series compiles all the pertinent data, both current and historical, on a wide variety of contemporary social issues. Designed as ready-reference tools providing key data on social concerns, these books save researchers and students from the cumbersome task of locating the various data in pamphlets, legal journals, congressional reports, newspapers and other sources.

Reference Books Online: Complete list of online Reference Books (specialized books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.).

If you have any problems with accessing these databases, please contact the Circulation Desk at (413) 552-2372.

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Last updated on : October 30, 2009