Issues In
Environmental Biology
Professor Paradise
Fall 2005

• Reference Sources
• Articles
• Books & Textbooks
• Tips & Further Help

• The Atlas of Global Change. Ed. Lothar Beckel. Trans. Howard Fine. New York: Macmillan Reference, 1998.
  Reference R 550 G562a
• The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History. Ed. Char Miller. New York: Routledge, 2003.
  Reference R 304.2 A881
• The Dictionary of Ecology and Environmental Science. Ed. Henry W. Art. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
  Reference R 363.7 D554
• A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation. Chris Park. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
  Reference R 363.7 P235d
• A Dictionary of Environmental Economics. Anil Markandya et al. Sterling, VA: Earthscan Publications, 2001.
  Reference R 33.7 D5541
• A Dictionary of Environmental Economics, Science, and Policy. R. Quentin Grafton et al. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2001.
  Reference R 333.7 G737d
• Dictionary of Environmental Law. Alan Gilpin. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000.
  Reference R 344.04 G489d
• The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change. Ed. John A. Matthews. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
  Reference R 363.7 E562
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology. Ed. William A. Nierenberg. 3 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1995.
  Reference R 574.5 E56
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Ed. Craig W. Allin. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2000.
  Reference R 363.7 E56
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Studies. Ed. William Ashworth and Charles E. Little. New ed. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
  Reference R 333.7 A831e
• Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society. Ed. Andrew S. Goudie. 2 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
  Reference R 363.7 E561
• Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. Ed. Ted Munn. 5 vols. Chichester, NY: Wiley, 2002.
  Reference R 363.7 E563
• Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Ed. Shepard Krech III et al. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2004.
  Reference R 304.2 E56
• Environmental Data Report 1993-1994. GEMS Monitoring and Assessment Research Center and World Resources Institute. Oxford: Blackwell Reference, 1993.
  Reference R 363.7 E6113
• Environmental Encyclopedia. Ed. Marci Bortman et al. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2003.
  Reference R 363.7 E564
• Environmental Law Handbook. Ed. Thomas F.P. Sullivan. 18th ed. Lanham, MD: Government Institutes, 2005.
  Reference R 363.7 E611
• The Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental Science. Ed. Bruce Wyman and L. Harold Stevenson. New ed. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
  Reference R 628 S847f 2001
• Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy. Ed. Natalia Mirovitskaya and William Ascher. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2001.
  Reference R 338.92 G946
• Habitats and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia of Endangered America. Mark Crawford. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
  Reference R 578.6 C899h
• Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues: An Encyclopedia. Bruce E. Johansen. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2003.
  Reference R 304.2 J65i
• International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics. Ed. John Barry and E. Gene Frankland. New York: Routledge, 2002.
  Reference R 363.7 I61
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.
  
  Note: the Library also has the complete McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (9th ed.; 20 vols.; New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002), shelved in Reference at call number R 503 M14.
• OECD Environmental Data: Compendium. Washington, DC: Organization for Economics Cooperation and Development, 1987- .
  Reference R 333.9 O28
  
  The Library has volumes for 1987, 1995, and 1999. The most recent volume is shelved in Reference; older volumes are in the stacks.
• Pollution A to Z. Ed. Richard M. Stapleton. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
  Reference R 363.7 P777
• Soil and Environmental Science Dictionary. Ed. E.G. Gregorich et al. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2002.
  Reference R 631.4 S683
• Statistical Abstract of the United States.
  Reference R 317.3 U54
  Government Document Stacks C 3.134
  Online (1995 to present)
  
  A compendium of statistics on a wide variety of subjects. Particularly useful for its source notes, which will direct to statistical publications that contain additional information. Also useful for retrospective information; the Library has a long run of this title, so you can consult tables in earlier volumes if you need to chart historical trends.
• Toxic Waste Sites: An Encyclopedia of Endangered America. Mark Crawford. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
  Reference R 363.7 C899t
• Water in Crisis: A Guide to the World's Fresh Water Resources. Ed. Peter H. Gleick. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
  Reference R 333.91 W3241
• Water: Science & Issues. Ed. E. Julius Dasch. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003
• The Wiley Encyclopedia of Energy and the Environment. Ed. Attilo Bisio and Sharon Boots. 2 vols. New York: Wiley, 1997.
  Reference R 333.7 W676
• In addition, there are many useful Web sites with background information and statistics, including:
  • Energy Information Administration, from the U.S. Department of Energy
    
    Includes the Annual Energy Review, with historical data back to 1949.
  • Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
    
    Includes MA reports and, later in 2005, maps and data.
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
    
    Includes Air Trends and Envirofacts Data Warehouse.

• Academic Search Elite
  (1984 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
  
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: use an asterisk *.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".
  Wildcard: use a question mark ?.
• General Science Abstracts
  (1984 to present) Indexes articles in over 250 English-language periodicals in a variety of science disciplines, including physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry, environmental science, mathematics, and medicine.
  
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".
  Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?.
• InfoTrac OneFile
  (1980 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also included citations to book reviews and citations to articles in several national newspapers.
  
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: use an asterisk *.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".
  Wildcard: use an exclamation point !.
• LexisNexis Academic
  (Approx. 1980 to present) Includes the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as articles from legal periodicals and selected medical journals. Also includes transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
  
  To find environmental news in business periodicals:
  In the upper left-hand corner of the main search screen, choose the "Business" search form and then select "Industry & Market" (third bullet under "News" in the center of the page). Enter your keywords, select "Environmental & Natural Resources News" as the Industry, and adjust the date range as appropriate.
  To find news articles:
  On the main search page ("News" academic search form), click on the "Guided News Search" tab to do an advanced search.
  To find legal materials:
  In the upper left-hand corner of the main search screen, choose the "Legal Research" search form."
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: use an exclamation point.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".
  Wildcard: use an asterisk *.
• LexisNexis Environmental
  (1975 to present) Includes Environment Abstracts, which indexes over 650 environmental sciences journals. LexisNexis Environmental also contains full-text articles from newspapers, trade journals, consumer magazines, newsletters, and more than 40 law reviews as well as codes and regulations from federal and state agencies.
  
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: use an exclamation point.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".
  Wildcard: use an asterisk *.
• OmniFile Full Text Mega
  (1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
  
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: unnecessary when using "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use an asterisk *.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks "".
  Wildcard: do not use with "All - Smart Search"; otherwise, use a question mark ?.

• Library Catalogue
  Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
  
  Note: To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
  Useful subject headings include:

  • Air pollution
  • Biological diversity
  • Biotic communities
  • Climatic changes
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystem management
  • Energy
  • Evolution
  • Hazardous Wastes
  • Human Ecology
  • Nature effects of human beings on
  • Pollution
  • Population biology
  • Soil pollution
  • Sustainable development
  • Water pollution

  Search Syntax
  Truncation: use a dollar sign $.
  Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".
  Wildcard: use a question mark ?.
• WorldCat
  Indexes books, periodicals, and other materials held by libraries around the world. Search WorldCat to identify additional books on your topic and then order the books on interlibrary loan.
  
  Note: It can be helpful to identify relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings in the Library Catalogue first; you can then do a subject search in WorldCat to find additional items with these subject headings.
  Search Syntax
  Truncation: use an asterisk *.
  Phrase searching: insert a "w" between the words in a phrase (for example, "cold w war").
  Wildcard: use a question mark ?.

• How to Narrow or Broaden your Search
• How to Identify a Scholarly Article
• How to Search the Web: Tools & Tips
• How to Evaluate Web Resources
• Research Planner (pdf document)
• Research Log (pdf document)