Outline of this guide: Reference Works Books Articles & Other Materials

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• Biographical Sources
  • American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present. Anne Becher. 2 vols. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000.
    Reference R 923.6 B391a
  • American National Biography. Ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999-2002.
    Reference R 920.073 A512
  • Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Ed. Keir Sterling et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
    Reference R 925.7 B615
  • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
  • Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
    Contains both the Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie (18 vols.; New York: Scribner, 1870-1990) and the New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, edited by Noretta Koertge (8 vols.; Detroit: Scribner's, 2007).
• Environmental Studies
  • AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment. Paul Harrison and Fred Pearce. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2000.
    Reference R 333.7 H321a
  • Access Science. McGraw-Hill, 2005- .
    Contains the full text of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology as well as research updates, biographies, and technology news.
  • The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History. Ed. Char Miller. New York: Routledge, 2007.
    Reference R 304.2 A881
  • Credo Reference
    A collection of electronic reference books; useful for quick answers to questions. Includes the Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management, the Handbook of Environmental Sociology, and the International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics. For more information, be sure to consult the Gale Virtual Reference Library too.
  • A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation. Chris Park. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.
    Reference R 363.7 P235d
  • Dictionary of Environmental Economics. Anil Markandya et al. Sterling, VA: Earthscan, 2001.
    Reference R 333.7 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
  • Encyclopedia of Environmental Studies. William Ashworth and Charles 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 Goudie. 2 vols. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002.
    Reference R 363.7 E561
  • Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. Ed. Ted Munn. 5 vols. New York: 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
  • The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Environmental Change. Ed. John Matthews. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 363.7 E562
  • Environmental Encyclopedia. Ed. Marci Bortman et al. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2003.
    Reference R 363.7 E564
  • The Environmental Guidebook: A Selective Reference Guide to Environmental Organizations and Related Entries. Jeff Staudinger. Menlo Park, CA: Environmental Frontlines, 2002.
    Reference R 363.7 S798e
  • Environmental Law Handbook. 7th ed. Lanham, MD: Government Institutes, 2005.
    Reference R 363.7 E611 2005
  • Environmental Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Authors, and Themes. Comp. Patricia Netzley. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999.
    Reference R 333.7 E612
  • Gale Virtual Reference Library
    A collection of over 120 electronic reference books. Includes the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, Pollution: A to Z, and Water: Science and Issues.
  • Guide to Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy. Ed. Natalia Mirovitskaya and William Ascher. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press, 2001.
    Reference R 338.92 G946
  • Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism. Edward Wells and Alan Schwartz. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997.
    Reference R 363.7 W453h
  • International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics. Ed. John Barry and E. Gene Frankland. New York: Routledge, 2002.
    Reference R 363.7 I61

• Library Catalog
  Includes information about books, government documents, and journals, magazines, and newspapers in the Library.
  • To locate works about a person, do a subject search for the person's name (last name first).
  • To locate bibliographies on a person or topic, do a keyword search and add the following: su bibliography.
  • To locate appropriate Library of Congress Subject Headings, start with a keyword search and then browse records.
  Search Syntax:
  • Truncation: use a dollar sign $
  • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
  • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• ebrary
  A collection of over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights.
  Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is on all library and ITS computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it from the ebrary home page.
• 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 Catalog 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 ?

• Starting Points (interdisciplinary)
  
  • Academic Search Premier
    (1975 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 ?
  • 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 law reviews and federal and state cases.
    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 ?
  • Westlaw Campus Research
    Includes the full text of news articles and federal and state court cases.
    Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research.
    Search Syntax (for "Terms and Connectors" searches):
    • Truncation: use an exclamation point !
    • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
    • Wildcard: use an asterisk *
• Important Resources for Environmental Studies
  • Annual Reviews
    (1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the social science and biomedical, life, and physical sciences. Includes the Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
  • 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 *
  • Web of Knowledge
    (c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in thousands of journals in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.
    Includes:
    • Derwent Innovations Index
    • ISI Proceedings
    • Medline
    • Web of Science
    Search Syntax:
    • Truncation: use an asterisk *
    • Phrase searching: use double quotations marks " "
    • Wildcard: use a question mark ?
• Other Resources
  Search the core databases and other resources listed on subject-specific indexes & databases pages, such as the following:
  • Anthropology
  • Biology
  • Business
  • Economics
  • English Literature
  • Film (also covers television)
  • General Science
  • History
  • Law
  • Medicine
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Religion
  • Sociology