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Nature's World Topics in Global Environmental History Professor Wells Fall 2004 Reference Works Locating Primary Sources General Search Tools Contemporary Books Diaries Government Documents Periodicals Other Examples Indexes to Secondary Sources Tools for Locating Books Tools for Locating Articles Electronic Journal Collections Questions? Please contact Susanna Boylston (704.894.2494). Reference Works Biographical Works | Other Works Biographical Works 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 American Nature Writers. Ed. John Elder. 2 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 810.9 A5121 Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists. Ed. Keir B. Sterling et al. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. Reference R 925.7 B615 Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- . The Environmentalists: A Biographical Dictionary from the 17th Century to the Present. Alan Axelrod and Charles Phillips. New York: Facts on File, 1993. Reference R 923.6 A969e Other Works AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment. Paul Harrison and Fred Pearce. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 2000. Reference R 333.7 H321a The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History. Ed. Char Miller. New York: Routledge, 2003. Reference R 304.2 A881 Atlas of Contemporary America: Portrait of a Nation. Rodger Pirnie Doyle. New York: Facts on File, 1994. Reference R 317.3 D754a Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature. Ed. David H. Price. New York: Sage, 1989. Reference R 912.13 P945a Beacham's Guide to Environmental Issues & Sources. Ed. Walton Beacham. 5 vols. Washington, DC: Beacham, 1993. Reference R 363.7 B365 A Bibliography of American County Histories. Comp. P. William Filby. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub., 1987. Reference R 016.973 F479b Columbia Gazetteer of the World. Ed. Saul B. Cohen. 3 vols. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998. Reference R 910.3 C726 Columbia Guide to American Environmental History. Carolyn Merchant. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2002. Reference R 304.2 M554c Conservation and the Law: a Dictionary. Debra L. Donahue. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998. Reference R 346.73 D674c Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 10 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2003. Reference R 973 D554 2003 Dictionary of Environment and Development. Andy Crump. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993. Reference R 363.7 C965d Dictionary of Environmental Quotations. Comp. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. Reference R 333.7 D554 Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Environmental Change. Ed. John A. Matthews. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2001. Reference R 363.7 E562 Encyclopedia of Asian History. Ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4 vols. New York: Scribner, 1988. Reference R 950 E56 Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America. John Mack Faragher. New York: Facts on File, 1990. Reference R 973.3 E56 Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues. Ed. Craig W. Allin. 3 vols. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2000. Reference R 363.7 E56 Encyclopedia of Global Change: Environmental Change and Human Society. 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 Latin American History and Culture. Ed. Barbara A. Tenenbaum. 5 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 980 E56 Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. Ed. David Levinson and Karen Christensen. 6 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2002. Reference R 950 L665e Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies. Ed. Jacob Ernest Cooke. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1993. Reference R 973.1 E56 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Ed. Paul Finkelman. 3 vols. New York: Scribner's, 2001. Reference R 973.5 E56 Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 4 vols. New York: Scribner's, 1996. Reference R 973.03 E562 Encyclopedia of World Cultures. Ed. David Levinson. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1991. Reference R 306 E56 Encyclopedia of World Environmental History. Ed. Shepard Krech III et al.. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2004. Reference R 304.2 E56 Environmental Encyclopedia. Ed. Marci Bortman et al. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2003. Reference R 363.7 E564 Environmental Law Handbook. Ed. Thomas F.P. Sullivan. 14th ed. Rockville, MD: Government Institutes, 1997. Reference R 363.7 E611 Environmental Literature: An Encyclopedia of Works, Authors, and Themes. Comp. Patricia D. Netzley. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1999. Reference R 333.7 E612 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 R. Wells and Alan M. Schwartz. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1997. Reference R 363.7 W453h Historical Dictionary of the Green Movement. Elim Papadakis. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Reference R 363.7 P213h Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970. 2 vols. Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census, 1976. Reference R 317.3 U54a The Illustrated Book of World Rankings. Ed. George Thomas Kurian. 5th ed. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 2001. Reference R 310 K96i5 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 International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oeania, 1750-2000. B.R. Mithcell. 4th ed. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Reference R 315 M681i3 International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2000. B.R. Mitchell. 5th ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Reference R 314 M681e5 International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2000. B.R. Mitchell. 5th ed. London: Macmillan, 2003. Reference R 317 M681i5 The Island Press Bibliography of Environmental Literature. Comp. Joseph A. Miller et al. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1993. Reference R 363.7 I82 Pollution A to Z. Ed. Richard M. Stapleton. 2 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2004. Reference R 363.7 P777 Toxic Waste Sites: An Encyclopedia of Endangered America. Mark Crawford. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997. Reference R 363.7 C899t Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life. Timothy L. Gall. 4 vols. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1998. Reference R 305.8 W927 Locating Primary Sources General Search Tools | Contemporary Books | Diaries | Government Documents Periodicals | Other Examples General Search Tools Library Catalogue To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:    sources    correspondence    diaries    personal narratives. To locate travel literature, do a keyword search and add "travel and descripton" to your search terms. For more details, see below. WorldCat To locate primary sources, do a keyword search and add one or more of the following words:    sources    correspondence    diaries    personal narratives. To locate travel literature, do a keyword search and add "travel and descripton" to your search terms. Note: Rare and archival materials cannot be borrowed on interlibrary loan. You can sometimes locate microfilm or microfiche copies of these documents in WorldCat; try doing an advanced search, enter your keywords or subject terms, and then apply a "subtype limit," choosing "Microform" as the format. For more details, see below. Contemporary Books Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700) Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To print more than one page of a document, you need to "Mark All" pages, view your "Marked List," and then download the document images (not the citation). Once the document is downloaded, you can print out a range of pages or the entire document using the print function in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Early American Imprints. First Series (Evans): 1639-1800 [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes over 42,000 titles, including almanacs, bibles, charters, cookbooks, maps, printed music, novels, plays, poems, primers, sermons, speeches, treaties, travelogues, and textbooks. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To search for individual titles, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue and limit your search to location "Early American Imprints." Early American Imprints. Second Series (Shaw-Shoemaker): 1801-1819 [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in the United States during the early nineteenth century. Includes over 38,000 titles. Note: Does not include periodicals or newspapers. To search for individual titles, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue and limit your search to location "Early American Imprints." Making of America Contains the full text of journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Note: There are two sites for the Making of America:    University of Michigan site    Cornell University site (includes some books on agriculture) Travels in the Old South [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes copies of works by travelers to the South between 1607 and 1860. The titles, over 600 in number, are described in Thomas D. Clark's Travels in the Old South: A Bibliography (3 vols.; Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1956-1959), shelved in Reference at call number R 016.917 C59tr. Guide to the microfiche collection: Reference R 016.975 C595t Travels in the West and Southwest [microfiche] Microfiche cabinets Includes a variety of documents dating from the end of the Civil War to the 1920s, including accounts of life in the region from St. Louis to San Francisco and from San Diego north to British Columbia. Also includes biographies of Indian sympathizers, trappers, mountain men and cowboys, directories, historical serials, pertinent speeches in Congress and elsewhere, promotional pieces, and other materials. Guide to the microfiche collection: Reference R 016.979 T979 Diaries American Women's Diaries [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-2 This collection includes handwritten diaries from the colonial period through the beginning of the twentieth century. It is in three parts of this collection: New England Women (8 diaries), Southern Women (32 diaries), and Western Women (600 diaries). Guides:    Segment 1, New England Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121n    Segment 2, Southern Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121s    Segment 3, Western Women: Reference R 016.973 A5121w North American Women's Letters & Diaries This collection provides the full text of letters, diaries, and excerpts of diaries from the colonial era to the mid twentieth century. The texts were written contemporaneously; memoirs are not included. Women's Autobiographies from Cambridge University Library [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-47    Part 1: 1713-1859    Part 2: 1780-1889 Government Documents Library Catalogue To find government documents in the Little Library, change the default setting from "All Davidson Library Collections" to "Little Government Information" and then enter your search terms. For more details, see below. A Century of Law Making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875, from the Library of Congress FirstGov, a search engine for all U.S. Government Web pages Foreign Relations of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S.G.P.O., 1861- . Government Information Stacks S1.1 (Some volumes are online) LexisNexis Congressional Choose the "Historical Indexes" option to search Congressional Indexes (1789-1980) and Indexes to Unpublished Hearings Through 1980. Note: The Davidson College Library has a complete set of American State Papers and the following years of United States Congressional Serial Set: Early editions to 85th Congress (1957-58) [incomplete]     86th Congress (1958-59) through the 91st Congress (1969-71) [microfiche]     92nd Congress (1971-72) through the 95th Congress (1977-78) [Government Information Stacks]     96th Congress (1979-80) to the present [microfiche]     Selected portions of the Serial Set are also online. The Serial Set includes House and Senate Documents and Reports as well as statistical publications from Federal agencies, journals of the House of Representatives and Senate, and administrative reports of both chambers of Congress.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an exclamation point.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an asterisk *. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Government Information Stacks GS 4.113 U.S. Agricultural Statistics     National Agricultural Statistics Service (includes some historical statistics)     Yearbook of Agriculture ((1894-1937), Government Information Stacks A 1.10     Agricultural Statistics (1936 to present), Government Information Stacks A 1.47 United States Federal Government Environmental Web Sites Periodicals Making of America Contains the full text of journals and books from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Includes the text of the Ladies Repository, for example. Note: There are two sites for the Making of America:    University of Michigan site (contains the Ladies Repository)    Cornell University site Readers' Guide Abstracts (1890 to present) Indexes articles in popular periodicals; also includes citations to book and film reviews.    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 ?. Women's Periodicals: 18th Century to the Great Depression [microfilm] This collection contains over 55 titles; please note that each periodical is separately catalogued and separately shelved in the regular alphabetical sequence in the microfilm cabinets. Guides:    Unit 1 (Economics ; Social & Political Issues): Reference R 016.05 W872 v.1    Unit 2: Reference R 016.05 W872 v.2    Unit 3 (Fashion ; Literature & the Arts ; Religion): Reference R 016.05 W872 v.3 19th-Century Masterfile Indexes articles in 479 British and American periodicals published in the nineteenth century. Note: The print version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906), which is part of 19th-Century Masterfile, is available in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P82. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Newspapers To locate newspapers on microfilm in the E.H. Little Library, do a keyword search in the Library Catalogue for the word "newspapers" and then limit by date and by material type "newspapers." 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 the text of newswires, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. Note: To locate international newspaper articles, search the "World News" or "Non-English Language News" categories.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an exclamation point.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use an asterisk *. The [London] Times (1785 to present) [microfilm] Index: Reference Index Area R 070 T58 New York Times Available online (1851-2001): Historical Newspapers: The New York Times Available on microfilm (1851 to present) Index (1851 to present): Reference Index Area R 071 N53 Personal Name Index: Reference Index Area 071 N53p The Wall St. Journal (1961 to present) [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet C-42 Index (1961-2003): Reference Index Area R 071 W187 The Washington Post (1877 to present) [microfilm] Microfilm cabinets C-43 through C-47 Other Examples American Memory, from the Library of Congress Contains a wealth of primary source material for American history, including: American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 American Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920" Mapping the National Parks The Evolution of the Conservation Movement Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934 Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia The American Radicalism Collection [microfilm] Microfilm cabinet D-51 Contains reproductions of pamphlets, broadsides, newsletters, program notices, clippings, and unpublished writings from the American Radicalism Collection in the Michigan State University Library's Special Collections Division. The microfilm collection is in four parts:    Part 1: Leftist Politics and Anti-War Movements    Part 2: The Religious and Radical Right    Part 3: Race, Gender, and the Struggle for Justice and Equal Rights    Part 4: Twentieth-Century Social, Economic, and Environmental Movements Guides: Reference R 322.4 A512 Documenting the American South, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Contains numerous historical and literary texts; search both "Collections" and "User Projects." Women Writers Online Contains the full text of over 200 works written by women in the period 1400-1850. Indexes to Secondary Sources Tools for Locating Books | Tools for Locating Articles | Electronic Journal Collections Tools for Locating Books 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. 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.    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 ?. Tools for Locating Articles History America: History and Life (Prehistory to present [historical time period covered]; 1964 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on U.S. and Canadian history.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?.     Time period searches: search by decade or century only.         To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D).         To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD.         Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below).         To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H).         To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Historical Abstracts (1450 to present [historical time period covered]; 1954 to present [publication date of articles and books indexed]) Indexes scholarly articles, review of scholarly books, and doctoral dissertations on world history, excluding the history of the U.S. and Canada.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".     Wildcard: use a question mark ?.     Time period searches: search by decade or century only.         To search for a decade, use the format xxxxD (example: 1940D).         To search for a range of decades, use the format xxxxD xxxxD or the format xxxxD OR xxxxD.         Note: For more than five decades, search by century (see below).         To search for a century, use the format xxxxH (example: 1900H).         To search for a range of centuries, use the format xxxxH xxxxH. Humanities Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all humanities subjects, including history, classics, art, archeology, literature, philosophy, and religion.    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 ?. Social Sciences Abstracts (1907 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles and some book reviews on all social sciences subjects, including history, political science, international relations, law, economics, area studies, gender studies, anthropology, psychology, and sociology.    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 ?. Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Online (1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers covering topics related to Latin America; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, languages and literatures, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) Online (1970 to present) Indexes journal articles, book reviews, and original literary works and covers the literature, history, culture, and politics of the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and the United States-Mexico border. Also covers works related to Hispanics in the United States.    Search Syntax     Truncation: automatic.     Phrase searching: automatic. PCI: Periodical Contents Index (c. 1770-1995 [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal and magazine articles as well as book reviews in a broad array of humanities, social sciences, and science subjects.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic. Essay & General Literature Index (1985 to present) Indexes chapters and essays in edited collections.    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 ?. Environmental Studies Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (1984 to present) Indexes articles in over 600 periodicals in a wide variety of applied science and technology fields.    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 ?. 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 ?. LexisNexis Environmental (1975 to present) Includes Environment Abstracts, which indexes over 650 environmental sciences journals. 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 *. Related Disciplines Anthropology Anthropological Literature [CD-ROM, shelved at Circulation Desk] (1984 to present) Indexes journal articles, essays, and reports in anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. Anthropological Index (1957 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, and book reviews in all areas of anthropology and archaeology.    Search Syntax     Truncation: automatic.     Phrase searching: automatic. Political Science PAIS International (1937 to present [publication date of articles indexed]) Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, and conference papers in political science, public affairs, and economics. To locate articles from previous years, consult Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, 1915-1972, shelved in the Reference Index Area at call number R 050 P976.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 to present [publication date of articles indexes]) Indexes articles on a broad array of political science and international relations topics; international in scope.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Sociology Sociological Abstracts (1963 to present) Indexes journal articles in sociology and related fields, including anthropology, economics, education, philosophy, political science, and social psychology.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: automatic.     Wildcard: use a question mark ?. Electronic Journal Collections JSTOR Includes pdf copies of scholarly articles from a core collection of journals; also includes book reviews. Note: JSTOR does not contain articles from the most recent 3-5 years.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use a plus sign +.     Phrase searching: automatic. Project Muse Includes pdf and HTML copies of journal articles published by university and scholarly presses.    Search Syntax     Truncation: use an asterisk *.     Phrase searching: use double quotation marks " ".

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