Geography and Environmental Engineering

Resources for Environmental Science

Databases

• Environmental Studies and Policy - Find academic articles, videos, case studies, and more on topics in environmental studies.
• GreenFILE - Indexing and abstracts for publications in environmental sciences and human ecology, with some full text.
• OSTI.gov - Browse the primary search tool for Department of Energy (DOE) funded science, technology, and engineering research and development (R&D) results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
• ScienceDirect - Discover ebooks and peer-reviewed journals in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. It contains indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents for over 2,500 journals and over 35,000 ebooks.
• A to Z Maps Online Explore this database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.

Websites

• U.S. Geological Survey - View information published by the U.S. Geological Survey. The U.S. Geological Survey is the nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency. It collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding of natural resource conditions, issues, and problems.

• Digital Commons Network - The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. 
  • Earth Sciences
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Life Sciences
  • Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences
    • Geography

Reference

• Knovel - Contains online monographs and reference books in many areas of science and engineering. It can be used early in the research process to become aware of general safety information for particular activities, processes, and substances, as well as later in research to learn more specifics about substances. Included are interactive tools that normalize information across content sources and bring content to life by making tables, charts, equations, plotters and graphs interactive.

DOD and US Government Engineering Resources on the Web

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Scientific and Technical Information: free public access to over 230,000 full-text documents and bibliographic citations of the Office of Scientific Information research report literature from 1991 to present, covering physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer & information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission.

http://www.ntis.gov/ - The National Technical Information Service's National Technical Reports Library (NTRL), which collects the results of federally funded research. Open to all for search and discovery; requires free registration for access to full-text documents.

http://www.nist.gov/index.html - The National Institute of Standards and Technology is one of the nation's oldest physical science laboratories. Explore research and standards in a wide variety of subject areas.

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