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Choose from core research databases, cultural studies resources, encyclopedias, online science portals, and selected web pages. Librarians are available to suggest research strategies.

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Core Research Databases

Academic Search Complete by EBSCOhost
A large, multi-disciplinary database with citations, abstracts and many full-text articles.
Type: Index with some Full-text

Access Science
Provides the full-text of the famous Encyclopedia of Science & Technology with additional content including science news and biographies.
Type: Full-text

Agricola
Contains bibliographic records back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
Type: Index with Citations

Bio Digest
Provides detailed abstracts written in a non-technical style for students and interested nonscientists of the biological sciences.
Type: Index with Abstracts

Environment Abstracts
Provides abstracts from more than 950 journals published in the fields of environmental and sustainability science. Also includes abstracts of Environmental Impact Statements.
Type: Index with Abstracts

Geo Base
Supplies bibliographic information and abstracts for resources in ecology, geology, geomechanics, human geography and oceanography.
Type: Index with Citations

GreenFILE
Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Provides indexing for articles from scholarly, government and general-interest titles.
Type: Index with Citations

Cultural Studies

Business Travel Guide: Global Road Warrior
Provides country overviews for international business travelers. Content includes local customs, business culture, demographics, and travel warnings for 175 countries.
Type: Full-text

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Includes country data, case studies, policy briefs and journal articles related to international relations.
Type: Full-text

Stat-USA
Includes State of the Nation® (SOTN) and Global Business Opportunities® (GLOBUS) with National Trade Data Bank® (NTDB) reports.
Type: Full-text

World Development Indicators
Detailed economic information is provided for over 200 individual economies. The data is generated through a custom search form.
Type: Full-text

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
Includes discussion of historical and contemporary environmental issues, polices and debates.
Type: Full-text

Environmental Science: In Context
The cross-curricular encyclopedia focuses on earth and environmental science, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Type: Full-text

Online Science Portals

arXiv.org
The Cornell University sponsored repository is an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics.
Type: Web Page

Highwire Press Science
The Stanford University sponsored site provides access to the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world.
Type: Web Page

Science.gov
Provides a search gateway to documents hosted and produced by U.S. government agencies.
Type: Web Page

Scirus.com
The search engine offers a science-specific search on the open web.
Type: Web Page

World Wide Science
The global science gateway connects visitors to international science portals and resources.
Type: Web Page

Selected Web Pages

The Mathematical Atlas
Features an index of themes in mathematics.
Type: Web Page

National Library for the Environment
The government sponsored web site offers access to over 1500 reports on environmental issues.
Type: Web Page

National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
The search engine retrieves information from a network of digital libraries offering in-depth studies in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Type: Web Page

Tree of Life
The collaborative project has the goal of documenting all living and extinct organisms and using the features of the web to interlink related content.
Type: Web Page

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