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 Environmental Sciences: 32 Databases


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Academic Search Elite (EBSCO)  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1985-
Description: Multi-disciplinary database providing full text for 1,800+ publications (including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed journals). Indexing and abstracts provided for all 3,200+ journals in the collection. Full text information dating as far back as 1985.
Access Science
Type: Reference
Coverage: Began in 2000?
Description: Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. Also includes over 2000 biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science and technology, a science dictionary, and links to related websites.
Applied Science and Technology Index  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1983-
Description: Indexes international English-language periodicals in applied sciences and technology, including engineering, chemistry, mathematics, physics, computer technology, data processing and energy-realted disciplines.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users
Biological Abstracts   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Indexes and abstracts international research in life sciences, covering agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
Users: Licensed for 3 simultaneous users.
Compendex   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Provides access to bibliographic databases of engineering research literature, including Compendex (citations and abstracts to 5000+ engineering journals, conferences and technical reports), as well as to patents, standards and handbooks.

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EBSCOhost  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: A database of publisher-provided citations and table of contents information. Provides access to electronic journals and full text of articles for those journals managed through EBSCO Online.
Ei-Compendex
    (Use Compendex)
EPA STORET Region 5:3
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1998
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
Expanded Academic ASAP  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1980-
Description: Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,000+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines (citations only for The New York Times). Full text for some titles may be subject to publisher-imposed embargo periods.

GHI

General Science Abstracts  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1984-
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts to general scientific literature.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GeoRef  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Contains citations and selected abstracts to worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics, covering North America since 1785 and other areas since 1933.
Users: Licensed for 4 simultaneous users.
GHCN Global Climate
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: Provides bibliographic descriptions of journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
Users: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.
INSPEC (SilverPlatter)   
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1969-
Description: Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering & computer science.
International Civil Engineering Abstracts
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1976-
Description: Provides abstracts and citations to articles from 150+ civil engineering journals, covering such topics as construction management and environmental, structural and hydraulic engineering.

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LexisNexis Academic
Type: Indexes & Articles
Description: Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, covering current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, etc.

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McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology
    (Use Access Science)
NCDC 15 Minute Precipitation
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
NCDC Hourly Precipitation Central
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
NCDC Summary of the Day. Central
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
NCDC Surface Airways
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

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PapersFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to papers presented at conferences worldwide, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993.
Pollution abstracts
    (Use Biological Abstracts)
Pollution abstracts
    (Use Compendex)
ProceedingsFirst
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1993-
Description: Provides citations and indexing to worldwide conference proceedings, as received by the British Library Document Supply Centre since 1993; citations include listing of papers presented at those conferences.

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USGS Daily Values. Central
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
USGS Peak Values
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 2000
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
USGS Quality of Water. Central Ground
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1998
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
USGS Quality of Water. Central Surface
Type: Indexes & Articles, Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1998
Access: This product is used through a Citrix ICA Client. If you try the resource link and have trouble, you may need a one time software download
Users: Licensed for one simultaneous user.

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WDI online
    (Use World Development Indicators)
Web of Science  
Type: Indexes & Articles
Coverage: 1975-
Description: "... accesses multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work."--Tutorial screen.
Users: Licensed for 8 simultaneous users; please be sure to 'logout' so others may 'login.'
Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Graduate School and the Provost's Office for their generous support in helping the University Libraries make this acquisition possible.
* More about Web of Science
* Using Web of Science Tips & Caveats [Michigan State University Libraries]
World Development Indicators  
Type: Data/Statistics/GIS
Coverage: 1960- (where data are available)
Description: The World Bank's comprehensive database on development data (social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators) including more than 500 indicators, more than 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups; with coverage from 1960 onward, where data are available.

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