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Article Databases - Geography & Environmental Systems

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (CSA)

    Coverage: Index Only
    Provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 4000 scientific journals and thousands of other sources including conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Compendex (via Engineering Village 2)

    Coverage: Index Only
    Indexes the entire spectrum of engineering, in depth, with abstracts from over 5,000 international journals, conference papers and technical reports. You may set up a profile, save searches, and have search results emailed bi-weekly.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff GreenFILE (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    GreenFILE offers indexing for scholarly, government and general interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.


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Article Databases - General & Multidisciplinary

Use these to find popular and scholarly articles, conference papers, and dissertations on your topic.
  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff ArticleFirst (OCLC)

    Coverage: Index Only
    A multidisciplinary index of articles published 1990-, from the contents pages of over 16000 journals. Results show full citation and holding libraries (no abstracts).

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Conference Papers Index (CSA) Learn how to use this resource

    Coverage: Index Only
    Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff ProQuest Digital Dissertations

    Coverage: Some Full Text
    Indexes and abstracts dissertations and theses primarily from the U.S and Canada, some international; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. Full text available for dissertations published since 1997 (1991 from UMBC) are available as PDFs. (Online version of Dissertation Abstracts from UMI)

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff Web of Knowledge

    Coverage: Index Only
    Multidisciplinary database covering the Arts & Humanities, Sciences, and Social Sciences. Indexes over 8,000 high impact research journals, many of them peer-reviewed, and provides access to cited and citing references. Additional searchable resources on the Web of Knowledge homepage through the "Additional Resources" tab.

    EndNote Web citation management software also available through Web of Knowledge

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff SAGE Reference Online

    15 authoritative and award-winning encyclopedias in many subject areas.


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E-Journals

These collections of journals are full-text. See Also: E-Journals in Social Sciences
  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff ECO- Electronic Collections Online (OCLC)

    Coverage: Index Only
    Indexing and abstracting of articles from over 5,000 journals published since 1995. Focused searching can be done by subject or publisher collection.

  • Off-campus access restricted to UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff JSTOR

    Coverage: Full Text
    Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to Arts & Science I, II, III; General Science; Ecology & Botany.


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