Geography & Environmental Systems Subject Guide
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Article Databases - Geography & Environmental Systems
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.
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.
GreenFILE (Ebsco)
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.
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
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.
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).
Conference Papers Index (CSA)
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.
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)
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
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
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.
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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All Online Geography & Environmental Systems Resources

