LibGuides: EVS 476 Environmental Issues: Databases

Newspaper Databases

Newspaper Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 domestic and international newspapers, including USA Today, Washington Post, and Times (London). Contains selective full text for 370 regional domestic newspapers, Ohio included. Also contains full-text tv and radio news transcripts.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary database with full-text coverage of over 8,800 periodicals, including more than 7,700 peer-reviewed journals.
Electronic Journal Center (OhioLINK)
OhioLINK's collection of more than 10,000 academic journals.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides complete electronic backfiles of core journals in a variety of subjects. Full text coverage begins with the first issue of each journal and usually ends about five years before the present.

Inter-library Loan

Databases frequently provide full-text for many articles but in some cases the full text is not available.

In order to get an article that is not available online in full text you can request the article by submitting an Interlibrary Loan Article Request Form. A link to the form is frequently included beneath the citation in the list of article results. A link to the form can also be found on the library website under Quick Links.

Ecology Databases

GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment.
Web of Science (ISI)
ISI Citation Databases are multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.

Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Contains full text for 920+ journals and 190+ monographs and features more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles, some going back as far as 1888.
Offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, legal matters, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Dates covered: 1970s-present (plus some older content) Included in OneSearch

Botany Databases

Agricola This link opens in a new window
Contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Library. Includes more than 4.8 million citations: journal articles, book chapters, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports related to agriculture
Database encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences. (EBSCOhost).
Garden, Landscape, & Horticulture Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts more than 500 publications of national, international, and regional interest, including titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups
Topics include horticulture, botany, garden and landscape design, ecology, plant and garden conservation, and horticultural therapy. Focus on environmentally sustainable horticultural and design practices. Dates covered: 1964-present.

Select Journals

These are just a few of the electronic journals available through the AU Library.

Use the databases to find articles in these and other journals.

Archer Library

EVS 476 Environmental Issues: Databases