Environmental Studies
Addressing Climate Change Policies and Measures Database
Offers access to information on energy-related policies and measures taken or planned in International Energy Agency (IEA) Member countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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AGRICOLA
Describes journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials encompassing all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science acquired by the National Agricultural Library and cooperating institutions.
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AGRIS
AGRIS provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of agricultural science and technology literature.
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Animal Info - Information on Endangered Mammals
Contains information on the biology and ecology of various species as well as current status of rare and endangered mammals.
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Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection
Annual Reviews contains citations to analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
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Applied Science and Business Periodicals Retrospective 
Index for more than 2,000 periodicals covering events, issues and trends in the history of the applied sciences, business and industry, and technology.
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Applied Science and Technology Full Text
Wilson Applied Science & Technology Index provides abstracts and indexing for over 750 of the leading periodicals in science and technology.
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ASCE Civil Engineering Database
Abstracts and indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
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Atmospheric Chemistry Glossary
Browsable glossary of terms covering air quality and atmospheric chemistry.
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Bad Bug Book
This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses and parasites) and natural toxins.
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BioOne
Full-text journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CISTI includes published information from around the world in all areas of physical and life sciences, engineering, technology and health sciences.
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Catalogue of Life
The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is is a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth.
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CEDAR : Central European Environmental Data Request Facility
Features a searchable database of European Union legislation relevant to environmental issues with links to a full text in EUR-Lex, the portal to European Union law.
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Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO contains theory and research on policy issues and current events in international affairs.
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Commodity Statistics and Information
USGS supplied statistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials essential to the United States economy, the national security, and protection of the environment.
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Conference Papers Index
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
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Corps Of Engineers Library Information Online
CELIO is the database / electronic catalog representing the collections of all the libraries within the Army Corps of Engineers located throughout the United States.
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Credo Reference : Science & Technology
Includes the full text of over 2 dozen reference sources, including encyclopedias and dictionaries covering a variety of scientific disciplines.
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CSA Technology Research Database
A comprehensive indexing and abstracting database covering all fields of engineering and technology.
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Current Research Information System
CRIS is the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) documentation and reporting system for ongoing agricultural, food and nutrition, and forestry research.
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CyberRegs
CyberRegs provides the full text of the US Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, State Registers, State Statues and forms, and State Environmental, Safety, Health and Transportation Regulations.
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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.
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DOE Data Explorer
The DDE finds scientific research data - such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images - generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines.
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Drinking Water Data & Databases
Searchable databases containing data collection by the Environmental Protection Agency on the safety and regulation of drinking water.
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E-Journals in Engineering & Applied Sciences
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Aeronautics and Space Flight, Computer Science, Engineering, and Transportation.
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E-print Network
Gateway to over 14,000 Web sites and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied sciences.
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Earth Trends
Contains a collection of online databases covering environmental, social, and economic trends.
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EI Compendex
Engineering and technical literature, with hundreds of thousands of English-language abstracts from over 4,500 journals, 2,000 conference proceedings, technical reports, and professional society publications.
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EIA Country Analysis Briefs
Provides an energy situation overview for countries, as well as world oil market and environmental data on energy production and usage.
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Encyclopedia of Earth
Searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts covering the environment of the Earth, with particular emphasis on the interaction between society and the natural spheres of the Earth.
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Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Encyclopedia of Life aims to provide information on over one million species of plants, animals, and microorganisms.
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Energy Citations Database
Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
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Environment Complete
Environment Complete covers the scientific, technical & popular literature on energy resources, global warming, wastes, recycling, pollution, health hazards, conservation, wildlife management, and social / ethical issues & policy from more than 1,500 domestic and international sources.
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Environmental Contaminants Encyclopedia
Summarizes information about contamination that effect fish, wildlife, invertebrates, and other non-human living resources.
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Environmental History of Latin America
The Online Bibliography on Environmental History of Latin America contains over 400 references, among articles, books, videos and WebPages in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Environmental Impact Statements Full-Text (2003- ) & Digests (1985- )
EIS Digests extract the key issues from government-released environmental impact statements, provides a brief description and abstract of the project, includes sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and details legal mandates.
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Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Worldwide literature covering the environmental sciences including air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies and regulations, and US federal environmental impact statements.
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EPA Science Inventory
The Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products.
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ETDEWEB
ETDE World Energy Base contains more than 4 million references to international articles, reports and conference papers within all energy related subjects.
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Evolution of the Conservation Movement 1850-1920
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage.
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General Science Full Text
Wilson General Science Abstracts indexes over 160 leading science journals and magazines from the United States and Great Britain.
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GEOBASE
Covers worldwide literature on cartography, climatology, demography, ecology, economic geography &
geology, environment, geomorphology, geophysics, historical geography, hydrology, minerology, natural resources, palaeontology, planning, remote sensing, sedimentology, stratigraphy, tectonics, transportation, and rural, social, & urban geography.
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GeoRef
The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
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GPO Monthly Catalog
Covers all types of US government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.
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GreenFILE
GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles that draw on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
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GSA Publications Online
Search the following Geological Society of America publications: GSA Bulletin, 1972- ; Geology, 1973- ; GSA Today, 1991 -.
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History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
The International bibliography of history of science, technology, and medicine describes journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, technology, and medicine and allied historical fields.
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History Reference Online
ABC-CLIO History Reference contains the full text of over 600 books focusing on United States and world history, current issues, politics, and geography.
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Index to Current Urban Documents
ICUD contains reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the United States and Canada.
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Informaworld
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
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Ingenta
Provides citations, brief abstracts, tables of contents, and some full text to articles in over 28,000 publications.
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Integrated Risk Information System
IRIS is an Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.
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International Data Base : World Statistics
The IDB provides quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.
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Internet Resources in Science and Technology
Links to public internet sites in the areas of: General Resources
in Science & Technolgy; Biography; Botany; Gardening; Chemistry;
Climate and Weather; Engineering; Environment; Geology; Health and
Medical Information; Inventions; Oceanography; Physics; Resources
for Teachers; Science Fair Projects; and Zoology.
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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.
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Jane's.Com (Select Client Area)
Provides full text access to Jane's research in defense, terrorism, market intelligence, national security and transportation.
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Knovel Library
Contains the full text of over 700 leading science and engineering reference handbooks, technical data and reports, textbooks, and conference proceedings.
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Legal Periodicals Retrospective
Index to over 750 legal periodicals, including law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications.
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LexisNexis Environmental
Covers the world's environmental related literature, including sources indexed in Environment abstracts.
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Libreka
Über die libreka!-Plattform werden Buchinhalte dann als Volltexte im Internet weltweit recherchierbar.
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Material Safety Data Sheets
The MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) is designed to provide workers with safety information on chemicals that they are exposed to in the workplace.
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Minerals Yearbook
The Minerals Yearbook is an annual publication that reviews the mineral and material industries on approximately 90 commodities and over 175 countries.
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National Academies Press
Search for the full text to more than 3,000 NAP texts from the Joseph Henry Press, covering a wide variety of subjects (arts, humanities, and social and applied sciences) are available free online.
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National Archive of Ocean Data
Search and retrieve ocean data designed to provide an historical record of the Earth's changing environment.
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National Environmental Publications Internet Site Database
NEPIS provides access to over 20,000 full text Enviromental Protection Agency (EPA) documents online.
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National Pesticide Information Center
NPIC provides information about pesticides and pesticide-related topics.
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National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
Provides an ongoing assessment of the United States population's exposure to environmental chemicals using biomonitoring.
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National Science Digital Library
NSDL was established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to direct users to resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.
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National Technical Information Service
NTIS contains nearly 3 million scientific and technical reports on US government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
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NCDC Climatic Data
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) includes meteorological / climatological information, environmental satellite data, and NEXRAD weather radar data.
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NIST Scientific and Technical Databases
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Gateway provides access to over 80 of the NIST scientific and technical databases.
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NRC-CISTI's Articles Database
Contains millions of peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical (STM) journal articles, mostly published after 1993.
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Glossary
Full text glossary of commonly used terms found in nuclear energy and related fields.
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NWISWeb Data
Provide access to water-resources data collected at over 1 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico by the USGS.
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Ocean Drilling Program Database
This database contains over 18,000 citations related to Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) and Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) research.
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OpenSIGLE System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe
Locate research results originating in the International Conference Series on Gray Literature.
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Organic Eprints
Organic Eprints is an international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture.
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Oxford Reference Online : Medicine & Science
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.
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PAN Pesticides Database
Contains current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides.
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PANGAEA
The Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data is a public digital library for science containing georeferenced data with special emphasis on environmental, marine and geological basic research.
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PharmGKB
PharmGKB database is designed to aid researchers in understanding how genetic variation among individuals contributes to differences in reactions to drugs.
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PolicyArchive
Policy Archive contains more than 10,000 policy documents from about 220 think tanks and research groups.
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Population Database
The United Nations Population Division database allows one to calculate and display past (back to 1950) and future (up to 2050) population statistics for all major regions of the world, the entire planet, and many specific countries.
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Population Index
An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
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Population Reference Bureau DataFinder
Contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the US states.
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PrimateLit Database
Provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.
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Quakeline Database
QUAKELINE® is a bibliographic database of about 40,000 records covering earthquakes, earthquake engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and related topics.
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Reefbase
Online information system on coral reefs containing data and information on the location, status, threats, monitoring, legislation, and management of coral reefs in 131 countries.
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Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals (REACH)
REACH gathers company information on the properties of chemical substances and their safe use.
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Science Accelerator
Science Accelerator searches science, including R&D results, project descriptions, accomplishments, and more, via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), Department of Energy.
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Science.gov
Provides a gateway to information resources in science and technology at the US government science agencies.
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Social Sciences in Forestry
This database indexes publications in 41 subject areas relating the social sciences to forestry.
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Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology, political science, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as policy areas in science.
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SPRILIB : A Polar and Glaciological Bibliographic Database
The Scott Polar Research Institute Library (SPRILIB) databases cover the literature relating to the Arctic and Antarctic published in a wide range of languages.
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STINET MultiSearch
Provides access to the DOD Scientific and Technical Information Center (DTIC) databases containing citations to unclassified documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents.
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Terms of Environment: Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
Glossary of environmental terms compiled by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Toxipedia
Provides information about the health effects of chemicals and tracks policies related to environmental and public health.
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TOXLINE
Information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, mutagens and teratogens.
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TOXNET
Gateway to research on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and environmental health.
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United States Federal Regulations
Search for Federal Regulations and Federal Actions Open for Comment.
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United States Geological Survey Publications Warehouse
The USGS reports and thematic maps database contains more than 61,000 bibliographic citations, including numbered series begun as early as 1882.
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Value of Construction Put in Place
United States national data (monthly and annual) showing value of all public and private construction, by type -- residential, industrial, office, commercial, religious, educational, institutional, infrastructure, and source -- private, public, state & local, and federal.
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Water Words Dictionary
A compilation of technical water, water quality, environmental, and water-related terms.
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Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences, arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
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Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
Index to scientific and management literature on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians from journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations and other publications.
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Wind-Wildlife Impacts Literature Database
WIND is a bibliographic database covering the effects of energy development (including towers, power lines, and other wires) on birds.
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World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
WDC-MARE collects, scrutinizes, and disseminates data related to Global Change in the fields of environmental oceanography, marine geosciences, and marine biology.
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Zoological Record
Provides extensive coverage of the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine.
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