Best Places to Start - Interdisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)Search more than 13,300 periodicals, including full text for nearly 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. It features a mix of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers and books. Temporary upgrade to Academic Search Ultimate courtesy of EBSCO ended June 30th, 2020
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Research Library (ProQuest)Search more than 5,000 titles—over 3,500 in full text. It features a mix of interdisciplinary scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
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JSTOREcology is well-represented in this database. For example fulltext coverage of these six Ecology journals: Ecological Monographs, Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, and Ecological Applications
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GreenFILEGreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Freely available.
News
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Environmental News NetworkAn aggregator of environmental news from over 57 sources, the site posts 1-5 new articles daily, with links to the original site. It also posts original articles
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Science DailyCheck the "Top Environment News" section of this website.
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USGS. Science in Your Backyard: WashingtonNews releases of interest for Washington
Other Social Science Databases
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SocINDEX with/Full TextA comprehensive sociology research database with coverage of not only sociology, but also anthropology, criminal justice, economic development, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, social psychology, social work, substance abuse and other areas. It provides indexing for more than 600 journals with full text available for more than 300 journals.
Other Science Databases
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BIOSIS PreviewsCitations and abstracts of journal articles, scientific conference proceedings, books, and patents covering the life sciences and biomedical research.
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Science.govSelected by information managers and librarians, this cross-agency portal of authoritative science and technical information is produced by ten government agencies and gives access to over 1,000 resources. Twelve menu links include Applied Science & technologies, Astronomy & Space, Biology & Nature, Computers & Communications, Environment & Environmental Quality, Math, Physics & Chemistry and many others
Web Sites
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SciTech ConnectSciTech Connect is a portal to free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, software, and data information, and was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to increase access to science, technology, and engineering research information from DOE and its predecessor agencies.
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MyEnvironment: Environmental Information for My AreaEasy access to reports and data related to air, water, land, health and energy honed to a community or local area.
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