Selected Resources for: Water Resources
| Subject Librarian: Amy Hribar E-Mail: hriba007@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the study of the entire range of natural waters that occur on the Earth, regardless of their state (i.e., vapour, liquid, or solid) and that are of potential use to humans. (From Britannica Online) |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries   Includes comprehensive information on the science and technology of marine, freshwater, and brackishwater organisms and environments. Subject areas include aquatic organisms, environmental quality, fisheries, limnology, marine environments, oceanography, policy and legislation, and wildlife management. Sponsored by the United Nations, this database includes non-English language journals and institutional reports that are not normally widely distributed. Abstracts are drawn from over 5,000 international serial publications (print and electronic), books, reports, conference proceedings, patents, and computer media. Includes thesaurus and taxonomic term list. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. Compliments the Water Resources Abstracts database, which concentrates on water supply and water treatment. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and Digests Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) are documents that help the government and the general public understand the effects of developments on the environment and to decide whether developments should go ahead.Full text statements are available from 2003-present and digests (summaries) are available from 1985-present. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications. Incorporates Pollution Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts, and other specialized databases. Areas of coverage include agricultural and environmental biotechnology, ecology, energy resources, environmental engineering, environmental impact statements (U.S.), pollution, toxicology & toxic emissions, and water resource issues. The ESPM database is comprised of the following component databases: Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/agabstracts ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/asfa3 Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B) http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/bacabs Ecology Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/ecolabs EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/eisdigests Environmental Engineering Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/envengabs Health and Safety Science Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/healthsafetyabs Human Population & Natural Resource Management http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/hpnrm Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A) http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/indappmicroabs Pollution Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/pollabs Risk Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/riskabs Sustainability Science Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/sustabs Toxicology Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/toxicabs Water Resources Abstracts http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/waterabs [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| GeoRef Index to the worldwide literature of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, hydrogeology , hydrology, and mineralogy. Publication types covered include journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government publications, theses, reports, and maps. Provides citations, with a small percentage accompanied by abstracts. Produced by the American Geological Institute. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Web of Science (ISI) Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LexisNexis Academic (ON CAMPUS USE ONLY) LexisNexis Academic is a collection of online databases: News, Business (plus corporate news and corporate financials), Legal, Medical, and Reference. International news sources are included. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs| MNCAT Classic Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Biographical Sources| American Men and Women of Science American Men and Women of Science is a biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological, and related sciences. Each edition includes biographical entries on approximately 120,000 living scientists, providing birthdate; birthplace; field of specialty; education; honorary degrees; current position; professional and career information; awards; memberships; research information; and addresses for each entrant where available. This resource is part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Dictionary of scientists [electronic resource] A searchable biographical dictionary of scientists, covering all areas of science: physics and astronomy to medicine and ecology, including key figures in the fields of mathematics and technology. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
| Dictionary of Ecology [online resource] Searchable dictionary database of ecology and the environmental sciences, covering topics from plant and animal physiology, animal behavior, evolution, environmental pollution, and conservation to climatology, meteorology, geomorphology, and oceanography. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms Contains definitions, synonyms, acronyms and abbreviations for over 105,000 scientific terms. Also provides some illustrations, and photographs. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| AccessScience The online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Contains more than 8,000 articles written by the leading figures in their fields ? including 30 Nobel Prize winners ? edited and illustrated with the non-specialist in mind. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Water Science In order to search only Encyclopedia of Water Science, choose "Selected Publications" under "Within these publications..." Choose Encyclopedia of Water Science from the drop-down menu. Click "Add" and then enter your search terms in the boxes under "Search for..." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Encyclopedia Published every three years. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Water Encyclopedia (5 vols) Vol.1 Domestic, municipal, and industrial water supply and waste disposal--vol 2 Water quality and resource development--Vol. 3 Surface and agricultural water--Vol. 4 Oceanography; meteorology;physics and chemistry; water law; and water history art, and culture--Vol. 5 Ground water. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts| Estuarine indicators Based on papers presented at a workshop held on Sanibel Island, Fla., October 29-31, 2003. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
News Sources| Science Now News stories for the current week from the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). Access to full-text stories may require that you register online (free). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals
| <i>Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, 7th ed.</i> Published by the Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Writing Guides
| <i>How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper</i> Concisely covers all aspects of science writing, from choosing a title to acknowledgments and references: submission strategies; other forms of science writing (book reviews, theses, presentations, posters); English language usage. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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