Selected Resources for: Climate Change


Subject Librarian: Leslie Delserone
E-Mail: delse001@umn.edu
Subject Description:This subject covers: the atmosphere and its phenomenon, the climate, the weather and weather forecasting (meteorology).


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
AGRICOLA Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Search here to find citations and abstracts for articles from over 600 periodicals, as well as USDA and state experiment station and extension publications, and selected books on agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics, rural sociology. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *.
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CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health. It provides bibliographic citations with abstracts in English for records of all languages. Indexes journal articles, monographs, conferences, and other primary literature.
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Environmental Impact Statements: Full-text and Digests Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.
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Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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



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Geobase Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology. Provides good coverage of the literature of landscape architecture that deals with restoration and rehabilitation ecology.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 4 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.


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GeoRef Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.
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Web of Science (ISI) Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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: *.
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
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.
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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.
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WorldCat Authentication Required
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.


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General Reference Sources

Biographical Sources
American Men and Women of Science Authentication Required
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.
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Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Provides authoritative, in-depth biographical articles on deceased scientists from classical antiquity to modern times. Each article includes bibliographies of works by and about the scientist who is the subject of the article. For biographical information on living scientists, check American Men and Women of Science or other sources.
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Encyclopedias
AccessScience Authentication Required
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.
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Glossaries
Abrupt Climate Change, Glossary
From the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center.
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Internet Resources

Electronic Texts
Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems
Climate Change and Managed Ecosystems examines the effects of global climate change on intensively constructed or reconstructed ecosystems, focusing on land use changes in relation to forestry, agriculture, and wetlands including peatlands.
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ENVIROnetBASE Authentication Required
A collection of electronic books on various environmental science and environmental engineering topics.
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Gateways & Megasites
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
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Internet Public Library - Meteorology/Climatology Reference
Provides an annotated list of Web sites on a science that deals with the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.
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Internet resources for Climatology
Selected government, organizations, employment and other websites.
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NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division
NOAA's Global Monitoring Division (GMD) website includes climate change and atmospheric data, publications, live observatory monitoring, and links to research teams working on issues including climate forcing, ozone depletion, and air quality. Includes images, some realtime, from observatories around the world, and downloadable files containing datasets of GMD measurements including aerosols, ozone, carbon monoxide, etc.
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UNEP Climate Change Centres
United Nations Environment Programme's four Climate Change Centres are linked from this website:
  • GRID-Arendal produces Vital Climate Graphics and graphics showing the historical and projected greenhouse gas emissions from annex 1 countries, also the full text and graphics from the four Climate Change 2001 reports
  • UNEP Ris Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development (URC) seeks to incorporate environmental aspects into energy planning and policy worldwide
  • Capacity Development for the Clean Development Mechanism Project helps to establish emission reduction projects consistent with national sustainable development goals
  • UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre on Biodiversity & Climate Change was established in 2000 as the world biodiversity information and assessment centre of the UNEP.
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    • Web Sites
    EnviroLink Network
    "EnviroLink is a non-profit organization; a grassroots online community that unites hundreds of organizations and volunteers around the world with millions of people in more than 150 countries. EnviroLink is dedicated to providing comprehensive, up-to-date environmental information and news." Information on the site can be searched by keyword or browsed by topic. The site includes excellent linnks to both academic and government information.
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    Environmental Indicators and Outlooks (OECD)
    From this page you can access various reports - such as the OECD Environmental Indicators - and other reports and data sets.
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    Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

    Electronic Journal Collections
    Ecological Society of America (ESA) Authentication Required
    Electronic versions of all ESA journals, including the Bulletin, will be permanently archived at Portico. Initiated by JSTOR, includes primarily: Frontiers in Ecology ISSN: 1540-9295 (Ten issues per year ), Ecology ISSN 0012-9658 (Monthly), Ecological Applications ISSN 1051-0761 (Six issues per year)' Ecological Monographs ISSN 0012-9615 (Quarterly) Bulletin
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    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).
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    Style Manuals and Writing Guides

    Bibliography Software
    RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
    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.).
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    Style Manuals



    Library Information

    Primary Subject Location


    Books, journals and government publications in agriculture, biological sciences, human ecology, design, housing and apparel, vocational education, applied statistics, food science and nutrition, family social science, rural sociology and agricultural, and applied economics.
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    Address: 1984 Buford Avenue
    Telephone: Circulation: (612) 624-2233; Reference: (612) 624-1212
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    Secondary Subject Location(s)


    Chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology and geophysics, physics, astronomy, general science, history of science and technology.
    Campus: East Bank, Minneapolis Campus
    Address: Walter Library
    Telephone: Circulation: (612) 624-3366; Reference: (612) 624-0224
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    Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WaLib/index.html
    Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/fetch_hours.phtml?LibID=34



    Related Pages

    Internet Resources for Climatology