Selected Resources for: Engineering, Environmental
 | Subject Librarian: Jon Jeffryes E-Mail: jeffryes@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers control of air, water, and land pollution to protect public health and enhance environmental quality by providing safe water supplies, treatment and disposal of waste water, and solid waste management systems. |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesApplied Science and Technology Abstracts   Indexes over 300 major English-language periodicals in a wide variety of technology subjects ranging from aeronautics, chemistry, and computers to physics, plastics, and transportation. Many recent citations include abstracts. 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. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Engineering Village Search both Inspec and Compendex. [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!] |
| Pollution Abstracts Combines information on scientific research and government policies in a single resource. Topics are extensively covered from the standpoints of atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action in response to global pollution issues. Includes material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find documents, along with information from primary journals in the field. This database is one component of the "Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)" database. To identify additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM. [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!] |
General Reference Sources
Directories| Scholarly Societies -- Environmental Sciences A well-selected set of internet links to scholarly societies, associations, institutes, interest groups, and consortia in the field. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Energy This 6 volume set takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of energy and addresses not only the scientific and technical aspects but also the ways that energy affects areas such as economics and public policy. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Encyclopedia Published every three years. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| ENVIROnetBASE A collection of electronic books on various environmental science and environmental engineering topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Knovel Knovel provides online access to reference books, databases, and conference proceedings from a number of publishers that cover all areas of engineering and includes content relevant to related sciences (e.g., chemistry and earth sciences). It includes interactive graphs and tables and is a good starting point when you need a piece of data quickly. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites| National Geophysical Data Center "The National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice). Data and inventories in many disciplines are fully searchable and selected listings, data, and images can be downloaded." [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!] |
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