Selected Resources for: Environmental Science and Technology
 | Subject Librarian: Julie Kelly E-Mail: jkelly@tc.umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the entire biosphere and with all the external influences to which organisms are exposed, both physical (abiotic) influences and those originating with other organisms (biotic). Environmental science identifies and characterizes problems within the biosphere while environmental technology is concerned with find solutions to those problems. |
Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject IndexesAGRICOLA   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: *. [more information] [  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Applied 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!] |
| CAB Abstracts Plus Full Text Select 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. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Compendex and Engineering Index Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management. Indexes nearly 3000 sources worldwide. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Engineering Abstracts Covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. Sources include more than 500 primary journals and over 2,500 additional sources, including monographs and conference proceedings. This database is one component of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. To identify a additional results with a broader scope, consider conducting your search in ESPM. [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!] |
| 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!] |
| MasterFile 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. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [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
Atlases & MapsBiographical 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!] |
| Who's Who in Environmental Engineering Membership directory of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Dictionaries
| Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology Defines 133,000 terms in 134 different fields of science and technology. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Concise Dictionary of Environmental Engineering Topics covered include water treatment and distribution, wastewater treatment and collection, air pollution and treatment, solid waste disposal hazardous waste remediation, and health-related issues. Includes more than 2200 commercial terms and brand names and an appendix of manufacturers' names and addresses. [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!] |
Directories
| CorpTech Corptech Directory of Technology Companies on CDROM lists 50,000 public and private high technology companies in the United States. Includes basic directory information, ownership, executives, revenue growth, year established, employees, product descriptions. Detailed indexes for products, industries, locations, business size, and other criteria allow for customized searches and lists. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Industries Marketplace A directory and "guide to U.S. companies providing environmental regulatory compliance products and services." Published annually. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| 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!] |
| World Directory of Environmental Organizations Subtitled: A handbook of national and international organizations and programs, concerned with protecting the earth's resources [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!] |
| Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Concise as well as scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects. Also includes links to related Internet resources, and the Britannica Book of the Year. Search tip: When combining words in search, capitalize AND. For example: revolution AND 1848 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology A three-volume set easy-to-use and meticulously organized including a complete subject index with more than 10,000 entries and a directory of contributors; compiled by an eminent editorial board. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Environmental Encyclopedia Published every three years. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Wiley Encyclopedia of Energy and the Environment [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Works
| ENGnetBASE ENGnetBASE is an online reference source providing access to over 600 handbooks published by CRC Press. The handbooks include a wide variety of titles on engineering specialties, including Civil Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering, HVAC, Nanotechnology, and more. Users can either browse the table of contents of each individual handbook or use keyword searching to retrieve and display related full-text information. Full- text results are displayed in .pdf format. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Seas at the millennium; an environmental evaluation v.1 Regional chapters: Europe, the Americas, and West Africa--v.2 Regional chapters: the Indian Ocean to the Pacific--v.3 Global issues and processes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Environmental Management Handbook A handbook for the management of toxic chemical materials and hazardous wastes. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Handbook of Environmental Analysis Summarizes the regulatory, physical, biological, and chemical data needed in the testing of air, water, and soil samples for contaminants. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Practical Handbook of Environmental Control [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Standard Handbook of Environmental Engineering, 1990 [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts| Effects of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to the poor The purpose of the project was to explore the potential impact of climate change on the sustainability of capture and enhancement fisheries important to poor people with a view to informing the development of a research agenda in this field - The project has provided the outline for a research agenda to enable fisheries agencies and other stakeholders to respond to the challenges posed by rapid climate change. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| ENVIROnetBASE A collection of electronic books on various environmental science and environmental engineering topics. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Gateways & Megasites
| Internet Resources for Environmental Science and Technology Selected government and other websites [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| UNEP Climate Change Centres United Nations Environment Programme's four Climate Change Centres are linked from this website: [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!] |
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources| Wellbeing of Nations; a country-by-country index of quality of life and the environment [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
| Bibliographic Formats and Descriptions Provides citation format samples from major style guides: the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers; Publications Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA); compiled by the University of Houston Libraries. [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!] |
Library Information
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