Environmental Studies/Science

These databases cover specific disciplines other than Environmental Studies. Use them if your topic relates to one of the disciplines. For instance, if you are researching a topic about the history and formation of the National Park system, use the America: History & Life database.

• America: History & Life -- Covers North American history, including environmental history. Citations are included from 1962-present.
• BLDS (British Library for Development Studies) Bibliography -- Citations to monographs published since 1987 and to journal articles published since 1990; good for environmental information related to development in other countries.
• PubMed -- Indexes journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine from 1965 to the present.
• SocINDEX -- Good for topics in demography and population, geography, environmental justice.
• Political Science Complete -- provides some full text and citations, abstracts, and indexing for 800 journals in political science and related disciplines
• TRID-Transportation Research Database -- combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide. Also try the National Transportation Library database (has links to some documents and reports).

AgEcon Search -- An open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics, including working papers, conference papers and journal articles

National Agricultural Library Catalog -- Compiled by the National Agricultural Library, this database contains citations to materials, from 1970 to the present, on all aspects of agriculture.

Organic Eprints -- An international open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture. The archive contains full-text papers in electronic form. Beware: There is a lot of non-English language material in this database.

Treesearch -- A database of records to full text peer reviewed publications authored or funded by USDA Forest Service Research & Development. Also includes scholarly works authored by the agency’s scientists and published by journals, in conference proceedings, or in books.