ENVS 201: Understanding Environmental Data and Information, Library Resources: Home

Core Newspapers

Newspaper Source Plus [EBSCO]
A database that searches the full-text of more than 850 national and international newspapers as well as radio and television news transcripts.
ProQuest Newsstand [ProQuest]
A database providing access to newspapers, news websites, and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world.
Ethnic Newswatch [ProQuest]
A database of over 2.5 million articles and more than 340 publications from ethnic and minority presses."

Includes full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals intended to provide researchers with access to “essential, often overlooked perspectives." Also includes historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Includes unique community publications as well as top scholarly journals focused on a wide variety of ethnic or racial groups as well as ethnic studies.
Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis-Nexis)
A database of publications in reference, business, medicine and law. Includes newspapers, legal cases, law reviews, and company profiles.

NAL Catalog: AGRICOLA [USDA National Agricultural Library]
A catalog of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library and its collaborators.
ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts [ProQuest]
An index of citations to publications, reports, and conference proceedings related to aquatic and marine science.
Biological Sciences [ProQuest]
A database covering research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
Tip:
When full text is not available, use Interlibrary Loan (ILLiad).
GreenFILE [EBSCO]
An index of citations to scholarly and general interest publications that highlight connections between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health, and technology.
Plant Science [ProQuest]
A database of citations and abstracts to the scientific literature on plant science.
Tip:
Plant Science is now part of the Biological Science Database. “Plant Science content only” will be checked when following this link.

Web of Science [Thomson Reuters]
A multi-database search tool combining all three Web of Science indexes (the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index).Tip:
You can use this index to find works that have cited a specific author or article.

EBSCO Multi-Database Search
Search all EBSCO databases at once, or click "choose databases" to customize the databases included in your search.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides searchable full-text access to backfiles of core scholarly journals in many fields including African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Language & Literature, Music, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. There is a gap, usually from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available in JSTOR. Site License.

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service [ProQuest]
An international database of over 500,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, reports, conference papers, web content, and other sources.

Publications cover 120 countries around the world on topics including justice, finance, culture and religion, the environment, education, government, health, human rights, international relations, labor, law, defense, politics, demographics, social conditions, trade, and transportation.