BES 311: Environmental Chemistry

selected resources


Finding articles in environmental chemistry                                                                                         

BioOne- -UW restricted
Indexed and fully-searchable collection of abstracts that link to the fulltext articles available from the BioOne organization; provides a unique aggregation of over 65 bioscience research journals from more than 50 publishers.

BIOSIS - 1993- - UW restricted
Supplies comprehensive coverage (1969- ) of international life science journal and meeting literature including references found in Biological abstracts and Biological abstracts/RRM. 

Columbia earthscape an online resource on the global environment - UW restricted

Engineering village 2 - UW restricted
Includes Compendex, INSPEC, CRC ENGnetBASE, Esp@cenet, USPTO, Techstreet standards, and Scirus

Environmental engineering abstracts - UW restricted
Provides citations and abstracts to the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production

Expanded Academic Index - - UW restricted
Provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 1,500 scholarly and general interest periodicals, covering all major fields of study in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

Geobase - - UW restricted
Contains bibliographic citations covering earth science, ecology, geography, environment, and marine science.

Meteorological & geoastrophysical abstracts - UW restricted
Covering the world's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, physical oceanography, hydrology, glaciology, and related environmental sciences

PAIS International - UW restricted
Covers social and public policy literature from thousands of periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources

ProQuest medical library - UW restricted
Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 200 key medical titles. Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others

PubMed
"NLM's search service to access the 9 million citations in MEDLINE and Pre-MEDLINE (with links to participating on-line journals), and other related databases."

Research library complete - - UW restricted
Indexing and full text for a basic collection of general-interest, humanities, social science and science periodicals and newspapers; 1986 to present. Divided into Newspapers and periodicals sections. 

Science citation index - - UW restricted
Web of Science includes Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), 1985-present; Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), 1990-present; and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), 1990-present. A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts and cited references, covering 5,300 major journals in a wide variety of science fields.

Toxicology and Environmental Health - National Library of Medicine

Water resources abstracts WRA - - UW restricted
Contains abstracts of journal articles, monographs, and reports covering the development, management and research of water resources.

Databases by subject - UW Natural Sciences Library

Information Gateway - All databases

Connecting from Home. Read about how you can search UW restricted Library resources from off-campus.


How can I tell if it's peer reviewed?

Distinguishing scholarly journals from other periodicals

Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory

Evaluating sources


How do I get the article if it's not full text?

Five Steps to Finding Articles

Online Document Delivery Forms


Other useful information

BES 311 Course Page - Professor Jackels

Guidelines for preparing an annotated bibliography

Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Scientific Style

CBE quick style guide

UWB New Student Checklist- Library and Technology Guide

Critical Reading Questions

Searching the Web

Academic Writing: Quoting and Paraphrasing (UW Madison Writing Center)

Reference Tools


Please feel free to contact me at:

Rob Estes
Reference/Science Librarian
Campus Library #310G
restes@uwb.edu
(425) 352-5242