LibGuides: Environmental Science and Studies Courses & Research: Find Articles

Articles

ProQuest Central
Multidisciplinary, mostly full-text database of newspaper, scholarly, and trade articles.
GreenFILE
Scholarly and general interest titles connecting environmental research with disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Political Science Database
Journals, doctoral dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, news and more, most in full-text.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Scholarly coverage of medical topics. Includes AHFS Consumer Medication Information on drug patient education. Some full-text.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary full-text academic journals, books, and primary sources (usually excludes the past 2-5 years).
PLOS (Public Library of Science)
Peer-reviewed articles in Biology, Medicine, Genetics, and other disciplines are freely available.
BioMed Central
Peer reviewed, open-access scientific, technical, and biomedical publications on biomedicine, mathematics, engineering, and the physical sciences.
ScienceDirect
Full-text journal articles and book chapters on topics including the physical and health sciences, math, computer science, and some social sciences.

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Indexes and Abstracts

BioOne
A full-text collection of select peer-reviewed scholarly journals in biology, ecology, and environmental sciences.
Biological Abstracts
Indexes scholarly journal articles in biology, chemistry, ecology, environmental science and other life sciences.
PubMed
Citations and abstracts in the fields medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences.