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October 2004

Library Catalog  Lists all books, videos, etc. in WWU's libraries. Lists most government documents in the collection.  Does not list periodical articles, but lists periodical titles.  So, once you have found that you want an article in, say, Journal of Environmental Education, use the catalog to find out whether the library owns the journal.

Article Databases:
These are a few of the databases that might lead you to relevant journal articles.  Be certain to examine the Search Databases page for a more complete list.

ERIC Indexes articles and research reports in the fields of education and child study.  Also available here.

PsycINFO Indexes journals in the field of psychology.

Environmental Universe Contains more than 20 databases, including:

• Environment Abstracts.  Covers the world's environmental related information. Environment Abstracts provides indexing and abstracting coverage of more than 1,000 international primary and secondary publications reporting on all aspects of the environment. These publications highlight such fields as   management, technology, planning, law, political science, economics, geology, biology, and chemistry as they relate to environmental issues.  Draws material from over 1,000 scientific, technical, trade, professional, and general periodicals; conference papers and proceedings; government documents; industry reports; newspapers; and project reports. Envirofiche collection, located on Wilson Library 2nd Floor West, provides microfiche copies of many of the materials found in Environment Abstracts.

•  Environmental News.  The complete text of thousands of short articles from Greenwire, Environment and Energy Daily, Mining Journal, Seattle Times, Boston Globe, and hundreds of other sources.

• Environmental Law Reviews.  Full text of articles from  Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Ecology Law Quarterly, Environmental Lawyer, Public Land & Resources Law Review, etc.

Web of Science Contains Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Index, which can be searched separately or together.  These indexes list all the citations (footnotes) in scholarly articles.  You can search by subject, or you can look up  authors or works to see who is citing them.

ProQuest  An index to newspapers, general magazines, and some journals.  About half the material is available full-text.

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts  A comprehensive database on the science, technology, and management of marine and freshwater environments and resources. A collaborative effort of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome), the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (Paris), the office for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the United Nations (New York) and the Ocean and Coastal Areas Programme Activity Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (Nairobi), and national agencies in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.A.

Biological and Medical Sciences  More than twenty databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, including: Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts,  Animal Behavior Abstracts,  Bacteriology Abstracts, Ecology Abstracts, Entomology Abstracts, Health and Safety Science Abstracts, Oncogenes and Growth Factors Abstracts, and Toxicology Abstracts. The databases can be searched separately or together.

JSTOR - A project that puts the full text of all issues, except for the most recent years, of selected academic journals on the World Wide Web. JSTOR currently includes 6 ecology journals (Ecology, Ecological applications, etc), and 11 population studies journals (Demography, Studies in Family Planning, etc), among over a hundred others.

Reference Books

This is a small sample of relevant books in the Reference Collection.  (All Reference Books are listed in the Library Catalog.)

Atlas of global change Ref GE149 .G4813 1998 

Atlas of United States environmental issues Ref G1201.G3 M3 1990 

Encyclopedia of education Ref LB15 .E47 2003

Encyclopedia of environmental science Ref GE10 .E53 1999 

Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society Ref GE149 .E47 2002 

Encyclopedia of world environmental history Ref GF10 .E63 2004 

Gale encyclopedia of childhood & adolescence Ref HQ772 .G27 1998 

International encyclopedia of environmental politics Ref GE170 .I55 2002 

Environmental activism : a reference handbook Ref GE195 .S88 2003 

Handbook of Child Psychology  Ref  BF721 .H242 1998 

Handbook of environmental psychology  Ref BF353 .H26 1987 

Handbook of environmental sociology Ref GE195 .H35 2002 

Handbook of school psychology Ref LB1051 .H2356 1999 

Dictionary of environmental economics, science and policy Ref HC79.E5 G685 2001 

Dictionary of psychology Ref BF31 .C65 2001 

Greenwood dictionary of education  Ref LB15 .G68 2003   

ABC-CLIO companion to the environmental movement Ref GE197 .G76 1994

Some other suggestions.

Quick Reference Guide for APA Citations

APA Website

Western Libraries' Quick Reference for Chicago Citations

How can you tell a JOURNAL from a MAGAZINE?

Electronic Environmental Journals Not an index, but a  list of  environmental journals, magazines, newsletters and news services available full-text over the Internet, either for free or through WWU subscriptions.

Government Information Services  Western is a depository for U.S., Washington, and Canadian federal documents.
 

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