Climate: Databases
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- BuildingGreen.com . This link opens in a new window
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Database to help building-industry professionals design and build construction projects that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance. Includes access to Environmental building news articles, lists for GreenSpec products and specification guidelines, and detailed project case studies of high-performance buildings.
- Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science DatabaseA full-text database that covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary. The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
- ENVIROnetBASE : environmental resources online. This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to environmental handbooks published by CRC Press. - Environment complete This link opens in a new window
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"Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more."--Database description screen. - Garden, landscape & horticultural index This link opens in a new window
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"Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index (GLHI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English"--Database description screen. - GreenFILE . This link opens in a new window
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"GreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology." - PAIS Index . This link opens in a new window
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Indexes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories in the area of public affairs. Topics include business, government, international relations, banking, environment, health, social sciences, demographics, law and legislation, political science, public administration, finance, agriculture, education, and statistics. - Scopus . This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in biology ,physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences. - Sustainability reference center . This link opens in a new window
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"The Sustainability Reference Center is a comprehensive full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability and corporate social responsibility."--Choose databases. - Sustainability science abstracts . This link opens in a new window
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"The Sustainability database explores the management of human use and conservation of the natural resource base, ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs in the present as well as maintaining the potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations. This involves the maintenance of species diversity & genetic diversity within the species and protection of the habitat/ecosystem they rely upon. The economy is an important aspect of Sustainability and should be seen as "a means to an end" not an end in itself. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized"--CSA Sustainability Science Abstracts factsheet.
- Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science DatabaseA full-text database that covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary. The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
- WATERnetBASE : water references online. This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive multidiscipline resource providing access to reference works on drinking water, ground water, hydrogeology, hydrology, storm water, surface water, waste water, water pollution and wetlands. Also includes the current edition of Water encyclopedia. - Water resources abstracts . This link opens in a new window
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Provides citations and abstracts to the technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications. The database covers publications worldwide, from 1967-present.
- Bibliography on cold regions science and technology . This link opens in a new window
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Bibliography includes references to scientific and engineering research related to material and operations in a winter battlefield, the nature and impact of cold on facilities and activities, cold-related environmental problems, and the impact of human activity on cold environments.
- Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science DatabaseA full-text database that covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary. The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
- National Centers for Environmental Information This link opens in a new windowNOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is responsible for preserving, monitoring, assessing, and providing public access to the Nation's treasure of climate and historical weather data and information.
- ProQuest atmospheric science collection . This link opens in a new window
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This collection includes the Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts database, full-text ProQuest Atmospheric Science Journals, and deep indexing to uncover hidden data. Subjects covered are air pollution, climatology, glaciology, weather forecasting, and more.
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An index with abstracts to periodicals in biology and the life sciences. Provides access to biological and medical research findings, clinical studies, and discoveries of new organisms. Coverage is international, and includes agriculture, biochemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, genetics, botany, ecology, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology.
- Biological Science DatabaseA full-text database covering comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary.
This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.
- Garden, landscape & horticultural index This link opens in a new window
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"Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index (GLHI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English"--Database description screen. - MEDLINE . This link opens in a new window
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MEDLINE indexes biomedical literature. Areas covered in MEDLINE include microbiology, delivery of health care, nutrition, pharmacology, environmental health,anatomy, organisms, diseases, chemicals and drugs, techniques and equipment, psychiatry and psychology, biological sciences, physical sciences, social sciences and education, technology, agriculture, food, industry, humanities, information science and communications, and health care. - PubMed / a service of the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. - Zoological record This link opens in a new window
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Bibliographical references from more than 6,000 international journals, review annuals, monographs, meeting proceedings, books and reports, representing research in all major areas of zoology, including: behavior, ecology, evolution, genetics, habitat, nutrition, parasitology, reproduction, taxonomy, zoogeography.
- AAPG datapages . This link opens in a new window
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This is the combined search-and-retrieval website for AAPG publications and related collections. Includes full-text and abstracts.
- Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science DatabaseA full-text database that covers comprehensive scholarly output, managed by an expert editorial team overseeing content selection and indexing supported by a controlled vocabulary. The Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database contains full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
- Earthquake engineering abstracts . This link opens in a new window
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Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA currently comprises full citations and abstracts from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. EEA includes indexes and abstracts of many major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and research report's abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports. Sources covered include periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases. - GeoRef . This link opens in a new window
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Indexes references and selected abstracts to the world's literature in geology, including journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, theses, and references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Areas covered include North America since 1669 and other areas since 1933. - GeoScienceWorld . This link opens in a new window
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Serves as a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and is inter-operable with GeoRef. - Lyell collection . This link opens in a new window"The Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society's journal titles, Special Publications and key book series."--About.
Legal Resources
- Nexis Uni. This link opens in a new window
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An interdisciplinary, full-text database of over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports and SEC filings, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and selected reference works. - Factiva . This link opens in a new window
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Factiva provides access to global news and business information, including local newspapers, same-day newswires, company reports, and media programs. Provides company information including market data and competitors.
- AGRICOLA . This link opens in a new window
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Covers agricultural subjects, such as agricultural engineering and marketing, animal breeding, entomology, environmental pollution, farm mangagement, foods and feeds, pesticides, rural sociology, social sciences, veterinary medicine, and water resources. - Agricultural & environmental science database. This link opens in a new window"The Agricultural & Environmental Science Database is a cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content along with expert indexing of global literature across these fields and related disciplines. Students, researchers, teachers, and professionals benefit from the precision and comprehensive discovery the database provides through peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, magazines, and grey literature as well as working papers, conference papers and proceedings. The database provides a unique solution for agricultural research and allied disciplines including: agricultural economics; animal and veterinary sciences; aquaculture and fisheries; farming and farming systems; food and human nutrition; forestry; and plant sciences. Users can expect full-text articles, and the entire range of bibliographic records from AGRICOLA."--Publisher overview.
- AGRISInternational Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology. Includes Papers, data, statistics, and multimedia material.
- Applied science & business periodicals retrospective . This link opens in a new windowApplied Science & Business Periodicals Retrospective contains indexing and abstracts for ... core English-language, scientific and technical publications back to 1983. Full text of articles is available from more than 220 periodicals dating back to 1997. Content includes coverage of a wide variety of applied science specialties--acoustics to aeronautics, neural networks to nuclear and civil engineering, computers and informatics and much more.
- FAOSTAT / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This link opens in a new windowFAOSTAT consists of an integrated core database and satellite databases feeding and supporting it. These cover areas such as agricultural production, consumption, trade, prices and resources. The current core of FAOSTAT contains a full matrix of integrated and compatible statistics coverage of 200 countries, 15 years, and more than 200 primary products and input items related to production, trade, resources, consumption and prices. Naturally, the construction of an integrated database requires filtering, aggregating and transforming the detailed source databases to a common denominator.
- Scopus . This link opens in a new window
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Provides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in biology ,physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
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Climate Data
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Air Quality Tracker From the EPA
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Biogeochemical Dynamics Data (ORNL-DAAC): Biogeochemical and ecological data products and services.
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Drinking Water From UNICEF data.
- Global Change Master Directory (NASA): Discover and access data descriptions and software models, relevant to global change and Earth science research.
- The IRI/LDEO Climate Data Library:The Data Catalog has been developed by the Climate Group at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. It is both a catalog and a library of datasets, i.e. it both helps you figure out which data you want, and helps you work with the data. The interface llows you to make plots, tables,and files from any dataset.
- National Climatic Center Online Document Library: The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) is the world's largest active archive of weather data, providing a historical perspective on climate.
- NOAA Satellite Information Service: Satellite data (NOAA) Atmosphere, Ocean, Land, Space, Hazards.
- National Snow and Ice Data Center: Lots of information on glaciers and sheets of ice for world.
- Our World in Data | Air Pollution
- United States Drought Monitor: Useful for current drought situation in U.S.
