Environmental Science 490/505: Welcome

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Welcome to the Environmental Science 505 Course Research Guide. Please use our list of tip sheets to assist you in searching our databases and various resources.

Find Research Articles

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
CONTENTS: text, images. COVERAGE: portal to 11,600+ journals, monographs, reports and conference proceedings, with 7,000 in full text and nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed. Easily searchable by subject, places and people. DATES: varies. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: EBSCO
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science Core Collection includes indexing for over 21,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals); over 205,000 conference proceedings; and over 104,000 editorially selected books.
Discover the citation connections between these diverse content sets. Explore the more than one billion searchable cited references in Web of Science.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
All subjects
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text. COVERAGE: 1700+ journals with 870+ in full text. DATES: 1995+. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: Elsevier.
Terms of Use
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology, and medicine
CONTENTS: citations, text, abstracts. COVERAGE: access to more than 300 SAGE online journals from volume 1, issue 1 (Backfile), as well as current access to 450+ titles (Premier). DATES: 1998. UPDATES: monthly. VENDOR: Sage.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
All aspects of human impact to the environment
CONTENTS: index, abstracts. COVERAGE: 384,000+ records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 items. DATES: varies. UPDATES: varies. VENDOR: EBSCO.
Agricola This link opens in a new window
All aspects of biological science and agriculture.
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts. COVERAGE: over 3 million citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials and technical reports related to agriculture. DATES: 1970+ UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: National Agriculture Library.
SciFinder Scholar This link opens in a new window
Biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science , pharmacy
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CONTENTS: citations, abstracts. COVERAGE: patent and journal references from all scientific disciplines, substance information, chemical synthesis information, regulated chemicals information, commercially available substances. UPDATES: ongoing. VENDOR: CAS.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare systems, and preclinical sciences
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text. COVERAGE: 4,500 biomedical journals, magazines, newspapers, and newsletters. DATES: 1966+. UPDATES: Tuesday and Saturday. VENDOR: National Library of Medicine.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
All subjects
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text, images. COVERAGE: complete archive of 169 major research journals. DATES: varies. UPDATES: daily. VENDOR: JSTOR.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Business, education, engineering, science, social science, humanities and arts
CONTENTS: citations, abstracts, text. COVERAGE: Over 1,300 journals and 400 books in full text. DATES: most titles from 1997-. UPDATES: daily VENDOR: Wiley.

Free Databases

BioOne
A collection of peer reviewed journals in the fields of biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. The collection may be searched without a subscription. Open access content provided.
bioRxiv
"bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory..." Started in November of 2013, the archive has a limited number of articles at this time.
ChemWeb
Access to journal abstracts and selected full text articles from Chemistry publishers such as Wiley, Elsevier and Springer. Free registration required for database use.
Entrez - the Life Sciences Search Engine
Provides access to genomic and biomedical information.
Espacenet
Database of "more than 50 million patent documents from all over the world" provided by the European Patent Office.
Google Books
Search an index of the world's books, with many of them previewed or provided in full for free.
Google Patents
Search US patents and applications.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.
medrxiv
"medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences."
NTIS Goverment Technical Reports
"Serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information. For more than 60 years, NTIS has assured access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas."
Research Square
"Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. You can also learn about breakthroughs in your field and comment on new discoveries."
Science.gov
"Searches over 50 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 12 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results."
ToxNet
"Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases."
US Copyright Office
Searches "works registered and documents recorded by the U.S. Copyright Office since January 1, 1978."
US Patent and Trademarks Office
Search for US patents and trademarks.
SSRN
SSRN is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out in to other science disciplines providing opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication.

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Zotero

Zotero allows users to:

1. Gather, store, manage, and share references or citations.

2. Generate bibliographies in numerous citation formats such as APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.

3. Store references online and have accessibility to them wherever internet access is available.

Zotero
Zotero is a free reference management platform designed to collect, store, share, manage and cite sources.
Zotero guide
A guide that explains how to use Zotero for research.

ACS Style Guide

The ACS Style Guide by Lorrin R. Garson (Editor); Anne M. Coghill (Editor)
ISBN: 9780841239999
Publication Date: 2006-07-20

Research and Topic Handout

Guided Researching Worksheet

Off Campus Access

Most databases are accessible remotely from off-campus. However, only current SIUE faculty, staff, and students have privileges to access the databases. Restrictions are due to licensing and subscription agreements with vendors and publishers.

Remote access to Library databases requires logging in with your e-ID and password.

If you are experiencing trouble connecting to a database, please contact the Information Desk 618.650.INFO (4636) or Circulation 618.650.2712.

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