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CHM197: Environmental Chemistry in a Sustainable World

Scholarly Databases

Why use databases?

Conduct a broad search across many journals at once
Find articles in a specific subject area, such as environmental sciences
Use advanced search techniques like Boolean Operators (AND, OR), truncation ("), search fields, and phrase searching

Multidisciplinary Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary database with journal articles, conference papers, books, and more.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Abstract and citation information for peer-reviewed scientific research, including journals, books, and conference papers.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches for scholarly articles, Google Books and other (somewhat) scholarly material. Note: Never pay for articles you find on Google! Go back to LibrarySearch to find the full-text PDF of your sources.

Subject-Specific Databases

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Database of scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts.
GEOBASE This link opens in a new window
Database for physical and human geography, earth and environmental sciences, ecology, and related disciplines, focusing on the human and social impacts on both.