Environmental Science

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Key databases

BioOne Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals published by small societies and non-commercial publishers in the United States.

BIOSCIENCEnetBASE Full Text
BIOSCIENCEnetBASE contains the full text of books on topics such as bioengineering, genomics, tissue engineering, biofuels, nanotechnology, drug delivery, and immunology.

CSIRO Journals
The latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists.
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ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

Gale contains a mixture of indexing and full text resources of core journals such as Nature, Environment and Behavior, Bioscience, and Climatic Change. Search across all databases by clicking on 'Continue' to get to the Advanced Search page.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Worth a look

AANRO: Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online Selected Full Text
A collection of free databases covering Australian agriculture and natural resource management.

ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics Full Text
Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
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American Chemical Society (ACS) Archives Selected Full Text
3 million pages of information on every aspect of chemical science. Articles can date back as far as 1879.

AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library
AGRICOLA indexes materials in on agriculture and related sciences acquired by the US National Agricultural Library (NAL).

Annual Reviews Online (ANO) Full Text
ANO provides a comprehensive series of full-text reviews in biomedical sciences, physical sciences and social sciences.

Includes Annual Review of Environment and Resources and a Special Collection - Climate Change: State of the Art (2001-2007).

APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995.
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Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Platform used to search Biological Sciences Collection, EconLit, ERIC, PsycARTICLES, PsycINFO, Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
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Click on 'Specific Databases' next to 'Select' and tick the boxes next to Biological Sciences, Biology Digest, Conference Papers Index, Plant Science, and Toxline. Click 'Continue to Search' to search across all 5 databases. Limited full text.

Engineering Village Selected Full-Text
Search GeoBase and GeoRef on a single platform. Subjects covered include geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics.

Informit Indexes
ANR-I, ANR-I Archive, ANR-Research and ANR-Research Archive. These cover research in agriculture and natural resource management in Australia.

Select other Informit Indexes - AHB (Australian Heritage Bibliography), EDGE, ENDANGER, EVA, MEDGE, REEF, Streamline, VPI&E. Note these are bibliographic databases with limited full text.

TVNews Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks.

Watch programmes such as Catalyst and Landline.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences
Encyclopedia of Aquaculture
Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering
Encyclopedia of Grain Science
Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment
Environmental Encyclopedia

Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Oxford Reference Online includes 37 dictionaries and encyclopedias in the Sciences and additional titles in Earth & Environmental Sciences.

Pollution A-Z
Sage eReference
Search dozens of encyclopedias including the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Encyclopedia of Environment and Society and Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science.

Soil and Environmental Science Dictionary
UXL Encyclopedia of Biomes
UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science
The Water Encyclopedia Hydrological

High impact journals

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics
Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Conservation Biology
Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
Ecological Applications
Ecosystems
Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Science and Technology
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Journal of Applied Ecology
Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Web sites and Internet resources

General Sites

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AuthorMapper -  A free tool visualizing scientific research areas and trends through timeline graphs and bar charts, allowing users to locate other experts in a field of study.
Birchip Cropping Group - The BCG is a farmer-driven agricultural organisation conducting applied research and extension on all the major crops grown in the Wimmera region.
Birds Australia Includes a directory of Australian Bird Research, a list of threatened Australian birds and useful links to other Australian and overseas resources.
Center for Health and the Global Environment (USA) - linking the health of the environment with the health of people.
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research and Australian National Herbarium - Botanical research, conservation, management and use of the Australian Flora.
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Earthtrends - World Resources Institute environmental information portal.
Ecological Society of Australia - creating a community of knowledge and understanding amongst ecologists.
Ecotox Database - The ECOTOXicology database (ECOTOX) is a source for locating single chemical toxicity data for aquatic life, terrestrial plants and wildlife.
Environment Protection and Heritage Council
Geoscience Australia - contributes to decisions regarding management of the environment.
Global Invasive Species database
Land & Water Australia -  Sustainable management and use of Australia’s natural resources through investment in research and adoption.
National Science Digital Library
Nature Precedings - pre-publication research and preliminary findings.
Red List of Threatened Species - The International Union for Conservation and Nature.
ScienceResearch.com - accelerates your research by returning relevant results from over 300 authoritative science and technology collections.
ScientificCommons.org - aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
State of the Environment Report Australia - National SoE reports provide information about environmental and heritage conditions, trends and pressures for the Australian continent, surrounding seas and Australia's external territories.
United Nations Environmental Network
Waterwatch Australia Library
Wentworth Group - provides science-based solutions to Australia's greatest environmental problems by working with Australia's leading scientists, economists, policy specialists and industry leaders.
Wolfram Alpha - a computational database using knowledge-based computing. Enter your question and WA computes the answer.