Students from the Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy studying the Everglades (photo from Ecosystem Science and Policy web site).
- Biological Abstracts (1980 - 2002)
Biological Abstracts indexes biology journals not traditionally covered by standard anthropology indexes. Topics of interest include: physical anthropology, ethnobiology,evolution, paleobiology and paleozoology. - Biosis Citation Index
Get a comprehensive view of life sciences research, including the most important discoveries, significant influences and relevant connections. Biosis Citation Index combines critical life sciences research with powerful citation indexing that only Web of Science provides. - COS Conference Papers Index
Conference Papers Index indexes papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings worldwide. Records include complete ordering information to obtain preprints, abstracts, proceedings and other publications derived from the conference, together with title and author information needed to track the specific papers. Information is derived from final programs, abstracts booklets and published proceedings, as well as from questionnaire responses. - EIS: Digest of Environmental Impact Statements
Indexes and abstracts environmental impact statements the Federal Government releases each year; includes subfile Environmental Routenet. - Agricultural & Environmental Science
A multidisciplinary database that indexes and abstracts the world's research literature in the fields of agricultural and environmental sciences, providing comprehensive coverage from 1967 to the present. Includes the renowned AGRICOLA, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. - SCOPUS
Covering the life, physical, health, and social sciences, Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Scopus covers: Over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers, including coverage of: 500 Open Access journals, 700 Conference Proceedings, 600 Trade Publications, 125 Book Series. More than 60% of titles are from countries other than the US Abstracts go back to 1966. References go back to 1996. 80% of content is indexed with controlled vocabularies. 100% coverage of Medline, including unique Medline journals. 28 million abstract records. 245 million references added to all abstracts. Scopus also covers 250 million quality web sources, including 13 million patents. Web sources are searched via Scirus, and include author homepages, university sites and resources such as the preprint servers CogPrints and ArXiv.org, and OAI compliant resources. - Web of Science Citation Indexes
Web of Science, published by Thomson Reuters, is a multi-disciplinary database that provides integrated access to over 8,000 key research journals indexed in: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. There are two main ways to search the database: --- select General Search to search for articles by subject term, author name, journal title, or author affiliation --- select Cited Reference Search to search for articles that cite an author or article that you specify. Web of Knowledge features citation searching, email alerts, links to the full text of many items. - ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides in-depth coverage of the top 150 core academic subject, including 5,060 titles -over 3,600 in full text- from 1971 forward. It features a highly-respected, diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
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Mary Lou Norwood (1925-2007). Swamp Lily in Shark Valley, Everglades National Park. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/
In addition to core databases these supporting databases can be very useful.
- World Resources Institute
Open access database of statistical, graphic, and analytical data regarding environmental, social, and economic trends shaping our world. - Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. Includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. - ELDIS - Development & Environment Information
Eldis is a gateway to global development information on international development issues. It provides free and easy access to materials on developing countries including summaries and links to documents, library catalogues, international development newsfeeds, e-mail discussion lists and resource guides. The database includes over 40,000 summaries and provides free links to full-text research and policy documents from over 8,000 publishers. - Environmental Engineering Abstracts
Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers the world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. - Environment & Energy Publishing
Gateway to access for Environment and Energy Daily, Greenwire, and Land Letter. E&E Publishing is an independent, for-profit information company specializing in environmental and energy issues Readers include congressional offices and committees, the White House, a wide range of federal agencies (EPA, Interior, Energy, NOAA, BLM, MMS, DOD, USDA, FWS, etc.) law firms, local and national environmental groups, major corporations, media companies, consultants, lobbyists, utilities, state and local governments, foreign governments, think tanks, universities, financial institutions and international development organizations. - University of Miami Research Profiles
University of Miami Research Profiles (formerly SciVal Experts) is a tool that allows researchers to pinpoint UM biomedical faculty by their area of proficiency. - U.S. Documents Masterfile
A guide to federal, state, local and international public documents. - Dissertations & Theses @ University of Miami
Encyclopedias are great for finding background information!
- eLS
Electronic version of the 20-volume print resource. eLS (formerly known as the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences) is a monthly-updating reference work containing over 5,000 specially commissioned, peer-reviewed and citable articles written by leaders in the field. It offers comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the life sciences for students, lecturers and researchers alike. eLS articles are accompanied by colour illustrations and tables. Appendix and glossary material provide essential information for the non-specialist, including biochemical and taxonomic information, acronyms, synonyms, units and other technical data. As all articles have been peer-reviewed, a balanced representation of the literature is ensured. - Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
Addresses fundamental discipline of biological chemistry. For broad, cross-disciplinary audience. - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
Scholarly resource for background information in life sciences; includes over 4,000 peer-reviewed articles.
- Department of Energy
Link to Environment tab for information about DOE Environmental Policy & Guidance, nuclear waste, climate change and additional environmental issues.
- Toxnet
Collection of toxicology and environmental health databases, hazardous chemicals and toxic releases. From the U.S. National Library of Medicine - Household Products Database
Information in the Household Products Database is from a variety of publicly available sources including brand-specific labels and Material Safety Data Sheets when available from manufacturers and manufacturers' web sites. - NOAA Sea Grant
Provides information and support for environmental stewardship, long-term economic development and responsible use of America’s coastal, ocean and Great Lakes resources. - U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, the impacts of climate and land-use change, and the core science systems that help us provide timely, relevant, and useable information. - U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service Endangered Species Program
Information on endangered plant and animal species and conservation efforts. - United States Department of Agriculture
News and reports provided by the USDA. - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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