Environmental Studies Article Databases
Core Resources
Agricola (Coverage Varies) 
Find materials on agriculture and related disciplines, including entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture, farming, agricultural economics, nutrition, and environmental sciences What Is It? Bibliographic database of citations, compiled by the National Agricultural Library, that indexes agricultural literature. Includes two sections: "Books, etc." for books, videos, serial publications and "Articles, etc." for citations to journal articles, book chapters, reports, etc.
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (1983-Present)
Find articles on how scientific ideas are applied in everyday life. Research cross disciplinary scientific topics. What Is It? Abstracts for scientific periodicals, trade publications, and conference proceedings in the areas of applied, engineered, pure or interdisciplinary sciences.
Environment Abstracts (1975-Present)
Find U.S. and international scholarly and scientific material relating to all aspects of the environment, including specific projects, processes and problems. What Is It? Environment Abstracts indexes more than 950 journals and other scientific and scholarly material published in the U.S. and abroad, encompassing all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment. As of 1994, the database also provides expanded coverage of energy-related issues.
GreenFILE (Coverage Varies)
Find scholarly articles, government publications, and general interest information about environmental issues. What Is It? Provides scholarly, government and general-interest information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. It includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact.
PAIS International (1915-Present)
Find articles about public policy and social issues in the U.S. and abroad. Make connections between policy and politics. Locate selected government publications about policy or social issues. What Is It? An index of articles, books, websites and government documents that cover global public policy, social issues and the social sciences.
Sustainability Science Abstracts (1995-present)
To find scholarly journal articles, papers, reports, books and reviews from peer-reviewed scientific journals. What Is It? This database indexes sources that explore all aspects of U.S. and international sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management.
Additional Resources
Biological & Agricultural Index (1983-Present ) What Is It? Bibliographic database covering topics in agriculture and related fields.
Why Use It? Search a variety of popular and professional scientific journals. Research interdisciplinary biological topics.
EconLit (1969-Present) What Is It? Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is their electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world. It contains abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals, books, chapters and articles in books, working papers series, and dissertations.
Why Use It? Locate journal articles and other scholarly work about economics. Research a particular economist or analyses of an economic theories. Learn more about particular economic theories or models.
General BusinessFile ASAP (1980-Present) What Is It? Index to general business and finance magazines, trade journals, and local business journals. Includes Company Profiles, a directory of public and private companies. Also includes investment reports from Investext.
Why Use It? Research a particular company or industry. Find investment information. Study market trends.
International Political Science Abstracts (1951-Present) What Is It? Produced by the International Political Science Association, IPSA includes current indexing and abstracts of nearly 900 of the world's leading journals in political science.
Why Use It? Find journal articles on foreign policies, international politics, political theory, and government institutions.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Legal (Coverage Varies) 
What Is It? Database that provides full-text access to legal materials, including law review articles, Federal and State cases, Shepard'sŪ Citations, Federal & State Codes, Tax Law, Canadian court cases, Canadian legislation, European Union, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations legal materials, and patents.
Why Use It? To find the full-text of law review articles, opinions of legal cases, current U.S. State and Federal law, and international legal materials.
Philosopher's Index (1940-Present) What Is It? An index to citations and abstracts of scholarly articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and book reviews on philosophy and related fields, including aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, and metaphysics.
Why Use It? Find scholarly material on philosophers and philosophical theories. Find reviews of books on philosophy and related fields. Find philosophical perspectives on other disciplines.
PubMed (1965-Present) What Is It? Database, provided by the National Library of Medicine, containing citations to medical literature.
Why Use It? Search literature in the area of medicine, and related fields. Locate a complete journal title from the abbreviation.
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