Subject Guide: Environmental Science & Policy
|Books| |Journals| |Journal Articles| Useful Links|Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan| Print indexes
Clarkson University
State University College at Potsdam
Worldcat - Search a supercatalog of over 40 million books and journals in over 3000 libraries worldwide.
Selected eBooks
| Knovel | Engineering handbooks online. |
| EngNetBase | Engineering handbooks online. |
| Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects (DOSE) | A guide to the impact of chemicals on organisms and the environment, including toxicity and environmental fate. |
| Standard reference for occupational health and toxicology professionals. Includes legal, regulatory and management issues. |
Finding Journals - Check the catalog or the journal printout which is located in the library to find journals. Current issues are shelved in the alcove at the end of the aisle to the right as you enter the library.
Electronic Journals-list of titles to which the library subscribes
Print Journals-list of titles available in print
Our Complete List of Journals -list of all journals including those that are available as part of full text databases
You can also check the catalog for our print and electronic journal holdings.
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Finding Journal Articles - Search databases and journal collections to find journal articles by subject, author or title. If the article isn't available in full text, search Our Complete Journal List to see if we have the journal either in print or online. If Clarkson does not have the journal, submit a request for the article through Interlibrary Loan.
The library also has print indexes covering all major subject areas which can be used to locate older articles.
| ABI/INFORM | varies | Journal and newspaper articles. covering many subjects | Mostly full text |
| 1970+ | Index to agricultural journals. | Not full text | |
| American Chemical Society | varies | Journals from the American Chemical Society | Full text |
| BioMed Central | varies | 100 journals covering biomedical research, also in PubMed Central. | Full text |
| Business and Company Resource Center | varies | Journal and newspaper articles emphasizing business topics. | Full text |
| Ebsco MasterFile Select | varies | News and magazine articles. | |
| EconLit | 1969+ | Indexes journal articles on economics. | Not full text |
| Health Reference Center | varies | Journal and magazine articles emphasizing health topics. | Full text |
| Highwire | varies | Journals covering all subjects | Some free, full text |
| Lexis-Nexis | varies | Newspaper articles, newsletters, court cases and laws. | Full text |
| Medline/PubMed | 1966+ | Index for medicine; includes environmental health and toxicology. | Not full text |
| Science Direct | varies | Journals published by Elsevier. | Full text for titles to which the library subscribes |
| SIRSResearcher | 1988+ | Indexes newspapers, magazines and goverment publications covering social, scientific, economic and political issues worldwide ./ | Not full text |
| Web of Science | 1994+ | Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Humanities Citation Index. Search separately or all databases at once. | Not full text |
More Useful Links for Environmental Policy
United States Code - Search the latest 2000 codification of the general and permanent laws of the U. S. Or browse the laws by subject classification.
United States Laws - Text of laws passed from 1995+. Recent laws passed will not be included in the latest edition of the U.S. Code.
Code of Federal Regulations - Search the codification of rules and regulations passed by Federal Regulatory and Executive agencies.
Federal Register - Daily publication of rules, proposed rules and notices of Federal agencies. Recent regulations will not be included in the current Code of Federal Regulations.
National Technical Information Center (NTIS) - Search reports issued from government funded scientific and technical research. Some reports are free online, others may be downloaded for a fee or purchased in print. The library has many government reports on microfiche, and can borrow most others at no charge, so be sure to check our catalog before you pay for a report.
Congressional Research Service Reports - Full text reports prepared for Congress on topics being considered for legislation.
U.S. Congress Congressional Hearings - Full text of selected congressional hearings, searchable by topic. <
Environmental Protection Agency - News, topic overviews, overview of environmental legislation.
Document Delivery
Interlibrary Loan - can be used borrow materials from other libraries through interlibrary loan. Most books and articles can be obtained at no charge.
Ingenta - 1988+ - Tables of Contents of over 16,000 journals in all disciplines. You can sign up for an automatic Table of Contents alerting service. Ingenta allows you to use a credit card and immediately view online articles in journals Clarkson does not subscribe to. Faculty can sign up through the library for their own Ingenta accounts.
WEB ACCESS
You should be able to access any of our Web resources from any computer with a Clarkson IP address. This includes computers in the library, all academic buildings, and in the dormitories.
To read most full text journals you need to install Adobe Acrobat on your computer. Acrobat reader can be downloaded from the Adobe Acrobat site.
Biological Abstracts (1970-1992) 016.57 B615 Abstracts/Indexes.
Chemical Abstracts (1907-) 016.54 C5171 Abstracts/Indexes.
Public Affairs Information Service (1962-1993) 016.3 P976b Abstracts/Indexes. Now online as First Search PAIS.
Science Citation Index (1968-1989 print 1988-1994 CD-ROM) 016.5 S4161 Abstracts/Indexes. Now online as Web of Science.