Guides: Environmental Studies: Home

Welcome!

This guide will help you find the best library databases, search tools, and reference sources relevant to the Environmental Studies Department. Use the pages in this guide to find:

Databases containing scholarly articles about Biology.
Resources for finding eBooks and print books.
Places to search for news and background information about Biology-related topics.
Resources to help you cite your sources using the proper format.

Not Sure Where to Start?

Start with LibrarySearch (Library default search) to search across the greatest number of books, journals, newspapers and other resources in all disciplines. Use the more discipline specific databases below to narrow your search. Find even more databases by exploring other sections of this guide.

Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its content falls most heavily in the physical and life sciences, but it also covers social sciences and humanities literature. Look for the "Full Text Options" to check to see if access through the library is possible.
-Contains more than 47 million records, 70% with abstracts, more than 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. 70% of content is pulled from international sources. Includes MEDLINE.
-Records since 1996 include searchable cited references.
-Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off campus).
Environmental Science Database (Proquest)
cross-disciplinary resource of full-text content of global literature across this field and related discipline.such as engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE is an index of publications on the environmental impact of human activity. Subjects covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, recycling, renewable energy, and sustainable agriculture.