Last updated: 3/21/08
Reference Databases Life Sciences, Marine & Environment

  AGRICOLA

Coverage of worldwide literature on agriculture and related subjects, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, etc. Provides citations and abstracts for journal articles, books, technical reports, and other materials. 1970- (books) and 1981- (articles). Updated daily.

  American Chemical Society Web Editions

Full-text access to the latest four years of the journals published by the American Chemical Society. Browse tables of contents or search for current or archival articles by author or keyword.

  ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports on the science, technology, and management of marine and freshwater environments. Searches all ASFA sub-files simultaneously. 1971-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  ASFA 1: Biologial Sciences and Living Resources (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports on marine, freshwater, and brackish water organisms. 1971-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports on aquatic pollution prevention and control. 1990-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

 

  ASFA Aquaculture Abstracts (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports on aquaculture and the culture of fish and other organisms. 1984-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

 

  ASFA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of journal articles, monographs, conference proceedings, and technical reports on marine molecular biotechnology and cell/tissue culture. 1989-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

 

  Bibliography & Index of Micropaleontology

Provides full-feature, one-query searches of world micropaleontological literature. 1970-. Updated monthly.

  Biological Abstracts [BIOSIS] (WebSpirs)

Indexing and abstracts of journals in the life sciences. 1990-. Updated six times a year.

  Biological and Agricultural Index Plus (WilsonWeb)

Indexing of approximately 300 core periodicals in the core literature of biology and agriculture. 1983-. Updated daily. [user guide]

  EBSCO Animals (EBSCOhost)

Indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. [user guide]

  FSTA Direct (IFIS)

Food Science & Technology Abstracts (FSTA) provides access to citations and abstracts dealing with all human food commodities and food processing (except for the production of raw food). Topics covered include microbiology, toxicology and hygiene, economics and statistics, engineering, packaging, and many food products. FSTA indexes articles, patents, standards, books, conference proceedings, research reports, dissertations, and legislation. 1969-.

  Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)

Database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. OSL/CLAN’s collection includes: Beacham’s Guide to the Endangered Species of North America, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Biology, and World of Earth Science. Enter your 14 digit OSL/CLAN barcode when prompted. [user guide]

  GEOBASE (FirstSearch)

Indexing of articles from over 2,000 journals covering the world-wide literature of geology, geography, and ecology. 1980-. Updated monthly. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access. [user guide]

  GreenFILE (EBSCOhost)

Citations, abstracts, and selected full text for over 600 scholarly and general interest periodicals, government documents, and reports focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. 1973-. [user guide]

  JSTOR

JSTOR is an online archive of back runs of core scholarly journals in many disciplines. Articles may be searched by keyword or browsed by journal. JSTOR provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Note that JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. [user guide]

  LexisNexis Environmental

Allows users to search abstracts of thousands of journal articles and conference papers and link to selected full text through Environment Abstracts; retrieve full-text news, journals, and reference materials; find federal and state codes and federal agency regulations; access federal and state case law and agency decisions; and locate federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information. Updated daily. [user guide]

  Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (CSA)

Contains records drawn from the world’s literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs, are included. 1974-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  National Climatic Data Center (NCDS)

Access to monthly temperature, pressure, precipitation, and other measurements for approximately 2,000 surface data collection stations worldwide; storm data by state; and local climatic data for several hundred U.S. cities. One simultaneous user only. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access.

  National Environmental Publications Information System (NEPIS)

Search, view, and print the full text of over 10,000 technical and popular publications produced by the Environmental Protection Agency. 1990-. Updated monthly.

  National Sea Grant Library Database

Database of citations to the holdings of the National Sea Grant Library in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The NGSL collection consists of about 30,000 Sea Grant funded titles on the topics of oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation, and law. Included in the collection are journal reprints, books, technical reports, maps, proceedings, newsletters, advisory reports, handbooks, videos, CD-ROMs, computer programs, and more. In some cases the full text of the document is available online. 1970-. Updated monthly. (See also Sea Grant Abstracts, below.)

  Oceanic Abstracts (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment, focusing on marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics. 1981-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts)

Indexes 1,600 key chemistry, biochemistry and chemical engineering journals and selectively indexes 8,000 more, plus conference proceedings, patents, technical reports, and other materials. Also contains information on chemical substances and reactions, regulations, and chemical suppliers. 1907-. Updated daily. One simultaneous user only. [user guide]

  ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Science Direct is a collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users from 1995 to the present. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.

  Science Inventory (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

Searchable, EPA agency-wide database of more than 4,000 scientific and technical work products such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products. Database records provide such information as project descriptions (abstracts), contacts for additional information, and electronic links to final reports and related research. Users can conduct keyword searches of search within nine cross-cutting science topics.

  Sea Grant Abstracts

Cites the majority of literature which is received by the National Sea Grant Library. This literature covers pure and applied science, engineering, business management, shipping and navigation, fisheries, wetlands management, law and policy, economics, and education. It is available in a variety of formats, such as manuals, handbooks, technical reports, journal reprints, etc. Annual subject and author indexes. Table of contents provides a subject classification scheme which includes cross-referencing. Each reference contains a headline for rapid scanning, a short abstract and bibliographic information for obtaining the document. 2002-. Updated quarterly. (See also National Sea Grant Library Database, above.)

  Turfgrass Information Center (TGIF)

Provides access to published materials reporting on aspects of turfgrass and its maintenance, including annnual research reports, conference proceedings, trade publications, scientific journals, monographs, fact sheets and pamphlets, images, field day programs, and newsletters. Most records in TGIF contain informative abstracts; some contain full text or are linked to Web-accessible full text.

  Web of Science (ISI)

Web access to ISI citation databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Contains citations to articles from nearly 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. The ability to search by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research. 1998-. Updated weekly. [user guide] [online tutorial]