Subject Guides: ESP 102: Fundamentals of Environmental Science: Our library session

Useful Databases

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts:ASFA This link opens in a new window
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Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, theses, technical reports, and non-conventional literature covering all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. International in scope.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
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Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. The database contains full text for more than 400 journals, including many of the most-used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. It also has full text for more than 100 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, and more.
Oceanic Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports covering the marine and brackish-water environment. Topics covered include biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, ecology, geochemistry, geophysics, marine biology, and marine geology. Indexes over 500 journals.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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Developed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), PubMed is a major medical database. It provides access to bibliographic/abstracting information from MEDLINE, plus out-of-scope citations from certain MEDLINE journals; citations that precede the date that a journal was selected for MEDLINE indexing; and some additional life science journals that submit full-text and receive a qualitative review by NLM. Included are links to many sites with full-text articles.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the Science Citation Index (2000 to present), Social Sciences Citation Index (2000-present), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2000-present). Covers current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines to uncover information relevant to their research.Coverage: 2000+

In-class activites

The Environmental Science guide linked below has the link to Environment Complete (in the Databases - Core tab) as well as information from Purdue OWL on APA citation.

* Environmental Science
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Part 1: Comparing types of information sources

Sources Comparison Table (Google Doc)
This is set to "anyone at the University of Southern Maine with the link can edit" so if you can't access it you may have to sign into your MyUSM portal.

Part 2: Searching for academic journal articles

On your own, choose one of the following databases to look for a peer reviewed article on the relationship between coal ash and health hazards

Environment Complete: https://libguides.usm.maine.edu/db/environment-complete
Web of Science: https://libguides.usm.maine.edu/db/web-of-science
USM OneSearch: https://usm.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?

After 5 minutes, find a person who picked a different database than you and compare your searches

APA Style

Work in groups of 3-4 to complete this APA 7 Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iz-QcpdGEr9Q0Y6XbEmgHWKoogGDKsdr/copy

using a resource such as Purdue OWL.

Wrap Up

Post-class check in: 6 word response

Navigating the library website

Citing Sources

Selected Journals in Environmental Science for this course

Remember: You can go to Journals & eBooks on the library homepage and click on Find Journals & eBooks. Once the journal is displayed, you can "search within" it.

Science of the Total Environment
Nature Climate Change
Environmental Research Letters
Environmental Pollution
Frontiers in Marine Science
Water Research

Anatomy of a Scholarly Article
Resource from NCSU Libraries breaking down the different sections of an academic research article

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ESP 102: Fundamentals of Environmental Science: Our library session