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Information Resources for ENVS 699 Capstone Project

This guide will help you locate information for your capstone project. Listed below is a selection of resources, not all will be relevant to your topic but read the descriptions to assess whether a particular resources applies to your area of interest.

If you need more help finding information please contact Annette Day at dayannet@pobox.upenn.edu or 215-746-0228

ABI/Inform - Proquest

ABI/Inform - Proquest
Covers all aspects of business. ABI/Inform provides in-depth coverage of business conditions, trends, corporate strategies and tactics, management techniques, competitive and product information, and information on more than 60,000 companies. It gives you indexing and abstracts to articles from more than 1800 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Dates covered vary by source.

Alternative Press Index

Alternative Press Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals.
Holdings: 1991 to present

EBSCO MegaFILE

A very good place to start, provides access to journal articles, magazines and news in all academic disciplines, including enviromental

studies and environmental issues, humanities, education, business, social science, economics, science and general interest topics.

Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Encyclopedia of environmental science / by John Mongillo and Linda Zierdt-Warshaw.

Mongillo, John F.. Encyclopedia of environmental science / by John Mongillo and Linda Zierdt-Warshaw. [1573561479 (alk. paper)] Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE10 .M66 2000

Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society / Andrew S. Goudie, editor in chief ; David J. Cuff, associate editor.

Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society / Andrew S. Goudie, editor in chief ; David J. Cuff, associate editor. [0195108256 (set : alk. paper) ] Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GE149 .E44 2002

Encyclopedia of world environmental history / Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, Carolyn Merchant, editors.

Encyclopedia of world environmental history / Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill, Carolyn Merchant, editors. [0415937329 (set : acid-free paper) ] New York : Routledge, 2004.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks GF10 .E63 2004

Environmental Protection Agency

FedStats

FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies

FirstGov for Science

FirstGov for Science
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results. Two major types of information are included - selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.

Google Trends

View volume of searches and compare with them news rankings

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)

ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
The ISI Citation Indexes include the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, as well as for articles that cite a known author or work.

Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present
Updated weekly.

Labelling of cells with quantum dots

Parak,W . "Labelling of cells with quantum dots" Nanotechnology [0957-4484] 16.2 (2005). R9-25.

LexisNexis Environmental

Online version of Environmental Abstracts giving broad coverage of the environmental field including scholarly, professional and policy

information. This database also provides fulltext news periodical coverage of environmental issues, U.S. federal and state statutory and

regulatory information, including case law and agency actions, and federal and state waste site and hazardous material records.

PAIS International

PAIS International covers public affairs and policy issues related to a wide range of topics: including environment, agriculture, planning,

public administration, law and legislation

Raman scattering from GaP nanowires

de la Chapelle,M . "Raman scattering from GaP nanowires" The European physical journal. B [1434-6028] 46.4 (2005). 507-13.

Sociological Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts
-from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs.
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.