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Environmental Science Research
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Web of science. - The most complete search of science literature available. Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching: 1- Trace how an idea has been confirmed, applied, extended or corrected in later work. 2- Identify authors who cite a particular article (yourown or someone else's). 3 - Identify highly cited authors in a field of study. 4- Observe the progress of an author's research. 5 - Evaluate the impact of an author's work in a particular field. 6 - Conduct multidisciplinary searches.
BioOne - Search research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences. Full text.
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ScienceDirect - Database for research in Business & Accounting, Economics & Finance, Computer Science, Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology, Biology/Biochemistry, Chemistry, Physics and more ... Includes full-text articles from over 800 major journals. Contains a large collection of Environmental Science journals.
JSTOR -Journal articles available from initial date of publication (many from the 1800's) until 3 to 5 years ago. Exact replication of the original journal article. Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology collections of journals.
American Chemical Society Web Editions - Search journals covering all areas of chemistry, biochemistry and envirnmental science..
Academic Search Premier - can be a good choice for environmental science articles. Be careful how you search it though. It is a huge database with many newspapers and popular magazines. Using the Scholarly/Peer Reviewed limiter is highly recommended.
Learn more about an author's credentials, expertise, and biases.
Biography reference bank -Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
Web of Science - Provides the author's address and contact information in addition to the article citation and abstract. Learn more about the author at his or her institution's web site as well.