Environmental Science
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
Encyclopedia of global change : environmental change and human society (2 vols)
Encyclopedia of global environmental change
Earth system physical, biological, causes, responses, socioeconomics (5 vols)
EOLSS - Encyclopedia of life support systems (online)
Encyclopedia of Earth (online)
Encyclopedia of environmental control technology (8 volumes)
Encyclopedia of biodiversity (5 vols)
Encyclopedia of environmental biology (3 vols)
Encyclopedia of the atmospheric environment (online)
Acid rain, air quality, climate change, global warming, ozone depletion, weather.
Encyclopedia of the biosphere (11 vols)
Humans in the world's ecosystems
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Key Databases
AHB - Australian Heritage Bibliography (previously HERA)
Australia's natural and cultural environment - journal articles, unpublished reports, books and conference proceedings from Australian sources.
Environmental sciences and pollution management collection
Includes databases on aquatic pollution, engineering, safety, toxicology, risk, pollution and ecology.
Worldwide coverage of applied life sciences including ecology, natural resources and environment. Indexes 10,000 journals plus books.
Indexes physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. Covers 2,000 international journals in addition to books, monographs, reports, and theses.
Multidisciplinary databases covering experimental and applied science, incorporating Science citation index and Social sciences citation index.
Multidisciplinary database covering experimental and applied science.
APA FT (Australian Public Affairs - Full Text)
Indexes articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books on Australian public affairs - see also APA Full Text.
ENDANGER - Threatened Species in Australia: A Select Bibliography
1960-; updated biannually. ENDANGER indexes material on threatened Australian fauna and flora. Books, chapters in books, periodicals, newspapers, conference proceedings, theses, and some non-book material (videos, charts, posters etc), are included. The database is produced by the School of Aquatic Sciences & Natural Resources Management, Deakin University, Rusden Campus.
EVA - Environmental Abstracts - Archive only (1987 - Oct 2011)
EVA (formerly EPIC), was produced by the EPA Victoria Library, was a bibliographic database on the environment and related fields. Source documents were selected journal articles from approximately 600 journals published in Australia and overseas.
Victorian Primary Industries and Environment (Library) Catalogue - covers agriculture, mineral resources, conservation, land management, and planning and is produced by the Knowledge and Information Branch of the Victorian DPI.
An Australian natural resources database - it was continued by a web-based resource, AANRO, which was shut down in 2007.
US open access database from the National Agricultural Library. Applied life sciences - including ecology, fisheries, aquaculture, natural resources and environment.
Biosis indexes the journal literature in experimental, pure and field life sciences and non-clinical literature in the biomedical sciences.
CSI indexes Australian and international journals in consumer health, economics, housing and related matters.
ATI (Australian Tourism Index)
ATI covers Australian material on tourism, hospitality from newsletters, journals, reports, unpublished material and government documents. Until 1988 ATI also indexed material on sport and recreation.
NTIS - US National Technical Information (via EI Engineering Village)
Both U.S. sponsored and non-U.S. research - engineering, biotechnology, the environment, health & safety, business, as well as the physical, biological, and social sciences.
Indexes articles on Australian and NZ architecture and building collected by the Stanton Library, Municipality of North Sydney.
Like Google Scholar but specific to science. As in Google Scholar, you can go to Preferences to enable full text connections to University of Queensland Library subscribed resources. (Note: Not all UQL full text will be available from Scirus results displays. Some will require access via the library network.)
Similar to Google Scholar but, unlike GS and Scirus (above), based on multilateral partnerships to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals, with approaching 100 participants. In Advanced Search you can turn on or off databases. In search results you can choose format tabs (papers, data, multimedia), or topic and other options to refine results. Not all results are open access resources and UQ Library subscriptions are not recognised, as they may be in Google Scholar and Scirus, and as they will be in Web of Knowledge and other databases listed above.
Maps
Multimedia
JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) Environment
JoVE Environment is a multidisciplinary section devoted to the publication of research methods employed in environmental science and green technologies. All JoVE video articles are peer-reviewed. See JoVE Sections.
Specialised Resources
The Atlas of Living Australia contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.
Species Profile and Threats Database
The database is designed to provide information about species and ecological communities listed under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. It provides information on what the species looks like, its population and distribution, habitat, movements, feeding, reproduction and taxonomic comments. The information has been compiled by summarising information from a range of sources and contributors. Profiles are not available for all species and ecological communities, but will be regularly added to the database.
EDGAR (JCU and ALA) - mapping bird species and climate change
20,000 natural, historic and Indigenous places in: World Heritage List, National Heritage List, Commonwealth Heritage list, Register of the National Estate, Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia, under consideration, or that may have been considered for, any one of these lists.
World database on protected areas
Foundation dataset for conservation decision making, ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis, and is increasingly used for private sector decision-making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats.\
The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment is an independent organisation that performs research, develops technologies and provides policy guidance for assessing, cleaning up and preventing contamination of soil, water and air.
Several databases on persistent chemicals.
Australian Policy Online - Environment
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Solutions that consider the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability.
Population-Environment Research Network
PERN seeks to advance academic research on population and the environment by promoting online scientific exchange among researchers from social and natural science disciplines worldwide.
RMI's strategic focus is mapping and driving the business-led transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewable energy, with a focus on the transportation, building, industrial and electricity sectors.
Politics and the environment. Breakthrough Institute was founded in 2003 'on the premise that the complaint-based, interest group liberalism born in the 1960s and 1970s was failing to achieve the broad social and ecological transformations America and the world need.'
Australia's Dynamic Land Cover
The National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset of Australia is the first nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference for Australia.
Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) - Queensland
Australian Soil Resource Information System - ASRIS
PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions.
New Mechanisms Information Platform
Mechanisms and evaluation of GHG emission reductions or removals by developing countries including: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change NAMAs (nationally appropriate mitigation actions), REDD and REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation in Developing countries) and other actions.
Statistics
Web Sites
Key Australian Internet Sites
Australian Natural Resources Atlas
Pre-2003 data.
Pre-2009 data.
Current data.
Australian Natural Resources Data Library
Current and historical data
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
TERN collects and integrates ecosystem data across broad spatial and temporal scales; enables storage, access, sharing and management of research data; enables collaboration; enables multidisciplinary, national-scale contributions to addressing key problems in Australian ecosystem science and environmental management.
Environment Portal - information from Australian governments
Caring for Country absorbs earlier programmes: National Heritage Trust, National Landcare Program, Environmental Stewardship Program, Working on Country.
Collaborative Protected Area Database
On this site see also Parks Australia web site link (top left) .
Biodiversity summaries and species lists for NRM regions
Policy Online is a research database and alert service providing free access to full text research reports and papers, statistics and other resources essential for public policy development and implementation in Australia and New Zealand.
GENERIC SITES
Ecological Internet's family of environmental portals are a special kind of website that try to identify, filter and network all the best information found on a subject through one starting point. Ecological Internet, Inc. is a non-profit organization that daily identifies news articles and web sites which we link too, we then make them cumulatively searchable with a true Internet search engine. We also provide analysis on our website of important climate, forest, water, ocean and general environmental sustainability policy developments on our blog, and we send such information to those that are interested via email as well.
Global Change Master Directory
Envirolink Network - environmental news
EarthTrends - The environmental information portal
The Directory of Environmental Web Sites - online abridged edition 2012
Directory of Web Sites of Environmental Agencies of the World
World Environmental Oganization - Top 1000 Web Sites
World Conservation Union (IUCN)
QUEENSLAND
Queensland Dept. of Environment and Heritage Protection
Queensland Dept. of National Parks - Managing Protected Areas
OTHER
Applied Environmental Decision Analysis (AEDA)
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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