ES 101: INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: METHODS & ANALYSIS
The following resources should be helpful for your lab projects and other research you will be doing for the course. Feel free to contact me for help, Irene Laursen (ilaursen), x3082.
Contents:
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- Maximum of two $300 awards for a paper or project of any length from a 100 or 200 level Wellesley College course
- One $750 award for a paper or project of any length from a 300 level Wellesley College course, excluding 360s, and 370s
Deadline: April 1, 2008
Lexis Nexis Academic News - Help
Science Now - AAAS news service
Environmental Health News - News, scientific analysis, and reports
news@nature.com - Nature Publishing Group news service
Reference books can be used to acquire basic information on an unfamiliar concept or gather ideas for your paper topic.
Quick lookups:
AccessScience - dictionary
EPA Glossary - Australia Environment Protection Agency
Oxford Reference Online - More than 100 dictionaries
Terminology Reference System - US Environmental Protection Agency
Longer explanations:
AccessScience - encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity - Science Reference a QH541.15 .B56 E53 2001
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia
of Global Change - Science Reference
qGE149 .E47 2002
Grzimek's
Animal Life Encyclopedia
The following databases provide either full-text articles or citations (information about when and where the article was published).
- Once you have a citation for
an article, use the Find
It! @ Wellesley
link
from each citation to search one or more electronic journal sources through
the Wellesley College Library Catalog. - Use the name of the journal as the title and make sure you look at the dates covered carefully!
- If Wellesley does not own the article, you can request it via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Major databases:
Popular & scientific articles - great places to start
Academic
Search Premier - dates vary, from mid-1970s to within 6-12 months of present date
Expanded Academic ASAP - 1980s-present
Scientific American Archive - interdisciplinary science magazine for the intelligent layperson - 1993-present
More scientific databases - feel free to ask us for help searching any of these:
Web of Science - interdisciplinary subject searching of scholarly articles in the physical, life, and social sciences - also can search for articles that cite known journal articles or books - 1965-present - Help: Getting Started, Fact Sheets
PubMed - all fields of medicine and biomedicine, with abstracts and some links to online articles - 1950s-present - PubMedHelp - to get the whole article, use thelink (in the Abstract display of desired record)
Science Direct - indexes more than 2,000 journals, often from volume one; online articles (= green icons) for 150 scientific journals - 1995- present - Help
Google Scholar - multidisciplinary coverage of peer-reviewed literature— journal articles, theses, books, preprints - unspecified time coverage & breadth/depth of sources - complements but does not replace other searching - Advanced Scholar Search Tips
See our A-Z list for additional databases, or feel free to consult a Science Librarian for more help.
Wellesley College Library Catalog
- tip: in the library catalog, start with keyword > choose a useful book > Full Record tab - follow the subject links to find more on that topic
- tip: to see the subscription details for a print journal or serial ['Lib has'] > Full Record tab.
WorldCat - Use WorldCat to find books and other materials not at Wellesley. If you find a book you want that Wellesley does not own, you can use the ILL link within WorldCat to request the book.
**Remember, you must evaluate web resources you find with a search engine the same way you would evaluate print sources**
- Accuracy: How factual is the web page? Are the facts well-documented?
- Authority: What are the professional credentials of the authors? Can you recognize the difference between a webpage author and a webmaster?
- Objectivity: Pros and cons? Are there conflicting interests? Is the page advocating a cause? Who is the intended audience?
- Currency: Is the page being updated regularly? How current is it now?
- Coverage: Does the page require special software to view it? Is there a fee to view it, or is it free? Is the information presented cited correctly?
- Ease of Use: Is the page easy to navigate? Are directions straightforward? If it is not easy to use, visitors will leave the site quickly.
Explore Environmental Issues for Projects
Selected External Programs and/or Projects
Brown [University] is Green
Grinnell College - Local Projects
Mount Allison Univ (Canada) - Elements Online Environmental Magazine - Student Grassroots Projects
Ohio Univ - Environmental Audit Teams
Pitzer College - Environmental Studies Department
Univ of Wisconsin (Oshkosh) - Environmental Audit - Extensive Bibliography
University of Waterloo - (Canada) - Student Groups - Green with Innovation
More Programs and/or Projects
Campus Greening intiatives - Worldwatch Institute
Sustainability Initiatives - Wellesley, other colleges , local universities from Environmental Economics 228, S. Sneeringer
Environmental Topics:
Actionbioscience.org - environment, biodiversity, biotechnology, and more
Alphabetical Index of Environmental Health Topics - NIEHS
nbii, the National Biological Information Infrastructure - collaborative - academe, govtl agencies, and industry
Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America - Cornell UnivChemicals:
- Household Products Database - US NLM - consumer's guide - Fact Sheet
- TOXMAP - amount and location of reported toxic chemicals released into the environment
- Chemical Industry Archives - Environmental Working Group (EWG) - environmental policy analysis
- Pesticides in the Atmosphere, an extensive Fact Sheet from the U.S. Geological Survey
- Safety assessment of the cosmetic industry - EWG - see 'Skin Deep'
Environmental themes - USGS - EPA - examples below
Societal Impacts of Weather - NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Scorecards:
- Scorecard - Environmental Defense Fund
- The National Environmental Scorecard - League of Conservation Voters
Union of Concerned Scientists, see their treatment of clean vehicles.
WWW Virtual Library: Urban Environmental Management, a set of resources to help us understand the negative and positive interactions among natural environments, built environments, and socio-economic environments in our urban settings.
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