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Environmental Studies E-Books
Search this collection of e-books on environmental topics.

E-book Central
The most comprehensive collection of e-books, with more than 125,000 e-books from a broad range of subject areas including business, education, humanities, social sciences, and science.

Topics covered include business and economics, computing, education, engineering, history, political science, humanities, area studies, literature, linguistics, law, life sciences, psychology, social work, sociology, religion, classics, and philosophy.

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Library Databases

Science Encyclopedias:

Access Science
Searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology; also provides definitions of scientific terms, biographies of scientists, research updates and news.

It also includes research updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks of Science & Technology, definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, biographies of well-known scientists from the Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography® and the latest news in science and technology from Science News® and ScienCentral® videos.
Encyclopedia of Earth
A free online collection of information about the Earth, its natural environments, and human-environmental interactions. Search the site or browse topics such as biodiversity, climate change, environmental law and policy, physics and chemistry.

Science Databases:

GreenFILE
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Scholarly, government and general-interest publications covering all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.
Science Journals
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Over 950 full-text journals cover hundreds of topics relating to all major fields of study, including Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Engineering, and Physics.

In full-text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and technical literature.
JSTOR Sustainability
JSTOR Sustainability is a collection of academic and policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. There also topic pages, which explain more than 1,500 key terms related to sustainability, as well as theme-based searching.

Multidisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier
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A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 4,770 full-text journals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.

This multi-disciplinary database offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. It includes more than 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals and provides full-text for 4,770 journals, including full-text for 4,000 peer-reviewed titles. You will find PDF backfiles to 1975 or further as well as searchable cited references for more than 1,050 journals. This database is an excellent source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STEM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
ProQuest Central
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This multidisciplinary resource contains full-text journal articles, trade journals and consumer publications from 47 of ProQuest's most highly used databases, with a variety of content types across over 160 subjects. Subject areas include the arts and humanities, business, health, medicine, science, the social sciences, and news.

Literary Reference Sources:

Contemporary Authors
This database provides access to current biographical and bibliographical data on modern authors.
Bloom's Literature
Scholarly works exploring great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature.

This resource contains more than 20,000 critical essays from over 500 literary journals and 2,300 scholarly and critical books, including 700 titles published by Bloom's Literary Criticism and Facts On File. Also included in the database are more than 13,000 biographies, 45,000 character entries, 5,000 synopses of literary works and hundreds of images and videos.
Credo Reference
This multidisciplinary online reference library provides access to a selection of 601 reference books and 3,412,690 entries.

Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online
This provides biographical and critical essays on the lives, works, and careers of the world's most influential literary figures from all eras and genres. It includes the DLB main series, the DLB Documentary Series, and the DLB Yearbook Series.
Gale E-books
Online encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. You can search across all titles at once or select an individual title to search.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language, the OED is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words—past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Literary Databases:

Literary Reference Center
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Scholarly journals, work and topic overviews, biographies, bibliographies and critical analysis of authors from every age and literary discipline. All full-text articles.

Funded by the New Jersey State Library.
Gale Literature Criticism
Centuries of literary analysis, including scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals. Jennings Library offers access to the Contemporary Literary Criticism, Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, and Short Story Criticism series.

LCO is designed to provide easy access for readers of all ages and skill levels. Beginning-level users may simply enter an author or title and find a wealth of content, while experienced researchers may broaden or narrow their results via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics and more.
Gale Literature Resource Center
A comprehensive full-text literary reference database with a broad spectrum of information from antiquity to the present; includes thousands of plot summaries, author biographies, literary journals, book reviews, author interviews, classic and contemporary poems and short stories, and classic texts.
JSTOR
JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals dating as far back as 1665. Both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific journal collections are offered, covering more than 50 academic disciplines in the Humanities, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences.
MLA International Bibliography
A detailed bibliography with millions of citations for journal articles, books and dissertations dating back to the 1920s. Subjects include literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature

Produced by the Modern Language Association. Contains over 2.3 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers.

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