Research Guides: EN 349: Literature and the Environment: Find Scholarly Articles

Selected Journals

Scholarly journals often specialize on particular themes. If there is an article that is very relevant to your work, you might want to browse other articles published in that journal.

These are a few journals that might be useful to search or browse for this class. Follow the links below to search within a single journal.

Biological Conservation
Human Ecology Review
JSTOR (link from title) has issues from 1993-2020. Most recent issues are available here.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Journal of Park and Recreation Administration
Landscape and Urban Planning
Southern Geographies

To do a broader search, use one of the databases on this page or on the full Database List.

Database List

Library Databases

Because this class is interdisciplinary, you may find relevant articles from many different areas of study.

These are library databases that cover natural and social science topics that might be relevant to your research.

Science Encyclopedias:

Access Science This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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 and Interdisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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.
JSTOR Sustainability This link opens in a new window
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.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
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.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from journals related to physical, medical, technical, and social sciences, including important autism journals such as Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Science Journals This link opens in a new window
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.