Geography, Geology, & Environmental Sciences

EBSCO Databases for Geography

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research on Geography topics. Resources include Academic Search Complete, Business Source Elite, EconLit, Environment Complete, GeoRef, GreenFILE, Newspaper Source and Political Science Complete. Because Geography is such a multi-disciplinary field, the short description of each database will allow you to modify the set to search only those most suitable to your research.

CQ Researcher

Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

JSTOR Journal Archive

Stores over one thousand scholarly journals in full-text format from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Journals can be searched by title or subject, individually or in groups. For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today's date are available.

LexisNexis (now called Nexis Uni)

Nexis Uni delivers more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources including scholarly journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers with deep archives; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; and information on more than 80 million U.S. and international companies and more than 75 million executives. For instructions on how to access Nexis Uni from off campus, click here.

Census.gov

An internet resource that acts as a gateway to statistical information collected by the Census bureau and other government agencies. Includes national, state, county and metropolitan information on housing, employment, and social demographics.

CyberDrive Illinois

The web portal for the Illinois State Government. It includes links to over 20,000 web pages published by the various agencies of the Illinois State Government.

USA.gov

A web portal for the United States Federal Government. FirstGov is intended to be the first resource to find any government information on the Internet, with topics ranging from business and economy to money and benefits to science and technology.

Loring Map Library

The Loring Map Library is held in two locations on the Augustana Campus, in the Thomas Tredway Library and Swenson Hall of Geosciences. The collection includes over 100,000 printed U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps at 1:100,000, 1:62,500 and 1:24,000 scales, relief maps, atlases, and much more. The Tredway Library portion of the collection has been moved to the north end on the first floor and is available for checkout.

Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970

This resource provides access to large-scale maps of Illinois towns and cities. Users can manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years. Other features shown include pipelines, railroads, wells, dumps, and heavy machinery.

Web of Science

Web of Science connects publications and researchers through citations and controlled indexing in curated databases spanning every discipline, including the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to scholarly journals, Web of Science includes conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, and conventions. For most databases, coverage is from 1994 to current. For instructions on how to access Web of Science from off campus, please click here.

EBSCO Databases for Geology

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for research on Geology topics. Resources includeAcademic Search Complete, Environment Complete, GeoRef, GeoRef in Process, and GreenFILE . The short description of each database will allow you to modify the set to search only those most suitable to your research.

JSTOR Journal Archive

JSTOR includes full-text, pdf format journals covering all aspects of the sciences. For each journal, articles from the first volume through to two to five years before today's date are available.

ScienceDirect COLLEGE EDITION -- new link

The Science Direct journal sets are comprised of 1800 journals with full text access beginning in 1995 through the current edition.The databases are searched simultaneously. To focus on our subscribed journals, be sure to identify the type of resource you want, such as research or review article. For best results, enter your search terms under Title, Abstract or Keyword Search, not on the first line.

Loring Map Library

The Loring Map Library is held in two locations on the Augustana Campus, in the Thomas Tredway Library and Swenson Hall of Geosciences. The collection includes over 100,000 printed U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps at 1:100,000, 1:62,500 and 1:24,000 scales, relief maps, atlases, and much more. The Tredway Library portion of the collection has been moved to the north end on the first floor and is available for checkout.

United States Geological Survey

The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information on the health of our ecosystems and environment, natural hazards, natural resources, the impacts of climate and land-use change, and core science systems. Use the Search USGS box and then choose Publications Warehouse. Both basic and advanced search options are available to access all their publications, thousands of which are in full text.

To access maps in USGS, click the left hand tab titled Maps, Imagery and Publications. The first link takes you to downloadable topographic maps; other options are listed below.

Web of Science

Web of Science connects publications and researchers through citations and controlled indexing in curated databases spanning every discipline, including the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to scholarly journals, Web of Science includes conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, and conventions. For most databases, coverage is from 1994 to current. For instructions on how to access Web of Science from off campus, please click here.

EBSCO Databases for Environmental Sciences

This link will take you to a short list of EBSCO databases appropriate for environmental research. Resources includeAcademic Search Complete, Agricola, Business Source Elite, EconLit, Environment Complete, GreenFILE, and Political Science Complete. Because Environmental Sciences is such a multi-disciplinary field, the short description of each database will allow you to modify the set to search only those most suitable to your research.

ScienceDirect COLLEGE EDITION

The Science Direct journal sets are comprised of 1800 journals with full text access beginning in 1995 through the current edition.The databases are searched simultaneously. To focus on our subscribed journals, be sure to identify the type of resource you want, such as research or review article. For best results, enter your search terms under Title, Abstract or Keyword Search, not on the first line.

CQ Researcher

Provides original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.

Filmakers Library Online

Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum, including human rights, the environment, bioethics, health, and current events. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

SciTech Connect

SciTech Connect is your portal to science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Land Institute

The Land Institute has worked for over 30 years on the problem of agriculture. Our purpose is to develop an agricultural system with the ecological stability of the prairie and a grain yield comparable to that from annual crops.

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

The Leopold Center is a research and education center on the campus of Iowa State University created to identify and reduce negative environmental and social impacts of farming and develop new ways to farm profitably while conserving natural resources.

The Center's work is focused in four initiatives - ecology, marketing and food systems, policy and cross-cutting (water, energy, soil and alternative farming systems.

National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)

NEPIS offers over 9000 full text, online documents of the United States Environmental Protection Agency dating back to early 1970s.

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)

A webpage that provides an excellent blending of academic, governmental and professional resources organized by types of users: geographers, planners and soil scientists.

Opposing Viewpoints

Opposing Viewpoints covers today’s hottest social issues, offering topic overviews, pro/con viewpoints, statistical information, newspaper coverage, and multimedia selections.

Web of Science

Web of Science connects publications and researchers through citations and controlled indexing in curated databases spanning every discipline, including the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. In addition to scholarly journals, Web of Science includes conference proceedings, symposia, workshops, and conventions. For most databases, coverage is from 1994 to current. For instructions on how to access Web of Science from off campus, please click here.

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance

This encyclopedia features articles with detailed career information.

O*NET OnLine Occupational Information Network

O*NET contains information on hundreds of occupations and is continually updated.