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Environmental Science
Indexes & Databases
Academic Search Premier
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Academic Search Premier
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
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Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts [info] Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Coverage: From 1971
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, monographs, theses, technical reports, and non-conventional literature covering all aspects of marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. International in scope. Updated quarterly.
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Coverage: 1990 +
Licensed Number of Users: 5
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Worldwide in scope, BIOSIS Previews, the premier database in the biological sciences, indexes the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences. Subject coverage includes agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, botany, ecology, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, and zoology. Approximately 5,500 serial publications as well as books, proceedings and meeting abstracts, technical reports, review papers, and patents are indexed. There are 58 separate data fields that can be searched including author, title, publication source, organism, concepts, super taxa, publication type, author affiliation, and abstract keyword. Searches can be limited to review articles. Updated weekly
« Hide Description Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (University of Maine) [info] Cooperative Forestry Research Unit (University of Maine)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1970-present
This database focuses on ecology, economics, and growth and management of Maine forests. Contains the full-text of University of Maine's Cooperative Forestry Research Unit's (CFRU) reports as well as other publications resulting from research by CFRU staff and associates. Searchable by subject category such as hardwood management, harvesting, and thinning. The database can be browsed by author, subject, and title.
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GeoRef
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GeoRef
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: 1785+ for North America and 1933+ for the rest of the world.
Produced by the American Geological Institute, GeoRef covers a number of areas of geology and related disciplines including: geochemistry, geophysics, hydrology, mineralogy, and paleontology. Indexes over 3,500 journals as well as books, reports, theses and dissertations, maps, and conference proceedings and corresponds to the following print indexes: Bibliography and Index of North American Geology, Bibliography of Theses in Geology, Geophysical Abstracts, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Updated monthly.
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GrayLIT Network
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GrayLIT Network
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Provides searchable access to over 100,000 full-text technical documents which report the results of federally funded research and projects. Includes reports from the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
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MEMAP (Maine Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Index)
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MEMAP (Maine Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Index)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
This index lists long-term projects and programs that are systematically monitoring or assessing environmental factors in Maine, from breeding amphibians to ozone, weather and water quality. It includes information about each project such as the resource being monitored, the watershed in which monitoring occurs, the geographic scope of the project, the year it was started, monitoring objectives, basic sampling plan, whether or not volunteers participate, and who to contact for data, findings, or more information.
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National Sea Grant Library Database
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National Sea Grant Library Database
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1965
A searchable database of over 30,000 publications resulting from Sea Grant funded research. Subjects covered include aquaculture, coastal zone management, marine education, and oceanography. Over 11,000 of the documents are available fulltext.
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Oceanic Abstracts
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Oceanic Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1981
Index to journal articles, conference papers, books, and reports covering the marine and brackish-water environment. Topics covered include biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, ecology, geochemistry, geophysics, marine biology, and marine geology. Indexes over 500 journals. Updated monthly.
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PAIS International
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PAIS International
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1972
Index to the literature of public and social policy, and other aspects of social sciences. Includes journal articles, serials, books, government documents, directories, and public, intergovernmental, and private organization reports. Updated monthly.
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PEARL (Public Education Access to Environmental Information in Maine)
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PEARL (Public Education Access to Environmental Information in Maine)
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
PEARL is designed to improve access to information on over 5700 Maine lakes. It is a cooperative effort initiated, coordinated, and maintained at the University of Maine by the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research ( GMC ) and the UMaine Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering ( SIE ).
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Science Citation Index, Expanded
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Science Citation Index, Expanded
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 2000
Comprehensive multidisciplinary coverage of approximately 5,800 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Provides cited reference searching, with which users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching multi-disciplines to uncover information relative to their research.
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Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
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Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1935
Includes over 345,000 citations to the literature on mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians found in journals, conference proceedings, monographs, theses and dissertations, and government reports. Database includes Wildlife Review Abstracts, which was published through 1995 by the National Biological Service. Searching is by keyword, subject, and author as well as by taxonomic and geographic identifiers. Abstracts are available for publications added to the database since September 1996. 8,000 records added annually. Updated quarterly. This database subscription is funded, in part, by the Department of Wildlife Ecology, University of Maine. (UMaine students, faculty and staff only.)
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Format: Internet
Remote Access: Available
Coverage: From 1975
This database supplies citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law and public administration/policy.
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