To Find Books
Use the MERLIN Library Catalog and the MOBIUS Union Catalog to find resources relevant to your research. Relevant works can be found using subject headings (Library of Congress) such as:
- Environmental Education
- Environmental Policy--United States
- Environmental Protection--United States
- Pollution--United States
To find the location of a book in Miller Nichols Library, see the Location Guide.
To Find Articles
Remote (off-campus) access to databases is available only to UMKC students, faculty, and staff. All other users must access online resources within the Libraries. Begin searching by selecting a database. After selection you will be prompted to provide a UMKC Single Sign-On user name and password OR a 9-digit UMKC ID number followed by the letter k (example: 0123456789k) and last name, as needed.
Before you do your research, you may want to read a little about how science and scientists publish the information they discover in the course of their research and why one source of information may not be as good as another. Sence about Science.
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) 1975 - present.
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Selected full text 1975 - present. This multidisciplinary database indexes and abstracts journals in a broad range of subjects. Full text is available for a large proportion of the titles. A high percentage of titles are peer-reviewed. Dates of coverage vary widely by title. All content of Academic Search Elite is included in this resource. - AGRICOLA 15th century - present. Save to del.icio.us
The National Agriculture Library’s AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) contains citations to a wide variety of publications in agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. - Annual Reviews (Annual Reviews) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1996 - present.
Full-text access to selected Annual Review publications containing authoritative, analytic reviews of primary research in 30 focused disciplines within the biomedical, physical and social sciences. -
Applied Science & Technology Index (1958-1997)
Ref Index Wall 1 Z 7913 .I7
Indexes 335 English-language periodicals in aeronautics, chemistry, computer science, earth science, electronics, engineering, mathematics, physics, and other science subjects. - Biological Abstracts (Ovid) 1980-present. Save to del.icio.us
Biological Abstracts (Ovid) 1985-present. Save to del.icio.us
Biological Abstracts (Ovid) 1997-present. Save to del.icio.us
Provides comprehensive coverage to the worldwide journal literature in the life sciences, scanning over 5,000 journal titles. Disciplines represented include: agriculture, biochemistry, bioengineering, biotechnology, botany, ecology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, neuroscience, pharmacology, public health, toxicology, and zoology. -
Dissertations
& Theses (ProQuest) 1861 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1963 - present (Includes UMKC dissertations and theses only).
"The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.3 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1861, and more than 60,000 new citations are added to the database every year." Selected full text for UMKC dissertations and theses is available. [Source: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database information page; accessed January 3, 2007.] -
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (FirstSearch) 1995 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1995 - present.
A collection of journals in a variety of subject areas. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which the University Libraries subscribe. Link to FirstSearch web user's guide. - Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Wiley) Current edition. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. - General Science
Index
Ref Index Wall 1 Z7401 .G46
Indexes over 100 English-language general science periodicals. Not available remotely. - GEOBASE
(FirstSearch) 1980 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Links to full text 1998 - present. - Geology, geography, ecology.
- GeoRef (CSA) 1785 - present. Save to del.icio.us
- Geology of North America.
- Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
- ISI Web of Science
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Journals@Ovid (Ovid) 1993 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1993 - present. - JSTOR 1838 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text. Coverage varies by title.
Contains fully searchable scanned articles from selected journals in a broad range of disciplines, including African-American studies, art, ecology, economics, education, history, law, literature, music, general science, sociology, and statistics. (To see a complete list of discipines and journal titles, link to the JSTOR browse list.) Covers the full run of journals from the first issue of volume one; however, the most recent three to five years of journals are not generally available. -
Nature (Nature
Publishing Group) 1997 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1997 - present.
Full-text access to the weekly journal Nature. - Nature Research and Reviews (Nature Publishing Group) Coverage varies by title. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text; coverage varies by title.
Full-text access to selected journals published by the Nature Publishing Group. -
NewsBank (1984 - Present)
Ref Microfiche - OmniFile V Full Text (Wilson) 1982 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Selected full text 1994 - present.
- Project MUSE (Premium Collection) Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1993 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the upgrade to Project MUSE Premium Collection.
Supplies full-text articles from scholarly journals in literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies. -
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996 - present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text October 1996 - present.
Full-text access to the weekly science magazine. -
ScienceDirect Save to del.icio.us (Elsevier) 1823 - present; coverage
varies by title.
Selected full text 2000 - present; Clinics of North America titles 1996 - present.
New Additional journals are now available with the addition of the Freedom Collection.
This database indexes scholarly journals published by Elsevier on all subjects, but primarily in the sciences and social sciences. It includes 2500+ journals (2000+ with full text from the Freedom Collection). Much of the newer material (since the 1970s) is also searchable in Scopus. Books (6000+) are also indexed (no full text). - ScienceNOW (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 1996
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1996 - present.
An online news service from Science magazine. Articles are posted daily except U.S. holidays. -
Scirus 1920
- present. Save to del.icio.us
Large in scope with a user-friendly interface, this search engine is an excellent research tool for finding scientific information on the Internet. It indexes more than 167 million web pages as well is a number of online article citation collections. The citations often link to full text, but a subscription to the specific journal might be required to access the document. - Social
Sciences Index (1974-1997)
Ref Index Wall 2 Z7161 .S6
Contains citations and abstracts for English language journal articles and book reviews printed in the social sciences including the areas of anthropology, art, business, geography, law, political science, psychology, religion, sociology, and women's studies. - Wiley InterScience (Wiley) 1946 - present; coverage varies by title. Save to del.icio.us
Full text 1996 - present; coverage varies by title.
A broad spectrum of electronic journals in the sciences and social sciences published by John Wiley & Sons. Includes full text articles, citations and abstracts for journals. Full text is generally available beginning in 1996 or 1997, although coverage does vary by title. Citations and abstracts are often available for articles published earlier; coverage varies by title.
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Reference Sources: Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Directories, Bibliographies
Reference sources are useful for locating background information, definitions, general descriptions, and basic facts. Use these books to help you select or focus your research topic.
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
| American Men and Women of Science | Ref Q141 .A472 |
| Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists | Ref QH26 .B535 |
| Concise Dictionary of Environmental Terms | Ref TD173 .C54 |
| The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ecology | Ref QH540.4 .C66 |
| A Dictionary of Environmental & Civil Engineering | Ref TA9 .W43 |
| Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology | Ref GE10 .P67 |
| Encyclopedia of Environmental Pollution and Cleanup | Ref TD173 .W55 |
| Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering | Ref TD9 .E5 |
| The Environmental Dictionary | Ref KF3775 .A68 K57 |
| Environmental Engineering Dictionary | Ref TD9 .L44 |
| Environmental Literature | Ref GE35 .E58 |
| The Environmentalists: A Biographical Dictionary | Ref S926 .A2 A94 |
| Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism | Ref GE10 .W45 |
| MacMillan Encyclopedia of the Environment | Ref GE10 .M33 |
| McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms | Ref Q123.M34 |
Handbooks
| Agricultural Crisis in America | Ref HD1761 .H56 | The Clean Air Act Handbook | LAW: KF3812 .C554 |
| Electronic Style: A Guide to Citing Electronic Information | Ready Ref PN171 .D37 L5 |
| Environmental Technology Handbook | TD146 .S67 |
| Gale Environmental Almanac | Ref GE80 .H69 |
| Handbook of Environmental and Resource Economics | Ref HC79 .E5 H3284 |
| The ... Information Please Environmental Almanac | Ref TD176.4 .I54 |
| Practical Environmental Bioremediation | TD192.5 .K56 |
| Scientific Style and Format | Ready Ref T11 .C68 |
| Tribal Environmental & Natural Resource Assistance Handbook | Gov Docs: PRES 1.2:T73 |
Directories
|
Conservation Directory - National Wildlife Federation |
Ref S920 .C64 |
| The Sierra Club Green Guide | Ref GE30 .F45 |
| World Directory of Environmental Organizations | Ref S920 .W67 |
Bibliographies
| Environmental Literature | Ref GE35 .E58 |
| Information Sources in Science and Technology | Ready Ref Q158.5 .H87 |
| Reference Sources in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Agriculture | Ready Ref Q158.5 .M278 |
Government Publications
All call numbers in this guide refer to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library, unless otherwise noted.
- AGRICOLA
(agricola.nal.usda.gov) - Missouri Department of Natural Resources
(www.dnr.state.mo.us) - Missouri Water Resources
(missouri.usgs.gov) - Science.gov
(science.gov) - Senate Committee of Environment and
Public Works
(www.senate.gov/~epw) - United States Environmental Protection Agency
(www.epa.gov) - Water Resources of the United States
(h2o.usgs.gov) - Water Use in the United States
(water.usgs.gov/watuse)
For further assistance, please contact the
Miller Nichols Library Reference Desk at (816) 235-1534.
