Environmental Studies Resources:
Basic Databases
Basic Electronic Periodical Databases |
Advanced Electronic Periodical Databases |
Environmental Science Databases
Environmental Policy Databases |
Need Newspaper Articles or Other Breaking News?
MSU faculty, staff, and students can now access all of these databases from off campus via the
MSU Libraries Proxy Server. If you have any trouble following the directions, contact the Distance Learning Center at 517-353-8700.)
Key Basic Electronic Periodical Databases
Don't have much time? Undergraduates should concentrate on the following general purpose databases:
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Coverage:
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Indexing: 1980 to date.
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Description and Notes:
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Expanded Academic ASAP™ provides coverage of 3,000 indexed and 1,900 full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines including: social science journals, humanities journals, science and technology journals, national news periodicals, general interest magazines, newswires, The New York Times and many others. More than 1,400 journals are peer reviewed, and more than 20 years of backfile coverage are included.
Choose Advanced Search for multiple boxes to work with.
Unlimited access
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General OneFile (Gale)
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Coverage:
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Indexing: 1980 to date.
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Description and Notes:
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Gale's General OneFile is a comprehensive periodical resource that puts more than 60 million articles at your fingertips with a single search query. More than 11,000 titles and backfile coverage from 1980 — from mainstream to specialized sources — and an intuitive search interface make this an unequaled source for virtually every popular, business and professional topic.
Note you can also limit your search to documents with full text, to peer-reviewed publications, to document with images, and
to library holdings. More Searching Tips.
Unlimited access
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Proquest Research Library
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Coverage:
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Indexing: 1971 to date; full-text: 1991 to date.
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Description and Notes:
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Provides online access to an extensive collection of published material. You can search for information in thousands of different journals, periodicals, dissertations, newspapers, and magazines. Complete articles -- in full text, page image, or UMI's unique Text+Graphics format -- are available for many of the most popular and important sources. Updated daily.
Choose Advanced Search for multiple boxes to work with.
Unlimited access
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Database:
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Wilson Select Plus
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Coverage:
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1994-
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Description and Notes:
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Wilson Select provides full text coverage of over 400 journals. However, full text coverage varies by date from journal to journal.
Unlimited access
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Google Scholar
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Coverage:
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Current
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Description and Notes:
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Google has created this database to speed location of reports and journal articles available on the Internet. Google is also working hard on facilitating links to subscription resources offered by university libraries. However not all the links work yet. So if you find an interesting article or resources via this database, be sure to check whether it is available via the MSU Libraries electronic or print collections.
Unlimited access
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Key Newspaper and Other Current News Resources
If you want to explore breaking news in newspapers or in blogs and web sites, try:
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Newspaper Guide
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Coverage:
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Current
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Description and Notes:
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Here's a collection of MSU Library Newspaper Resources which supply full text.
Unlimited access
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Breaking News Sources
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Coverage:
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Current
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Description and Notes:
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Highlights some blogs and web pages of particular interest.
Unlimited access
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