Urban Sustainability Research Guide: Articles & Databases

This database provides access to information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. This collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 600,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 6,300 records. GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.

This database is a comprehensive geoscience resource containing over 3.2 million bibliographic records covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. Bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals are included in the database as well as journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Over 100,000 references are added to the GeoRef database annually.

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit corporation formed by a group of leading geoscientific organizations for the purpose of making geoscience research and related information easily and economically available via the Internet. GSW is an unprecedented collaboration of six leading earth science societies and one institute.

Environmental Studies and Policy contains over 5 million articles published between 1980 and the present. This collection, which includes magazines and academic journals, provides access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Excellent resource offers comprehensive coverage of the literature of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.

This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles in sociology, covering topics such as community and mental health services, crisis intervention, the family and social welfare, gerontology, poverty and homelessness, professional issues in social work, social services in addiction, social work education, social work practice and more.

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Cited references are included for many journal articles.

A collection of review articles in specific disciplines in science and social science. Each issue series contains 12 to 40 authoritative comprehensive review articles, covering the major journal articles on a specific topic during the preceding few years.

Scopus indexes and abstracts over 14,000 journals across the sciences and social sciences. Features an excellent cited reference tool.

This bibliographic research database covers subjects of key relevance to the discipline of Urban Studies, including urban affairs, community development and urban history.

Search for citations to scholarly articles on the history of North America, from 1450.

ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books.

Scopus indexes and abstracts over 14,000 journals across the sciences and social sciences. Features an excellent cited reference tool.

SpringerLink is Springer's online full-text archive for journals and books. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,250 fully peer-reviewed journals and a growing roster of book series, comprising more than 3,000 books online.

A database of abstracts and full text from journals and books from across disciplines - especially strong in the Social Sciences. Use limiters to focus results by discipline.

EconLit, the American Economic Association's electronic database, plus full text for over 600 journals, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source for book reviews, citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecast.

Covers journals in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included.