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IDS 303: Humans and the Environment

Librarian: Carol Vreeland

Need an Idea/Topic?

Here are some "discovery" tools that you might want to try. There are others.

Browse current issues of the following journals in print or electronically:
(Links to the journals are also available through the Journal List.)

• Science D. H. Hill Library: Q1 .S25
• Nature D. H. Hill Library: Q1 .N2
• New Scientist (full issue from 08/31/2002 through current, but delayed 6 month(s))
  New Scientist is also available through LexisNexis Academic, but there is no browsing capability; you'll have to search a specific topic.)
  D. H. Hill Library: STACKS-- Q1 .N5

Search the science search engine Scirus (http://www.scirus.com) for your broad topic, and look at the results list.
Note: the results screen also will suggest other keywords to search, based on your original request.
Scirus also provides a link to some of the latest scientific news articles from New Scientist.

Reference Resources for Background Information

Electronic Resources.

• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (listed in the Databases list, under the subject Biology)
• Dictionaries for looking up unfamiliar terms

Print Resources.

Jack McGeachy's IDS 303 page of government and legal resources lists some excellent encyclopedias relating to humans and the environment.
Here are a few others which you may find useful.

• Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. 2001. 5 volumes.
  DH Hill Reference QH541.15 .B56 E53 2001

• Encyclopedia of Endangered Species
  DH Hill Reference QL82 .E53 1994 and QL82 .E53 1994
• Environmental Encyclopedia. 2003. 2 volumes.
  DH Hill Reference GE10 .E58 2003
• Life on Earth: an Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution. 2002. 2 volumes.
  DH Hill Reference QH541.15 .B56 L54 2002 Also available electronically via netLibrary.
• World Atlas of Biodiversity : Earth's Living Resources in the 21st Century. 2002.
  DH Hill Reference QH541.15 .B56 G762 2002

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