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Find Articles: Geography and Environment

(R) = Restricted to authorized MTA University users
(FT) = Includes or links to Full Text articles
 
AGRICOLA
Description: The U. S. National Agricultural Library's index of journals, books, theses, etc. on all aspects of agriculture and related disciplines, including animal sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture, fisheries, farming, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition and earth and environmental sciences. Material covered dates from 15th century on. Links to some full-text documents.
Years indexed: 1970 to the present. Updated daily.
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Environment Complete ( FT ) ( R )
Description: Covers more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888, including full text coverage for more than 920 journals (such as Environment, Ecologist, Conservation Biology). Environment Complete also provides full text access to more than 190 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes) and Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management. Subjects covered include agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

Years indexed: Varies by title
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GreenFILE ( FT )
Description: Provides indexing and abstracts and some full text from scholarly
and general interest journals, magazines and government reports dealing with the environment and related disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Years indexed: Varies by title.
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JSTOR (Arts & Sciences Collections I - VIII) ( FT ) ( R )
Description: Full-text archive of journals in the Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Current and recent volumes (last 2 to 5 years) not available for most titles. 
Years indexed: varies by title; complete run for most titles excluding last 2-5 years.
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ProQuest Databases (all) (FT) (R)
Description: Search all ProQuest databases simultaneously (ABI, AltPress Watch, Canadian Newsstand Atlantic and Major Dailies, Canadian Periodicals, Canadian Research Index, CBCA Complete, Philosopher's Index and Research Library), covering a wide variety of subjects from academic journals, popular press magazines and newspapers.
Years indexed: Varies by title
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Sage Journals Online ( FT ) ( R )
Description: SAGE Journals Online provides online access to the full text of more than 560 SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's discipline-specific research databases, are now integrated into SAGE Journals Online.
Years indexed: varies by title
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Science Direct ( FT ) ( R )
Description: Index to over 58,000,000 articles in more than 1700 peer-reviewed journals in science, social science and humanities. Includes over 3,000,000 full text articles. To search full text titles only, select "Subscribed journals" from the "Source" drop down list (please note: full text is not available for all years or all journals. If you are asked for a user name and password, the article you are requesting is not available via Science Direct).
Years indexed:

1990s to present (varies by title). Updated bi-weekly.

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Social Sciences Index
Description: Formerly Social Sciences & Humanities Index, International Index, etc.). Index to over 350 English-language journals in the social sciences.
Years indexed: 1907 to 1984
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AI 3 S672REF

See also:

Multidisciplinary Indexes and Science Databases.