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This guide supports the focus of the Environmental Studies program at the University of Utah which is policy-oriented. "..human-environment relationships across time and culture and at varied levels of environmental scale (micro to global)" University catalog

TBA (library subject specialist) | U of U  Environmental Studies Program | TBA (Department Representative)

Use these indexes to find articles--and sometimes conference papers, reports, government documents, and book chapters. You usually search by subject, author, or keywords; you get a citation (author, article title, journal / source, date) and often an abstract -- a short synopsis. Most indexes try to describe everything within a discipline, no matter where it is published. No library owns every item listed; search the Marriott Library catalog by the journal name to find if we do and what the call number or URL is.
"All I see is the abstract, how do I find the actual article?"

Environment Abstracts 1975 - present
Indexes journals, meetings, reports, newspapers, books and government publications covering research on the impact of humans on the environment. Has some technical information but is particularly useful for policy issues. Contains abstracts, some full-text. UU owns some of the material listed. Printed edition (GF 1 E5532,shelved in Science Reference) covers 1971 - 1998.

Deseret News 1988-present
UMI Proquest (for newspapers from other major cities) 1987 - present
Local topics like Glen Canyon Dam or the Legacy Highway will be most extensively covered in local papers. Check with Special Collections on Level 5 of Marriott for other Intermountain publications. Full-text.

Congressional Universe 1970 - present
Statistical Universe 1973 - present
The U.S. federal government is a major publisher of environmental information. Use Congressional Universe to track bills and search hearings, Statistical Universe to find data from the government and other organizations.

Web of Science
(1955) 1980 - present
Consolidated searching of Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index, multidisciplinary databases listing articles in 8500 of the most important scholarly journals. This broad coverage makes it particularly useful for interdisciplinary topics. A distinctive feature is its ability to find articles which have cited a known article or given author in their bibliography. Very up to date. Search by topic, author, journal title, author's institution, cited author, cited work, date. Articles may be earlier if they were CITED from 1997 on - Charles Darwin is in current indexes). Some direct links to fulltext. UU owns many of the journals indexed.
Use online Science Citation Index for 1980 -1997 . Printed indexes cover 1955- (Q 1 A1Z, Science Reference, Level 4); the social sciences are covered by printed Social Science Citation Index ,1956-, H61Z .S65 General Reference, Level 3.

Digital Dissertations
1861 - present
Index to doctoral dissertations (and a few masters theses), primarily from the U.S. and Canada. The complete text of post-1996 works is almost always available.

Worldcat
1000 - present
The most comprehensive list of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide.

Reference Books

Information Sources in Environmental Protection GE 30 I56 1997 Science Reference . Full description of reference books, specialized indexes, and data sources for subfields within environmental studies.
Encyclopedia of Environmental ScienceGE 10 E5 1999 Overviews of major topics
Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change GE149 .E443 2002
Encycopedia of Enviromentrics GE45.S73 E53 2002, General Reference

Oxford Reference Online large, searchable collection of authorative dictionaries and subject encyclopedias from Oxford University Press. e.g.: multilingual dictionaries, Dictionary of Ecology, Oxford Companion to the Earth.

Columbia Earthscape
Fully searchable web resources -including scholarly journals, conferences, books and data-sets-of interest to earth and environmental scientists and students. Most useful for science policy issues like climatic change. Includes full-text of books from the National Research Council and various university presses.

Government Documents

Federal publications are an excellent source of environmental and statistical information. Ask at the Documents desk for help.

Call Numbers

Collections will be shifting during the library renovation. Ask about current locations.

Level One, Stacks

GB Physical geography. Geomorphology. Hydrology.
GE Environmental studies
GF Human ecology
HA Statistics
HB Economics. Demography
HD Land. Industry.
HE Transportation. Communication.

Level Two, Stacks
HT Urban and regional planning

Level Four, Science
G1000-3999 Maps and atlases
QC 800- Meteorology
QE Geology
QH Natural history. Biology
TD Environmental technology

Books can only sit on one shelf, even though they often cover several topics. Documents from the U.S. federal government are arranged by agency. Some formats, like maps or microforms, need special shelving and are housed separately. Electronic resources don’t sit on any shelf at all. During the library renovation materials will be shifting. All this means it is prudent to use our catalog and indexes. The serendipitous finds when browsing the stacks of a large research library can be rewarding, but it is not an efficient way to do research.

The World Directory of Environmental Organizations
"This descriptive directory has over 350 Web pages with thousands of entries and links. It has detailed subject and geographic sections, background pages, and numerous cross-references. "

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