Research Guides: Climate Research: Databases

Academic Databases

AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window
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Large collection of citations from a variety of information resources covering many topics in the health and life sciences
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus This link opens in a new window
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Full-text articles and citations from core literature covering health and life sciences
Biological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Provides comprehensive indexing for international literature in the life sciences.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 3.4 million bibliographic references and abstracts, in 40 languages, from about 3,500 international journals, as well as other sources.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles focusing on all aspects of human impact to the environment, including global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covering virtually every general interest subject area, this database provides full text access to more than 2,300 magazines and journals, 870 reference books, and 73,000 primary source documents.
Science and Technology Collection This link opens in a new window
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Articles covering aeronautics, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, marine sciences and materials science.

Other Useful Databases

DTIC Online This link opens in a new window
Mostly full text access to unclassified, downloadable DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related documents.

GAO Reports
U.S. Government Accountability Office

Issues and Controversies This link opens in a new window
Provides extensive coverage on more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture, with unbiased analysis and rich related resources.
National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) This link opens in a new window
Access 3+ million (over 800,000 full-text) authenticated U.S. government-sponsored technical reports collected and archived by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
OSTI.GOV This link opens in a new window
Access free, publicly-available DOE-sponsored R&D results including technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, software, and data information.

Storm Events Database
Documents occurrence of storms and other significant weather events; rare, unusual weather phenomena, and other significant meteorological events.

Multi-disciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to scholarly journals, newspapers, books, and reports.
GPO Monthly Catalog This link opens in a new window
Indexing and citations for all types of U.S. government documents

SAGE Premier (SAGE Journals Online)
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Provides online, and many times full-text, access to more than 560 peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE Publications.
Wiley Online Library
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Provides full text access to journals published by Wiley in the fields of earth and environmental science, among others.

Suggested Keywords

carbon capture, carbon footprint, carbon sequestration, carbon tax

climate change, climate mitigation, climatic changes

energy policy, emissions trading, environmental policy

global warming, greenhouse gases

sea level rises

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