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[ + ]Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
| Title | Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) |
| Description | DOAJ provides open access to high quality, peer-reviewed journals on a wide variety of subjects from over 120 countries. Researchers can use the “Advanced Search” option, or browse articles by subject. Relevant subjects include: agriculture, law, political science, science, social sciences, and technology. Click the arrow next to subjects to get subtopics (e.g., click “science” to gain access to subtopics such as biology, chemistry, geology, and natural history. DOAJ “seals” (orange and green icons) mean that the journal complies with DOAJ’s high level of standards. |
| URL | https://doaj.org/ |
[ + ]DOE Pages (Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science)
| Title | DOE Pages (Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science) |
| Description | DOE PAGES offers free public access to the best available full-text version of DOE-funded scholarly publications - either the peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript or the published scientific journal article - after an administrative interval of 12 months. Over 65,000 publicly available full-text journal articles and accepted manuscripts are currently accessible and will continue to grow by about 20,000-30,000 articles and manuscripts a year. |
| URL | https://www.osti.gov/pages |
[ + ]Envirofacts (EPA)
| Title | Envirofacts (EPA) |
| Description | Envirofacts is a multisystem search form for EPA databases about environmental activities that impact regional air, water, land conditions. Search for desired subject by selecting one of the Topics, including Air, Land, Waste, Water, Toxics, etc. For narrower results, use the Advanced Search and provide specific information like zip code in one of the search filters. Final search results include air, land, water, and facilities with permits. |
| URL | https://enviro.epa.gov |
[ + ]Future Earth
| Title | Future Earth |
| Description | Future Earth is an international research platform with the goal of developing the knowledge to respond to the risks and opportunities of global environmental change and move towards global sustainability. This site is an online forum for the scientific community to define pathways toward sustainability and respond to global environmental change. Users can access global research projects, reports, news, newsletters, policy papers, reports, and a blog. |
| URL | http://www.futureearth.org/ |
[ + ]Google Scholar
| Title | Google Scholar |
| Description | Google Scholar is an excellent source of scholarly resources. Users can search through academic articles, theses, books, abstracts, and case law from a broad range of sources. Links to PDFs of these documents are provided when available. From the Menu, users can set up alerts to be notified of new publications on specified subjects and also use “Metrics” to browse through publication categories and recent articles. |
| URL | http://scholar.google.com/ |
[ + ]JSTOR
| Title | JSTOR |
| Description | JSTOR is a searchable database of more than 12 million academic journal articles, primary sources, and books. Users can browse by subject, title, or publisher. JSTOR provides a great deal of open access content. (VLS subscribes to the fee-based portion of JSTOR, which is listed among the VLS Library Databases).Currently, JSTOR Labs features many useful tools, like “text analyzer.” Upload a rough draft of a document and drag it into “text analyzer.” Text Analyzer’s algorithm sorts through the document’s most common terms and “prioritized terms.” Text Analyzer shows articles with the same or similar prioritized terms and a link to the article’s pdf. JSTR Daily “contextualizes current events with scholarship.” |
| URL | https://www.jstor.org/ |
[ + ]LiveScience
| Title | LiveScience |
| Description | LiveScience is a popular science news site covering the latest scientific discoveries as well as more quirky news. Users can choose categories such as animals, planet earth, health, space & physics, strange news, and tech; or can search by keyword. |
| URL | https://www.livescience.com/ |
[ + ]National Academies Press (NAP)
| Title | National Academies Press (NAP) |
| Description | The National Academy of Science created NAP to publish reports of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The site provides free access to more than 9,000 books, reports, and news on topics such as agriculture, biology and life sciences, environmental studies, energy and energy conservation, and food and nutrition. Use “Academy Scope” to browse through free pdfs by topic. Click “publications by year” in the lower left corner for results to be highlighted by year, and for a graphic presentation. Register for free or continue as “guest” and download desired pdfs. |
| URL | http://www.nap.edu/ |
[ + ]National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Global Change Master Directory
| Title | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Global Change Master Directory |
| Description | NASA's Global Change Master Directory aims to make scientific data relevant to global change available to researchers, policy makers, and the public. The site is a science directory including more than 35,000 Earth science data sets and descriptions covering topics such as agriculture, oceans, land surface, biosphere, and climate indicators. Users can search the data sets by keyword. |
| URL | http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/ |
[ + ]National Agricultural Library (NAL)
| Title | National Agricultural Library (NAL) |
| Description | The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is one of the world's richest and largest collections devoted to agriculture and related sciences. Users can find topics listed under the Collections menu. Topics can also be searched in the NAL Catalog or PubAg for journal articles. The Catalog contains over 3.5 million items of agriculture literature. Topics include agricultural law, animals and livestock, farms and farm systems, and invasive species. There are numerous resources available, many of which are full-text reports, data, research, books, articles, and government information. Other resources include AGRICOLA; Digital Commons; Ag Data Commons; Nutrition.gov; and LCA Commons. NAL also invites the general public to ask a question. |
| URL | http://www.nal.usda.gov/ |
[ + ]National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)
| Title | National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) |
| Description | NTRL indexes U.S. Government sponsored technical reports issued by the National Technical Information Service, the largest central source for government-funded scientific, technical, and engineering information. Subject coverage includes energy, agriculture and food, environmental pollution and control, ocean sciences, transportation, and biology. NTRL is a free service but you must register to display a full-text document. NTRL provides access to a searchable database of 3 million reports. The full-text for 800,000 of these documents can be downloaded as PDFs. The remaining, most published before 1995, may not be available in full-text on this site (although may be available through InterLibrary Loan). |
| URL | https://ntrl.ntis.gov/NTRL/ |
[ + ]Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI)
| Title | Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) |
| Description | OSTI.GOV makes discoverable over 70 years of research from DOE and its predecessor agencies, including journal articles/accepted manuscripts and related metadata; technical reports; scientific research datasets and collections; conference and workshop papers; books and theses; and multimedia. OSTI.GOV contains over 3 million records, including citations to 1.5 million journal articles, 1 million of which link to full-text articles on publishers' websites. Topics include energy, environment, health hazards, chemical detection. |
| URL | https://www.osti.gov |
[ + ]Public Library of Science (PLoS)
| Title | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
| Description | PLoS is a publisher of several open access peer reviewed scientific journals. Users can fully access and download articles in PLoS Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PLoS Genetics, PLoS Medicine, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, PLoS One (which publishes content from all scientific disciplines), and PLoS Pathogens. |
| URL | https://www.plos.org/ |
[ + ]PubMed
| Title | PubMed |
| Description | PubMed provides access to over 28 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations are available for documents in the life, behavioral, and chemical sciences, bioengineering, medicine, veterinary medicine, and health care. To search for free articles, click the pull-down menu which is set to PubMed located to the left of the search bar, and switch the source to “PMC”; PubMed Central (PMC), is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life science journal literature. |
| URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed |
[ + ]Science Direct
| Title | Science Direct |
| Description | Science Direct allows you to search 2,500 journals (including 250 open access publications) and over 39,000 ebooks, covering subjects such as physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and military burn pits. Users can browse by subject, title, author, or journal/book title. For free access to full articles, start with an advanced search and narrow down the article type(s). Then limit the results by access type to “open” access.
If a source is not free, members of the VLS community may submit an ILL request, noting that the article is from Science Direct, and the Library will obtain and pay for the article. For best results, create a free profile and follow the research steps above. ScienceDirect will save your search history and link (related) full access pdfs. |
| URL | http://www.sciencedirect.com/ |
[ + ]Science.gov
| Title | Science.gov |
| Description | Science.gov searches over 60 scientific databases and over 2,200 websites from 13 federal agencies, offering over 200 million pages of scientific information. Users can select the “Advanced Search” option to narrow searches by title, author, date, and category. |
| URL | https://www.science.gov/ |
[ + ]ScienceDaily: Environmental Science News
| Title | ScienceDaily: Environmental Science News |
| Description | ScienceDaily is a good source for science news. It provides readers with breaking news about the latest scientific discoveries. Users can browse the homepage for the latest news stories in environmental science, do a keyword search, or browse stories by categories such as health, tech, enviro, and society. More specific topics under Enviro include endangered animals, agriculture & food, climate, global warming, pollution, and extinction, among many others. |
| URL | https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/earth_climate/environmental_science/ |
[ + ]Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)
| Title | Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) |
| Description | The Union of Concerned Scientists is a national nonprofit organization that uses independent science, technical analysis, and effective advocacy to create innovative solutions for a sustainable future. The website features sections about various UCS focus areas, including climate, energy, transportation, food, nuclear weapons, and science and democracy. The “Reports & Multimedia” tab links to articles, news, and reports about scientific integrity, global warming, clean vehicles, clean energy, nuclear power, global security, and food and agriculture. The website is available in English and Spanish. |
| URL | http://www.ucsusa.org |
[ + ]USGS (U.S Geological Survey) Science
| Title | USGS (U.S Geological Survey) Science |
| Description | USGS (United States Geological Survey) is a science bureau within the Department of Interior. The USGS provides information about natural hazards including wildfires and droughts. USGS also has the largest earth science library in the world. Use the search box, or the “Science Explorer” tab (at the bottom of the screen) to browse topics. Search results may be filtered to Publications, Map, Data & Tools, etc. USGS lists, under the “Science” tab, their research projects, listed as Mission Areas. |
| URL | https://www.usgs.gov |
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