UMass Amherst Libraries Research Databases

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Environmental Sciences
Health & Medicine

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James L. Craig

Beth Lang

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Environmental Health Sciences Research Guide

Environmental Health and Toxicology, National Library of MedicineEnvironmental Health and Toxicology, National Library of Medicine

Star Best Bet Databases in Environmental Sciences > Environmental Health

PubMed

National Library of Medicine's comprehensive database of citations to medical journal articles, with links to UMass-subscribed full text, 1966-present. Public access version.

Also known as:

MEDLINE

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Web of Science Star

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Provides a search by cited reference, topic, author, and more for articles in almost all important English-language journals. Arts and Humanities covers 1975-present; Social Sciences 1956-present; and Science 1900-present.
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Academic Search Premier Star

A good starting point: articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present.
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Expanded Academic ASAP Star

Articles from scholarly and general-interest periodicals relating to the humanities, social sciences, and non-technical general sciences, 1980-present.
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Additional Databases in Environmental Sciences > Environmental Health

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Research methods for microbiology, genetics, bioinformatics, proteins, plant biology, neuroscience, lab organisms, and imaging. Current.
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DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Thousands of open access scholarly journals, most published by academic departments of universities worldwide. Coverage varies; mostly recent.
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Environmental Resource Handbook
Directory of groups, places, services, and events useful for environmentalists.
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ESG Manager on Campus
The database measures the ecological impact of corporations.

Also known as:	Socrates
	Global Socrates

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Google Scholar
Use within UMass’ IP range to access many UMass online journal subscriptions. In Scholar Preferences, you can choose to export citations to RefWorks bibliographic manager.
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GREENR

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Journal articles, encyclopedia entries, case studies and web sites on environmental issues, arranged topically and/or geographically.
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PubMed Central
National Library of Medicine's archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Coverage varies; earliest journal is 1937-present; most are 2001-present.
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
A repository for the research and scholarly output of members of the UMass Amherst community. Call Marilyn Billings at 545-6891 for information.
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SimplyMap
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A tool for creating maps illustrating hundreds of social, economic and climatic variables.
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