Environmental Resources

• The library subscribes to several resources that will help you find information about current and developing environmental issues and technologies. Through the Gale Virtual Reference Library, which is available to the St. Mary’s University community online at any time, everyday, you can access Environmental Issues: Essential Primary Sources. This 2006 publication contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. Coverage includes environmental thought and writing; earth processes and history; energy; environmental disasters, legislation, conservation, and activism; and human impacts on nature as it illustrates the diversity of environmental issues facing present and future generations.

• Another resource that is helpful for current issues, such as rising oil prices, climate change, alternative fuels, recycling or waste reduction, and more, is CQ Researcher. This resource provides an overview, background, chronology, current situation, statements from opposing positions, and a bibliography for each timely topic covered.

• Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete are two databases providing access to journal articles. They can be searched simultaneously, and a search can be limited to items including “Full Text” and to “Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.”

• Our library online catalog provides access to print and online books, as well as government information about environmental issues.

• There are a number of environment-related resources bookmarked at http://del.icio.us/blumelibrary. These can be browsed or searched by tags such as water, sustainability, renewable, energy, and more.