Information Resources

for

International Affairs/Environmental Studies

This web page was developed in support of the 1999-2001 Department of Education Title VI-A grant for the International Affairs/Environmental Studies project at Skidmore College. The project allowed the International Affairs Program and the Environmental Studies Program to collaborate to help students study the technical and political aspects of environmental policy, equipping students with the knowledge and skills that afford the beginning of informed work in environmental issues. Toward that end, this web page provides links to print and electronic resources available at Scribner Library and beyond. Access to some materials may be restricted to Skidmore community users only.

The 1999-2001 Department of Education Title VI-A grant provided Scribner Library with funds to acquire materials in support of the International Affairs/Environmental Studies project. The materials acquired include the Columbia Earthscape online resource on the global environment, the Corporate Environmental Profiles Database, the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, and the periodical Environmental Politics. For a complete list of library acquisitions purchased under the grant and with matching library funds select from the following links:

IAES Grant
IAES Library Matching Funds
IA/ES Grant items received 8/1/00 - 7/31/01 IA/ES items received 6/1/00 - 5/31/01
IA/ES Grant items received 8/1/99 - 7/31/00 IA/ES items received 6/1/99 - 5/31/00
 


Online Catalogs

GPO
1976 to present. Updated bimonthly. Citations to U.S. federal government publications. Based on the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, it contains references to books, reports, studies, serials, maps and other publications.
LUCY 2  


Scribner Library's Online Catalog. Use LUCY2 to locate books, videos, CD-ROMs, journals (but not articles), and selected government documents in our library. Consult the Library of Congress (LC) Subject Headings books to determine appropriate keywords and subject headings for your topic, or see list above.

Interlibrary Loan: To access books and journals that Skidmore does not own, use the Interlibrary Loan service.

WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Updated daily. Contains more than 24 million records describing items owned in libraries around the world including books, musical scores, and sound recordings, films, software, videos. It does not include individual articles appearing in journals.

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Print Reference Sources

The following resources are shelved in Scribner Library's reference collection unless indicated otherwise.

Subject Heading
Title
Call Number
Environmental Sciences Dictionary of environment and development: people, places, ideas, and organizations REF GE10 .C78 1993
The Dictionary of ecology and environmental science REF GE10 .D53 1993
Environmental encyclopedia REF GE10 .E57 1994
Encyclopedia of environmental information sources : a subject guide to about 34,000 print and other sources of information on all aspects of the environment REF GE170 .E6 1993
Encyclopedia of environmental issues REF GE10 .E52 2000
Encyclopedia of environmental science REF GE10 .M66 2000
Environmental literature : an encyclopedia of works, authors, and themes REF GE35 .E58 1999
Environmentalists American environmental leaders : from colonial times to the present REF GE55 .B43 2000
Human Ecology The HarperCollins dictionary of environmental science REF GF11 .H37 1992
Environmental Policy Yearbook of international co-operation on environment and development REF HC79.E5 Y3 1998-99
Environmental Law Dictionary of environmental law K3584.6 .G55 2000
Environment and the law : a dictionary REF KF3775 .A68 P38 1995
Climatic Changes Dictionary of global climate change REF QC981.8 .C5 M38 1992
Geochemistry The encyclopedia of geochemistry and environmental sciences REF QE515 .F24
Endangered Species Encyclopedia of endangered species REF QH75 .E49 1994 
Ecology The encyclopedia of environmental studies REF QJ540.4 .A84 1991
Dictionary of ecology and the environment REF QH540.4 .C65 1998 
Encyclopedia of environmental biology REF QH540.4 .E52 1995
Environmental Engineering The Facts On File dictionary of environmental science REF TD9 .S74 1990
Pollution The Wiley encyclopedia of environmental pollution and cleanup REF TD173 .W55 1999
Power Resources Wiley Encyclopedia of energy technology and the environment REF TJ163.235 .W55 1997

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Periodicals

Journal Subscriptions for Contemporary Issues

Journal Subscriptions for Environmental Studies

Journal Subscriptions for International Affairs

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Databases

Academic Search Premier (EbscoHost)
1990 to present. Updated daily. A multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,650 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,183 journals in the collection.

AGRICOLA
A bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and its cooperators. Encompasses all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines including: the animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, and earth and environmental sciences

BasicBIOSIS (FirstSearch)
Offers citations to both popular and scholarly life sciences journals.

Columbia Earthscape
Today's news, with more than two dozen headline stories - plus exclusive video from the American Museum of Natural History and ABC NewsOne. Also includes papers and conferences, journal abstracts, books, databases and datasets.

CountryWatch
Breaking news developments in all the world's countries and a substantial set of geopolitical and business background information and data on individual countries including environmental trends and issues.

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher, a weekly publication, covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.

CQ Weekly
CQ Weekly provides non-partisan information on Capitol Hill and includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.

ehp Online
 The database provides full-text access to Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), a peer-reviewed monthly publication of the Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is a forum for the examination, discussion, and dissemination of news, scientific research, and ideas relating to issues and advances in environmental health. Environmental Health Perspectives. From 1993-2002 EHP also published supplements, peer-reviewed monographs on current environmental topics and an annual review of environmental health.

Environmental Issues & Policy Index
Updated Monthly. Provides abstract/index information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies.

GEOBASE (FirstSearch)
1980 to date. Updated semi-monthly. Provides citations to the international literature on geography, geology, and ecology.

LexisNexis Academic
Updated daily. Lexis/Nexis is a search service which provides access to the full text of legal and current business publications, wire services, and broadcast media as well as major newspapers and trade/news magazines. Abstracts from Medline are also available on the system.

LexisNexis Congressional
1970 to present. Provides access to congressional publications from 1970 to the present, the Congressional Record and Federal Register, Legislative Histories for public laws going back to 1970, and testimony from congressional hearings, and tracks bills as they move through the House and Senate.

LexisNexis Environmental
Allows users to search abstracts of thousands of journal articles and conference papers and link to selected full text through Environment abstracts; retrieve full-text news, journals, and reference materials; find federal and state codes and federal agency regulations; access federal and state case law and agency decisions; and locate federal and state waste site data and hazardous materials information.

PAIS International (FirstSearch)
1972 to present. Updated monthly. Citations to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents about public affairs. Topics covered include business, government, international relations, banking, environment, health, social sciences, demographics, law and legislation, political science, public administration, finance, agriculture, education, and statistics.

ProQuest Research Library
Coverage varies. Updated daily. ProQuest research library indexes more than 2,600 general interest and academic periodicals in all fields, and provides access to nearly 1000 of them in ASCII full-text or full-image formats.

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Websites

Educational Sites

EE Link
A project of the North American Association for Environmental Education, ee-link provides environmental education resources on the Internet. Aimed primarily at k-12 teachers, though the Environmental Links to general environmental information sources arranged by subject are relevant and useful for students and faculty in higher education.

Project on Teaching Global Environmental Politics
A forum for teacher-scholars of global environmental politics (GEP) to share information and questions about research and teaching in the field. The web site provides an archive of syllabi, course material, web-pages, and other resources that were posted to or announced on the GEP list.

 
Environmental Law Sites

LII - Environmental Law
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute's guide to environmental law.
      Energy Law
      Land Use Law
      Natural Resources Law
      Pollution Law

World Environment Law
Hieros Gamos legal research links to environment law around the world.

Findlaw - Environmental Law

General Environmental Sites

General Environmental Sites
A broad list of environmental sites from Larsgöran Strandberg, Industrial Ecology at KTH - Royal Institute of Technology - Stockholm, Sweden.

National Library for the Environment
A universal, timely, and easy-to-use single-point entry to environmental information and data for the use of all participants in the environmental enterprise. This online library includes directories of academic environmental programs, journals, funding sources, meetings, job opportunities, news sources, laws and treaties, reports, reference materials, and more.

 
Governmental Sites

EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon which life depends. The web page includes such useful components as Terms of the Environment, commonly used environmental terms, acronyms and abbreviations within the Agency; Policy Statements and Strategy Documents; National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS), EPA's largest electronic documents site allows you to search view and print, including full images of all original pages and full-text, from a collection of over 7,000 archival and current documents.

NTIS: Environment
The National Technical Information Service (NTIS) is the central information source for more than 80,000 environmental-related publications produced by U.S. Government agencies since 1990. These agencies include EPA, NASA, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense. On the NTIS Web site, you can search the Technical Reports Database, which covers 1990 to the present or browse the Environment section.

 
International Sites

CEC
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is an international organization whose members include Canada, Mexico and the United States. The CEC was created under the North American Agreement for Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) to address regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts and promote the effective enforcement of environmental law. The Agreement complements the environmental provisions established in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Text available in French, Spanish or English.

European Environment Agency
 Europe's gateway to environmental information.

European Environment Information and Observation NETwork (EIONET)
 The EIONET site is generally organized by country, the National Focal Points which includes National Resource Centers and European Topic Centres, and by subject, the Topics section.

United Nations Environment Programme
The UNEP was established as the environmental conscience of the United Nations system, and has been creating a basis for comprehensive consideration and coordinated action within the UN on the problems of the human environment.

 
Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs)

Conservation International Foundation
CI focuses on trying to preserve and promote awareness about the world's most endangered biodiversity through scientific programs, local awareness campaigns, and economic initiatives. CI also works with multinational institutions, provides economic analyses for national leaders, and promotes "best practices" that allow for sustainable development.

The Earth Council
The Earth Council is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) created in September 1992 to promote and advance the implementation of the Earth Summit agreements. It is led by a body of 18 Members, drawn from the world's political, business, scientific and non-governmental communities. Sixteen eminent world leaders serve as Honorary Members, and an 18 member Earth Council Institute functions as an advisory board.

EnviroLink
EnviroLink is a non-profit organization providing comprehensive, up-to-date environmental resources by topic or categories.

EDF
The Environmental Defense Fund is a non-profit organization since 1967. It seeks to find solutions to environmental problems through science, economics, and law.

Friends of the Earth International
 A group of autonomous environmental organisations from all over the world.

Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a global environmental campaigning organization.

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) website provides a comprehensive environmental perspective on what's happening in the world today. You'll find everything environmental on NRDC's website, from quick overviews and fun features to in-depth technical materials. The hundreds of resources include news, legislative updates, scientific research, policy analyses and an action center that makes it easy to make your voice heard. Among NRDC's fun features: an environmental calendar with new (and free) wallpaper every month, an environmental timeline and interactive "Creature Closeups."

Sierra Club
One of the largest and well known environmental grassroots organizations.

The World's Water
Information on the world's freshwater resources compiled by Peter H. Gleick, includes a water conflict chronology and a fairly comprehensive set of links to water resources. A companion print volume is available in Scribner Library's reference collection, TD345 .W674 2004/05.

WWF - The Conservation Organization
Formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund, WWF is one of the world's largest and most experienced independent conservation organizations.

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Barbara Norelli
Social Sciences/Government Documents Librarian
Lucy Scribner Library, Skidmore College
bnorelli@skidmore.edu
Last Update: July 26, 2005
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