Environmental Studies

This indexing + full text database from Proquest contains within it:

• Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
• Oceanic Abstracts
• Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA)

Plus hundreds of full text journals and documents relating to earth, land, and air sciences.

Content that covers topics about environmental concerns, such as soil science, science and management, introduction to agronomy, food, crops & environment.

Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.

(Description provided by the database publisher, Gale/Cengage)

This database was formerly known as GREENR.

Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains records for geosciences literature from around the world, including 3.8 million records from over 3,500 journals. Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations.

Subjects Include: Economic geology, Environmental and engineering geology, Geophysics, Hydrology, Paleontology, Petrology, Marine geology & oceanography, and Mineralogy.

Coverage within the database includes the geology of North America from 1666 to the present, as well as global coverage dating back to 1933. 

Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles. Note: only use the proxied link when you are off-campus. If you are on campus, go directly to Google Scholar as http://scholar.google.ca.

Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of national and global public policy issues, including public health, the environment, housing, civil rights and international commerce. It includes thousands of indexed journals, conference papers, trade publications and government documents. 

This database does not have its own full text but any indexed items that are also full text in other EBSCO databases will provide an easy link. Out of about 1 million citations, over 800,000 will provide that "linked full text".

Subjects Include:

• Banking and public finance
• Criminal justice
• Economic policy and taxation
• Education and education policy
• Emigration and immigration
• Energy and energy policy
• Ethics
• Government
• Humanitarian issues
• Industry and labor
• Law and legislation
• Natural disasters and poverty
• Politics and elections
• Social policy
• Transportation

SAGE Research Methods Foundations is a large series of extended articles/short books edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug & Richard A. Williams. It is the perfect companion for novice researchers and provides bite-size, introductory overviews to all the major methods topics to help get you on your way. The entries give introductory overviews to major research methods, covering their history, development and critical debates surrounding them. 

Some examples of topics covered include:

• Item Response Theory
• Analysing Administrative Data
• Case-Based Methods
• Case Study
• Content Analysis, Quantitative
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Agent Based Models
• Analysis of Proportions
• Analysis of Rare Events
• ANOVA and ANCOVA
• Archiving Qualitative Data
• Arts-Based Research
• Autobiography
• Autoethnography
• Bayesian Statistics
• Bibliometric Indicators

See also: SRM Videos: Practical Research and Academic Skills, SRM main page with Core information

This collection of over 450 streaming videos on the SAGE Research Methods platform offers support on the practical skills that you need to successfully complete your research. Key areas such as writing a research proposal, planning and designing a research project, and securing ethical approval are explicitly covered. Practical skills such as project management, writing for publication, presenting work, and building networks are also presented through helpful explanatory videos. This video collection will give you the confidence to successfully navigate your research, take responsibility for your professional development and identify the transferable skills needed to progress your careers.

Topics covered in the videos include:

• Project Management
• Writing a research proposal
• Securing ethical approval
• Writing for publication
• Computer applications
• Applied research
• Research careers & building networks
• Presenting at conferences
• Building Networks
• and many more topics

There are more research methods videos in the SRM Core package

Scopus provides broad indexing and citation coverage of academic journals, books and conference proceedings published worldwide. Delivering a comprehensive overview ofresearch output in the fields of science, engineering, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Access the Elsevier Scopus guide for information about searching. 

Coming soon: the UPEI librarians are developing a own localized scopus advanced search tips guide.

If you want to search for publications by UPEI authors, you can add these pieces to your Advanced search:

AF-ID ( "University of Prince Edward Island"   60007655 )   = UPEI (except AVC)

AF-ID("University of Prince Edward Island Atlantic Veterinary College" 60005845) = Atlantic Veterinary College

Sustainability Reference Center is a full-text database covering all aspects of sustainability, including environmental stewardship, corporate social responsibility and federal, state and local regulations. It includes full text journals, magazines, books and trade publications, plus expert analyses, benchmarks and best practices for sustainability initiative management.

Supporting executive decision-making and planning, Sustainability Reference Center helps users form a deeper understanding of the pillars of sustainability. It offers quick access to critical information including complete full text with images, tables, charts and other graphical content from many key titles.

Topics Include: 

• Corporate social responsibility
• Environmental stewardship
• Federal, state and local regulations
• "Green" issues and initiatives
• ISO 14000
• LEED
• Recycling
• Renewable energy
• Resource conservation
• Social entrepreneurship
• Sustainable business practices
• Waste reduction