Library Guides: GLOBE 2010: Introduction to Global Resource Systems: Literature Databases

Selected International Organizations

FAO Knowledge Repository
Full-text collection of publications from the FAO (United Nations). Provides reports on topics such as irrigation, agriculture, sustainable development, desertification, pesticides, and food insecurity.

Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank publications)
Search for publications produced by the World Bank. "The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products."

CIA World Factbook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 countries.
World Health Organization
The WHO site provides access to health areas the organization is involved with, detailed data and statistics, and information about individual countries.

News Databases

The following databases cover news sources rather than scholarly journals. If you are looking for introductory information to include in your research paper, consider finding a few newspaper articles to help you set the stage for your topic.

Access World News
Providing access to a comprehensive collection of over 2,000 newspapers and news sources from around the world.
Newspaper Source Plus
This database provides selected full text coverage for 245 newspapers, newswires and other sources.
International newspaper coverage includes cover-to-cover full text for The Times (London), The Toronto Star, The Australian, and more. Newswire coverage includes AP Online (Associated Press), Asia Pulse, Canadian Press Wire, World Stream Newswires and more.

Multidisciplinary literature databases

Academic Search Ultimate
This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.
Scopus
A large database containing scholarly journal articles and conference papers on any topic in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. Includes cited references and h-index information.
Scopus tutorial
Web of Science Core Collection
Web of Science Core is a database of “core publications” across all disciplines. This database has a cited reference search tool that can be used for searching for a specific item from a citation.

Subject Specific Databases

Agriculture & Environment

CAB Abstracts
CAB Abstracts is one of the largest agricultural databases covering international research literature in a wide range of subjects across the applied life sciences – from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition. Especially useful to find information for specific countries on these topics.
CAB Abstracts tutorial
GreenFILE
Covers the environmental effects of individuals, corporations, and governments. Indexes scholarly, government and general-interest publications on topics including global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and environmental remediation.
NSCEP: National Service Center for Environmental Publications
NSCEP provides access to online publications and reports from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Includes 400 Series (Air and Radiation, OAR), 500 Series (Solid Waste and Emergency Response, OSWER), 600 Series (Research and Development, ORB), 700 Series (Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, OPPTS) and 800 Series (Water, OW) and more. The National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) database was integrated under (NSCEP) for one stop access to all EPA publications.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
The world’s largest index of literature on wildlife including mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Major topic areas include studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, taxonomy and more.

Social & Politics

Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers in sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
This database covers international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts tutorial

Economics

AgEcon Search
AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and applied economics.
AgEcon Search tutorial
EconLit
Find articles from hundreds of economics journals.

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