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Guide to Library Research Jane Quigley, Kresge Physical Sciences Library |
Encyclopedias and other reference materials are useful sources of statistics, economic data, geopolitical background information, or just a quick review of a topic.
| Economic, Geopolitical, Scientific and Statistical Resources | |
| CIESIN Center for Earth Science Information Network | Many statistical datasets and documents such as full texts of environmental treaties. |
| EIU Country Data | Economic series data for countries and regions; economic profiles |
| LexisNexis Academic | News, business, financial, legal information |
| LexisNexis Statistical |
Statistical information from US government and international sources |
| CIA World Factbook 2005 | Country Profiles |
| Community Rights Council | Non-profit, public interest law firm founded in 1997 |
| Department of Energy Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC) | Information on carbon dioxide and atmospheric trace gases. See the CDIAC list of data and information products. |
| EarthTrends | A broad compilation of data on global environmental, social, and economic trends, gathered from numerous international statistical sources. |
| FindLaw | Legal Information |
| Global Reporting Initiative | UN Environment Programme & Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies |
| Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Climate Information |
| ISO14000 Information Center | Environmental Management Standard |
| Thomas Legislative Information | Congressional Information, Laws, Bills, Statutes |
| UN Environment Network | Country Profiles |
| UN Framework Convention on Climate Change | Country stances on Kyoto Protocol |
| U.S. EPA Annual Performance Reporting Program | Description of EPA's Performance Track program |
| Vermont Law School Legal Research Guides | Legal Resources Guides |
| World Resources Institute | Non-profit, environmental think-tank |
| World Bank Group | International development bank |
Search the Dartmouth library catalog to locate books, journals, and other items in the collections of all the Dartmouth libraries. Search by subject (using Library of Congress subject headings) or keywords; you can also search by author, or by title.
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For best results, try to come up with multiple ways of describing your topic ranging from very specific to more general. Many bibliographic databases, including the library catalog and many article indexes, use assigned terms to describe the subject content of materials. These subject terms (subject headings) can help you focus your search with great precision.
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Articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers can be found using article indexes (searchable databases of article records). In many cases these indexes link through to full-text articles (look for the ArticleLinker icon 
); if not, use the Library's Catalog to locate the source of the article. Note that the Catalog does not contain records for individual articles.
Article not available at Dartmouth? Try DartDoc. (Also see the section, Getting Items Not Available at Dartmouth.)
Selected indexes relevant to environment sciences and environmental economics are listed here. See eResources for a complete listing of electronic indexes, databases, and other eResources licensed by Dartmouth.
| ABI / Inform | An index to articles in English language business periodicals worldwide. Covers advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Includes information on 60,000+ companies. |
| Academic Search Premier | This is multidisciplinary index to journal and magazine articles, with full text access. It covers journals across all subject areas. |
| Geobase |
Covers physical and human geography, geology, ecology, and third world studies. Great for interdisciplinary topics. |
| Greenwire: the environmental news daily (also available as part of LexisNexis Environmental) | Environmental news |
| LexisNexis Environmental |
A diverse collection of environmental source material that includes several subfiles: Environment Abstracts, an index to environmental journals, conference papers, and government reports; News, Journals and Commentary, environmental news from major daily newspapers, newsletters, and law reviews. Codes and Regulations, with federal and state legislative and regulatory material; and Case Law and Agency Actions, with federal and state environmental case law and decisions from regulatory agencies and departments. |
| Web of Science 1900- present |
Covers 5,900 journals in the basic and applied sciences, including earth and environmental sciences; also chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics and computer science. Covers 1945-present (1901-present for articles from a select list of 250 very influential journals). Search features include: keyword searching across multiple disciplinary areas, links to citing and cited articles, a "related records" search, and novel ways to analyze and sort your search results. |
| WilsonWeb |
The Wilson indexes are somewhat general, thus are great for multidisciplinary topics. Another advantage is that they cover a smaller (more manageable) subset of the journal literature, and they cover many of the key journals in several science disciplines. They can be searched individually or together (to search across all subfiles, click on the link above). Among the subfiles are: Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Social Sciences Abstracts |
Find a court case similar to Lucas v. South Carolina
Resource: Community Rights Counsel
Additional resources:
Regulatory Takings: A site developed by The Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute (GELPI). Includes, among other helpful resources:
- Legal Briefs - A listing of legal arguments presented in significant "takings" cases over the past several years
- Takings Net Archive - Archived newsletters providing brief summaries of significant recent court decisions and other developments in takings law
The Institute for Local Government has an extensive resource section on Land Use Planning and on Property Rights & Takings.
Finding law cases
Lexis/Nexis Environmental > Choose "Case Law & Agency Actions" for the full text of final decisions of environmental law cases.
Finding articles
Law Review Articles - Resource: Lexis/Nexis Environmental, News, Journals & Commentary, Resource = Law Reviews
Articles - WilsonWeb > Social Sciences Abstracts, Legal Periodicals & Books
Law review articles, also articles in environmental law, environmental economics, public policy
Web of Science - Great interdisciplinary database, includes law review articles, environmental law, economics, public policyJSTOR - Full-text searchable in individual journals or across collections such as Law or Public Policy & Administration. Note that the most recent 5 years of JSTOR journals are not generally searched.
(See also: Feldberg Business & Engineering Library's Annotated Guide to Business Resources - a comprehensive source)
Find a "green reporting" company
Resource: Global Reporting Initiative
Other sites of interest:
Ceres - A partnership between leading environmental groups and institutional investors.working to promote environmental stewardship among businesses. Ceres founded the Global Reporting Initative in 1997..
The EPA's National Environmental Performance Track - A program that recognizes top environmental performers among U.S. facilities of all types
GreenBiz.com - A non-profit resource site for businesses interested in aligning environmental responsibility with business success.
ISO 14000 Information Center - A resource site for businesses interested in implementing and maintaining effective environmental management systems
Find a company profile and financial reports information
Resource: Hoover's Online
An edited compilation of company, industry, and market information, with in-depth coverage of 40,000 of the world's top business enterprises. Profiles by company and by industry.
Find news articles on a company or an industry
Resource: Lexis/Nexis Academic: Search Form = Business. Choose "Business News" or "Industry & Market."
Resource: Lexis/Nexis Environmental News, Journals, Commentaries
Find articles in journals, magazines, trade publications and news publications
Resource: Lexis/Nexis Environmental Environment Abstracts
Resource: ABI / Inform
An index to articles in English language business periodicals worldwide, including the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. Covers advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Includes information on 60,000+ companies.
Resource: Business Source Complete
Provides full text for nearly 1,370 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, international business and much more. Also includes country economic reports and detailed company profiles from DataMonitor. Includes access to the Harvard Business Review.
Find Carbon Dioxide Emissions for specific countries
Resources: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. Publishes Trends Online, an excellent source of emissions data.
EarthTrends, an initiative of the World Resources Institute, is an online collection of information regarding global environmental, social, and economic trends. A broad compilation of data from major statistical sources around the world.
Find statistical data for specific countries
(ex: energy use, economic data)
Resources: LexisNexis Statistical Universe
An index to hard-to-find statistical information of any sort. Includes US federal and state government as well as international sources.
World Development Indicators Online
World Bank's annual compilation of data about development; includes approximately 800 indicators for 152 countries. Provides data from 1960-2004, where data are available.
Find Country Economic Profiles
Resource: EIU Country Data
Find articles on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Resources: Greenwire
Lexis/Nexis Environmental: Environment Abstracts
CSA's Environmental sciences & pollution management index
Find information about country positions
Resource: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Resource: GreenwireResource: LexisNexis Environmental
Help with Writing
The Dartmouth Writing Program's online resources page provides help with all aspects of composition.
The Student Center for Research, Writing & Information Technology (RWIT) trains student tutors to assist with paper topics, research assignments and multimedia projects.
Help with Citing
Style guides provide accepted standards to follow when preparing research papers for publication. Sources is the Dartmouth College general guide to citing sources, and contains required reading about plagiarism and when, and how, to cite material you are using for a paper or presentation.
The official title of the APA Style Guide is the
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed. (2001).
Baker Berry Ref. BF76.7 .P83 2001 (also: copies at other campus libraries)
Earlier editions that can be checked out are available in the stacks (Baker-Berry BF76.7 .P83)Diana Hacker's site, Research and Documentation Online, provides useful and well-organized examples of many types of references in the major citation styles. The site is the companion site to A Writer's Reference, 5th ed. (Bedford St. Martin's Press, 2003), by Diana Hacker.
Lexis-Nexis provides this guide to citing materials found on its site: Citing References from Lexis Nexis Academic
(the examples are equally appropriate for references found through Lexis Nexis Environmental.)
Citing Legal Sources
For detailed guidance, consult the Publication manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th ed., which contains explicit instructions on citing legal sources (see Appendix D, References to Legal Materials, pp. 397-410). The following guide may also be useful:
Citing Legal Materials in APA Style - a detailed guide from the Westfield State College Library
Software Tools
Reference management programs allow you to build a personal database of your references to articles, books, websites - any information source - and then easily create bibliographies and reference lists using any particular style, without having to retype or reformat. See this overview of reference management programs widely used at Dartmouth.
RefWorks
RefWorks is a web-based reference management program that allows users to create their own personal database of references by importing references from online article databases. RefWorks makes it easy to search, sort, and cite these references in writing papers and then to automatically format the paper and the bibliography. To get started with RefWorks, go to http://www.refworks.com and click on the "User Login" button on the menu bar. Then click on the "Sign up for an Individual Account" link and fill out the form. RefWorks in-context help, or the online tutorial, will guide you through the basics. See the overview for details on importing citations from various article databases into RefWorks.
BORROW DIRECT: Delivers books from the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale within 4 business days.
Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage, or not owned by the Dartmouth Library (if not available through Borrow Direct). See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.
You can also use the Request Selected Item feature of the Library Catalog to request books or articles from Storage.
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For assistance with any part of your research project please contact:
Jane Quigley, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3564
Ann Perbohner, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-3845
Arun Sannuti, Reference Librarian, Kresge Physical Sciences Library, 6-9958
Email: Kresge.Library.Reference@Dartmouth.EDU
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