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GreenFILE

small database devoted to environmental topics!

impact of humans on the environment!

multidisciplinary

Focus

scholarly, government and general-interest titles!

environmental effects of individuals!

corporations and local/national governments!

what can be done at each level to minimize these effects

Contentindexing, abstracts, and full text!

indexing and abstracts for more than 612,000 records!

open access full text for more than 9,100 records!

academic journals, books/monographs, conference papers, essays, government documents, magazines, pamphlets, reports, and trade publications!

1913 - present

Disciplines & Topics

agriculture!

education!

law!

health!

technology

global climate change!

green building!

pollution!

sustainable agriculture!

renewable energy!

recycling

ExamplesEnvironmental Health: A Global Access Science Source ➙ 2002 to present!

BMC (BioMed Central) Ecology ➙ 2001 to present!

Environmental Health Perspectives ➙ 1999 to present!

Conservation Biology ➙ back to 1987!

Bioscience ➙ back to 1964!

Planning Outlook ➙ back to 1948!

Journal of Ecology ➙ back to 1913

EBSCOhost

online reference system!

cater to users at every level of research!

full text databases from leading information providers!

general reference to subject-specific databases!

over 300 full text and secondary databases available

EBSCO Goes Green

“EBSCO Publishing: A Small Company with Big Ideas for the Environment” Business and the Environment 2007!

Green Team and Solar Panel Project!

EPA 2008 Environmental Merit Award!

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Database

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free research database!

added 2008

AccessMIT!

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Simmons!

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EBSCO

Searching

boolean operators to link terms together!

use wildcards to maximize search!

search a phrase using quotes

group terms together with parentheses to control a search query!

limit the search to a specific title!

restrict the search to a particular date range

Advanced

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Other Databases

Environment Complete: full text for many of the most used journals in the discipline; deep subject coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning and more!

Proquest Environmental Sciences Collection: journal & conference articles, reports, books & government publications with comprehensive coverage of environmental & pollution issues. 1981- present!

Sustainability Science Abstracts: tens of thousands of abstracts pertaining to the management, use, conservation, and sustainability of natural resources!

Web of Science: indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art & humanities research journals. 1900 - present

Comparison

GreenFILE coverage is 74% unique compared to Environment Complete, which is more scholarly!

Environment Complete focuses on the science side of environmental issues!

GreenFILE focuses on humans' impact on the environment!

there is some overlap but different perspectives

Journal of Ecology

Database Indexing and Abstracting Full Text Searchable Cited

References

GreenFILE 1/1/1913 — 7/1/1973

Environment Complete 7/1/1973 3/1/1977 3/1/1977

Example Searches

Search: “Journal of Ecology”!

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Search: tourism AND coral reef AND MPAs

Why search GreenFILE

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informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet!

unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology

Uniquely Green

for the concerned person looking for information on individual response to environmental issues!

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• solar or wind power options!

• corporate response to alternative energies in business sectors!

• impact of local or government environmental laws & studies

MIT Resource

References EBSCO: http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/greenfile!

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! ! http://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/imported/thisTopic-dbTopic-889.pdf!

! ! http://support.ebsco.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=3789!

EPA: http://www.epa.gov/region1/ra/ema/2008recipients.html!

GreenFILE: http://www.greeninfoonline.com.!

Journal of Ecology: http://www.journalofecology.org/view/0/index.html!

MIT: http://libguides.mit.edu/envi!

! http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/m2015/2015/index.html!

Simmons: http://simmons.libguides.com/databases!

! ! http://simmons.libguides.com/content.php?pid=248931&sid=2056190

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