NGO search engine
Use the Non-governmental Organization Search Engine to search across NGO websites. Sites were chosen based on their consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and also collated from University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, Duke University Libraries' NGO Research Guide, and the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO).
IGO search engine
Use the Intergovernmental Organization Search Engine (a Google custom search) to search across hundreds of IGO websites:
Global Governance Organizations and Think Tanks
U.S. and international news - general databases
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NexisUniU.S. and world news publications, plus broadcast transcripts, magazines, and wire services. Coverage dates vary by title; some sources go back to the late 1980s.
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FactivaNews and business publications, newswires from Dow Jones and Reuters, international news sources; dates of coverage vary.
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Library PressDisplayOver 2000 newspapers from 100 countries in 60 languages; all sources displayed in their original format (i.e., including photos and advertisements). Most recent 3 months only.
Citation databases
Citation databases allow you to see how often a work of scholarship is cited, and to trace connections between related works.
Open Access Web Portals
Yale Supported Databases
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Agricultural & Environmental Science DatabaseFormerly know as the ProQuest Environmental Science Collection.
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ProQuest Social Science SearchSingle search of many databases, including:
EconLit
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
PAIS International (policy literature)
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
...and more. To restrict your search to some or all of the databases above, click on "Searching: 25 databases" in the upper left of the screen.
Portals are defined as web sites that serve as entry points to a number of separate information resources either within the same website or pointing out to other websites.
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)"CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment."
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CRS ReportsCongressional Research Services reports on a variety of topics
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Congressional Research Service Reports via FASThe Federation of American Scientists tries to link to as many of the CRS Reports as possible. CRS Reports are not indexed centrally; some are not even avaliable publically.
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Congressional Research Service Reports via EveryCRSReportAnother source in which to search for CRS Reports. There is no master list of all CRS Reports. This website provided information on how to request CRS Reports from your congressman. As of May 21, 2013 there were 3,352 reports listed.
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Congressional Research Service Reports via University of North TexasAs of May 21, 2013, there were 14,108 entries
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DialnetA portal to give access to Hispanic literature. Most of what is there is open access literature. It contains journal articles, dissertations, conference publications, books
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ECOLEXGateway to international environmental law--treaties, legislation, court decisions, and literature
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Governance- World Resources Institute"a comprehensive on-line collection of data and analysis about the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world."
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eGranary Digital LibraryAlternative to online access, this is a stand alone repository of over 30 million documents. It was developed for those without Internet access. Various purchase models.
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Eldis"Eldis aims to share the best in development, policy, practice and research." A project from IDS. Contains over 26,000 fulltext reports
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The Encyclopedia of EarthExcellent resource - contains articles, definitions, speeches, reports, ebooks, images, videos, and sound files.
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Energy Resources Program - USGSOil & Gas - Coal - Other Energy - Environmental Aspects - Geochemistry & Geophysics
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FAO Corporate Document Librarylinks to FAO reports
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FAO Statisticsincludes FAOSTAT; CountrySTAT; AgroMaps, and others
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Forestry USA"Your Internet gateway to Forestry and forest products in America" - links to state and Federal agencies under government link.
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GDN: Global Development NetworkFounded by a global network of research and policy institutes. Provides portal access to many resources for developing countries and has thousands of publications which can be searched by broad interest area or geographic area
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Global Forest Information Servicegateway to forest information resources development;
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Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD)metadatabase to over 180 individual databases with almost 3 million vegetation plots registered. Provides open access to data.
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Indigenous Law Portal: American Indian Legal Materialsfrom Library of Congress materials
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Internet archiveLooking for an old movie/video (1.5 million), old book (6 million), music (126 thousand concerts), audio files (1.9 million), TV news (552 thousand broadcasts), or old version of a website (402 Billion pages)?
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Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)collaborative with more than one million records of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). Links to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, VTLS Visualizer, Australiasian Digital Theses Program, Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertacoes, Cybertesis, DART-Europe, Theses Canada, WorldCat, and others.
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National Library of EnergyU.S. DOE combined search - therefore emphasis is on energy resources. It does not match the energy subset of science.gov therefore both should be searched
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Science.govU.S. government-sponsored portal with links to reports, web sites
"over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results." -
ScienceDirectSearch through the 2400 journal titles and 20,000 book chapters provided by Elsevier.
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TRIS - Transportation Research Information ServicesTRIS links to all these freely available resources:
TRID - database of >900,000 research records
RiP - Research in Progress database
RNS - Research Needs Statements database
TRB Publ. Index
PRP - Practice Ready Papers database
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United Nations Publications and Databaseslinks to UN level resources
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USDA Water Quality Information Center" links to online databases that may be related to water and agriculture"
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USDA National Agriculture LibraryAlternative Farming Info Center
Animal Welfare Info Center
Food and Nutrition Info Center
Food Safety Info Center
National Invasive Species Info Center
Rural Info Center
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USGS Publications, Maps, ImageryWhere to find thousands of publications, maps, images, data. The USGS provides broad science research (it's not just Geology anymore) and has seven program areas: Core Science Systems, Climate and Land Use Change, Energy and Minerals, Environmental Health, Ecosystems, Natural Hazards, Water.
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WorldCatLinks to catalog holdings of over 10,000 libraries
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WorldWideScience.org: the global science gatewayGateway to global science resources, national and international portals and databases. As of 2012 there were about 80 databases and portals from over 70 countries. The query does automatic translation into all languages represented.
Librarian for Political Science. Global Affairs, and Government Information
Librarian for Environmental Studies
Rachel Sperling
Contact:
Marx Science and Social Science Library
203-436-5912
Subjects:Environmental Studies