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This guide is intended for students in Professor Paul Sabin's course and provides an overview of key resources in the Yale Library for research in American environmental history.
Includes many encyclopedias, handbooks, and other reference works. Look for relevant titles under headings such as Geography, History, and Political Science. Individual books include A Companion to the City,A Companion to Environmental Geography, and A Companion to American Environmental History.
This is a large library of reference works, including such titles as the Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, and several other works that contain articles that are relevant to humanistic approaches to the environment.
Each Cambridge Companion offers a series of thematic essays with bibliographies. Includes The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment and several companions on the literature of cities.
A combined search of the library's books, journal articles, databases, and more. Consider this a Google-like search of a vast amount of resources, but keep in mind some library materials are not indexed by the search. The search refinements and availability of multiple search fields are key to limiting the usually large number of results and finding the most relevant sources.
Searches the books, e-books, journals, government documents, and other physical and digital items owned by the library. Individual journal articles are not retrieved by the search. Best for multi-faceted searches on the Advanced search page in addition to keyword and title searches on the Basic search page.
The online catalog of the Law Library, also known as MORRIS. Orbis does not find these items, but Quicksearch does. Offers the same functionality as Orbis.
The platform for searching for special collections -- rare books, unpublished manuscripts, and other unique or rare materials held in the special collections units of the Yale University Library.
WorldCat is a world catalog that contains records for millions of volumes and can be used to find primary and/or secondary source materials that can be requested via Interlibrary Loan for use at Yale.