Environmental Studies Guide

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | Journal Indexes In Print | Government Publications | Database Services | EJournals | Theses and Style Guide

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This guide is a select listing of information resources in Environmental Studies. For a more comprehensive view of the Library's collection please consult our online catalogue, Tropicat. A more complete, general guide to finding information is also available from InfoHelp. As Environmental Studies is a cross-discipline subject you will also need to consult other guides for specific subject areas such as in Marine Biology.

The location prefix R used in the guide designates the Reference Collection. Items are held in both Townsville (TSV) and Cairns (CNS) unless otherwise indicated.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Allaby, M. (1998) A dictionary of ecology. (2nd. ed.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
R 577.03 CON 1998

Ashworth, W., Little, C.E. (2001) Encyclopedia of environmental studies. New York: Facts on File
TSV R 333.703 ASH

Bortman, M., Cunningham, W.P. (2003) Environmental encyclopedia. Detroit: Gale.
TSV R 333.703 ENV 2003

Eldredge, N. (2002) Life on Earth: an encyclopedia of biodiversity, ecology and evolution. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.
TSV R 333.951103 LIF

The environment encyclopedia and directory. (4 th ed.). (2005). New York : Routledge.
TSV R 363.703 ENV

Fairbridge Rhodes W., Alexander, David E. (1999) Encyclopedia of environmental science. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic
R 333.703 ENC

Lincoln, R. J. et.al. (1998)A dictionary of ecology, evolution, and systematics. (2nd. ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
R 574.503 LIN 1998

McGraw-Hill dictionary of environmental science. (2003). New York : McGraw-Hill
TSV R 333.703 MACG

Matthews, J.A. (2000) The encyclopaedic dictionary of environmental change. London: Arnold.
R 363.7003 ENC

Journal Indexes In Print

Indexes marked * are available online - see below. The Reference Collection contains a large number of print indexes across all disciplines, see the library catalogue, Tropicat, for details.

*APAIS (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) (TSV 1950+) (CNS 1982+)
R 919.40016 P2

*Biological abstracts (1926-1998)
TSV R 574.016 BIO

Ecological abstracts (1974 -1998)
TSV R 574.5 P9

Geographical abstracts (dates vary from 1966 - 1998)
Note that this title is divided into a number of parts which have varied over time
TSV R 910 P42

Government Publications

Much research material is published in government documents. A few of the more important serials are listed here. For further information consult other handouts such as Law Guide or ask InfoHelp..

Policy statements

Parliamentary debates: (Hansard)
Senate
328.9402 P3
House of Representatives
328.9402 P2
Queensland
328.94302 P1
Website at: http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/index.htm (1996+)

Legislation

Commonwealth Acts
348.94022 P1
Website at: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/toc.html

Queensland Acts
348.943022 P1
Website at: http://www.legislation.qld.gov.au/Legislation.htm

Information about Government Departments

Government Who's Who of Australia
Website at: http://www.aph.gov.au/whoswho/index.htm

Parliamentary Papers

Commonwealth parliamentary papers
TSV 328.94 P2
Website at: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parlpapers.htm

Queensland parliamentary papers (1901-1921)
TSV 328.943 P5

Database Services

Many journal indexing services are available via the Internet. Some services also provide the full text of journal articles. Databases may be accessed from off campus via Remote Access.

Direct links to the services listed below are available at this Internet address : http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Resources/datasets.shtml

Some databases that you may find particularly useful for Environmental Studies are:

Biosis Reviews & Biological Abstracts are major sources of references to the life sciences journal literature.

CABDirect keeping users up-to-date with the world's literature in agriculture and applied life sciences.

Current Contents Connect multidisciplinary current awareness service for over 8,000 journals and more than 2,000 books

Geobase information for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography

GeoRef (via GeoScienceWorld) provides abstracts to the geoscience literature of the world.

Informit provides access to leading Australian research databases, including APAIS

InfoTrac provides access to Expanded Academic ASAP which contains fulltext articles.

INIS International Nuclear Information System of the IAEA, is the world’s leading information system on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.

ProQuest 5000 fulltext coverage of over 2500 journals

ScienceDirect Full text for around 290 of the 1700 titles, with contents pages and abstracts for the remainder.

SciFinder Scholar Primarily a chemistry database, but with significant coverage of the life sciences.

Web of Science Search current and retrospective multidiscipinary information (inc. science citation index) covering around 9000 journals from 1972+

Wiley Interscience provides full text of all 311 Wiley journals back to 1997

Electronic Journals

Most full text electronic journals subscribed to by the Library are listed in Tropicat. An alphabetical list of ejournals is also available at: http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Resources/ej.shtml. Access may be by individual title, or by service provider, e.g. InfoTrac. Please contact InfoHelp if passwords are required. Note that the library has many titles in print; some are available in both print and electronic versions.

The School Librarian also maintains links to Library and Internet Resources for Tropical Environmental Studies and Geography.  

Theses and Style Guide

Please contact Andrew Stacey if you have any comments, suggestions or additions.

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