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Reference books can be really useful for doing background reading on a subject. Most subject encyclopedia articles have bibliographies at the end for further reading. Reference books are also a good place to find facts, statistics, etc. Particularly in multi-volume encyclopedias, be sure to look in the index, usually located at the end of the last volume.

Potentially Useful Reference Books for this Project

All of the following are located in the Science Library Reference section, and are for library use only

Encyclopedia of Agricultural Science (4 vols.) S411 .E713 1994
-Contains information on forests and forestry; pesticides.

Encyclopedia of Energy Technology and the Environment (4 vols.) TJ163.235 .E531995

Encyclopedia of Environmental Analysis and Remediation (8 vols.) GE10 .E49 1998

Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology (3 vols.) QH540.4 .E52 1995

Encyclopedia of Environmental Science GE10 .E53 1999

Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change (5 vols.) GE149 .E443 2002

Macmillan encyclopedia of energy (3 vols.) TJ163.28 .M33 2001

Sax's Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials (3 vols.) T55.3 .H3 L494 2000
-For information on biological effects of specific chemicals.

Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, 4th ed. (2 vols.) RA1215 .S58 2002
-For information on biological effects of specific chemicals.

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Web searching and useful Web sites

Citing Sources

Evaluating Information on the World Wide Web

Searching the Web (information on web search engines)
-Guide to effective Web searching (Google tips)

Web Research Guide to Chemistry

To find information on specific chemicals:

ExToxNet Infobase

Materials Safety Data Sheets on the Internet

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Finding journal articles

Library Databases & Indexes

All of these can be found on the UO Libraries home page under "Databases & Indexes" (center section of page.) These are online finding tools, or indexes, for journal articles and other publications. All contain citations; most contain abstracts; and some contain, or link to, the full text of articles. All of the databases below allow you to click on a "FindText" button to see if the UO has the article in electronic full-text. If not, you can check if the UO Libraries own a print copy of the journal containing an article you want, or request it from another library.

Academic Search Premier

• An interdisciplinary article index with many full-text articles. Features include 'peer reviewed only' and 'full-text only' search options. The mix of scholarly and popular journals also makes it a good place to search for opinion or controversy papers.

Agricola

• This database from the USDA's National Agriculture Library indexes lots of information on forests and forestry. (Remember, the US Forest Service is part of the USDA.)

BIOSIS

• A comprehensive life sciences database - articles indexed in BIOSIS include a lot of ecology and effects of chemicals on organisms.

Geobase

• A geography database covering a lot of environmental information.

INSPEC

• The most comprehensive index available for the physics literature, covering from 1969 to the present. A good place to search for articles on alternative energy, but "Limit your Results" by "Treatment" -- "General or Review" to get more general, overview-type articles, and avoid overly specific, technical articles.

ToxNet

• ToxNet includes Toxlline, produced by the National Library of Medicine. It contains toxicological information on pharmaceuticals, environmental pollutants, mutagens and teratogens, and other hazardous materials. The database includes journal articles, monographs, meeting abstracts, and other publications published in the last 5 years.

Web of Science

• This is a multidisciplinary database that can be searched by subject, author, journal, and author address. It also allows you to see who has used an article in a bibliography -or who has "cited"-a particular published paper. You can trace a specific work by tracking the papers that quote it in the literature and to identify more recent articles on the same topic. The pre-1975 print version of "Science Citation Index" is available in the Science Library [Z7401.S365].