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Selected List of Library Resources

Getting started

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

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

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

Encyclopedia of Environmental Science GE10 .E53 1999

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

Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, 3rd ed. (18 vols.) Q123 .E497 2002

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

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 9th ed. (20 vols.) Q121 .M3 2002

For POLICY ideas and information, check out this web-based library reference:

CQ Researcher

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)

From the DOE Energy Information Administration:

Annual Energy Review

Statistics and more on U.S. energy production and consumption, 1949-present

International Energy Annual

Same as above, but for the world

Web Research Guide to Environmental Studies

Web Research Guide to Physics

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.

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. "Limit your Results" by "Treatment" to "General or Review" to get more general, overview-type articles, and avoid highly specific, technical articles.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)

Use this database to locate journals articles, books and reports on energy policy.

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.

Questions?

Contact Science Reference in person or at 6-2661 (M-Th 9-6; Fri 9-5), or via e-mail.

Created by Victoria Mitchell
Last updated 21 Oct 2004