• Firstgov
  Official government site that is intended to be a portal to U.S. Federal government information on the Internet.
• Lexis-Nexis Statistical (formerly Statistical Universe)
  Lexis-Nexis Statistical provides access to all statistics issued by the U.S. government back to 1973. Also has 1,000 of the best statistical publications of private and state government sources. Foreign statistics are available through publications indexed by the International Index to Statistics, a third component to Lexis-Nexis Statistical.
  
  To search for UN documents in L-N Statistical go straight to Search Abstracts, then limit to International or Intergovernmental Sources.
  
• Books with good statistics
  Statistical yearbook
  REF KNIGHT HA12.5 .U63 47th 2000

  State of the world : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society
  KNIGHT HC59.S734 2002

  The Europa world year book
  REF KNIGHT D2 .E8 44th ed. 2003 v.1 LIB USE ONLY
  REF KNIGHT D2 .E8 44th ed. 2003 v.2

  which also includes:
  Africa South of the Sahara
  REF KNIGHT DT351.A37 33rd ed. 2004

  The Middle East and North Africa
  REF KNIGHT DS49.M5 50th ed. 2004

  South America, Central America, and the Caribbean
  REF KNIGHT F1414.2.S68 12th ed. 2004

For US statistics see the "Statistical abstract of the United States"
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

• UN and Government sources

Knight Library has publications from the UN and Inter-governmental Organizations. e.g. World Bank (remember that it was also known as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, now a branch of the WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organization/organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Asian Development Bank,  UNESCO

Also useful are these sites:

http://www.unep-wcmc.org/ (international information on biodiversity)

http://www.unesco.org/ (see UNESCO Institute for Statistics: http://www.uis.unesco.org/)

http://www.unep.net/ (search UNEP data)

UO Document Center (http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/)
If you don\'t find what you want, consider going to the Knight Library Government Documents section in person. They have lots of material there, and it\'s not always easy to find online.

Finding Articles

Academic Search Premier
Covers interdisciplinary sources with many full-text articles. Features include 'peer reviewed only' and 'full-text only' search options. The mix of scholarly and popular journals make it a good place to search for opinion or controversy papers.

Agricola
A database produced by the National Agriculture Library that covers all areas of botany and plant science (not just agriculture); also forestry and entomology.

Alternative Press Index
Covers nearly 300 alternative and radical publications. It includes numerous titles on the environment, gay/lesbian issues, native peoples, seniors, and women.

ArticleFirst
Covers a wide range of titles from lots of journals. Topics covered include business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology. ArticleFirst is very broad, but since it\'s updated daily it is very current.

BIOSIS
BIOSIS covers original research reports and reviews in biological and biomedical areas. Coverage includes traditional areas of biology, such as botany, zoology and microbiology, as well as related fields such as plant and animal science, agriculture, pharmacology and ecology. Interdisciplinary fields such as biochemistry, biophysics, and bioengineering are also included. Information is available from 1996 to the present.

The CQ researcher
[This one is NOT a database like the others, found in the library catalog.] Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Good for popular statistics and opinions on an issue.

GeoBase (Geography)
GeoBase covers worldwide literature in geography, ecology, & related disciplines.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Lexis-Nexis Academic provides coverage of current news, business and company information, government,legal, and medical information from over 6,000 sources.

PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service
Database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Topics covered include government, international relations, environment, political science, public administration and more.

Sociological Abstracts
The latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes citations since 1963 (abstracts begin in 1974) for articles in over 1,500 journals, conference papers, books, and dissertations.

Web of Science
This multidisciplinary database can be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. It allows you to see who has used an article in their bibliography, or who has "cited" a particular published paper. You can see what new research has been done by tracking who quotes that paper since it was written. It can also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work.

Remember that looking at the bibliographies of articles you like can help you find other materials on your topic.

Other resources

Environmental Studies Research Guide
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/envstudies/

Searching the web
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/searchweb/

Evaluating what you find
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/searchweb/evaluating.html

Creating your bibliography (how to cite electronic resources, like web pages)
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/citing/

Getting Journal articles electronically
http://breeze.uoregon.edu:9003/citation/findtext

Access academic search engines off-campus
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/dbs/proxy/

Boolean Logic(using ice cream)
http://www.ithaca.edu/library/course/expert.html

(other examples)
http://www.lib.utah.edu/instruction/handouts/keyword.html