GEOG/ENVI 258: Environmental Hazards
Research & Instruction Librarian
Research & Instruction Librarian
GEOG/ENVI 258: Environmental Hazards
Welcome to GEOG/ENVI 258: Environmental Hazards Library Course Guide.
This Guide provides links to information resources for your research projects.
Please refer to Geography Subject Guide for a more comprehensive coverage of resources
Finding Books in Worldcat
You can locate books in Macalester's collections and beyond using Worldcat Discovery. Use the filters on the left-hand side of your search results in Worldcat to limit your search results to print books or ebooks specifically.
Pro tip: Try using the subject headings found in WorldCat to expand your search results and find related sources. For instance, you can look at Natural Disasters
Finding Online Journals by Subject
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BrowZine
BrowZine allows you to browse, read, and follow scholarly journals that are available to you online through the library, including both subscribed and open access titles. Compatible with Android and iOS mobile devices. Useful for keeping track of your favorite journals, and allows you to see and explore similar titles.
Selected Online Resources
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Credo Reference
Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.
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eBooks (Gale)Search across subject-specific reference encyclopedias.
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Cambridge CoreCombines Cambridge book and journal content. To limit your search to materials that are accessible to Macalester users, check the "Only search content I have access to" box below the search box.
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Oxford Reference OnlineResource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.
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Academic Search PremierInterdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
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JSTOR
Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
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Google Scholar
Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
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GreenFILEResearch database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling and beyond.
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GEOBASEInternational index to the literature of geology, geography, urban geography, and ecology. Includes journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports.
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Access World News: Research Collection
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
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Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal, and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national, and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.
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US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
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New York Times Archive
Searchable full text of the New York Times from the first issue in 1851 to 4 years ago. Includes full page and article images. Most recent years of the Times can be searched in US Newsstream or New York Times - Digital Microfilm.
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The Times Historical Archive, 1785–2019 (Gale Primary Sources)
Full-text and full-image archive to the Times of London for the years 1785-2019.
Selected eBooks
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