Research Guides : Climate Change Research: Databases

Off Campus Access

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Suggested Keywords

Global Warming

Climate Change

Greenhouse Effect

Climatic Change

Global Temperature Changes

Greenhouse Emissions

Carbon Dioxide

Climatology

Atmosphere

Environment

Environmentalism

Environmental Protection

Green Development

Sustainable Development

Desertification

Deforestation

Deglaciation

Sea Level Changes

Law Databases

CCH Intelliconnect
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Provides access to full-text CCH legal resources, including primary and secondary sources, in the areas of health and human resources, internet tax, and business and finance. Specifically, they have an "Environmental Compliance" practice area that provides necessary environmental regulations that are relevant to climate change.
Energy and Environment News
Current awareness publications from E&E Publishing, including E&E Daily, Greenwire, Land Letter, E&E News PM, and ClimateWire.
Environmental Law Reporter
Provides access to daily updates and analysis of environmental cases, statutes, regulations, and policy guidelines. State, national, and international issues are covered.
Foreign Law Guide
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
GLIN is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. Contains original languages and an English summary, plus subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN.

Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Complete
This scholarly collection offers unmatched full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: biology, general science, geography, geology, and many other fields. Updated daily.
American Chemical Society Web Editions
(American Chemical Society) Search for "climate change" or "global warming"
Environmental Science and Policy
Highlights and evaluates the potential economic significance of recent environmental research.
Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
Multidisciplinary database that provides abstracts and references to literature covering all issues of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well other environment-related subjects.
GeoRef
Articles in geology and earth sciences. Contains the Bibliography of North American Geology, the Bibliography and index of Geology, the Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North American and Geophysical Abstracts. Coverage is from 1785 to the present.
International Journal of Environmental Studies
Publishes papers covering all the many aspects of the subject, and appeals to social, natural and applied scientists, as well as architects, town planners and other professional people.
JSTOR- The Scholarly Journal Archive
A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.
netLibrary
This database provides access to more than 30,000 recently published e-books, including reference, scholarly, popular, and professional books.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is the premier online resource covering today's hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.
Oxford Reference: Earth & Environmental Sciences
Online reference books. Only 5 FSU users at a time so retry later if have issues logging on later.
Web of Science
One of the largest science databases collecting articles in agriculture, astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics and zoology, among others. Coverage 1984-present.

Statistical Sources

Arctic Shipping Data
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ArcticData portal allows access to data collected and developed through the activities of the Conservation of Arctic Flora & Fauna (CAFF) and Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) Working Groups of the Arctic Council.
Earthshots
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Shows a satellite images of environmental change compiled by the U.S. Geological Survey.
National Climatic Data Center
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From the U.S. NOAA Satellite and Information Service, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service.
U.S. Energy Information Administration
U.S. Department of Energy
World Development and Indicators (WDI Online)
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Click on "By Topic" and then Environmental Indicators