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Encyclopedia of Environment and Society by Paul Robbins (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
A great resource for finding summary articles of key policy issues concerning the environment.
Encyclopedia of Sustainability by Robin Morris Collin; Robert W. Collin
Publication Date: 2009
A great resource for summary articles on subjects such as environment and ecology, business and economics, equity and fairness.
Environmental Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9781414487366
Publication Date: 2011
in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues including articles on technical terms, important people, and key organizations.

LionSearch This link opens in a new window
an integrated search of books, e-books, research articles, newspaper articles, and other publications.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google has done an excellent job helping researchers fish in a smaller universe of information. If you must Google then use Google Scholar.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) This link opens in a new window
A good resource for broad topic searching.
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.