Guides: Environmental Science: Journals

Climate Change & Environment Journals

Here is a sample of the online journals that are available through the Gordon Library on the topic of climate change. To search within other journals for climate change and environmental issues, use one of the databases listed below, or the WPI Library Search box.

Climate and Development
Climate and Development is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering issues that arise due to climate change, climate variability, and climate policy along with development needs, impacts and priorities.
Climate Policy
Climate Policy is a scientific journal covering the study of public policy as it relates to climate change. It publishes research and analysis on all aspects of climate change policy. It provides a platform for new ideas, innovative approaches and research-based insights that can help advance climate policy in practice.
Global Environmental Change
Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on environmental change, which advances knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. The journal is interested in articles which have a significant social science component.
Nature Climate Change
Nature Climate Change is dedicated to publishing the most significant and cutting-edge research on the nature, underlying causes or impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy, policy and the world at large.

Databases

Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy) This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 300 journals and 6 reference books provide robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Information on all aspects of human impact to the environment. Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Some
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full text access to more than 2000 Elsevier science, social science, engineering and management scholarly journals.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
Web of Science (WPI Access ended 6/30/2021)
Interface to Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index, plus ability to perform cross database searches (outside of ISI products).