Guides: Sustainability: Databases for Sustainabilty Research

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There are many themes running through the issue of sustainability. Some of these themes include, climate change, carbon footprint, green economy, sustainable building, green technology, ethics of sustainability, and social sustainability,

Below is a sample of the databases that the Gordon Library has on these topics. Use the search box to the left to find and search additional databases.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Online archive of eBooks and complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields.
Coverage: 1800s-
Full Text: Yes
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Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Abstracts from the Compendex database, and also includes the electronic version of Engineering Index, with links to full text articles, patents, standards and handbooks in scientific, applied science, technical and engineering disciplines.
Coverage: 1884-
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
LexisNexis Academic -- Now called Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information.
Coverage: Varies
Full Text: Yes
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
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers the most comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, and Arts & Humanities. As research becomes increasingly global, interdisciplinary and collaborative, Scopus helps ensure that crucial research from around the world is not missed.
SSRN (Social Science Research Network) This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an electronic paper collection containing downloadable full text documents in accounting, economics, legal, marketing, financial and information systems disciplines. Some content is pay-per-view, some freely available.
Coverage: 1993-
Full Text: No
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).