Natural Resources and Environment

SBIO 2784: Global forest sustainability

Note this guide is to be used as a starting point to find materials for your topic, and should not be mistaken as an all inclusive list of resources

Peer review

• What is peer-review?
• Types of journal publications

Source for determining peer reviewed journals: Ulrich's Periodical Index

Criteria for evaluating Internet resources

(the five criteria to use when evaluating web resources, as well as checklists for what to look for in each of the five criteria)

Search help

• Concept table
• Evaluating information sources
• Search tips and strategies
• Understanding boolean

Addison catalog searching

Keywords

broad/general terms found anywhere in the record; use as starting point to find information, then move to subject searches based on items returned of interest in your search.

Subject headings

specific classifications given to materials about their subject area

Finding background and other reference sources

(General) country information

• CIA World Factbook
• EIU Reports

Dictionaries and thesauri

• Dictionary of Forestry ~ one copy library use only
• Dictionary of Environment and Ecology ~ library use only

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences~ library use only
• International Wildlife Encyclopedia ~ library use only
• Water Encyclopedia ~ library use only
• Concise encyclopedia of wood & wood-based materials ~ available for checkout

Maps and atlases

• Africa ~ library use only
• Atlas of the World~ library use only
• Search Addison for keywords such as:
  • africa maps wildlife
  • (map or atlas) zaire
  • (map or atlas) biodiversity Africa
  • map forest Ghana
• Search Addison for subjects such as:
  • world maps
  • atlases

News Sources

• LexisNexis Academic (international scope)
• Factiva (major U.S. newspapers)

Recommended databases to search

Getting started

• CAB Abstracts from CABDirect
• Agriculture, Life Science, and Natural Resource databases from ProQuest
• ScienceDirect Ejournals
• Web of Science: Citation Databases from Thomson Reuters

More specialized

• ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering from ProQuest
• ABI/INFORM from ProQuest (business database)
• Biological Abstracts from Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge
• Ecology Abstracts from ProQuest
• Environment Complete from EBSCOhost
• Hospitality & Tourism Complete from EBSCOhost
• Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide from EBSCOhost

Statistical resources

• FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations statistical resources)
• ForesSTAT
• Global Forest Resources Assessment
• FRA 2015
• FRA 2010
• FRA 2005

Additional Subject Guides

• Wood Science Subject Guide
• Forestry Subject Guide