Thursday, September 11, 2008

Environment Complete

WLL has a new database: Environment Complete

Find it on the law library website by following this path:
Research > Databases/Indexes > Go button > Environment Complete > EBSCO Web > Environment Complete (click on the name)

From EBSCO:
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles) as well as more than 120 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Additionally, Environment Complete provides full text for 120 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc.

From Joan Policastri, WLL's Foreign & International Legal Research Specialist:
Environment Complete has more than 1,700 domestic and international titles, including full text for over 680 journals and 120 monographs and provides coverage of a wide variety of environmental topics including ecosystems, renewable energy, natural resources, pollution, urban planning, and environmental law. Titles go back to the 1940’s. Searches can be simple or advanced and a link at the top of the results allows the user to refine the results. In the left hand column of the results page, the database provides related subjects that can be searched, and a subject thesaurus of search terms is provided so that one can easily search under other terms if the original search did not provide the desired information. The opening search screen also allows you to “apply related words” which is helpful if you want to broaden your search or if you aren’t completely familiar the vocabulary in the field you are researching and you also have the option of searching within the full text of materials.