ENVIR ST 600: Capstone: Air Pollution and Equity in an African City (Spring 2021) : Scholarly Research
Interdisciplinary Databases
- Google ScholarMultidisciplinary search engine to find scholarly materials. Log in through the UW-Madison Libraries website in order to access articles.
- JSTORArchive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (embargo period varies by title).
- PubMedDeveloped by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), provides free access to thousands of scholarly articles in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, health care systems, and more.
- ScopusLarge, multidisciplinary database that covers science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Web of ScienceA collection of databases that index the world’s leading scholarly literature across the sciences.
Africa
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia: African HistoryOnline encyclopedia containing updated, peer-reviewed articles and in-depth overviews of the major areas of research in African history. Articles include audio, visual, and video materials, with links to digitized archives and other primary sources. Contributors are professional historians, both independent scholars and faculty members at institutions around the world.
Environmental Aspects: Household / Industry / Transportation / Waste Management
- Agricultural and Environmental Science DatabaseCross-disciplinary resource of global literature across agriculture and environmental sciences research.
- Agris (FAO, Agriculture, United Nations)International database to world literature covering all aspects of agricultural sciences and technology. It includes gray literature not available through many other publication and distribution channels.
- GeoRef (Geology)Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, indexes the earth sciences literature of the world.
- GreenFILEInformation covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.
- Mechanical & Transportation Engineering AbstractsCovers mechanical engineering and transportation engineering aspects from aerospace to automotive. Subject coverage also includes: household fuel use and waste management.
- Sustainability Science AbstractsPart of the Environmental Science Index Database. Covers all aspects of sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management and conservation of natural resources.
Industry
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI Inform)Online business library database of millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. The database includes company, industry and country reports; in-depth analyst reports from J.P. Morgan; and scholarly journal and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers. Includes full text of Wall Street Journal, the Economist and the Financial Times. ProQuest One Business contains all content previously available in other databases, including Business Premium Collection, ABI/INFORM, and J.P. Morgan Research.
- Business Source CompleteIncludes scholarly, trade and popular business magazines covering all business disciplines. Market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses are also included.
- MarketlineOriginal industry, company, market analysis, and country reports and data based on published research, primary and secondary data sources.
Societal Aspects: Household / Industry / Transportation / Waste Management
- SocINDEXCovers all aspects of sociology, including abortion, criminal justice, ethnicity and race, gender studies, politics, religion, social work, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and more.
- International Bibliography of the Social SciencesJournal articles and books in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology, from around the world and in many languages.