Green on the Web: Free resources in tight times

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Green on the Web Free resources in tight times

• Beth Thomsett-Scott
• Reference Unit Manager
• University of North Texas Libraries

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Lets Start with You!

• Favorite sites from audience

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GreenFILE

• Offered free from EbscoHost
• Uses standard EbscoHost platform for familiarity
• Useful features available
• Includes general and scholary titles covering
  materials linking the environment and
  environmental issues to other disciplines
  including health, agriculture, law, and education
• http//web.ebscohost.com/ehost/search?vid1hid7
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  mgr9

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Science Accelerator

• Searches resources made available from the Office
  of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI),
  Department of Energy (meta search)
• Includes research and development results,
  project descriptions and more
• Basic search with options to limit to type of
  resource e.g patents, publication information,
  and more
• Topic clusters on side
• http//www.scienceaccelerator.gov/

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Biology Browser

• BiologyBrowser provided by Thompson Reuters
• Browse for information in the life sciences by
  geography, organisms, and subject
• Gathers web-based materials
• Initial starting point, good for undergraduates
  to focus web search
• http//www.biologybrowser.org/

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Scitopia.org

• Broad meta search system with over three million
  documents
• Resources from over a dozen leading science and
  technology societies
• International in scope
• Includes peer-reviewed journal content and
  conference proceedings
• Provides results in categories for ease of use
• http//www.scitopia.org/scitopia/

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PLANTS database

• Maintained by the Natural Resource Conservation
  Service of the USDA (United States Department of
  Agriculture)
• Provides standardized information about vascular
  plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and
  lichens of the United States and territories
• General search, PLANTS topics, I want to
  options
• Image gallery
• http//plants.usda.gov/

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Encyclopedia of Earth

• Environmental Information Coalition and Boston
  University primary organizers
• Articles provided by experts, professionals,
  educators, and scholars, collaborative, and
  peer-reviewed (topic editors)
• Information on the Earths environment,
  especially about the effects of society on the
  Earth
• Good starting point for encyclopedic information
• http//www.eoearth.org/

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EPAs Science Inventory

• Searches ongoing and completed works sponsored by
  the EPA in whole or part (grants)
• More than 4,000 scientific and technical work
  products
• Basic search or advanced search with filtering by
  publication information
• Sorting options
• http//cfpub.epa.gov/si/

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NSCEP/NEPIS Publication Gateway

• National Service Center for Environmental
  Publications (NSCEP) 7,000 print and National
  Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)
  31,000 digital
• Search by keyword, EPA document number, or
  advanced (field) searching
• http//www.epa.gov/nscep/

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FishBase

• Wide ranging database , international in scope
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
  is one of the sponsors
• Provides general information, pictures, videos
  and more (starting points)
• http//www.fishbase.org/home.htm

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Flora of North America

• Flowers found in North America (native and
  naturalized)
• Comprehensive listing of names, distributions,
  morphology, and taxonomic relationships
• information on the names, taxonomic
  relationships, continent-wide distributions, and
  morphological characteristics of all plants
  native and naturalized found in North America
  north of Mexico
• http//www.fna.org/
• http//www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id1

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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

• International Union for Conservation of Nature
  and Natural Resources catalog of conservation
  status of species, subspecies, varieties, and
  even selected subpopulations on a global scale in
  order to highlight taxa threatened with
  extinction, and therefore promote their
  conservation
• Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable,
  Extinct, Extinct in the Wild, Data Deficient, and
  Near Threatened (conservation program keeping
  them alive)
• Category of threat, and comprehensive info on
  item
• Good basic information
• http//www.iucnredlist.org/

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Index to American Botanical Literature

• Hosted by the New York Botanical Garden
• Limited to collections at the LuEsther T. Mertz
  Library which are broad
• 1995 to current with some retrospective items
• Includes current and fossil plants and fungi
  located in America, essentially defined as
  continental land mass from Greenland to
  Antarctica (not Hawaii)
• Information includes systematics and floristics,
  morphology, and ecology, as well as economic
  botany and general botany (publications dealing
  with botanists, herbaria, etc.).
• Search by category, keyword or specific
  publication information
• http//sweetgum.nybg.org/iabl/