Library Environmental Studies 220

• Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
  Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.
• Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
  Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
• America, History & Life (1964 to present)
  Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale)
  Covers environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
• GreenFILE
  Draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
• Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) (1960 to present)
  Multidisciplinary database providing access to the international literature in agricultural and environmental science.
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (1951 to present)
  Indexes about 3,000 journals and 7,000 books per year.
• WorldCat
  Search thousands of library catalogs for books and more.

• American Periodicals (1740-1940)
  Digitized reproductions of more than 1,100 18th and 19th century newspapers and periodicals.
• Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
  Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
• Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
  Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
• Congressional Publications
  Index to U.S. congressional material, some full text.
• U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1976)
  Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Preceded by American State Papers.

Print collections

As explained on the Primary Source Research Guide, you can use the 5 Colleges Catalog or WorldCat to identify collections of primary source material. Start in the Advanced Search and enter your topic in one search box (see the "Books" tab for tips), and narrow down your search to primary source material by copying and pasting the following into another search box (just make sure the AND option is selected in the drop-down menu between search boxes). "archival resources" or archives or correspondence or diaries or interviews or notebooks or sketchbooks or "personal narratives" or photographs or sources or speeches