Library Guides: Environmental Science, Policy, and Management: Get Started

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Related Guides:

Forestry
Agriculture
More ESPM Guides (including guides for ESPM courses)

Getting connected

Connecting from Off Campus
Download the proxy bookmarklet to access Library e-resources from off-campus or while on CalVisitor wifi. If you are having trouble with the proxy, VPN is another option.
WiFi in the libraries
To access library resources on your laptop or other device, use AirBears2 or use the proxy bookmarklet with CalVisitor.

New and Exciting

Library Events

Calendar of Library Workshops
The Science Libraries offer drop-in workshops, particularly towards the beginning of each semester. Topics include Data Management, GIS, Citation Management, Productivity Tools, Data Visualization, and more.
Subscribe to Library Workshop Calendar

For workshops on software, data analysis, and programming languages such as R and Python, watch the BIDS and D-Lab calendars or sign up for their email lists.

The Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) has workshops on geospatial topics.

Lynda has online classes in R, Python, GIS, and much more.

New Library Resources

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
The ORE of Environmental Science is a dynamic, scholarly, and up-to-date reference work. Articles go beyond science for an interdisciplinary perspective on the environment including social science, ethics, history, and more.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
The ORE of Climate Science is a dynamic, scholarly, and up-to-date reference work. It covers physical sciences, social sciences, and policy approaches to the study of climate.
ACSESS Digital Library
Ebooks, journals, trade magazines, news, and more from The Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies.

ACSESS was created by and is composed of the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America.
Biomedical & Life Sciences Lectures
Audio-visual presentations by leading world experts on biochemistry, cancer, agriculture & environmental sciences, metabolism & nutrition, infectious diseases, omics & systems biology, and more.

The collection is browsable and searchable. Lecture slides and the full text of the lectures are available.
Bloomsbury Food Library
"Access to encyclopedias, references works, e-books, images, and more."

"Content reflects the interdisciplinary nature, and resources for studying food, in history, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, human geography, sustainability, agriculture, culinary arts, literary studies, political science, and development studies.
Includes: Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, the Cambridge World History of Food, Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Food and chapters from Food History: Critical and Primary Source. Image collections including the Culinary Arts Museum, USA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA."
Handbook of Zoology
Provides full text, comprehensive overviews on animal systematics and morphology as well as extensive coverage of physiology, behaviour, ecology and applied aspects of zoological research. Updated Frequently. [1923--]
Lynda
Online learning platform with videos and full courses covering software, technology, business and creative skills. Includes courses on Adobe and Microsoft tools, as well as a variety of other web, audio, video, IT, and education topics.