Library Guides: Fire: Past, Present and Future Interactions with the People and Ecosystems of California: Specialized Databases

Article Databases

Subject databases:

Agricultural & Environmental Science Database This link opens in a new window
Find citations for journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and government publications in the agricultural and environmental sciences. [1960 - present].
AES incorporates the formerly titled "Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management" database - which includes Environmental Impact Statements - plus the databases AGRICOLA (1970-current) and TOXLINE (1999-current).
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Citations for articles, reports, and obituaries covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and related interdisciplinary research. (AnthroLit - Tozzer file - Anthropological Index - Anthropological Literature) [Late 19th century - present]
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture. This database combines the resources of Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature.

Multi-disciplinary databases:

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search across many disciplines and sources including articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with "Get it at UC" to access the full text of many articles.

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Indexes journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series in the sciences and more.
Contains over 50 million records with more than half the content originating from outside North America. Indexes over 21,000 journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, and book series in the sciences, technology, medicine, arts, and humanities.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Indexes leading journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Allows cited reference searching. (ISI Web of Knowledge) [1900 - present]
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-present), Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990-present), Book Citation Index (2005-present), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present).

Note: Learn helpful strategies for getting better results when searching databases like Scopus and Web of Science.

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (BIPNA) This link opens in a new window
Indexes books, journal articles, essays, conference papers, and US government documents covering 17 broad regions comprising 290 ethnic groups of native North America. [1500 - present]
Contains and updates citations from the print counterpart, Ethnographic Bibliography of North America, 1941-1990. Contains more than 80,000 citations. Includes content from the sixteenth century to the present.
Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment This link opens in a new window
Digitized archive that documents the relationships among early North American peoples and the environment.
Includes prints, drawings, paintings, maps, bibliographies, letters, photographs, and original facsimile pages documenting the relationships among peoples and with the environment in North America. Focuses on personal accounts and providing unique perspectives from all the protagonists, including traders, slaves, missionaries, explorers, soldiers, Native Americans as well as a wide range of Europeans.

Environmental Collections in the Bancroft Library
This guide highlights some of the Bancroft's environmental collections, with a focus on primary sources, including pictorial collections and oral histories.
Indigenous Peoples of California: Related Resources at The Bancroft Library
Guide to the collections held at The Bancroft Library relating to Indigenous communities in present-day California
Environmental History Bibliography
Contains over 45,000 annotated citations to books, articles, and dissertations published from 1633 to the present and is updated online quarterly by the Forest History Society. Approximately 1,000 citations are added each year.
Treesearch
Online publications by Research and Development scientists in the U.S. Forest Service. Note that there are older reports that haven't been digitized and won't appear in Treesearch. For these reports, check UC Library Search for a print copy, or ask a librarian for help.
National Interagency Fire Center Statistics
Current and historic statistics on wildland fires
Statistics from Cal Fire
Data from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention