Library Guides: OOMPH Library Resources: PHW 200F Introduction to Environmental Health Sciences: Find Articles & More

Useful Article Databases

PubMed
Search biomedical literature citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. [1950 - present]

Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
The link above goes to a specially configured version of Pubmed for UC Berkeley users. To use the free public version, please click here.
Embase
Search for biomedical literature citations. Embase is a key resource for conducting systematic reviews and researching evidence-based medicine. [dates vary]

Indexes journals, including many not in Medline, from over 90 countries, and indexes conference abstracts from many conferences. Broad biomedical scope with strong coverage in drug, pharmaceutical, and toxicological research including economic evaluation.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
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).
Global Health
Indexes journals, books, reports, and more on the topics such as environmental and occupational health, food safety and hygiene, infectious diseases, medical microbiology, nutrition, public health, toxicology, and zoonoses. [1912 - present]

Limited free full text is available for some hard-to-find journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, and research articles from smaller, society and non-English publishers. Note: The header says "CABI: CAB Abstracts and Global Health"
Environment Complete
Citations to, plus some full text for, journal articles and books on a wide variety of environmental topics. [1888 - present]

Subjects include agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, environmental technology, geography, marine & freshwater science, natural resources, pollution & waste management, public policy, renewable energy sources, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Contains millions of records from over 2,500 U.S. and international titles, plus full text of over 1,100 journals and nearly 200 monographs.
GreenFILE
Indexes scholarly, government, and general-interest titles about human impact on the environment.

Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Scopus
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
Indexes leading journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. Allows cited reference searching. (ISI Web of Knowledge) [1900 - present]

Provides links to footnoted citations as well as sources that have subsequently cited an article. Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (from 1975), Science Citation Index (from 1900), and Social Sciences Citation Index (from 1900).
SciFinder
Search the world's most comprehensive source of references, substances, and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.
Note: Restricted to UC Berkeley students, faculty, and staff. Requires creation of a personal account from an @berkeley.edu email address.

Indexes over 9,000 journals, patents, conferences, books, technical reports and dissertations related to chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and the biomedical sciences. Relates to the print equivalent Chemical Abstracts.
Note: SciFinder-n is the next generation SciFinder platform. You can choose to use either until the old version is phased out, but SciFinder-n includes an updated search algorithm and enhanced features, including synthesis planning

Reports and Other Publications

Environment & Energy Publications (UNDP)
Publications from the United Nations Development Programme on the environment and energy.
Environmental Health Criteria (WHO)
EHC documents provide international, critical reviews on the effects of chemicals or combinations of chemicals and physical and biological agents on human health and the environment.
IARC Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans (WHO)
The IARC Monographs identify environmental factors that can increase the risk of human cancer. These include chemicals, complex mixtures, occupational exposures, physical agents, biological agents, and lifestyle factors.
Report on Carcinogens (National Toxicology Program, US NIH)
This biennial report lists and profiles substances known to be human carcinogens and those anticipated to be human carcinogens. It also describes the nature of exposures to these substances and the estimated number of persons exposed.

Environmental News

E & E Publishing
Includes:
ClimateWire - covers the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society;
Environment & Energy Daily - keep up with federal policy;
GreenWire - covers environmental and energy action; and more.
Environmental Health News
EHN is an independent news organization that reports and publishes on environmental topics. EHN also offers a unique daily contextualization of articles on environmental health topics published in the world press. The search feature allows you to find articles on specific topics, such as environmental justice.
Environmental News Network
Features daily news on current environmental issues.

FERN's Ag Insider
Daily reporting on news and policy of food, agriculture, and the environment. [2014-Present] (Ag Insider)

Includes tag-based searchable archive.

Grist
Grist is a source of intelligent, irreverent environmental news and commentary. They cover climate, energy, food, cities, justice, politics, tech, and green living, and the innovative solutions bubbling up in each of those areas.

Online Newspapers / News Sources

The Library provides access to thousands of online newspapers and other news sources, from the very local to sources from all over the globe, and from general sources to those specializing in environment, health, ethnic groups, etc.

Use OskiCat, the UCB Library catalog, to search for titles. More information is available on the Public Health Library's Electronic Newspapers and News Sources web page.