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Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
Online resource that focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and environmental and sustainability issues in such categories as energy systems, healthcare, agriculture, transportation, economics, and ecology. Allows users to navigate by issue, organization, and country portals. Includes news, video, primary source documents, interactive maps, contextual multimedia, customizable journals, and news and refereed case studies.
GreenFILE
An interdisciplinary database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Excellent resource for finding information on global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
JSTOR: Sustainability Collection
Explore journals, e-books and research reports on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Research spans the Biological Sciences, Business & Economics, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Law, Public Health, Urban Studies, and many other disciplines.
Web of Science
Search for scholarly articles in any discipline, or for articles that cite a known author or work.
AccessScience @ McGraw-Hill
Provides full-text access to articles, dictionary terms, biographies, research updates and links to related websites in all areas of science and technology. Covers 2000-present.

Annual Review of Environment and Resources
The Annual Review of Environment and Resources provides authoritative reviews of significant topics within environmental science and engineering, including ecology and conservation science, water and energy resources, atmosphere, oceans, climate change, agriculture and living resources, and human dimensions of resource use and global change.

Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology
These are extensive, annotated bibliographies of the most important concepts and ideas in Ecology. Each entry is organized into sections containing six to eight references which are then briefly described. Fast-track your research using this continually updated list of bibliographies compiled by leading scholars on all aspects of ecology.

PolicyFile Provides access to articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Most content is NOT peer-reviewed.
ProQuest Political Science Database Provides access to over 240 leading political science and international relations journals. This collection provides full-text of many core titles included in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Coverage from 1985 to present.
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) Index Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915-present.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
SSRN is an open access repository that collects conference papers, journal article pre-prints and working papers in the social sciences. This is a good place to find very recent material.

Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (University of Pennsylvania)
Includes a directory and rankings of think tanks
Top Ten Think Tanks by Area of Research
Based on the rankings in the 2011 Global Go to Think Tank report done by James McGann at the University of Pennsylvania