Research Guides: ENVS 001: Introduction to Environmental Studies (SC): Home

Librarians for Environmental Studies

You can reach out to Swarthmore's librarians while working on your assignments. Librarians can help you find relevant and reliable information, evaluate what you find, and improve your research process.

Andrea Baruzzi
STEM Librarian
abaruzz1@swarthmore.edu
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Simon Elichko
Social Sciences & Data Librarian
selichk1@swarthmore.edu
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Tools for Finding Academic Research

Web of Science
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Find multidisciplinary scholarly articles (sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Citation searching also allows search for highly cited articles and books.
GreenFILE
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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.
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies
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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.

Think Tank Search (HKS)
Find policy-oriented research on your topic using Harvard Libraries' tool for searching 400+ think tank websites. Add after:2022 to find results from 2023-24. (example)

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Librarians for Environmental Studies

Tools for Finding Academic Research