Studying sustainable practices means doing research in a lot of different fields. For example, if you are researching opinions regarding sustainable practices you may use a social science database but if you are researching the impact of a pollutant you may utilize a science database. Therefore, researching issues regarding sustainability often requires utilizing many different resources. That said, Web of Science and UDiscover search across many of these resources and can be a great place to start your research.
Below is a list of resources which has been divided into disciplines.
A search tool that lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
A citation database with multidisciplinary coverage in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Contains over 150 million records. Includes international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice - A peer-reviewed open access journal published under the brand SpringerOpen. It is an interdisciplinary journal on extensive livestock production systems throughout the world. The journal investigates pastoralism from a variety of disciplinary perspectives across the biophysical, social and economic sciences.
Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy - A peer-reviewed open access journal provided by Taylor & Francis. The journal aims to advance understanding about sustainability transformations of societal systems and seeks to catalyze social innovations that enable these transitions.
Ecology and Society - A open access peer-reviewed journal devoted to integrative science for resilience and sustainability.
Covers over 35 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals back to 1946, with links to full text articles and other related resources.
PloS One Biology Collection - A collection of open access research of various degrees of
Full-text articles from thousands of scholarly business journals, magazines, and trade journals from the fields of marketing, management, accounting, finance, and economics. Plus company and industry profiles, SWOT analyses, country economic reports, financial data, and investment reports.
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The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) Worldwide NGO Directory - An international organization uniting NGOs worldwide
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Ecolex Environmental Law Resources - Includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature.
SocINDEX with Full Text includes full text for more than 300 sociology journals dating back to 1908. It also includes full text for more than 700 books and 6,000 conference papers. Abstracts for more than 800 journals are available back to 1895.
Multidisciplinary resource that includes journals, magazines, books, reports and proceedings. Contains over 10,000 titles, some coverage from 1880s to the present.
Archive of over 12 million full-text articles, books, images (additional resources from now included from Artstor), and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Limited recent content.