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.
Discover a wide range of journals, ebooks, and more than 5,400 Open Access research reports in the field of sustainability. The subjects of resilience and sustainability are explored broadly, covering research on environmental stresses and their impact on society.
A database of agricultural literature, providing access to records on books, journal articles, and reports related to agriculture, horticulture, and related fields.
Containing bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library, AGRICOLA provides millions of citations relating to the agricultural disciplines, including food and human nutrition, agricultural engineering and technology, and earth and environmental sciences. Citations are comprised of journal articles, book chapters, theses, patents, software, monographs, audiovisual materials, and technical reports to support agricultural research. Subjects include animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant science, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, and extension and education.
A database providing access to research articles, journals, and reports on biological sciences, agriculture, and environmental studies, supporting research in these fields.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus is a comprehensive online database that provides access to full-text articles, indexing, and abstracts from essential biology and agricultural research journals. It covers a wide range of disciplines, including agricultural research, biology, environmental science, genetics, horticulture, physiology, veterinary medicine, and wildlife management. The database serves as a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals studying the agricultural industry, veterinary science, wildlife management, and environmental science. It offers extensive coverage of English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, with approximately 45% of its focus on agriculture. The database is regularly updated, ensuring users have access to current research and information. Biological & Agricultural Index Plus provides powerful search capabilities, allowing users to efficiently locate relevant literature across various life science fields, making it an indispensable tool for conducting comprehensive literature searches in biological and agricultural studies.
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.
Provides coverage of interdisciplinary environmental journals including ecology, energy, natural resources, & pollution. Contains over 2,000,000 records from more than 1,900 titles going back to the 1940s. Full text for more than 750 journals.
GreenFILE is a free research database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes more than 15,000 full-text records on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
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.
Chemical Abstracts literature from 1902 to the present. For UD students, staff & faculty only. UDRI employees are not eligible to use this database. New Users must register for an account with their UD email address.
PloS One Biology Collection - A collection of open access research of various degrees of
Offers extensive full-text content from scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines across business disciplines, as well as company profiles, industry reports, and market research reports.
Access 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. This database includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals. Full-text non-journal content includes company profiles, informational records, case studies, industry reports, business executive interviews, working papers, and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.
EconLit is an academic literature abstracting database service published by the American Economic Association. The service focuses on literature in the field of economics. EconLit covers articles and other materials dating back to 1969.
Provides access to both Gale's Brands & Their Companies and Ward's Business Directory of US Private & Public Companies. The former lists manufacturers and distributors from small businesses to large corporations, from both the public and private sectors. Provides complete coverage of U.S. consumer brands; manufacturers, importers and distributors; and companies that are out of business, as well as brands that are no longer in production or are now considered generic. The latter profiles over 100,000 U.S. companies, 90 percent of which are private. Intended for librarians, executives, students, analysts, marketers, and other professionals who require current company and industry profiles.
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The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (WANGO) Worldwide NGO Directory - An international organization uniting NGOs worldwide
Access journals, conference proceedings, and technical papers from the American Society of Civil Engineers, supporting research in civil engineering and related fields.
Produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers, this database provides access to 145,000+ research and practical publications, journals, magazines, e-books, conference proceedings, and ASCE standards across many disciplines of civil engineering. Highlighted topics include Coasts, Oceans Ports, & Rivers Engineering; Construction Engineering; Environment & Water Resources Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; Structural Engineering; Transportation & Urban Development Engineering; and Utilities, Pipelines, & Surveying Engineering.
Access journals, conference proceedings, and technical papers from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, supporting research in engineering and applied sciences.
This is the publishing platform of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and its publishing partners, including ASTM International. This platform provides access to ASME journals, ASTM journals, and ASTM e-books, including ASTM symposia papers, manuals, monographs, and technical reports. These cover a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. Conference proceedings date back to 2008; journal papers date back to 1970; other publications date back to 1880.
Engineering Source is intended for researchers across all engineering disciplines, including biomedical, civil, electrical, mechanical, environmental and software. It includes more than 1500 full-text engineering journals, magazines and trade publications, plus books, conference papers and more.
Provides coverage of interdisciplinary environmental journals including ecology, energy, natural resources, & pollution. Contains over 2,000,000 records from more than 1,900 titles going back to the 1940s. Full text for more than 750 journals.
This collection comprises over 650 titles spread across nearly 2,000 volumes, all totaling nearly 1.4 million pages. It includes regulations, session laws, journals, and codes and commentaries. Researchers will find works related to the administration of justice, civil procedure, commercial law, criminal law and procedure, customary law, forestry and agricultural law, maritime law and military law, among others.
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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.
GeoRef contains more than 3500 indexed journals covering a wide spectrum of geoscience literature. Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Coverage within the database includes the geology of North America from 1666 to the present, as well as global coverage dating back to 1933.
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.
A vast collection of full-text academic journals, magazines, and other resources across multiple disciplines, supporting comprehensive research needs.
This multidisciplinary resource includes full-text, peer-reviewed journals, periodicals and magazines. Also included are more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press, including footage from 1930-present. This database offers indexing and abstracts for over 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings dating as far back as 1865, with the majority of titles in searchable PDF format.
Archive of over 12 million full-text articles, books, images (additional resources now included from Artstor), and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Limited recent content.