COD Library: Ecology & Environmental Biology: Articles & Websites

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Search for Articles & E-Resources

Use the Library's subscription databases to locate journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.

Looking for a particular journal or magazine? Use our journal locator.

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Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete contains a number of popular and scholarly articles on the environment/ecology.
Science Direct
Indexing and full-text of 175 journals in science, chemistry, earth science, biology, and other related disciplines. Need help searching? Find it here: https://library.cod.edu/science/sciencedirect
Science
The full text of Science from 1997-Present. Science is available from 1880-1996 in the JSTOR database.
U.S. Major Dailies
Search for environmental/ecological details and stories in the following newspapers:
Chicago Tribune, 1985-Present
Los Angeles Times, 1985-Present
New York Times, 1980-Present
Wall Street Journal, 1984-Present
Washington Post, 1987-Present

Requesting Articles

FInding a citation for an article you'd like, but no full-text (or you're being asked to pay for the article?) Follow the steps below to see how to best access the article:

Start by searching Journal Locator by the journal name.
If the results give you a database name, great! Click on the link and search by article title.
If there are no relevant results, head to InterLibrary Loan forms.
Fill out the Article form. In about 3-5 business days, you should get an electronic copy of the article in your email.

Recommended Websites

Chicagoland Environmental Network
Connections to over 200 environmental and natural resource organizations in the Chicago Region with a guide to volunteer activities, job and internship opportunities, etc.
Collaboration for Environmental Evidence
seeks to promote and deliver evidence syntheses on issues of greatest concern to environmental policy and practice as a public service. Check out the library for systematic reviews and maps related to the environment, as well as their open-access journal.
Illinois Endangered Species protection board
List of threatened and endangered species in Illinois.
National Science Foundation: Biological Sciences
Watch for news stories on a variety of biology topics, learn about research being done, and check out recommended links offered by the NSF
US Department of Energy: Genomic Science Program
This program supports fundamental research to understand the systems biology of plants and microbes as they respond to and modify their environment.
Tree of Life web project
is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).
GLANIS
A database created by NOAA and several other organizations that lists invasive and range expanding species in the Great Lakes. Narrow by type of species and/or by lake watershed.