Sustainability - Article Databases

• Scopus

  Large, comprehensive and up-to-date multidisciplinary article database. Includes both scientific and social aspects of sustainability. Offers citation searching..

• Web of Science

  Multidisciplinary article database. Includes both scientific and social aspects of sustainability. Offers citation searching.

• Google Scholar

  Includes scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

• Academic Search Complete

  Great starting point for undergraduate research in any subject area.

• ProQuest Combined Canadian

  Interdisciplinary resource, includes academic, magazine and news articles and more.

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• Geobase (on Engineering Village platform)
  

  Includes earth science, ecology, geography and marine science. Useful for interdisciplinary environmental and geographical studies.

• GreenFILE
  

  A multidisciplinary database covering many aspects of sustainability and environmental sciences from the perspective of disciplines such as education, law, health and engineering and geography and biology. The database indexes academic journals, magazines, trade publications and monographs.

• BIOSIS
  

  Includes earth science, ecology, geography and marine science. Useful for interdisciplinary environmental and geographical studies.

• PubMed
  

  Includes relevant life science, chemical science, toxicology and bioengineering content.

• Toxline
  

  Provides bibliographic references covering the biochemical, pharmacological, physiological, and toxicological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

• SciFinder
  

  Contains a comprehensive database of chemical and chemical engineering literature including the CAS Registry with information on 18 million substances. Useful for engineering, biotechnology, toxicology.

...and be sure to search our MULTIDISCIPLINARY  and SOCIAL APPROACHES databases for many more Environment & Ecology references.

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• Geobase and GreenFILE
  

  These cover both scientific and social aspects of sustainability.

• Autochtonia and Indigenous Studies Portal
  

  Chapters, books, articles, theses and more on Indigenous peoples of Canada and Quebec.

• PAIS

  Public and social policy database. subject areas include: administration of justice; culture and religion; environmental conditions and policy; human rights; law and ethics.

• Political Science Complete and IPSA

  In-depth political science coverage, including social, public and governmental policies.

• DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index and Avery Index to Architecture Periodicals
  

  International coverage of all aspects of design including sustainability related to architecture and interior design, fashion design, industrial design, and visual communication. Also covers history, city planning, green design, landscape architecture and more. 

• Education Source and ERIC
  

  In-depth coverage of social justice and diversity education issues.

• LGBT Life with Fulltext, Gender Studies Database and Race Relations Abstracts

  In-depth coverage of gender diversity and justice.

• SocINDEX and Sociological Abstracts
  

  In-depth coverage or sociological approaches to social justice, law and diversity

Law:

• Ecolex

  Combines the environmental law information holdings of FAO, IUCN and UNEP. In addition to scholarly literature, this database indexes treaties, legislation and court decisions.

• HeinOnline Law Journal Library

  Contains more than 1,530 law and law-related periodicals, including over 65 Canadian journals, and over 120 Environmental and Conservation Law journals.

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• Business Source Complete and ProQuest Business Databases
  

  Include subject areas such as sustainable development, environmental management, environmental responsibility, renewable energy sources, sustainable engineering, sustainable tourism, social responsibility of business, environmental auditing, and green marketing.  

• CBCA Business & Current Affairs

  Indexes Canadian publications, including business periodicals, trade journals, general business publications, academic journals, topical journals, and professional publications.

• EconLit

  Indexes literature in the field of economics. Covers ecological economics, environmental economics, sustainable development and more.

• OECD iLibrary

  Includes reports rather than academic articles, but themes include topics such as  development, finance, governance.

...and be sure to take a look at our online resources & tools page for many more sustainable business resources.

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• Compendex and INSPEC on Engineering Village
  

  These important engineering abstracting and indexing databases can be searched simultaneously. Together they cover academic journal and conference literature in all areas of engineering, including environmental engineering, going back to the 1800s.

• IEEE Xplore and ASCE Library
  

  These two databases comprise important digital libraries, with fulltext content, of journals, books, conference proceedings and standards published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

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Theses often provide new and emerging approaches and scholarship on interdisciplinary topics.

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

  A database of theses worldwide

• SPECTRUM

  Concordia theses

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