Accounts
WBIS--Foss--Sustainability
Course Specific Resources
Citing Sources
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Great information on citing a variety of sources in APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. This site also includes a lot of good information on the writing and research process.
MLA citation samples from the MLA Style Center
Places to look for potential topics
Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices
Background
Provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content including science encyclopedias, reference books, and periodicals.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts, medicine, and science.
**Also try searching for topic reference entries in Search@UW. At the results page on the left, under "resource type",
choose 'Reference entries.'
Samples:
**You can also go to Search@UW and limit your search to just newspaper articles, then organize by most recent to get quick articles
on potential questions or problems related to your topic. You can also search for your topic and include the word "debate" as a search term.
Research databases
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 including full text from over 900 journals.
GreenFILE provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records related to global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
The world's largest index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians with over 1.3 million bibliographic records.
BioOne is a unique aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact bioscience research journals, published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
Public Library of Science - Biology
Features works of exceptional significance in all areas of biological science, from molecules to ecosystems.
Online Resources
Government Resources: Search strictly for government produced items and publications (eg. "Sea Bass site:.gov" OR "Sea Bass site:.edu" )
Search through Google Scholar for peer reviewed articles online:
eBooks
To limit your search to eBooks, go to the main library homepage and enter your search. Limit search by 'Books and Media'--next to search box.
On the results screen, limit on the left by selecting 'Oshkosh Online Resources.'