University Library

School of Environment and Sustainability

Librarian: Dr. Yelena Pancheshnikov
Location: Murray Liaison & Research Services
Room: LIB 122.10
Phone: 966-5997
Email: Yelena.Pancheshnikov@usask.ca


Best Bets

Academic Search Complete (ASC) 1887 - present
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. [details]
AGRICOLA Agricultural Online Access 1970 - present
A bibliographic database of resources in the U.S. National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions, covering worldwide literature in the agricultural and life sciences. [details]
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
CAB Abstracts® & CAB Abstracts® Archive 1910 - present
Index and abstract database to agriculture, forestry, and biosciences literature, including: journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, and patents. [details]
Ecology Abstracts 1982 - present
A bibliographic index and abstract database, covering ecology and related topics. It "focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants, and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics, and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment." [details]
GeoBase® 1973 - present
A bibliographic abstract and indexing database covering human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, and development studies. It indexes 2,000 journals from 1973 onwards. [details]
Journal Citation Reports® JCR Science Edition; JCR Social Sciences Edition From 2004 to the last complete year. Updated in June of each year
"Allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries." There are two editions: JCR Science Edition and JCR Social Sciences Edition [details]
ScienceDirect 1995 - present; selected complete backfiles from volume 1, issue 1
Portal to scholarly journals, book series, and ebooks published by Elsevier and affiliated publishers primarily covering science, technology, and medicine and the social sciences. The University of Saskatchewan Library has a current license to the full text of over 2270 of the journal titles back to 1995 (1993 for Academic Press titles) as well as access to several subject backfile collections with coverage from from volume 1, issue 1. Also includes several major reference works and ebook collections. [details]
Scopus Cover-to-cover: 1996 - present; selected coverage may go back to 1966.
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technolgy, and medicine (STM), and social sciences. [details]
SpringerLink Journals: Volume 1, issue 1 - present; Books & Reference Works: 2005 - 2008 + selected pre-2005; Book Series: 1997 - 2008
A portal service to Springer (and the former Kluwer Academic Publishers) electronic journals, book series, electronic books and reference works. The library has access to over 1500 electronic journals and selected book series, electronic books and reference works. [details]
Web of Science® WOS SCI: 1900 - present; SSCI:1981-present; A&HCI: 1981-present
Collection of three citation databases, providing abstracts and indexing and cited reference searching to approximately 8,700 high impact scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Access Note: By default all three databases are searched. To select one or two databases, change the default by clicking on [Change Limits and Settings] . [details]
Wiley InterScience® Current: 1996 - present; selected archives from volume 1, issue 1.
Portal to collections of electronic journals, books, reference works, and databases published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that the Library subscribes to. Effective July 1, 2008, it also includes ALL former Blackwell electronic journals previously accessible via the Synergy platform. [details]

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BioOne BioOne.1 and BioOne.2 2000 - present; varies by title
A collection of over 155 high-impact, peer-reviewed, scholarly journals and bulletins from small societies and non-commercial publishers covering the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences, plus high quality open access journals and an ebook, The Arabidopsis Book. [details]
GeoRef & GeoRef in Process 1693 - present (North America coverage); 1933 - present (Worldwide coverage)
Index and abstract database covering geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Also includes GeoRef in Process, a pre-publicaton database [details]
SciFinder Scholar (Client/Server Edition) SciFinder Scholar & Substructure Module Chemical Abstracts & CAS REGISTRY: 1907 - present; CASREACT: 1840 - present
Client-server application/software provinding access to the CAS databases: CAplus (Chemical Abstracts™ and patents), CAS Registry, CHEMCATS, and to the Substructure Module, a chemical structure drawing tool. Scholar requires client software loaded on the individual workstations (PC or Mac) of authorized users or it can be accessed from designated University of Saskatchewan Library public workstations. An online version is now available: see the SciFinder (Web Edition) details page for important access information. [details]
Sociological Abstracts 1963 - present
International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences [details]

Newspapers and Periodicals

Canadian Newsstand Varies; 1985 - present
Major Canadian dailies and news sources and newspapers from across Canada and the Prairie region. [details]
CBCA Complete Canadian Business & Current Affairs Index: 1971 - present; full text: 1985 - present.
Search across all Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) databases: CBCA Business, CBCA Current Events, CBCA Education, CBCA Reference and over 1,665 periodicals and television and radio transcripts, as well as ebooks and dissertations. [details]
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly) Indexing: 1980 - present; full text 1983 - present
A full text database of articles from Canadian and International journals, magazines and reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus. Includes Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers. [details]
Factiva 1985 - present (includes current day)
A news service, covering global and business news and information from over 10,000 authoritative sources including The Globe and Mail, National Post, The Toronto Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, and D&B company profiles.
NOTE: At the end of your session, please "logout" by clicking on the link on the upper right of the screen to end your session. The Library's license permits only three simultaneous users. [details]