Loras College Library: Environment & Sustainability: Find Articles

Environment & Sustainability Databases

Need help? Ask a Librarian! Or, continue researching on your own with the easy-to-use databases below.

These databases hold a large amount of varied research articles on environment & sustainability.

GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
This database provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources covering the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments and what can be done at each level to minimize negative impacts.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
It is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports a wide variety of academic areas. It contains thousands of full-text scholarly articles. It's a great place to start your research on almost any topic!
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
JSTOR is a highly-trusted database that supports all academic disciplines and contains scholarly articles, images, and primary sources. It includes a deep archive of older articles.
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
It contains free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, covering all subjects and many languages.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Links to full-text in open access and Loras College databases.

This database is ideal for those looking at environmental issues and sustainability from a faith-based perspective.

ATLA Religion This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
Essential resource for religious and theological studies.

These databases offer research on environment and sustainability from a policy-based, political & legal perspective.

Catalog of U. S. Government Publications (CGP) This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
CGP is the primary database for federal government publications, and provides direct links to those that are available online. Search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.

Use this database to access the most up-to-date news articles on environmental and sustainability issues from various news outlets.

This database offers helpful statistics related to environment and sustainability issues.

Statista - The Statistics Portal This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
Statista is one of the world’s largest statistics portals.The focus is on professional, clear, quick and consistent results.

This database offers extensive information on birds- key creatures in ecology, the biological focus of environment and sustainability. See also the biology libguide or chemistry libguide for more science-based resources on this subject.

Birds of the World This link opens in a new window
Why use this database?
Comprehensive life histories for all bird species and families provided. In-depth summaries of scientific literature and media are included along with sounds, images, video and maps of bird locations.

All Other Databases

Databases A to Z
A list of links to the databases subscribed to by the Loras College Library.