Parks and Recreation: Databases for July

Did you know that the United States has over 50 national parks, from Acadia, a rugged seashore of approximately 47,000 acres on Mt. Desert Island and adjacent mainland, Maine to Zion, a multicolored gorge of an estimated 146,700 acres in heart of southern Utah desert? July is National Parks and Recreation month, and in recognition we are featuring resources that aid teachers and researchers in finding information pertinent to science and the environment.

Applied Science and Technology Full Text features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles. Full Text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Subjects include: acoustics, aeronautics, applied mathematics, artificial intelligence, atmospheric sciences, automatic control, automotive engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, communication and information technology, computer databases and software, construction, electrical and electronic engineering, engineering and biomedical materials, energy resources and research, environmental engineering, fire and fire prevention, food and food industry, geology, industrial engineering, machine learning, machinery, marine technology, mechanical engineering, metallurgy, mineralogy, mining engineering, neural networks, nuclear engineering, oceanography, optical and neural computing, petroleum and gas, physics, plastics, robotics, solid state technology, space science, textile industry and fabrics, transportation, waste management, other industrial and mechanical arts, with full text from 1997 onwards.

Biological and Agricultural Index offers citations of articles, 1983 to the present, from periodicals in the life sciences and agriculture, including topics such as animal husbandry, botany, cytology, ecology, entomology, environmental science, fishery sciences, food science, forestry, genetics, horticulture, microbiology, plant pathology, soil science, veterinary medicine, and zoology.

Columbia Earthscape: An Online Resource for the Global Environment is a comprehensive aggregation of university-level resources on the Earth and Environmental Sciences. The four sections of the compass assist teachers, students, scientists, and decision makers in navigating to information about our planet. It includes policy and research papers, lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings, and much more. Course content, syllabi, instructor’s guides, and issues in education are among the subsections.

General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.
Areas include: astronomy, atmospheric science, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, earth science, environment, food, genetics, health, mathematics, medicine, microbiology, nutrition, oceanography, physics, physiology, and zoology.

Geographical Association Journals comprise a set of pedagogical resources in the teaching of geography. In addition to bibliographies and curriculum resources for teachers at all levels, primary school, through to higher education, three journals are included: Primary Geographer, Teaching Geography, and Geography. The Geographical Association is a subject association with a mission to further the teaching of geography and to communicate the value of learning geography for all.

Science at Cambridge is the research portal to science resources at the University of Cambridge. It includes such subjects as earth sciences, geography, materials science, and plant sciences, with science news, science blogs, new books, podcasts, and links to i-tunes collections.

For additional resources on parks and recreation please consult the databases by department pages for Mathematics, Science, and Technology, as well as Health and Behavior Studies.