Energy and the Environment Research Resources

1. Energy and the EnvironmentResearch Resources Locating Government Publications and other material Donna Burton Documents Librarian x6635

2. Reference Books McMillan Encyclopedia of Energy (3 vols.) Ref TJ 163.28 2001 Encyclopedia of Environment and Society (5 vols.) Ref HM 856.E53 2007

3. Library Home Page: Note “E-Reference”

4. Credo Reference searches multiple sources

5. Credo results

6. Searching the OPAC

7. OPAC Keyword Results: 3222

8. ConnectNY: more resources!32,000 results

9. Narrowing results: 642 titles

10. Hard copy and online

11. Change of search term

12. PDF version linked from OPAC

13. Typical catalog entry with some helpful additions

14. Other helps

15. Subjects and Databases: Article searching

16. Webfeat: Multiple database searching

17. Results list

18. Additional Documents Access via OPAC • Go the Library’s home page • Click on “More catalog options” in the center grey box • On the far right side in the large yellow box find “Other Catalogs” • The 4th listing is “Govt Documents” • This is also known as MARCIVE

19. MARCIVE • Government pubs from 1976— • Search by browse or keyword • Electronic links are embedded • Information on local depositories holding this material

20. Search Tips • For broadest coverage, click on “keyword” and “subject” • Enter search terms • Truncated searching is available: use an * (asterisk) for wildcard endings • Example: alternative fuels, alternat* fuel, alternative fuel* • Asterisked subject headings have cross references to check

21. Subject search: alternative fuel

22. MARCIVE Record

23. Area Library Holdings

24. National High School Debate Topic: Alternative Energy

25. Bibliography of books, government documents, articles and web sites

26. Web Searching • The federal government is an authoritative, prolific publisher of a lot of information on all kinds of energy and energy policy • One search engine that specifically searches .gov domains is Google’s US Government Search at http://www.google.com/unclesam

27. Google Unclesam

28. Results: “energy efficiency”

29. DOE: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

30. Geothermal Technologies Page

31. Information Resources: Full text documents

32. Other Searches • Usa.gov: see topic “Environment, Energy, and Agriculture “

34. Other Searches • Usa.gov: see topic “Environment, Energy, and Agriculture “ • Science.gov: set up for quick alphabetic browse with keyword searching available

35. Follow the food chain

36. Results list

37. Related (refereed) article

38. Other Searches • Usa.gov: see topic “Environment, Energy, and Agriculture “ • Science.gov: set up for quick alphabetic browse with keyword searching available • Government Accountability Office: (Full text reports online) http://gao.gov/

39. GAO.gov • The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is known as "the investigative arm of Congress" and "the congressional watchdog." GAO supports the Congress in meeting its constitutional responsibilities and helps improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people. • Their mission is to provide “…timely information that is objective, fact-based, nonpartisan, non-ideological, fair, and balanced.”

40. GAO Results Page for “biofuels” search

41. Biofuels in PDF format

42. Partial Table of Contents

43. More Searches • OSTI Information Bridge: www.osti.gov/bridge

45. “Climate change” search: note subject clusters box

46. More Searches • OSTI Information Bridge: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/ • OSTI Geothermal Legacy Collection: http://www.osti.gov/geothermal/ dating from the 1970’s on, some of the most valuable sources of DOE sponsored information on geothermal

48. More Searches • OSTI Information Bridge: www.osti.gov/bridge • OSTI Geothermal Legacy collection: http://www.osti.gov/subjectportals/ • National Service Center for Environmental Publications: http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/

49. Use simple or advanced search

50. Sample of “energy pollution” search results