Resources for Pacific Seminar II

Suggested Subject Headings/Keywords

The library has a number of reference books of potential use for research in this area. For example:

• “Climatic Changes”
• “Climate Change”
• “Global Warming”
• “Global Temperature Changes”
• “Greenhouse Effects”

Electronic Resources/Databases

The library’s databases are arranged by disciplines (categories): for example, Physics, Political Science, Geosciences, etc.

First look for the categories that best match your research topic, then look for specific resources (databases) that may contain information you need. The following are a few suggestions:

Category: Interdisciplinary

• Academic Search Complete: a comprehensive collection of journals (scholarly and non-scholarly) including many sociological and political titles.
• Newspaper Source: This database provides selected full text coverage for 245 newspapers, newswires and other sources.

Category: References and Statistics

• Gale Virtual Reference Library: a collection of reference books in various subject areas

Category: Geosciences

• SpringerLink: a premier electronic data source in biomedicine, earth and environmental sciences, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, and economics.
• Wiley InterScience: an online content service from John Wiley & Sons, Inc., delivering the full text of over 100 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals.

Category: Political Science

• FedStats: a website provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government.
• CQ Electronic Library: a reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.

Category: Physics

• Institute of Physics Journals: a collection of full-text journals published by the Institute of Physics.

Reliable Websites

Web sources you can trust!

• Climate Change Information Resources-New York Metropolitan Region
  A project developed by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at the Columbia University. Its goal is “to advance scientific research and public policy by improving the communication of climate change data and information to urban policy- and decision-makers and residents.
• Goddard Institute for Space Studies at NASA
  This website emphasizes a broad study of natural and man-made changes in our environment including climate forcings, climate impacts, model development, Earth observations, planetary atmospheres, paleoclimate, radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and astrophysics and other disciplines. A good place for climate change related data and images.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  A scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
• National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)
  This government agency maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data. It archives over 320 million paper records; 2.5 million microfiche records; over 1.2 petabytes of digital data residing in a mass storage environment. NCDC has satellite weather images back to 1960. Online access to some data is free.
• http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.html
  This website was created by Spencer Wearts, Director of the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), to supplement his book of the same title. It is a wonderful resource for the history of climate change research.
• WHO Global Environmental Change Project
  This World Health Organization (WHO) webpage provides studies about the impacts global environmental change has on human health.