Environmental Sciences Information

The IOP (Institute of Physics) has started a new journal, Environmental Research Letters The inaugural issue is freely available online: Vol. 1, No. 1, Oct-Dec. 2006: http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1748-9326/1/1

It is also listed with links from Princeton University’s main catalog, and e-journals pages.

At the link there is a description of a relatively new serial Princeton University’s Firestone Library will receive:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/699892/description#description

Geotimes is a magazine featuring Earth, Energy and Environment News. One can subscribe to free, monthly online alerts. Also there is access to full text online from August 2000. The Geosciences Library has the print copy.

PhysicsWeb is the website/online version of Physics World, published by the IOP (Institute of Physics) and while it is most definitely not a new journal, it is definitely one to consider for selected physics news summaries. The current issue, July, 2007, has information about nuclear energy, hydrogen and fuel cells, as well as coal.

International Journal of Environmental Research [pdf] http://ijer.ut.ac.ir/

Based at the University of Tehran, the International Journal of Environmental Research (IJER) is “concerned with all aspects of environment.” On the journal’s homepage, visitors will also learn that some of the specific fields covered within the publication include natural disasters, environmental design, and risk assessment and management. The journal was started in early 2007, and the executive manager is Professor Karbassi. Currently, there are three complete issues of the journal available online, and visitors can also read about the journal’s editorial board. Interested parties may also wish to read up on how they can submit their own pieces of scholarly work for consideration.

From the Scout Report July 27, 2007. Bioline indexes this journal. Full text is available. It is searchable via Bioline International, and probably various search engines on the web!

“Mary Ann Liebert brings out premier issue of Environmental Justice - 15 May 2008

Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., US, has announced the launch of a new journal - Environmental Justice. Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal, the premier issue of which is available for free online at www.liebertpub.com/env.

The inaugural issue focuses on analyses of past and contemporary environmental compliance and enforcement, activism, and corrective actions, environmental politics, environmental health disparities, environmental epidemiology, environmental sociology, and environmental history.”

Source: Knowledgespeak Newsletter May 15, 2008

“Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy is a new peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissemination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability. The e-Journal fills a gap in the literature by establishing a forum for cross-disciplinary discussion of empirical and social sciences, practices, and policies related to sustainability. Sustainability will facilitate communication among scientists, practitioners, and policy makers who are investigating and shaping nature-society interactions and working towards sustainable solutions.” (From NBII and CSA) There is an entry in our main catalog.

See the full description of Conservation Letters on the web.

Published will be: letters with novel content, mini-reviews, and policy perspectives, essays

From the Society for Conservation Biology

Today the Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its new journal, Energy and Environmental Science is freely accessible. They do ask each individual to register for access, however.

A new journal linking all aspects of the chemical sciences relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science.

This Wiley journal, originally published by AIChE, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, will broaden its scope — and name in 2009 — to Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy. Read more about it in the editorial in the April, 2008 issue.

Since several people have inquired about submitting papers to this new journal, I’ll make this additional entry:

You may go to the main journal page.

The link to “Instructions for Authors” is at the left.

“As the peer-reviewed journal of the United States’ National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Environmental Health Perspectives serves to disseminate important environmental health information and research findings. Each issue includes book reviews of current publications, research papers, news briefs, and a children’s environmental health section. Visitors to the site can read the current issue, search all of the back issues, and look for materials by topic or theme. On the homepage, visitors can take a look at their recently published pieces in the “Recent In-Press” area and then move on to the latest issue. Finally, the site also provides complete information on submitting scholarly work for peer-review and potential inclusion in a forthcoming issue of the journal.” [KMG]

Source: Scout Report, University of Wisconsin, Aug. 22, 2008

Princeton University has had access to this journal for many years. It is listed in our Online Catalog and in the E-Journals listing.