Category Archives: Collections & Libraries

Technical Reports (online) Newsletter from the U.S. Government

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The September 2011 issue of the NTIS Technical Reports Newsletter is now available from http://www.ntis.gov/pdf/NTRNews4-3.pdf. Previous issues are archived at http://www.ntis.gov/rss/NTRnews.aspx.

This current issue features papers on Energy and the Environment. If you want any report listed in the NTIS database, it may be available to you full text on the NTRL National Technical Reports Library to which Princeton subscribes. (Otherwise, you may ask for a librarian’s help or request reports through Interlibrary Loan.)

(NTIS = National Technical Information Service)

EPA’s National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS)

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NSCEP/NEPIS – EPA’s Gateway to Free Digital & Paper Publications

"This site is EPA’s premier site for accessing EPA publications, with more than 7,000 in stock and 35,000 digital titles, free of charge! EPA’s print publications are available through the National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP), and EPA’s digital publications are stored in the National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) database! You can search and retrieve, download, print and/or order only EPA publications from this site. "

Some of these reports will be also listed in various government databases, like NTIS, NTRL, MarciveWeb DOCS, and also in WorldCat and Google. (NTIS does not provide links or access to the full text.)

The EPA National Library Network has updated its Core List for an Environmental Reference Collection

Green Energy Portal from the DOE

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To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has opened the Green Energy Portal. It offers to all — scientists, students and the public — quick access to research and development in the area of renewable energy. There are thousands of full-text documents.

"The DOE Green Energy portal is part of the DOE Open Government Plan, which furthers the Administration’s Open Government Initiative. DOE Green Energy contains both current and historical research, including bibliographic citations, technical reports and patent information on different types of renewable energy resources and energy conservation. Subject areas include but are not limited to solar, wind, bioenergy, hydroelectric, geothermal, tidal and wave power, and energy storage."

Source: Email from Tim Byrne at OSTI byrnet@osti.gov

This is most likely a just a short cut, but I trust that most all of these documents and their indexing is available via NTIS, NTRL, Science.gov and/or the DOE’s Information Bridge.

EPA’s HERO — public risk assessments database

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"US environment agency releases public database on risk assessments – 25 Mar 2010

The US’ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the release of the Health and Environmental Research Online (HERO) database. HERO seeks to provide access to the scientific studies used in making key regulatory decisions, including EPA’s periodic review of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for six major pollutants. It is part of the open government directive to conduct business with transparency, participation and collaboration.

The publicly accessible HERO database is projected to provide an easy way to review the scientific literature behind EPA science assessments, which are used to support agency decision-making. It includes more than 300,000 scientific articles including the authors, titles, dates and abstracts. In addition, through a keyword search, anyone can see information from the articles that were used to develop specific risk assessments.

HERO includes peer-reviewed literature used by EPA to develop its Integrated Science Assessments (ISA) that feed into the NAAQS review. It also includes references and data from the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), a database that supports critical agency policymaking for chemical regulation. More information on the database is available at http://www.epa.gov/hero "

Source: Knowledgespeak Newletter 3/25/10 & CHMINF Listserv.

NTRL — an expanded version of NTIS Government Reports Index

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Besides NTIS, available via Engineering Village/Elsevier, Princeton University now has access to: NTRL (National Technical Reports Library)National Technical Information Service. Over 500,000 documents are available in full-text from departments such as Department of Energy, NASA, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

NTRS differs from NTIS in that it covers more years, mainly from 1960, but as far back as 1800. The database is updated daily and there is full text for about 25% of the reports.

Source: P.U.’s Engineering Library and Database Management Group

Springer offers free environmental sciences articles

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“The Environmental Sciences Reading Room is a FREE service that will provide you with unlimited access to our Environmental journals, 6 times a year. No charge, no catch!

Access is free, quick and easy. Just follow this link and enter the Reading Room today! “

Selection for January – February 2010

The following Environmental journals have been selected and will be available to you until the end of February 2010:

  • Environmental Health
    • Aerobiologia
    • Microbial Ecology
  • Global Change – Climate Change
    • Oecologia
    • Energy Efficiency
  • Pollution & Remediation
    • Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health
    • Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
  • Environmental Management
    • Environmental Management
    • The Environmentalist
  • Sustainability
    • Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
  • Aquatic Sciences
    • Estuaries and Coasts
    • Aquaculture International

Make sure to add this page to your favorites and to forward this link your colleagues! www.springer.com/environmentalreadingroom

Please note that you will continue to have unlimited access if your library or institution has an online subscription.

Princeton University now has subscriptions to all the Springer journals.

Earth & Environmental Sciences — Springer ebooks now available!

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cda_displayimage.jpgPrinceton University Library now has a subscription to Springer’s collection of titles for the Earth and Environmental Sciences, from 2005-2010. This link will take you directly to the collection as a database:

http://www.springerlink.com/earth-and-environmental-science/?sortorder=asc&cb=2005&ce=2009

We have access to all the titles with the “green light”.

SpringerLink offers free access to search, tables of content, abstracts, and alerting services. Now Princeton has full-text access to the articles published in the journals and the book chapters…in selected subject areas. We will have access soon to the Physics and Astronomy collection from Springer.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: National Wetlands Inventory

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From the Scout Report, University of Wisconsin, July 31, 2009:

http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the primary federal agency that provides information on the state of the country’s wetlands, and this site provides extensive geospatial data on their current extent and location." Highly productive ecosystems, wetlands are so important in providing habitat and renewal of groundwater. There is a "Wetlands Mapper" and images from Google Earth. Digital wetlands data is downloadable by state or quadrant.