SEDV Resources
Resources to help SEDV students research their topics for the research project
Online sustainable energy periodicals
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Credo ReferenceCredo reference is a great tool for when you are starting your research. It can be used to develop a list of search terms and to visualize your topic using the mind map function.Credo Reference (formerly XreferPlus) is an online reference library comprised of reference books including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
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Web of scienceWeb of Science is another tool that you can use to map your research.Web of Science indexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Includes:
BIOSIS Previews (1980-present),
KCI-Korean Journal Database (1980-present),
MEDLINE® (1950-present),
Russian Science Citation Index (2005-present), and
SciELO Citation Index (1997-present).
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CanoilsCanoils is one of the best resources for the Canadian Oil and Gas industry. If you would like an account, please email Rhiannon and she can help get you access.
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BuildingGreenWebsite with information to help building-industry professionals design and build construction projects that minimize ecological impact and maximize economic performance. Includes access to BuildingGreen report (formerly Environmental building news) articles, lists for GreenSpec products and specification guidelines, and detailed project case studies of high-performance buildings.
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Finding past capstonesThe library has copies of many capstones in our PRISM repository. The video will help you locate them.
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Canadian Electronic Library
- Access to: Books on Subscription, Public Documents, and Irwin Law Collection. Best viewed with Google Chrome
Canadian Electronic Library offers full-text ebooks and public documents from Canadian scholarly and independent publishers covering a wide range of disciplines. Content was previously available on the ebrary/ProQuest platform is now available exclusively on the desLibris platform.
SEDV Research Guide
The SEDV Research Project involves researching several related disciplines, including corporate responsibility, environmental science, environmental law, energy, engineering, business, and public policy.
This guide is designed as a starting point for your research and provides access to resources in all these disciplines, including other research guides, databases, books, reports and open access resources.
Recommended Research guides:
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Energy Research GuideComprehensive guide on the energy industry - includes industry information at the provincial, national and international levels; energy prices & statistics; energy policy; energy and the environment and more.
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Public Policy Research GuideThis research guide provides general information on finding resources that contain public policy documents as well as resources that provide analysis, commentary, discussion, etc. on public policy.
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Corporate Social Responsibility Research GuideThis guide provides resources on social responsibility, CSR indices, CSR reporting, governance, and more.
Top Picks
Here are some of our "Top Picks":
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Business Source CompleteBusiness Source® Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
- This product supersedes Business Search Premier.
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ABI / Business Premium CollectionBusiness Premium Collection is the most comprehensive business offering, comprising all content from: ABI/INFORM Collection; Accounting, Tax and Banking Collection; Asian and European Business Collection; Business Market Research Collection; Entrepreneurship Database; and J.P. Morgan Research. With global coverage in business and economics, the collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, and working papers, as well as trade publications, market research reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist. The coverage is from 1971 to current.
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Google ScholarTo set up Google Scholar to detect UofC subscribed resources, refer to Google Scholar setup (in the Natural Sciences Programme LibGuide)A subset of Google that only indexes academic journals. Pros: searching is very easy - just like for regular Google. Covers journals in many disciplines. Cons: Limited functionality for filtering results. May include some journals of dubious quality.
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GartnerWeb site provides access to Gartner's in-depth market research reports on information technology, product descriptions and comparisons, information on trends, and a calendar of upcoming conferences and events for IT managers, specialists, and business interests.Includes webinars.
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Environment CompleteEnvironment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.
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PassportNatural Resources research can now be found under the Economies tab. Natural Resources analyses the natural landscape in 210 countries. It provides more than 600 indicators on all types of resources. The system contains data and reports.Online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. Coverage is global, more than 200 countries are researched..
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