Social Sciences & History Librarian
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Introduction
This is a guide to beginning your primary source research in global environmental history. By no means should you stop your research - or even necessarily start it - with the resources on this page. It's meant simply as a collection of places to look that will be more or less useful depending on your chosen topic.
Historical Periodicals
- New York Times (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)Digital archive for the New York Times dating back to 1851. An excellent database for history, including full-text and full-image articles. For most dates, the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF files.
- Times (London) Digital ArchiveThe Times Digital Archive, 1785–2006 makes 221 years of this highly regarded resource available for students and researchers of 19th-, 20th-, and early 21st-century history, literature, culture, business, art, art history, architecture, and more. Every complete page of every issue is full-text searchable — every headline, article, editorial, announcement, image and advertisement.
- International NewsstreamInternational Newsstream provides the most recent news content outside of the US and Canada, with archives which stretch back decades featuring newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. ProQuest International Newsstream provides information from more than 660 of the world's top newspapers, including The Times (London), The Bangkok Post, El Norte, Financial Times, The Guardian, Jerusalem Post, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, Asian Wall Street Journal, and the BBC Monitoring series of publications. Part of ProQuest Central.
Special Collections Finding Aids
To do research in Special Collections, contact them using the phone numbers or email addresses on this page: http://library.uncw.edu/archives_special/special. Special Collections is generally open Monday-Thursday 9-5 and Friday 9-12, though that may vary.
- Stuart Alexander and Sandy Cole Marks CollectionThis collection is from the personal papers of Stuart A. Marks, an anthropologist who has focused much of his career on African wildlife management and conservation.
- North Carolina Coastal Federation PapersThe bulk of North Carolina Coastal Federation records document the activities of the organization from its formation in 1982 through 2004, reflecting the stewardship of the organization's successive presidents and the work of its staff and volunteers. The collection contains a wide range of record types, including correspondence, minutes, agendas, memoranda, reports, notes, environmental legislation, newspaper clippings, publications, maps, photographs and miscellaneous ephemera.
Government Information
- ProQuest CongressionalComprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present. Finding aid for congressional hearings (published and unpublished), committee prints, and committee reports and documents from 1824-1969. Includes access to U.S. Serial Set, a collection of primary source U.S. government publications compiled under directive of the Congress, Congressional Record, and Hearings Digital Collection. It contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide range of subjects, including economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Also includes access to legislative histories, bills by number, committee hearings and testimony, members of congress directory, and social media. Find more detailed information.
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of IrelandIrish federal organization dedicated to environmental protection and policing. Resource provides information related to IE, IPC licensing and enforcement, environmental monitoring and reporting, as well as reports on various sectors including drinking water, urban waste water, and landfills.
- Incident News (NOAA)Resource for oil spill incidents spanning thirty years.
- Documerica ProjectCollection of images taken by freelance photographers hired by the EPA to capture environmental problems and EPA activities in the 1970s. Sorted by photographer.
- Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) DatabaseThe Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database provides information about EISs prepared by federal agencies, as well as EPA's comments concerning the EISs. This database contains:
Records of all EISs received by EPA since 1987
EPA comment letters on EISs since 2001
Electronic (PDF) versions of EISs received by EPA since October 2012 - SuDocs Classification SchemeOrganization scheme for government publications in print.