Environmental Management

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PORTAL

 

Welcome to the research support for Environmental Management users!

 

The Resources for this subject have been selected by Pavlinka Kovatcheva, subject librarian at APK Campus, Level 1,

Tel: 011 559-2621, e-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za.

 

CONSULTING HOURS for Undergraduates & Honours students (on Campus):

 

Monday: 10.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h 

Tuesday:  9.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h

Thursday:9.30 - 12.00h     14.00 - 16.00h

 

CONSULTING HOURS for Masters & PhD's:

Please make an appointment with Pavlinka


NEW, 2nd  edition for Environmental Management of South Africa, 2009. Available on Google Books (most of the book is full-text, can't print or save)

A copy will be order for the Library, but you can make use of this online availability.


LIBRARY SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS (ENM 2 & ENM 3)

Click on the link above!!!!




SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT USERS 


Do you know how to CREATE A PIN for access to the Library resources? 

Forgot your Password (PIN)?Contact theLENDING DESK staff for assistance, tel. 011 559 2165


LIBRARY SUPPORT TO UNDERGRADUATES

  

Visit the Library Support to Undergraduates & New Students Portals for more information.

 

Library Membership 

  • To access the UJ Library use your student card @ the entrance

 

Searching & Borrowing Materials from UJ Library 

 

Learners Support Services

 

Librarian Advice & Training 

 

Assignments & Projects Instructions

 

Social Networking

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LIBRARY SUPPORT TO ACADEMICS & RESEARCHERS

 

Go to these relevant portals to find more information on: Library Support to Teaching & Library Support to Research

 

Library Membership 

 

Searching & Borrowing Materials from UJ Library 

 

Borrowing Materials from Other Libraries

 

Teaching Support

 

Librarian Advice & Training

 

Research Support

 

Theses & Dissertations (T & D)(incl. Institutional Repositories)

Current Awareness Tools

 

Manage your References

 

Citing & Referencing

 

Impact Journals

 

South African Accredited Journals

 

Internationally Accredited Journals

 

Social Networking

 

  Your Subject Librarian will help you with any queries or requests for "topic search", library problem solving, etc.  

 

Go back to the Sciences Librarian Portal! 

 

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LIBRARY RESOURCES & SERVICES


Quick links to the MAIN library resources and services:

 

About UJ Library 

UJ Library                                              Campus Libraries         

Library Regulations                                 Study Cubicles 

Library Submission Forms                        Library Staff (APKDFC Campuses)    

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How to create Library PIN for access to Library Resources

Create PIN in the Library.pdf

 

Library Services 

Ask-A-Librarian                 Information Librarians                   Virtual Learning Environment      

Lending Services               Inter Campus Loan Service             Inter Library Loan Service         

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Library Collections

 

Information Resources

 

Sciences Subject Collections

Sciences Librarian Portal                Applied Mathematics & Mathematics

Astronomy & Astrophysics               Biochemistry

Biology                                           Botany & Plant Biotechnology

Chemistry                                       Energy

Environmental Management             Geography

Geology                                          Human Anatomy & Physiology

Information Technology                 Microbiology

Physics                                           Statistics

Zoology

 

Additional Subject Collections

Accounting     Economics      Education       Law      Politics

 

Printing & Photocopying (APK Library

Support to photocopiers and printers resides with Xerox. Ask for assistance: Level 5, Elevators foyer, Tel: 011 559 2184.

Photocopiers are available on: Level 1, 2 5 7 6. Printing stations are available on: Level 2 & 5. 

 

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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT JOURNALS, DATABASES & WEB RESOURCES


The databases below are the most relevant resources where you can start your search for Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Reviews, Electronic books, Standards, Patents, etc.

 

REMOTE ACCESS is available to all the databases. Just log-in with your SURNAME, STUDENT /STAFF NUMBER, PIN. Learn how to create PIN.

 

Remember!

  • By searching the databases below, you search for JOURNALS ARTICLES.
  • When searching CASE:A-to-Z Journals, you search for JOURNALS TITLES   
  • For in-depth research on a topic start with these Bibliographic Databases: Science Citation Index, GreenFile, Biological & Agricultural Index,  etc.

  • If you look for full-text articles to complete your assignment or project, then search any of these databases: ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Wiley InterScience, Academic Search Premier, etc.

 

For assistance and guidance contact your subject librarian (contact details at the TOP)


FULL-TEXT JOURNALS SEARCH

 

Search the following resources, when you need to find specific JOURNAL title: 


JOURNALS ABBREVIATIONS

 

In many references the Journal title is ABBREVIATED. The links below will help you find the FULL-TEXT journal title. 

 


TOP DATABASES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

 

Find below Full-text & Bibliographic Databases for Environmental Management, Environmetal Law Databases, Economic and Business databases.

 

Journals search: CASE: A-to-Z Journals  (NEW!)    

 

Bibliographic Databases

          - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences

          - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

 

Full-text Databases

  • Wiley Interscience (full-text, Blackwell journals from 1997+; Wiley Journals - abstracts only)

 

Environmental Law Databases

 

Search these databases for Law reports, Journal articles, Legislation, Bills Government Gazette, Case Law & References:

 

 

 For more Environmental Law resources go to the Law Subject Portal. The Law Print Collection is on Level 6, Kingsway Library.

 

Business & Economics Databases

 

Search these databases for articles on Economic Geography, Sust. Development, Ecotourism, Countries Studies, etc.

 

P.S. If you are still unsure, which database to use, go to the Databases Information sheet.

 

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ENERGY CITATION DATABASE



SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCHABLE WEB RESOURCES


Sciences Search Engines 

  • AJOL: African Journals Online (Peer-reviewed African Published Scholarly Journals)

  • BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine: This multi-disciplinary search engine focuses on academic research

  • CiteSeer.IST: This search engine and digital library will help you find information within scientific literature

  • E-Print Network : a gateway to over 31,797 websites and databases worldwide, containing over 5 million e-prints in basic and applied sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science

  • Google Scholar: Meta Search Engine across multiple academic publishers; abstracts + full-text

  • Hakia: Semantic search engine only accesses websites that are recommended by librarians

  • HighWirePress (Hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content)

  • Lumifi: For your Research (tools to annotate, organize, manage, share and eventually publish your research)

  • OAIster (Search for digital items with this tool that provides 12 million resources from over 800 repositories)
  • Open Science Directory: A-to-Z Open Access Journals (incl. DOAJ, BioMed Central, PubMed Central, HighWire Press, HINARI, AGORA, OARE, eJDS. )

  • Science Research
  • Scirus: The most Comprehensive research engine. Elsevier product.
  • Scitation: This "deep federated search" brings the best information from the fields of science and technology

  • Scitopia.org (Deep web)(Search for scientific articles, Patents, Governmental information) 

  • UJ Sciences Librarian on Delicious: Selected articles per subject topics/taggs

  • Wolfram Alpha Knowledge Engine 

  • WorldCat: Use this tool to find items in libraries including books, CDs, DVDs, and articles

  • WorldWideScience.org (Global Science Gateway)

 

Use Google Scholar to search for academic articles across multiple publishers: Springer, Elsevier, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, JSTOR, Blackwell-Wiley, SAGE and many more. Scholar HELP!

 

You can EXPORT your references directly to RefWorks! Read MORE...

 

 

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FULL-TEXT ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALS


This is a selected list with JOURNALS available full-text through individual or databases subscriptions.

 

For more Journals search: CASE: A-to-Z Journals  (NEW!)    

 

*Full text delay due to publisher restrictions ("embargo")

 

Environmental and Resource Economics (SpringerLink)

Environmental Law Review

Environmental Management (SpringerLink)

Environmental Quality Management (Wiley Interscience, 2000+)

Environmental Research Letter (ERL) 

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (SpringerLink, 2001+)

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (ScienceDirect, 1995+)

Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation (Open Access, 2003+)

Journal of Environmental Management (ScienceDirect, 1995+)

Journal of Land use and Environmental Law

Management of Environmental Quality (Emerald, 2003+)

Review of European community & International Environmental Law (Wiley Interscience, 1997+)

South African Geographical Journal (SA E-Publications, 2003+)

 

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REFERENCE WORKS


ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS


Access Science 

Online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Articles, current news and research updates, biographies of leading scientists, image galleries, multimedia. Definitions from the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.  Good to get you started with your project or assignment and keep you update with the latest news in Science & Technology. HELP/FAQs! 

 

Encyclopedia of Energy 

It will not only be indispensable for students and researchers, but also for policy makers, energy and environmental consultants, and all those working in business corporations and non-governmental organisations whose activities relate to energy and the environment. Basics of Energy, Coal, Conservation and end use, Economics of Energy, Electricity, Energy flows, Environmental issues, Global issues, History & Energy, Nuclear Power, Oil & Natural gas, Policy issues, Public issues, Renewable & Alternative Sources, Risks, Society & Energy, Sustainable Dvelopment, Systems of Energy.

 

Oxford Dictionary of Ecology

The most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of ecology available. Written in a clear, accessible style, it contains over 6,293 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric science, and oceanography. Coverage is wide-ranging and includes plant and animal physiology, animal behaviour, pollution, conservation, habitat management, evolution, environmental pollution, climatology and meteorology. 

 

Oxford English Dictionary 

It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books. Need HELP

 

Oxford Reference Online 

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. View all subjects!   

 

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ELECTRONIC BOOKS  


The Library subscribe to a number of Electronic Books Collections. Many books are relevant to your studies. 

 

AccessEngineering McGraw-Hill Engineering Books Online. Titles per Topic ; Titles Alphabetical order.

 

CRCMechanicalEngineeringNetBase

CRCElectricalEngBase     

CRCMaterialsNetBase 

 

Environmental Management of South Africa, 2009, 2nd ed.

 

Referex   The UJ Library subscribe to: Mechanical Engineering and Materials & Electronics and Electrical Engineering

  

If you need help find books, please contact me for help (pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za; 011 559-2621)

 

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STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT (ONLINE ACCESS) 


These online documents are available through the Department of Environmental Affairs & Tourism:

 

 

Specialist studies: Background Research Papers for the SA Environmental Outlook. The following papers are available:


UNIVERSITY & SCIENCES LINKS


If you want to go directly to your Student Portal, Department, Faculty of Science or University web pages, click on any of the links below.

 

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CONFERENCES LINKS



 

SCIENCES RESEARCH LINKS (RANKING, IMPACT FACTOR, ETC.)


          - ScienceWatch RSS NEWS Feeds 

          - Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research

          - Fast Breaking Papers

          - New Hot Papers in Science (from Essential Science Indicators, Thomson Reuters)

          - Emerging Research Fronts

          - Fast Moving Fronts (Research Fronts that are growing most rapidly)

          - Research Front Maps (Clusters of highly cited papers and research front maps)

          - Country Profiles

          - What's Hot in... (Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics)

 

                        

 

  • SciTopics: Research Summaries by Topic (Elsevier)

          - About SciTopics

          - Author Index

          - HELP!  

          - Read MORE!

 

  • Academia.edu (Academia is a tree of academics around the world, displayed according to university/department affiliation)(About; Read MORE!)

 


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