Subscription Databases

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ABI/INFORM Collection External
Delivering over 6,800 journals, nearly 80% of which are in full-text, ABI/INFORM Complete is a comprehensive business database. Offering much more than journal content, this diverse solution provides the right mix of content types to meet the needs of any business researcher. ABI/INFORM also offers coverage on hundreds of industries and focus areas such as oil, gas, mining, energy, environment, and healthcare management, and has an ever growing range of content from around the globe. ABI/INFORM Complete provides researchers with diverse publication types that meet the requirements of core business programs and corporate libraries. With annual reports from nearly 1,000 leading North American companies, downloadable data sets from the Economic Intelligence Unit, market research reports, dissertations, business cases, and current news from The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, researchers will be equipped with the tools to respond to changing market conditions and prepare for emerging areas of interest.
Biofuels Abstracts External
Biofuels Abstracts covers biofuels and bioenergy, including production of energy crops, energy forestry, short-rotation coppice, processing of energy crops into biodiesel or fuel ethanol, and utilization of fuelwood. Coverage also includes production of biogas from livestock wastes and agricultural residues, fermentation technology, and energy policy, global change and land use issues affecting the biofuels market. Sources include key English and non-English language journal articles, reports, conferences and books.
Crunchbase External
Description: Provides data and analysis on startups, investors, and incubators. The database profiles companies, people, funds, investment rounds and other related events.
Requires username and password. See reference staff for assistance.
DOE Data Explorer External

Use the DOE Data Explorer (DDE) to find scientific research data--such as computer simulations, numeric data files, figures and plots, interactive maps, multimedia, and scientific images--generated in the course of DOE-sponsored research in various science disciplines. The DOE Data Explorer includes a database of citations prepared by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) based on the information found at data-hosting websites. The DDE is intended to be particularly useful to students, the public, and to researchers who are new to a field or looking for experimental or observational data outside their normal field of expertise. You may browse or search the database, then link to a data collection where it resides. You will often find specialized search interfaces and software toolkits developed by the data owners. These allow you to search deeper into the data files and help you understand, analyze, and use the data within the context of your own research interests.
EMIS Intelligence External
Collection of news and financial information for over 100 emerging market countries in Africa & the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, Central Asia (Caucasus) and Asia, and Latin America. Included are primary news sources (full-text), financial data (including reports on financial markets, companies and industries), over 1 million listed and private company profiles, statistics, macroeconomic forecasts and analysis, and legal and regulatory information. Arranged by country, ISI emerging markets also includes country profiles, exchange rates, and business and political news approximately 9,000 publications of data, research and news from unrivalled sources (from the Economist Intelligence Unit and ViewsWire, as well as other local and global sources).
The simultaneous user limit for this resource may result in temporary delays.
Energy External

The European Commission Energy site contains studies, reports, a newsletter, a weekly oil bulletin and statistics on Energy trends up to 2050, EU Crude Oil Imports and supply cost, as well as market analysis and information on energy markets in EU countries. The site includes topics on Energy strategy, Energy efficiency, Nuclear energy, International cooperation, Markets and consumers, Renewable energy, Infrastructure , Enforcement of laws and more.
Environmental Impact Statements, Full-Text & Digests External
EIS Digests extract the key issues from government-released environmental impact statements, provides a brief description and abstract of the project, includes sections on positive impact and negative consequences, and details legal mandates. The full-text of the Impact Statements, including maps and Species Impact Statement (SIS), is available from 2003 onwards. Major areas of coverage include: Air Transportation Defense Programs Energy Hazardous Substances Land Use Parks, Refuges, and Forests Research and Development Roads and Railroads Urban and Social Programs Water.
Environmental Law Reporter External
Established at the beginning of the environmental law and policy movement, the Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) provides the most frequently cited analysis of environmental, sustainability, natural resources, energy, toxic tort, and land use law and policy. ELR News & Analysis in-depth, highly-respected monthly journal covers pressing environmental topics in the legal practice and policy domain. ELR Weekly Update provides expert summaries thrice monthly of the most important federal and state judicial and administrative developments as well as federal legislative and international news. Besides current issues and archives of the monthly ELR and the ELR Update, the ERL site also includes:
- Litigation database, which contains over 10,000 judicial decisions, indexed by the volume year, by alphabetical listing, by Subject Matter Index, or by plaintiff-defendant name. Current litigation includes all cases published in the current volume year and is continuously updated during the year.
- Judicial database, which contains both expert summaries and the full text of over 10,000 judicial decisions, an archive of everything published by ELR since its inception in 1971. Cases can be searched by date, court, docket number, volume year, alphabetical listing, subject matter, or keyword.
- Administrative materials include ELR's collection of EPA Environmental Appeals Board Decisions as well as EPA Administrative Law Judge decisions under RCRA, and ELR's collection of Executive Orders detailing the presidents initiatives on environmental regulations.
Other features of ELR include: Subject Matter Index Cumulative Table of Cases, which catalogs ELR citations and procedure histories, and where applicable, citations to other reporting services and Annual and Cumulative Bibliographies (available soon).

ELR China Update and ELR India Update (both temporarily suspended) are quarterly newsletters reporting on environmental legal and policy developments relevant to people who manufacture in or source
Environment Complete External
Environment Complete covers the scientific, technical & popular literature on energy resources, global warming, wastes, recycling, pollution, health hazards, conservation, wildlife management, and social / ethical issues & policy from more than 1,500 domestic and international sources. Complete contains more than 1,590,000 records and includes the full text for 400 journals and 80 monographs. Other topics covered: Agriculture Biology Botany (plant science) Ecosystem ecology Energy Environmental Law Geography Human Population and Demography Landscape Architecture Life Sciences Marine and Freshwater Resources Natural Resource Management Public Policy Urban Planning and Zoology. Formerly called Environmental Issues and Policy Index.
GlobalData: Power External
The GlobalData: Power portfolio brings users intelligence on the power sector like never before and all in a single, real-time, online platform. The platform provides fully integrated databases, tools, analyses, news, companies and deals. It has three strands of intelligence: Market intelligence coverage includes market outlook, power plants across technologies and upcoming projects, a capacity and generation database, a power consumption database and research reports Equipment intelligence provides users with a database of power components, along with a tenders and contracts database, and research reports on key equipment and Corporate intelligence, the company database which includes over 66,000 companies and also provides benchmarking reports and analysis on around 3,000 deals annually, along with news and events.
HeinOnline External
HeinOnline’s Water Rights & Resources is collection dedicated to understanding the complex interplay of state and federal laws that govern all aspects of water in society, from municipal use to restoring its pristine condition. Collecting congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases, this database touches on a wide range of water issues, including irrigation, hydropower, riparian rights, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights, encompassing the unique water rights issues that span from the Eastern seaboard to the Great Lakes and across the arid West.
IBISWorld External
Detailed market research reports and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries. The Library’s subscription also includes U.S. Specialized Industries and U.S. Business Environment Profiles. Onsite public users cannot download the reports, but limited printing of report sections is available.
Reading Room patrons have read-only access without downloads to the licenses product.
Mergent Archives External
Mergent Archives is an online database featuring a vast, indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. The database contains hundreds of thousands of reports covering over 100 countries and industries. Mergent Archives uses a reliable and easy to navigate system designed to meet your historical research needs. Included in this archive collection are:
- Mergent's Full Collection of Digitized Manuals: Beginning with the very first Moody's Manual published in 1909, Mergent offers you more than a century's worth of global corporate data fully digitized into high quality, PDF formatted documents. The Public Utility Corporate Manual has the history, subsidiaries, properties, regulations, and financials of public utilities.
- Ford Equity Research Reports (aka: Mergent Equity Investment Research Reports): Mergent Archives offers up to 3 years of multi-page equity research reports released weekly for over 5500 U.S. and Canadian companies. Clear and factual in its design the Ford Equity Research Report provides ratings, recommendations, sector analysis and company financial information.
- Annual Reports: Access more than 85 years of Annual Reports for companies across the globe through Mergent Archives' historical annual report collection dating back to as early as 1925.
- Industry Report Collection: Since 2003, Mergent, Inc. has been providing you with detailed analysis and forecasts on two dozen major global industry sectors from Textiles to Aviation for the North American, European, Asia Pacific, and Latin American regions. Mergent Archives offers you our entire collection of these semi-annually released Industry Reports.
- Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) (1959-Present): Dating back to 1959, the Dun & Bradstreet Million Dollar Directory (MDDI) provides a valuable source of information and privately held and public companies and their executives. MDDI features easy-to-use cross references, primary and secondary lines of business and the names and titles of company officers and directors. These easy-to-use directories provide in-depth information on 160,000 leading public and privately held U.S. companies. Covers all U.S. companies with:
  -$9 Million or more in sales or
  -180 or more employees or
  -Branches with 900 or more employees
- First Research® Archives (2003-Present): Unlimited direct access to extensive market analysis on more than 1000 top industry segments. Each report consists of key statistics and analysis on market and competitive landscape characteristics, operating conditions, business challenges, industry trends, current and historical industry growth, and more. These features, plus our sales call preparation questions and industry forecasts, help you make more informed business decisions in less time.
- Mergent Historical SEC Collection: Includes all of the filings from EDGAR (1993-present) and is growing collection of historical SEC filings back to the late 1960’s. Historical filings are being added over time, starting with 10K reports, each filing report will be added to the collection incrementally.
- FTSE Russell Collection Monthly Index Reviews, Valuations Monthly and Monthly Market Valuations: PDF monthly reports (start dates vary from 2010-2016). Content is regularly updated with no more than a one to two month delay in access.
- Listing Statements & Applications: includes New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Listing Applications (1823-2000) and Listing Statements (1884-1945), and American Stock Exchange (AMSE) Listing Applications (1883-2000). In addition, there are New York Curb Market (NYCM) Listing Bulletins (1928-1929), and New York Curb Exchange (NYCE) Listing Bulletins (1929-1933) and Listing Applications (1933-1953).
National Centers for Environmental Information
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) hosts and provides public access to one of the most significant archives for environmental data on Earth, providing access to over 37 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data.
OECD iLibrary External

OECD iLibrary is the gateway to OECDs analysis and data. Contains all the publications and datasets released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessement), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998. Arranged under 19 thematic areas covering issues in agriculture and food, development, economics, education, employment, energy, environment, finance and investment, governance, industry and services, nuclear energy, science and technology, social issues, taxation, trade, transport, and urban, rural and regional development. Types of OECD publications include ebooks, papers, statistics, factbook and glossaries.
NOTE: To access SourceOECD Books, Papers, Statistics, Factbook, or Glossaries, please click on the appropriate tab.
OurEnergyPolicy.org External

The mission of OurEnergyPolicy.org is to facilitate substantive, responsible dialogue on energy policy issues, and provide dialogue as a resource for the American public, policymakers, and the media. OEP also serves as a one-stop resource hub for all things energy policy, and includes a free Resource Library, aggregated Energy Headlines, national Energy Events Calendar and more. OEP does not have or endorse any specific political, programmatic, policy, or technological agendas. It rather represents every viewpoint from every sector ?? industry, academia, government, law, finance, non-profit organizations, think tanks, and more. The topics cover the energy landscape, facilitating substantive discourse on alternative fuels (solar, wind, etc.), oil and gas, nuclear, biofuels, electric vehicles, renewables, climate change, coal, energy efficiency, energy security, environment, hydropower, natural gas, legislation and regulation, technology and many others.
The Energy Resource Library aggregates and indexes more than 4,000 publicly available reports, white papers, studies, journal articles, and other material, and is continually expanding.
Plunkett Research External
Provides industry sector analysis and research, as well as information on industry trends, industry statistics, top companies in the industry, export companies, market research, and trade and export associations. The database covers a diverse spectrum of areas energy and utilities, finance and investment, health care and biotechnology, and engineering and research - providing competitive intelligence, market research, vertical industry marketing data, and industry trends analysis.
PrivCo External
PrivCo is the source for financial and market intelligence on privately held companies that are earning at least $1 million in annual revenue or have at least $1 million in venture capital backing. PrivCo's coverage includes data on family-owned or owner-operated firms, as well as fast-growing venture capital and private equity-backed startups, investors and deals in the private equity, venture capital, and M&A markets. There are currently around 800,000 US-based private companies covered on PrivCo's platform, with hundreds of new profiles, funding rounds and deals being added weekly. Search individual companies or build company lists and download/export data by industry, size, location, and much more.
ProQuest Science Database External
This database is a resource for anyone studying both the applied and general sciences. With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features over 1030 titles, with more than 760 available in full text. Subjects covered include Aerospace, Engineering, Computers, Physics, Telecommunications, Transportation, Military, General and Materials sciences.
RAND Corporation External

Begun in 1946 as a research project (Project Rand) backed by a single client (the U.S. Army Air Forces), in 1948, RAND became an independent, nonprofit research institution committed to exploring society's most complex and consequential problems. Committed to critical issues of particular relevance to the public policy debate, RAND's core research areas are: Children and Families Education and the Arts Energy and Environment Health and Health Care Infrastructure and Transportation International Affairs Law and Business National Security Population and Aging Public Safety Science and Technology Terrorism and Homeland Security. Roughly 95 percent of RAND research is unclassified and publicly available through free downloads. About 10,000 titles are currently online RAND is in the process of putting their entire 60-year unclassified legacy online.
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) External

Formerly known as SciTech Connect, the newly launched by Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) incorporates the contents of DOEs two most popular databases: Information Bridge and Energy Citations Database, and employs an innovative semantic search tool enabling scientists, researchers and the scientifically-attentive public to retrieve more relevant information. SciTech Connect contains over sixty-five years of energy-related citations created and/or collected by OSTI. It also includes full-text DOE sponsored STI reports, technical reports, bibliographic citations, journal articles, conference papers, books, multimedia, and data information sponsored by DOE through a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism from the 1940s to today. Collections from the early years represent a comprehensive worldwide collection of nuclear science literature. In addition to reports from the Atomic Energy Commission and other U.S. government agencies, this collection includes numerous non-governmental publications, as well as foreign and foreign language material. In the mid-1970s, the scope of the database expanded to cover all forms of energy-related scientific and technical information. The data site continues to grow as new scientific and technical information resulting from DOE research becomes available.
SciTech Premium Collection External
The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline. Topics covered include: Biology Earth sciences Environmental studies Medical sciences Agriculture Fish and fisheries Education Geography Veterinary science Food and food industries Pharmacy and pharmacology Meteorology Public health and safety Water resources Conservation Forests and forestry Materials science Engineered materials Mechanical engineering Civil engineering Environmental engineering Earthquake engineering New technologies in engineering Aerospace Computer and information systems Telecommunications Electronics Physics.
Statista External
Statista is an online statistics, market research and business intelligence portal. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions in English, French, German and Spanish.

Renewable Energy Industries: A Research Guide

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