SEDV Resources
Resources to help SEDV students research their topics for the research project
SEDV Resources
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Corporate Social Responsibility Research GuideThis guide provides resources on social responsibility, CSR indices, CSR reporting, governance, and more.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowCredo 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.
- Web of science This link opens in a new windowWeb 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)
- Preprint Citation Index (1991-present)
- SciELO Citation Index (2002-present)
- 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.
- BuildingGreen This link opens in a new windowWebsite 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.
- Finding past capstonesThe library has copies of many capstones in our PRISM repository. The video will help you locate them.
- Canada Commons This link opens in a new windowTrojman Corporation and Coherent Digital have developed a new version of Canadian Electronic Library with more content and a new platform - Canada Commons. Canada Commons brings rare, hard-to-find content from Canada that's relevant to a wide range of studies including sociology, anthropology, business and economics. Canada Commons offers extensive coverage of Canadian materials with 25,000 ebooks from scholarly and independent publishers; 180, 000 public policy papers; over 200,000 titles; and a 4,000 entry directory of Canadian research and government organizations. Content was previously available on the dèsLibris platform and is now exclusively on the Canada Commons platform.
- Alberta Narratives Project"The Alberta Narratives Project aims to replace a combative and acrimonious debate with a constructive conversation based on shared values and respect for people’s different ways of seeing the world. What language works well and – crucially – what language poses an obstacle to a productive conversation?"
SEDV Research Guide
Top Picks
Here are some of our "Top Picks":
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness 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.
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI / Business Premium Collection) This link opens in a new windowProQuest One Business is an intuitive and comprehensive business library containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. Designed to help business researchers balance theoretical and practical learning, and acquire research skills that will make them successful in their courses and careers. ProQuest One Business content includes: company, industry, and country reports from providers such as Fitch Solutions and Economist Intelligence Unit, and in-depth analyst reports from J.P. Morgan; scholarly journals and ebook coverage from hundreds of publishers; full text of the three major global business news sources: The Wall Street Journal, the Economist, and the Financial Times; and a robust collection of videos.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowTo 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.
- Gartner This link opens in a new windowWeb 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 events and webinars. Can be personalized.
- Environment Complete This link opens in a new windowEnvironment 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.
- Passport This link opens in a new windowNatural 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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