Resources by Subject

Finding Government Reports for Environmental Science Research

Envirofacts data warehouse and applications : a single point of access to select U.S. EPA environmental data
Envirofacts allows you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on air, chemicals, facility information, grants/funding, hazardous waste, superfund, toxic releases, water permits, drinking water, drinking water contaminant occurrence, drinking water microbial and disinfection byproduct information. It also allows you to generate maps of environmental information by selecting from several Mapping Applications.

NTIS - - UW restricted
The preeminent resource for accessing the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information; includes a broad range of engineering, technology, and scientific subjects: aeronautics & aerodynamics, chemistry, computer sciences, energy, environmental sciences, materials sciences, nuclear science, telecommunications and transportation; 1964 to present, updated biweekly.

Congressional Research Services Reports

Monthly catalog of United States government publications
Searchable catalog of Federal Government publications.

National environmental publications information system NEPIS
Offers one stop shopping for over 10,000 full text, on line EPA documents.

U.S. EPA Online Library System (OLS)
Library network of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, consists of several related databases; National Catalog contains the holdings (lists of books, documents and magazine titles) for most of the 28 EPA regional libraries and laboratories, also has holdings for the EPA documents in NTIS; searches NTIS abstracts.

Sustainability links

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