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Welcome to the LibGuide for The Natural World: Chemistry and Society

"Chemistry and the Environment"

This guide is meant to help you develop the skills and tools to accomplish your course objectives:

To gain awareness of some significant scientific theories and achievements, and to recognize how they are related both to other areas of science and to our understanding of broader societal issues.
To develop an understanding of the methods of natural science and a capacity to reason scientifically.
To experience first-hand the scientific process through discovery-based learning.

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Academic Resources to Think About

Academic Search Complete
This large multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,770 journals, including full text for over 4,000 peer-reviewed titles.
Biological Sciences - all databases
This database includes the Biological Sciences, MEDLINE, and TOXLINE databases and provides full-text titles from around the world
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database. Includes books, case studies, company profiles, economic reports, industry reports, SWOT analyses, in addition to nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed journals.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
National Geographic Magazine Archive 1888-2015
Content and images of National Geographic Magazine from 1888-2015
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
A variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia to help present different sides of controversial topics. Highly recommended for argumentative/persuasive research topics.
Points of View Reference Center
Containing resources that present multiple sides of an issue, this database provides rich content that can help students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills.
Science Reference Center
Science Reference Center contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes a vast collection of images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.

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America's Health Rankings
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City Health Dashboard
More than 80 percent of U.S. residents live in urban areas. But until recently, few measures have been available to assess health, the factors that shape health, and the drivers of health equity at the city level. That's where the City Health Dashboard comes in. Our goal is to provide communities and city leaders with an array of regularly updated data specific to neighborhood and/or city boundaries – such as life expectancy, park access, and children in poverty – to improve the health and well-being of everyone in the community.
Congressional District Health Dashboard
The goal of the Congressional District Health Dashboard is to provide policymakers, advocates, and community members with an array of actionable and nonpartisan data at the congressional district level– such as life expectancy, diabetes rates, uninsurance, and children in poverty – to demonstrate strengths and challenges in their regions and drive positive change at the district, state and national level.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
The annual data release provides a revealing snapshot of how health is influenced by where we live, learn, work, and play. The snapshots provide communities a starting point to investigate where to make change.
CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
CDCGuidelines.com
Collections of government data on contraception, sexual health, youth, LGBTQIA, and sexual and intimate partner violence.
End of Term Archive
The End of Term Web Archive captures and saves U.S. Government websites at the end of presidential administrations. The EOT has thus far preserved websites from administration changes in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020.
Finding Government Information during the 2025 Administration Transition
This guide will point to resources that identify and track steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or eliminate access to federal government information. It also provides links to groups performing data and website rescue.
Harvard Dataverse
A robust repository for research data, hosted by Harvard University.
Health Journalism Data
Curated archive of statistics and trends relating to health care journalism.
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
"On the Internet Archive's main page, enter the URL of the page you want to read into the Wayback Machine search bar. When the results appear, hover over any calendar date with a blue circle and select a time from the pop-up, which indicates when a snapshot of the page was taken. Depending on the page you're searching for, you may need to navigate back into 2024."
Johns Hopkins Public Health Resources
Welch Medical Library's research guide collecting United States data sources, international data sources, and environmental health data sources.
Restored CDC
Archived CDC websites from early January 2025, hosted in Europe.

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