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Environment Complete
Environment Complete is a leading full-text database for environmental studies. It provides hundreds of top environment journals and monographs covering agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, sustainability and other related subjects. It also includes millions of records and an environmental thesaurus.

Subjects include: agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental law, and environmental technology. This is also a useful database for searching for "architecture sustainability" and "design sustainability".
Geobase (Engineering Village)
Geobase is a database, within Engineering Village, of indexed research literature unequalled in its coverage of the international geoscience literature. Topics include: earth sciences, ecology, geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation.
Web of Science (All Databases)
Current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. Use Web of Science to perform a cited reference search, where you can look up an article and see how many times it has been cited.

If you need a quick introduction to a database, check out these videos from you librarians at Miami.

STEM Resources - Video Series
Databases covered include: SciFinderN, Knovel, Engineering Village, Web of Science, GeoRef, IEEE, and PubMed.
Miami University Libraries Instructional Videos
Assorted library tutorials, not just database tutorials.

Research Guidance Documents | Miami University Office of Research and Innovation
Created by Miami's Office of Research and Innovation, this guide is meant to assist researchers in navigating different facets of regulatory compliance. Contents include: human subject research, animal care (IACUC), institutional biosafety, lab / studio / shop safety, financial conflict of interest, research security training, material transfer, collaborations, responsible conduct of research, AI, and other topics.