Research Guides: EAPS 301: Oil!: Step 3: Choose a database

Purdue AllSearch

Start at http://www.lib.purdue.edu. Click Search All. (Link opens a new window.)

Google type search interface with facets to narrow search.
Provides extensive, broad searching across disciplines.
Includes everything owned by Purdue plus many things we do not.
Serendipitous searching.
A good first place to start.
The place to find books.
The place to find print editions of magazine articles.
Retrieve anything we don't own by clicking on the FInd It@Purdue Libraries button.

Plunkett Research
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Contains an Energy & Utilities Industry Research Center that contains market overview and relevant companies.
OECD iLibrary
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Contains numerous reports on global petroleum initiatives.

Academic Search Complete
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General search with newspapers and magazines, and fulltext of scholarly journal articles.
Gale In Context: Environmental Studies This link opens in a new window
Integrating case studies, news, reference materials, academic journals, videos, and more, the resource offers nearly 400 topic, state, and province pages across the science, social studies, and humanities curriculum, including Water Privatization, Ecotourism, Air Pollution, Green Economy, and more. Explore topics and events within Earth systems, global change, pollution, and populations. Updated daily.
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GeoRef is a comprehensive database in the geosciences and grows by more than 70,000 references a year. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, and US Canadian theses in the geosciences.
GreenFILE
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Subject specific search with magazines and newspapers, as well as scholarly articles.
Web of Science: Core Collection
Abstracts of interdisciplinary and subject specific scholarly journal articles with links to full text or interlibrary loan.

U.S. Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management
FECM is responsible for Federal research, development, and demonstration efforts on advancing technologies to meet our climate goals and minimize the environmental impacts of fossil fuel use, including low carbon power generation and low carbon supply chains; carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies; methane emissions reductions; critical mineral productions; and carbon dioxide removal. It also manages the Nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency response tool to protect Americans from energy supply disruptions.
U.S. Energy Information Administration
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) collects, analyzes, and disseminates independent and impartial energy information to promote sound policymaking, efficient markets, and public understanding of energy and its interaction with the economy and the environment.
U.S. Energy Information Administration Country Reports
Find U.S. EIA reports for specific countries.
U.S. Geographic Survey Energy Resources Program
The Energy Resources Program conducts research and assessments to advance the understanding of the Nation’s energy resources. We study processes critical to the formation, accumulation, occurrence and alteration of geologically based energy resources; prepare resource assessments; and evaluate the environmental and socioeconomic effects of energy resource occurrence, production and use.

ABI/INFORM Global
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Major business article database – contains research, trade, and general business articles.
ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
Deep collection of industry & trade magazine articles.
EconLit
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Economics research articles.