LibGuides: Geography: Specialist Websites

Biology & Environment Sources

Scotland’s Environment gateway
Gateway to reliable and accurate information on Scotland’s environment. This site is steered by a partnership chaired by the Scottish Government.
Online Bibliography of Environmental Thought
Index of books, journal articles and reports on the topic of environmental ethics. Check the Library Catalogue to see whether the book, journal or report you have found is available from our Library.
UN-Documentation Centre on Water and Sanitation (UNDCWS)
Launched to celebrate the UN decade for water. Provides free access to UN and associated bodies (FAO, WHO, etc) full text reports, guidelines and multimedia. Topics include: gender and water, climate change, water and food security, sanitation, water quality.
UNEP Knowledge Repository
Gives open access to United Nations Environment Programme’s publications, technical and assessment reports, guidelines, newsletters, journal articles and other types of information material

ARKive
A digital 'Noah's Ark' - an online library of video, sound and text information about endangered species.
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life)
Information about life on earth (animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria).
ITIS (Integrated Taxonomic Information System)
Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world
BSBI Taxon, Literature & Cytology Databases
An important resource from the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland. See other resources at https://bsbi.org/resources.

Refinement and Environmental Enrichment for All Laboratory Animals This link opens in a new window
PrimateLit This link opens in a new window
*This database is no longer updated (covers the period 1940 to November 2010). Covered all areas of nonhuman primate research worldwide. Gives bibliographic details only. Off campus: to view our Find@Stir button in results, select the Find It button and search for Stirling, then choose Stirling University Library.

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