LibGuides: IB ESS: Internal Assessment

Assignment Resources

AES database list (with passwords)
This is the complete list of databases available through the AES library. You can access this document if you are signed in to your AES account.

Britannica Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive K-12 Reference Source.
Science Online This link opens in a new window
Explore the relevant topic centers to find a topic. Search with keywords once you have settled on a question.
Issues & Controversies This link opens in a new window
Controversial topics are often more interesting. What environmental issues are in the news?
EBSCO - Green File This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns.
EBSCO - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This is the largest multi-topic database at AES. You'll find both popular and scholarly sources here on almost any topic.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is the most academic of the databases that AES offers.

19 Places to Find Free Data Sets for Data Science Projects
Elsevier Open Access Journals
Elsevier is a Dutch publishing and analytics company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
Wolfram Alpha - Life Sciences
Wolfram Alpha is a "computational search engine." This page gives some examples of life science searches.
A list of online labs and simulations

These databases provide free full text access to many scholarly sources.

Internet Archive Scholar
"This full text search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web."
Directory of Open Access Journals
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

National Centers for Environmental Information
"NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) hosts and provides public access to one of the most significant archives for environmental data on Earth. Through the Center for Weather and Climate and the Center for Coasts, Oceans, and Geophysics, we provide over 25 petabytes of comprehensive atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, and geophysical data."
World Statistics
"World Statistics gives free and easy access to data provided by International Organisations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat."
NASA Global Climate Change
"The mission of “Global Climate Change: Vital Signs of the Planet” is to provide the public with accurate and timely news and information about Earth’s changing climate, along with current data and visualizations, presented from the unique perspective of NASA, one of the world’s leading climate research agencies."