Digital Resources

Digital Databases and Open Access Ressources

There are several online resources for research in Environmental History and the interdisciplinary Environmental Humanities, with digitally accessible or open access material.

Beeldarchief Rijkswaterstaat: Database of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment.
Catalog of the Marine Science Libraries: Contains, among others, holdings of the libraries in Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Stralsund.
Cold Regions Bibliography: Literature on scientific, environmental and engineering research and development relating specifically to polar regions.
Data / Federal Environment Agency: Current information on selected environmental topics, such as environmentally relevant activities, global environmental pollution of the earth's atmosphere, environmental media, nature and biodiversity.
Dorothea Lange Digital Archive: Photographs of U.S. History with the support of the Oakland Museum of California.
Earth and Environment: Scientists from the Helmholtz Association offer a wide range of information on topics from the research field of Earth and Environment.
eco-select - The environmental database: Information and contact platform for environmental protection and occupational safety: suppliers, products, services and technologies from the environmental sector.
Environment Online: Files on the environmental media, in particular: Laws, ordinances, administrative regulations and technical rules.
Environmental Atlas of Bavaria: Atlas covering the following topics, among others: applied geology, water regulations and directories, basic data on watercourses, noise pollution register, natural hazards.
Environmental History of the Americas Database (EHAD): Bibliographic information on research literature on the environmental history of the American double continent.
Environmental thesaurus UMTHES: Collection of environmental terms, including English translations.
European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR): Europe-wide register of the most important environmental data from industrial plants in Member States of the European Union and other countries.
Europeana Newspapers: Full-text database for historical European newspapers from 20 European countries.
German Comic Guide: Comics in German (published after 1945), as well as illustrated books/specialized literature on comics (including translations from other languages).
GNTU Search: Part of the specialized information service History Historikum.Net funded by the DFG. An OPAC tailored to environmental history.
History of Bavaria: Full-text search with materials, source editions, essays and reviews of journals on Bavarian regional history and folklore/cultural studies for Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia.
National Archives USA: Archive with historical and state documents of the USA.
OPAC - Environmental literature and information in the library catalog / Federal Environment Agency: Literature on the entire spectrum of environmental topics, contains mainly independent publications, but also articles.
Open Research Library: Freely accessible online platform that centrally bundles and makes available scientific open access publications from various subject areas.
Poster database of the Library of Contemporary History: Poster collection of the Library of Contemporary History in the Württemberg State Library, pictorial and written posters from the imperial era up to the year 2005.
World Environmental Library: approx. 400 full-text publications on topics including biodiversity, climate change, environmental sustainability, energy, health, environmental policy, waste and water management.

Environment and Society Portal

The online portal Environment and Society, developed by the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, is a gateway to open access resources on the human-environment relationships.

Among others, it hosts virtual exhibits such as The Life of Waste or Toxic Relationships, both providing historical and humanistic perspectives on waste, toxicity, and global inequality. These exhibits have been curated by the DFG-research group Hazardous Travels.

Environmental History of the Americas Database (EHAD)

EHAD – Environmental Historiy of the Americas is a literature database run by the library of the University of Bielefeld. It specializes in the regions of Central and South America, with some North America titles, too.

EHAD - Environmental History of the Americas Database

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Environmental History of the Americas Database (EHAD)

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