ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING
Following is some general information about resources and tools to assist researchers in the field of Environmental Writing. This list is just a sampling of what the Quimby Library has in its collection.
FINDING BOOKS
The library’s holdings are best accessed through Athena, our online catalog. This system can be searched by author, title, subject heading, or key word. Help in using the system is available online and at the reference/circulation desk. The library catalog [http://www.unity.edu/library/] can be accessed from the library as well as your home or office via the internet.
The library holdings are arranged by the Library of Congress Classification system and uses Library of Congress subject headings. Examples of possible subjects include:
Authorship; Conservation of natural resources in literature; Diaries – Authorship; Ecology in literature; ; Environmental literature; Environmental policy in literature; Environmental protection in literature; Ethics in literature; Forests and forestry in literature; Landscape in literature; Natural history literature; Nature conservation in literature; Nature in literature; Nature – Poetry; Outdoor life in literature; Philosophy of nature in literature; Proposal writing for grants; Wilderness areas in literature
REFERENCE SOURCES
The alphabet of the trees : a guide to nature writing / edited by Christian McEwen & Mark Statman. PE1479.N28 A45 2000
American nature writers / John Elder, ed. REF PS163 .A6 1996
v.1 Edward Abbey to John McPhee v.2 Peter Matthiessen to Western Geologists and Explorers
The best American science and nature writing, 2004 Q1 .B47 2004
A dictionary of environmental quotations REF PN6084.N2 D53 1992
Doing honest work in college : how to prepare citations, avoid plagiarism, and achieve real academic success / Charles Lipson. PN171.F56 L56 2004
Environmental literature : an encyclopedia of works, authors, and themes / [compiled by] Patricia D. Netzley. REF GE35 .E58 1999
The environmental resource handbook. REF GE20 .E586 2003/04
I'll grant you that : a step-by-step guide to finding funds, designing winning projects, and writing powerful grant proposals / Jim Burke & Carol Ann Prater. HG177 .B868 2000
The Island Press bibliography of environmental literature REF QH541 .I75 1993
The natural environment: an annotated bibliography on attitudes and values / Mary Anglemyer REF GE42 .A54 1984
The Norton book of nature writing / ed. by Robert Finch and John Elder. QH81 .N67 1990
The Oxford book of nature writing / edited by Richard Mabey. QH81 .O97 1995
The Sierra Club nature writing handbook: a creative guide / by John A. Murray QH14 .M87 1995
The writing and revision stylebook / Gregory Heyworth and Rosette Liberman. REF Z253 .H4783 2000
Writing for an endangered world : literature, culture, and environment in the U.S. and beyond / Lawrence Buell. PS169.E25 B84 2001
Digital Book Index http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm
National Academy Press (Full text of over 3000 titles) http://books.nap.edu/index.html
FINDING JOURNAL ARTICLES AND CONFERENCE REPORTS
The following abstracting/indexing databases will help you find published non-book literature.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) http://search.epnet.com/
American Humanities Index (EBSCOhost) http://search.epnet.com/
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment: Bibliography, 1990-1993 REF 016.8093 As78 1990-93
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment: Bibliography, 1994 REF 016.8093 As78 1994
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment: Bibliography, 1995 REF 016.8093 As78 1995
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) electronic archives http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/archive.html
The Island Press bibliography of environmental literature / compiled by J.A. Miller ... [et al.]. REF 333.7 Is4
MyLibrary@OCKHAM http://mylibrary.ockham.org/?cmd=about
JOURNALS
ASLE News (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment)
Common Ground : An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Environment
ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Journal of Modern Literature
Northern New England Review
Orion
Ploughshares
Poetry
SEJournal (Society of Environmental Journalists) http://www.sej.org/pub/index2.htm
Whole Terrain: Reflective Environmental Practice
ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES/INSTITUTES
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment http://www.asle.umn.edu/
Environmental Writing Institute http://www.umt.edu/ewi/
National Association of Science Writers, Inc. http://www.nasw.org/
Society of Environmental Journalists http://www.sej.org/
Watermark Literary Society http://www.watermarkliterarysociety.asn.au/
WEB SITES
EnviroArts: Orion Online http://arts.envirolink.org/
Field and Forest Poetry Gallery http://www.fieldandforest.com/poetry/poetry.html
Nature Poetry Collection http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/poetry/collection.shtml
Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
USA.gov The U.S. Government’s official web portal http://www.usa.gov/
The World as Home http://www.worldashome.org/index.html
AUDIO BOOKS/VIDEOS
American writers and the natural world [sound recording] / Key West Literary Seminar. AUDIO 810.936 Am35
Dorothy W. Quimby Library Updated August 13, 2007