Library Guides: HECG 100: Science and Society: Electronic Resources

Talk to a Librarian

Reference Desk 610.902.8537

Bad News
From the BBC. A game that demonstrates how fake news is created and news on social media can be distorted. Also fun.

The John Snow Society
Website dedicated to the doctor who pioneered cholera prevention and the use of anaesthesia.
Cholera
An overview of the disease from the United States Centers for Disease Control.
What is Acid Rain
From the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Acid Rain: Scourge of the Past or Trend of the Present?
This article from 2012 gives a good overview of the history of the acid rain problem. From the National Science Foundation.
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Evidence for Climate Change
Includes several interactive sites and apps.

Credo This link opens in a new window
Credo is a collection of 700+ reference sources. You can search everything in the Credo library, search only a specific subject, or search within a single reference source.
HealthSource This link opens in a new window
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides access to full-text scholarly journals focusing on many medical disciplines including nursing and allied health journals.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
GreenFILE covers the connections between the environment and agriculture, education, law, health and technology. The database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 800,000 records and full text for more than 12,000 records.
Sage Journals Premier This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals provides citations and abstracts for articles across a variety of disciplines; many with full text.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a multidisciplinary archive of scholarly works. It is a good database for researchers of art history, history, literature and religious studies.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statisa is a statistics portal that provides current data on over 80,000 topics from more than 10,000 different sources including agriculture, advertising, health, hospitality, and consumer goods. Ready made tables are available for downloading.

This is a small sample of works in print and electronic format available through Holy Sprirt Library. Use the Cavalog to find more.

Acid Precipitation by Warren Sommer (Editor)
Call Number: QC925
ISBN: 9781626187566
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Chemistry of the Climate System by Detlev Möller
Call Number: QC879.6 .M648 2014
ISBN: 9783110331943
Publication Date: 2014-09-10
Green in Gridlock by Paul Hansen
Call Number: S930 . H36 2013
ISBN: 9781622880492
Publication Date: 2014-10-23
Cholera: The Biography by Christopher Hamlin
Call Number: RA644 .C3 H28 2009 eb
ISBN: 9780191571701
Publication Date: 2009

The Brookings Institution: Center for Health Policy
This is an archived center, but is still very current, with updates as recent as spring 2019.
USC-Brookings Schafer Initiative for Health Policy
The successor to the the Brookings Institution Center for Health Policy. Updated to include COVID-19 info.
MacArthur Foundation: Center for Science and the Environment
Provides grants for research and publishes results and proposed solutions to global problems.

Here is a review of tables and graphs from Open University in Britain.
Michigan State University has a Library Guide on creating a strategy for finding statistics.
Data.gov is the clearinghouse website for federal statistics. Ask a librarian if you need help.
Statista provides snapshot statistics. Access it through the Holy Spirit Library databases webpage. Click the Source tab to find the background behind the snapshot.
CQ Researcher has footnotes that often lead to statstics. Access it through the Holy Spirit Library databases webpage. Click on the footnotes and links to get to their sources of information.

Email Me

Contact:

610.902.8537

Library Hours
Mon- Thu 8am-10pm
Fri 8am-5pm

Sat Closed

Sun 12pm-6pm