We are proud to announce that the University of Iowa Libraries now have access to the ProQuest Environmental Sciences Collection!  Here’s a short blurb from the database describing its features:

“The collection contains environmental science related full-text articles, granular access to figures and tables within articles, environmental impact statements, and the entire range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM). ESPM provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.”

One very valuable feature of this resource is the “deep indexing”, or ability to search not just for articles, but also for figures and tables within articles.

The subject coverage of the database is very broad; covering everything in the environmental sciences from Agriculture and Air Pollution to Environmental Education and Waste Management.  We hope you find this exciting new resource useful!

You can access the ProQuest Environmental Sciences Collection with your HawkID via this link: http://purl.lib.uiowa.edu/proquest/envirsc

Subject coverage

• Agriculture
• Air pollution
• Control technologies
• Endangered species
• Energy
• Environmental design
• Environmental education
• Environmental law and policy
• Environmental safety
• Geophysical and climate change
• Global warming
• International environmental policy
• Land use and pollution
• Marine pollution
• Noise pollution
• Population
• Population studies
• Radiological contamination
• Resource management
• Solid and toxic waste
• Sustainable development
• Toxicological effects
• Transportation
• Waste management
• Water pollution
• Wildlife / biodiversity

The University of Iowa Sciences Library would like to wish you a Happy Mole Day!

Mole Day is traditionally observed by admirers of chemistry worldwide on October 23^rd, from 6:02am to 6:02pm.  The purpose of the day is to generate enthusiasm and interest in chemistry, and to commemorate the discovery of Avogadro’s Number, which is approximately 6.02 x 10^23. ¹

Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1858) was an Italian physicist whose hypotheses contributed to the discovery of the ideal gas law, and is credited with discovering the mole, which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry.  One mole of a substance contains Avogadro’s number of molecules or atoms of that substance. ¹

Avogadro’s ideas were largely unrecognized during his lifetime.  They became more well-known after his death when Stanislao Cannizzaro argued for their acceptance in 1860. ²