Definition
Sustainable Scholarship is exploring alternative models of scholarly communication that are supported through digital repository platforms, open journals, data curation, author rights, and open educational resources.
Scholarship and Communication
- FAO Document DepositoryOnline depository of Food & Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO) documents and publications as well as selected non-FAO publications.
- Research and Solutions: "Green" vs. Sustainability: From Semantics to EnlightenmentFrom Mary Ann Liberty, Inc Publisher - open archives
- Sustainability: A Comprehensive FoundationTextbook by Tom Theis and Jonathan Tomkin, Editors
- Sustainability at the U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyEPA efforts in the area of sustainability practices and approaches include labeling green products and promoting green chemistry and engineering, managing materials rather than creating waste, using green infrastructure to manage storm water runoff, and supporting the sustainable design of communities.
- UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 This link opens in a new windowOnline access to over 2000 University of California Press books covering a range of topics. More recent online publications from UC Press can be searched for in the UCLA Library Catalog. On the Advanced Search screen, search for University of California Press in Publication Information and limit to online. Formerly eScholarship Editions.
- Sustainable Agriculture NewsletterSustainable Agriculture is a free publication from UC Davis SAREP that reports on program activities including workshops, grants information and policy issues. It also includes technical reviews of research, journal articles, reports, and books.
- World Development ReportsWorld Bank publications summarzing the annual state of world development.
- Ecology CalculatorsThese simple calculators are trying to increase the environmental awareness of the society.
- Data in GapminderNon-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Access and cross-tabulate 200 statistical time series. See espcially Gapminder World and this video from co-founder Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes.
- The Dataverse ProjectA repository for research data that supports the sharing of open data and enables reproducible research.
- Harvard DataverseFrom the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences at Harvard University, an easily accessible source for depositing research data.
- Google Public Data ExplorerMakes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. Includes visualizations for data from the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and more.
- Human Development Reports StatisticsData from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [Free]
- World DataBankThe World Bank Group provides loans and guidance to developing countries. The DataBank includes: World Development Indicators, Africa Development Indicators, Join External Debt, Education, Health, Nutrition, from countries and regions of the world.
- Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) This link opens in a new window
Toxicological profiles covering the effects of hazardous substances, chemicals, and compounds. Contains more than 40,000 pages of data from the printed version, including information on mitigation of health effects, data gaps, and all available health data. By Congressional mandate, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) produces "toxicological profiles" for hazardous substances found at National Priorities List (NPL) sites.
- Congressional Research Service ReportsThe Congressional Research Service, an arm of the Library of Congress, serves the legislative process by providing Congress with non-partisan and in-depth legislative research and analysis on a variety of topics. CRS produces or updates more than 3,000 studies and other publications each year, none of which are distributed to the public.
- Energy Emissions Data and Environmental Analyses—U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)Statistics, documents, and spreadsheets (Microsoft Excel Viewer or OpenOffice Spreadsheet can be used to view spreadsheet files.)
- EPA Greenhouse Gas Data Publication Tool2010 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Large Facilities
- GovTrack: Bills by SubjectsSearch legislative history of bills (from the 106th Congress 1990 to present)