What is Environmental Impact?

Environmental Impact is an internet resource created in response to a demand from the scientific community, policy makers and information specialists for a single comprehensive bibliographic information resource on climate change and other influences of humans on the biosphere. It also covers other aspects of man's damage to the environment such as pollution, deforestation, desertification and habitat loss.

We hope you find the site useful and, to further improve it, we welcome your feedback. Please send any comments to environmentalimpact@cabi.org

Vital stats

• over 1.6 million bibliographic records (derived from CAB Abstracts), updated weekly
• 6,800 serials indexed plus non-serial publications including books, reports and conferences
• over 39,000 full text documents linked to the CABI repository from the database
• over 150 relevant CAB Reviews articles
• links to over 3000 climate change reports from over 230 key organizations
• over 195 CAB eBooks from our environmental science front-list and archive

Unique features

• The bibliographic database includes records from the CAB Abstracts Archive dating back to 1910, and is updated weekly
• Full text documents from the CABI Full Text repository are available including conference papers, journal articles and bulletins. This is in addition to material available via DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers - these are direct links to document on publishers website). Examples of some of the organizations where we have agreements to include full text material in the CABI repository include:
  • Ontario Forest Research (OFRI) bulletin series - Climate Change Research Report and Climate Change Research Information Note
  • relevant publications published by Bioversity International, the Center for International Forestry Research
    (CIFOR), International Water Management Institute (IMM), Ontario Forest Research Institute and
    the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
  • relevant conferences published by the Agronomy Society of New Zealand, International Lupin Association and International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO)
• News focus articles examining current topics, important links and a comprehensive events calendar
• CAB Reviews: specially commissioned, peer reviewed review articles written by specialists in their field
• CAB eBooks: this is first of our subject based internet resources to include content from CAB eBooks, our new ebooks platform; It features the entire set of CABI’s environmental books and their chapters published since 2000
• A comprehensive listing of climate change reports found on the internet (with links) arranged by organization. 

Who uses it?

• Lecturers, researchers and students
• Government scientists and policy makers
• Environmental protection agencies
• Climate change campaign groups
• Development project workers
• Donor agencies  
   

List of database serial titles scanned

A list of serial titles appearing in the Environmental Impact database is available on request. However, this is not a true serial cited list (which is basically a fixed list of source titles) and but it is a list of the source serial titles from which relevant Environmental Impact database records were extracted up to that date.

 Because records relevant to Environmental Impact are selected continuously from the entire serials list scanned for the (inhouse) database from which CAB Abstracts (and Environmental Impact) are derived, it might be more revealing to check the serial cited listing of CAB Abstracts on the main CABI website. This will tell you if a serial title of interest is being scanned for inclusion of relevant records in the Environmental Impact database.

This gives Environmental Impact a significant advantage over other environmental databases meaning we can include material which is often not included in other environmental databases, e.g. papers on climate change effects on human health published in health journals or climate impacts on tourism published in tourism literature, etc.

It is worth reiterating that the Environmental Impact database contains not just serial titles (journals and bulletin series) but also relevant books, book chapters, conference papers and annual reports.

(page last updated 10 April 2013)