Ecology

Educational program "Ecology and environmental protection"

 

Modern Periodicals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This section presents a list of the latest publications on the specialty "Ecology" from the collection of the Sumy State University Library.

Electronic versions of publications are available in the Electronic Catalog, subject to authorization through the Personal cabinet.

A complete list of books is available from the Electronic Catalog, for this use to search by discipline.

 

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TEXTBOOKS, TRAINING MANUALS

 

Decision Science for Future Earth. Theory and Practice [Електронний ресурс] / Ed.Tetsukazu Yahara. — Springer, 2021. — 251 p. — License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

 

 

 

 

Tortell Ph. Earth 2020. An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet [Електронний ресурс] / Ph. Tortell. — Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2020. — 278 p.  License: CC BY 4.0.

 

 

 

Understanding Document Accessibility [Електронний ресурс] : digital education strategies, the chang school. — Toronto, Ontario : Ryerson University, 2020. — 856 p. — Licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

 

 

 

 

Official Sites, Unions

American Chemical Society, ACS a scientific society that supports scientific research in the field of chemistry. ACS is a leading source of scientific information through its peer-reviewed scientific journals and national conferences. The organization publishes textbooks, awards several national prizes in chemistry, provides research grants, and supports various educational and outreach activities.

Chemical & Engineering News, C&EN the world's most authoritative source of news about chemistry and related fields.

European Environment Agency, ЕЕА agency for providing independent information on the state of the environment. There are also names - European Environmental Agency (EAA), European Environmental Protection Agency. Located in Copenhagen (Denmark). EAD materials are the primary information base for those involved in the development, adoption, implementation and evaluation of environmental policy, as well as for the public.

Global Environment Facility, GEF an independent international financial entity whose activities are implemented through the United Nations Development Program, the United Nations Environmental Protection Program, and the World Bank. GEF provides funds to finance additional costs to make the project environmentally attractive.

Global Nest an international association of scientists, technologists, engineers and other interested groups involved in all scientific and technological aspects of the environment, as well as in applying methods aimed at sustainable development. The organization's primary goal is to support and promote disseminating information about the most modern strategies for improving the quality of life based on developing and applying environmentally friendly technologies and policies.

Greenpeace an international non-governmental environmental organization founded in 1971 in Vancouver, Canada. The main tasks of the organization are to promote ecological revival and draw the attention of people and authorities to nature conservation. The main areas of activity worldwide are participating in anti-nuclear issues and opposition to climate change, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and genetic engineering.

Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data, PANGAEA the information system and archive of open access of the World Documentation Center for the Sciences of the Marine Environment (WDC-MARE), which aims to collect, structure and disseminate data related to global changes in the Earth's climate and conduct systematic scientific research in the field of environment, oceanography, marine geology and marine biology.

ResearchGate a social network focused mostly on representatives of natural and exact sciences.

The State Agency of Water Resources of Ukraine is a central body of executive power whose activities are directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine through the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources and which implements the state policy in the field of water management development and hydro-technical land reclamation, management, use and reproduction of surface water resources.

The State Ecological Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management the leading organization of the Ministry of Natural Resources of Ukraine in the field of educational, scientific, practical and methodical work on issues of environmental protection, rational use of natural resources, ensuring environmental safety, carrying out environmental expertise, implementing mechanisms of environmental management, in particular, environmental audit, standardization, certification and metrology in the field of protection of the natural environment, preparation of scientific ecological expert assessments of the state of objects of increased ecological danger.

The State Ecological Inspection of Ukraine is a central body of the executive power, the activities of which are directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine through the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, and which implements the state policy of state supervision (control) in the field of environmental protection, rational use, reproduction and protection of natural resources.

The State Enterprise "Ukrainian Intellectual Property Institute", UIPI is an institutional component of the state system of intellectual property legal protection in Ukraine. Responsible for conducting formal and qualification examinations of applications for industrial property objects (inventions, utility models, industrial samples, signs for goods and services, topography of integrated microcircuits and indication of the origin of goods) for compliance with the conditions for granting legal protection, makes decisions on the issuance of protective documents, ensures state registration of objects of industrial property and the official publication of information about them.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine, SESU the central body of executive power, whose activities are directed and coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine through the Minister of Internal Affairs and which implements the state policy in the field of civil protection, protection of the population and territories from emergency situations and their prevention, liquidation of the consequences of emergency situations, rescue work, fire extinguishing, fire and man-made safety, activities of emergency and rescue services, as well as hydrometeorological activities.

The Ukrainian Geological Survey (State Geologic and Subsoil Survey of Ukraine) is the National Upstream Regulator, ensuring the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible development of mineral resources while providing economic benefits for Ukrainian people.

State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, SNRIU is a central executive body, which activities are directly coordinated by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and which ensures the formation and implementation of state policy in the field of nuclear energy safety.

World Society for the Protection of Animals, WSPA an international non-commercial animal protection organization that operates in more than 150 countries and unites more than 900 organizations.

World Wildlife Fund is an international non-governmental organization engaged in nature conservation, research and restoration of the natural environment.

 

Public Organizations

 

Environment. People. Law is a public interest environmental law organization which since 1994 has been protecting environmental rights, supporting, restoring and improving the environment and providing legal help in protecting other human rights, especially those which overlap with environmental rights.

Information Center "Green Dossier" an international charitable organization that carries out its activities on the basis of legality, humanity, common interests and equal rights of its participants, transparency, voluntaries and self-governance and does not have the goal of making a profit. The organization extends its activities on the territory of Ukraine, Belarus, France and other countries.

Greencubator program to support energy innovations in Ukraine. The Greencubator team implements a number of projects, the main of which is a series of "Energy-efficient Universities" conferences, which unite the efforts of the heads of Ukrainian higher education institutions, businesses, public organizations, which will become an example for the whole country, and Greencubator EnergyCamps - informal gatherings for discussion problems of opportunities and prospects of Ukrainian energy in the context of economy and ecology.

"Let's make Ukraine clean!" a movement of young, proactive and apolitical people, residents of Kyiv and citizens of Ukraine, united for the sake of one goal - to save the country from an environmental disaster related to the pollution of its natural resources.

National Ecological Center of Ukraine one of the first environmental public organizations of the national level, registered in independent Ukraine, whose activities are aimed at conveying the positions of specialists in environmental protection to officials who make decisions in various sectors of the economy. NETSU has 24 territorial branches operating throughout Ukraine.

Nature of Ukraine is a unique online resource that has become the epicenter of the information environment in the field of nature protection and ecology; performs the role of the main news and encyclopedic source for everyone who cares about their native Ukrainian nature and land; unites all those interested and involved in the field of environmental protection in a kind of social network and has become the center of all-Ukrainian campaigns for the protection of nature.

Ukrainian ecological club "Green wave" ecological organization of students and graduates of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy". The site contains information about the organization's work in the field of environmental protection through educational activities and practical activities, the latest news in Ukraine and the world related to environmental issues, environmental actions and projects, etc.

 

 

Ecodigest is a news, innovative, educational and scientific resource on ecology and related fields.

 

 

 

 

Coursera a mass online education project with access to more than 6,000 online courses from the world's leading universities and companies with the possibility of obtaining a certificate upon completion. The Ukrainian academic community has free access to the educational platform Coursera.
Registration on the platform is exclusively from the SumDU corporate mail.
In case of technical questions regarding access, contact the e-mail address [email protected]. To register a corporate email or resolve issues of restoring access to it, contact the e-mail address [email protected]

 

Emeritus educational platform the academic community of Sumy State University has free access to courses, programs and trainings of more than 50 of the world's best universities. Access subject to registration.

 

Ukraine Global Faculty. This is a new project in which foreign professors from leading universities, top experts and entrepreneurs will give online lectures to the Ukrainian audience.

 

EdEra Ukrainian educational project that creates online courses, special projects, interactive textbooks and educational blogs.

 

Prometheus a public project of massive open online courses (MOOC) with free online access to the best educational courses at the university level.

 

An electronic publishing portal that provides free access to high-quality, up-to-date research journals published in developing countries. 

The publishing house that was the first to introduce the model of open access to publications in biology, medicine and related sciences. The database contains materials from peer-reviewed open access journals in biology, medicine, technology and related sciences, some of them are indexed by Web of Science, and have a high Impact Factor.

Contains the latest scientific research in the field of biology, ecology and environmental sciences. Contains more than 200 journal titles (25 of which are open access).

Database that provides researchers with instant access to more than 8 million records from 1973 to date, where more than 360,000 notes annually are added. He extensively covers applied sciences, including agriculture, environmental factors, veterinary science, applied economics, science of food and nutrition. 

A powerful search engine in the chemical industry and related industries. Provides access to the directory of websites (over 45 thousand organizations), databases of magazine articles in free access, materials, reports and researches of the chemical industry market, the latest scientific news.

Access to clinical information resources from the international company EBSCO continues to support Ukrainian medical institutions. Ukrainian doctors and healthcare professionals can work with DynaMed resources (the most up-to-date, evidence-based information for clinicians), EBSCOhost Databases and eBooks (EBSCO open access databases and e-books).

The database of open access journals from Elsevier Publishing.

The leading base of high-quality scientific articles in the fields of physics, chemistry, applied sciences, clinical medicine. The database provides an opportunity to search the catalog A-Z, by subject, by name.

A nonprofit organization with a mission to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading the transformation of research communications

The WDC-MARE Information System and the Open Access Archives of the World Documentation Center for Marine Sciences, which aims to collect, structure and disseminate data relating to global climate change and conduct systematic research in the field of the environment, oceanography, marine geology and marine biology.

Full-text database of peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and 39,000 books published by Elsevier. More.

Scientific Journal of Open Access from the Publishing House, covering all branches of the natural sciences, contains publications from 2011.

Scopus is Elsevier’s abstract and citation database. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,000 publishers, of which 34,000 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields: life sciences, social sciences, physical sciences, and health sciences. It covers three types of sources: book series, journals, and trade journals. All journals covered in the Scopus database, regardless of who they are published under, are reviewed each year to ensure high-quality standards are maintained. Read more

The world's largest publisher of academic books and the world's most influential journals in the field of open research. About 10,000 e-books from the publishing house of 2017 are available. The collection of books can also be viewed in the e-catalogue of the library of Sumy State University. More details

An online open source platform that provides access to global environmental and biodiversity data, and downloads and processes your own data sets.

The web service contains UN contains statistical databases, tables and glossaries that hold more than 60 million records covering a wide range of topics, including agriculture, education, employment, energy, the environment, health, HIV / AIDS, crime, human development, industry, Information and Communication Technologies, National Accounts, Population / Refugees, Tourism, Trade, and Millennium Development Goals indicator.

Abstract and citation database from Clarivate Analytics that provides a comprehensive citation search. It gives access to multiple databases that reference cross-disciplinary research, which allows for in-depth exploration of specialized subfields within an academic or scientific discipline. More details

An open access database combining magazines in medicine, biology, neurology, chemistry, physics, meteorology, and more. All scientific articles published in Wiley Open Access database journals are freely available for reading and downloading. 

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