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New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (NJEDL)
- Plugins required
- Adobe Acrobat Reader; DjVu; RealVideo
- Description
- The NJEDL is an online library of literature and multimedia relating to the New Jersey
environment. The collection includes documents and reports, scientific studies, photographs,
videos, maps, and more. The map collection and the GIS data can be searched or browsed
independently.
Most of the items in this collection are considered "ephemeral" or "grey
literature" -
materials that are generally not available through common research tools like library catalogs
and indexes.
In addition to the digital library materials, the NJEDL contains a comprehensive
Organizational Directory of New Jersey environmental agencies, academic departments, research
institutes, educational centers, and other organizations.
- Help
- A link to Help is located in the upper right corner of each screen.
- Dates covered
- Information is current, and the dates covered changes with every update. Currently, the earliest
documents include maps from the 1800s.
- Updating frequency
- The database is continually updated through both internal collection development and external
submissions.
- Sources
- Scientific and technical reports, maps, inventories of environmental resources & endangered
species, guides to environmental indicators, photographs, videos, slide shows and transcripts
of presentations, and other resources from the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection, state and local agencies, research institutes, academic departments, non-profit and
non-governmental organizations, web documents, and other providers. Users can also submit their
own digital documents to the database.
- Type of coverage
- Descriptive records and full-text of many items. For many of the materials for which there is no
full-text, it is possible to request that the item be scanned and the full-text added to the
collection.
- Print Counterpart or related resources
- Some publications included in the database are available in print and may be found
through a search of
IRIS, the Libraries' online catalog.
- Producer/content provider
- A joint project of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and The Scholarly
Communication Center in the Rutgers University Libraries.
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Rutgers University Libraries
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