Geosciences
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Geoscience databases
- GeoRef This link opens in a new windowMajor index for geology and earth sciences which includes journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Coverage of North America: 1666-present, International: 1933-present. Over 100,000 new records added annually.
- GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text searching and integrated access to selected high-impact, peer-reviewed scholarly journals and eBooks produced by leading geoscientific organizations and publishers. Contains books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Enhanced with a map based toolset to discover data, (including cross sections, charts, tables, figures) map results, and filter using zoom tools, and facets.
- Geological Society of America Publications This link opens in a new windowThe Society provides access to elements that are essential to the professional growth of earth scientists at all levels of expertise and from all sectors: academic, government, business, and industry.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowDatabase for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles. Science Direct can be searched as a database or browsed by individual title. Coverage varies.
- Dissertations and Theses Global (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowIndexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1861. Dissertations from other countries date back to 1637. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for dissertations are being added continually. Most since 1997 are full text, though some authors choose not to make their work available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but request the item via Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.
New search functionality includes metadata from Clarivate's Citation Connection. To ensure your search results take advantage of this new functionality, please add “AND ref(1)“ to your search terms.
