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Geological Sciences: Articles
Recommended Article Databases
- US Geological SurveyProvides science about the natural hazards that threaten lives and livelihoods; the water, energy, minerals, and other natural resources we rely on; the health of our ecosystems and environment; and the impacts of climate and land-use change.
- Science BaseA U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Repository providing access to scientific data products and resources.
- GEOBASECovers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Over 2,000 journals are fully covered, and an additional 3,000 are selectively covered. More than 2,000 books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports are also covered.
Subjects include: cartography, hydrology, climatology, meteorology, energy, paleontology, environment, petrology, geochemistry, photogrammetry, geomorphology, sedimentology, geophysics, volcanology. (Source: vendor website.) - GeoRef
- The American Geological Institute database of geoscience literature world-wide
- Articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and, theses
- Includes references to all publications of the US Geological Survey
- Includes Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities
- ScopusA large citation and abstracting database providing comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed journal and conference literature, with links to full-text where available through the library; includes scientific, technical, medical, social science and arts and humanities disciplines and indexes over 20,500 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers including over 340 book series. Like Web of Science, Scopus allows researchers to perform citation searches to see how many times a work has been cited, by whom, and to rank searches by times cited, for the period 1996 -present, as well as its curated index of over 375 scientific web pages and over 24 million patents.
- Earth ArXivOpen Access pre-print service for earth sciences.
- ESSOAr - Earth and Space Science Open ArchiveOpen Access pre-print server on the subject of earth and space science.
