Geology Research Databases
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Search these databases for research articles and technical reports, published in journals and other scholarly/scientific publications.
Library Databases
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Multidisciplinary
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Academic Search Complete is a great entry point for lower-level undergraduate students.
JSTOR Scholarly provides a trove of research articles from scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, humanities, business, and other disciplines. Multidisciplinary content.
Subject-specific
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.
Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 51,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
Science & Technology Collection
The Science & Technology Collection contains over 830 leading full text journals covering relevant aspects of the scientific and technical community. Topics include aeronautics, astrophysics, chemistry, computer technology, geology, aviation, physics, archaeology, and materials science. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 1,740 publications.
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,000,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 15,000 records.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Complete also contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.
Scientific Resources on the Web
USGS National Geologic Database: Catalog Search
USGS National Geologic Database: Geolex Search (a USGS lexicon of vocabulary)
OSTI.gov U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Technical and Scientific Information
TRAIL Database Search digitized U.S. government technical reports.
NASA Technical Reports Server -- Publicly Available
National Technical Reports Library
Content from three separate initiatives that relate to cold regions: Permafrost Monthly Alert, Antarctic Bibliography, Bibliography on Cold Regions Sciences and Technology
GeoRef Preview Database 100,000 references to new publications.
MINABS Online MINABS Online provides a unique research tool for researchers working in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy, and related topics. The database – which contains more than 120,000 abstracts of papers published between 1982 and 2008 – originated from the paper journal Mineralogical Abstracts, a publication of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland. No new abstracts were added to the database after 2008.
Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database Consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America (United States, Canada, Mexico). Most of the guidebooks cited are from the period 1940-the present.
Midwest Regional Carbon Initiative and Related Projects Research Publications Database Contains peer-reviewed research literature, conference materials, and reports. These documents represent an important contribution to the science of carbon sequestration. The bibliographic record of these documents is made available here and may include links to downloadable full-text documents.
Scientific Ocean Drilling Database The Scientific Ocean Drilling Database contains bibliographic records related to Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), Ocean Drilling Program (ODP), Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, and International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) research spanning from 1969 to the present.About 30% of the source records are from publications produced by the drilling programs (e.g., ODP Proceedings series), and 70% are from serial publications, abstracts, conference proceedings, maps, etc.
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