Geology & Geophysics

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  • Academic Search Premier locked database
    Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
    Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
  • Compendex (Engineering Index) locked database
    Engineering Index (Compendex) covers all areas of engineering including: acoustical; aerospace; automotive; biological; chemical; civil; computer; electrical; electronic; energy;environmental; geologic; mechanical; metallurgical; mining; and robotics.
    Abstracts and index: 1970-present
    Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
  • SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts) open database
    SciFinder Scholar provides electronic searching of Chemical Abstracts (CA) and the CAS Registry file. CA is the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of chemical information, with more than 20 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more. CAS Registry contains more than 24,000,000 substance records, including more than 16,000,000 organic and inorganic substances and 4,000,000 biosequences. The Registry is the world's largest collection of organic substance records.
    1907-present
    Coverage Dates: 1907 - present

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Recommended Databases

  • GeoRef locked database
    Index to U.S. Geological Survey publications, U.S. and Canadian Masters' theses and Ph.D. dissertations, journal articles, books, maps and government reports.
    Index with some abstracts
    Coverage Dates: 1785 - present
  • Web of Science locked database
    The Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals.
    Index with abstracts.
    Science Citation Index 1970-present
    Social Science Citation Index 1970-present
    Coverage Dates: 1970 - present

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