Earth Sciences

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GEOL 205 Earthquakes

Key databases

Engineering Village Selected Full-Text
Search GeoBase and GeoRef on a single platform. Subjects covered include geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography and geomechanics.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.

Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.

Select from 19 full text Geography journals and 11 Paleontology journals.

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments R551.45703/E56
Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science
Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment
Geo-data - the World Geographical Encyclopedia
Oxford Reference Online - includes Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Dictionary of Geography, and Oxford Companion to the Earth.
UXL Encyclopedia of Landforms and other Geologic Features
World of Earth Science

Recommended journals

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
Geological Society of America Bulletin P550/G346b
Precambrian Research
Palaeogeography palaeoclimatology palaeoecology
Quaternary Science Reviews

Web sites and Internet resources

Australian Museum
AuthorMapper - searches journal articles and maps the location of authors.
British Geological Society
Earth Science Australia Connects to information for people with an interest in earth science.
Geological Society of Australia Includes links to Australian and international organisations and societies.
Geoscience Australia Australian government website from the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.
Nature Precedings - pre-publication research and preliminary findings.
ScienceResearch.com - accelerates your research by returning relevant results from over 300 authoritative science and technology collections.
ScientificCommons.org - aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
Scirus Allows researchers to search for journal content and scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Scitopia - searches across patents, US government documents, science portals
US Geological Survey This site has a large number of links including information on maps, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Wolfram Alpha - A computational knowledge engine which generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.
World Wide Web Virtual Library - Earth Science