Earth Sciences

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Key databases

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

ENVIROnetBASE Full Text
ENVIROnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on environmental science, environmental engineering and environmental technology.

Scopus
Scopus provides citations and abstracts for over17,000 academic journals, with many links to full-text. Scopus also provides citation counts and other bibliographical information.

ScienceDirect Full Text
Science Direct offers full-text access to over 200 Elsevier journals.

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.

Web of Science Training

Wiley Online Library Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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Worth a look

Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.

JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.

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

ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.

Taylor & Francis Full Text
Taylor & Francis journals cover the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Encyclopedia of atmospheric sciences
Encyclopedia of earthquakes and volcanoes
Encyclopedia of geographic information science
Encyclopedia of geology
Encyclopedia of human geography
Encyclopedia of soils in the environment
Encyclopedia of the solar system
Encyclopedia of volcanoes
Geo-data: The world geographical encyclopedia
Oxford Reference Online - includes Dictionary of earth sciences, Dictionary of geography, and Oxford companion to the earth
Sage eReference - includes Handbook of remote sensing, Encyclopedia of geographic information systems
UXL Encyclopedia of landforms and other geologic features
World of Earth Science

Recommended journals

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
Geological Society of America Bulletin - held in print P550/G346b Vol. 1 (1890) - current
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.
OzCoasts - provides comprehensive information about Australia’s coast, including its estuaries, coastal waterways and climate change impact. This helps to generate a better understanding of coastal environments, the complex processes that occur in them, the potential environmental health issues and how to recognise and deal with these issues
ScienceResearch.com - searching across science collections
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
Trove - National Library of Australia - one search to a wealth of Australian information
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