LibGuides: Geoscience Research Guide: Geology, Geography, and Environmental Science: Getting Started

Key Geosciences Resources

GeoRef This link opens in a new window The most important geology database.
GeoScience World This link opens in a new window A comprehensive, widely accessible, easy-to-use, integrated, and effective online resource for research materials in the geological and Earth Sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window A rich collection of citation indexes representing the citation connections between scholarly research articles found in the most globally significant journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences and art & humanities.

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Publication Warehouse Contains recent and historical publications from the United States Geological Survey, where many are freely available.

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology This link opens in a new window Online access to the digital version of the entire publication. Since the publication of the first volume in 1953, the aim of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology has been to present a comprehensive and authoritative statement of knowledge concerning groups of invertebrate fossils.

Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) The world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.

New to BHL? Check out the user guide

Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (2nd Edition) Hundreds of articles on the Quaternary Period, revised and updated in 2013 and presented as downloadable PDF files.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Multi-disciplinary source for scholarly, popular, professional, and news publications. This is a good place to start many searches or to gather material from various disciplines at once.
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive This link opens in a new window A digital library of academic content in many formats and disciplines. The collections include peer-reviewed scholarly journals as well as literary journals, academic monographs, and a wide variety of primary sources including Historical Collections from UA
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window Combines authoritative, full-text scientific, technical and health publications with smart, intuitive functionality so that users can stay informed in their fields and can work more effectively and efficiently.
Springer Link This link opens in a new window EBooks, references works, and journals in the fields of science, medicine, engineering and more.

Use these links if you know the article title, author, or journal name and you want to get the article PDF:
• Full-Text Article Look-Up
• Google Scholar Full-Text Article Look-Up
(includes UA subscriptions/paid journals)

Can't find the full text for an article?
Submit an InterLibrary Loan (ILL) request.
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