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Geology Resource Guide

Finding Journal Articles

The Library catalogue, NEWCAT, only allows you to search for the names of journals held by the Library, not the articles that appear within the journals. To find what articles have been written on a particular topic, you need to search in a database or use a printed abstract or index.

Indexing & abstracting services provide access to articles published in journals, and some also index other publications such as conference papers, reports, patents or chapters in books. Most are available online via the Internet, but some are only available in print formats. A number of the online databases to which the Library subscribes include full text articles.

The Library does not hold or have online access to all the journals indexed in these databases. Some databases include the Library's holdings, but others do not. For articles found in those databases, you must search the Library catalogue to find if the Library has these journal titles.

Online Databases

This is a list of online databases useful for research in geology. A complete list of all databases available online is available on the Library's Journal & Reference Databases page.

Title	Coverage
GeoRef - American Geological Institute	1933- (World wide coverage) 1693- (North American coverage)
Geoscience World	most are full text 2000- (some earlier full text)
GEOBASE (via Firstsearch - password required)	1990-
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (includes glaciology and oceanography)	1974-

Also see similar pages for Geography, Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry and Physics.

Free online resources

Title

Science Central - a great resource with access to some articles as well as reviews, freeware, etc

Print Indexes

Print indexes are shelved in the Reference Collection, and are useful for finding older material in particular. However, some indexes are only available in print format.

Title	Coverage
Bibliography & index of geology S016.55/2	1969-2005
Geographical abstracts: physical geography 016.9105 11	1989- current
Science Citation Index	1964-66, 1970-90 - online

Science Direct	varies
Current Contents	1993
Cambridge Journals online	varies
Academic Search Premier	varies
Proquest Science Journals	1994-
DOAJ - scientific and scholarly journals	varies
Ingenta Connect	varies
SpringerLink - incl. Geoscience journals	varies
Taylor and Francis journals	most 2000-