Research Guides: Geology: Home

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For journal articles, a good place to start is GeoScience World.

GeoscienceWorld
A single point of access to 46 full-text scholarly journals in the earth sciences .

Article Databases for Geology

Use these subscription databases to locate published research in geology.

GeoBase
Search tool for scholarly literature in geography, earth, and environmental sciences.

GEOBASE is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences and other subject areas like ecology, geology and environmental sciences. The database covers thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade publications and book series.
GeoscienceWorld
A single point of access to 46 full-text scholarly journals in the earth sciences .
Georef (Proquest)
Most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world including millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Science Direct
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the sciences.

ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 20,000 books. The database covers the Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities.
Scopus
SciVerse Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
Web of Science
Full text database of scientific journal articles with data on who has cited them.

Web of Science® provides immediate data on who has cited research papers, covering over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings. You'll find current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900.
Physical Review Journals
Physics journals published by the American Physical Society (APS).

Full-text available for journal titles to which Rowan University subscribes. For coverage dates of specific journals use the website's Journal Finder search.
IOP Science (Institute of Physics)
Physics journals from IOP Publishing.

Full text access to journals published by IOP Publishing on the IOP Science platform.
General Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Journal, magazine and news articles in all areas of science.

Index to periodicals in biology, chemistry, earth sciences, health and medicine, nutrition, and physics. Indexing from 1984; select full text from 1994 forward. (formerly from Wilson)