Library Resource Guide for: GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Individual Databases for Geological Sciences

GeoRef  
1785-present; GeoRef is an international comprehensive geosciences database containing bibliographic records to the geoscience literature of the world. Among the subjects covered in GeoRef are: environmental and engineering geology, hydrology, economic geology, geophysics, petrology, paleontology, marine geology and oceanography, and mineralogy. Includes journals as well as books, maps, government reports, conference papers, and theses and dissertations. The geology of North America is covered from 1785 to the present, and coverage dates back to 1933 for the rest of the world.

Science Citation Index Expanded  
1973-present; source for information in all major scientific disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles which cite a known earlier article.

ScienceDirect    
Current; source for scientific, technical and medical research that provides access to 2,000 journals across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

Mineralogical Abstracts  
1982-present; Mineralogical Abstracts (MinAbs Online) provides a unique research tool for those researchers working in the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy and related topics. Both major journals and many less accessible journals are abstracted along with book notices, abstracts from books and special publications. MINABS Online is the electronic version of Mineralogical Abstracts, which ceased as a paper index in 2004.

Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology  
1970-present; the Bibliography and Index of Micropaleontology is an online reference service that provides full-feature, one-query searches of world micropaleontological literature. Intelligent searches can be narrowed according to fossil groups, range of dates, types of publications, GeoRef keywords, singly or in combination. Matched citations and groups of citations can be downloaded as plain text files for reference lists.