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GeoRef

Over 2 million scholarly references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Provides a list of titles indexed. Updated bi-monthly.

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Covers 1785 to the present (North American). 1933 to the present (entire world).

ScienceDirect

Search and read over 2,200 full-text Elsevier journals in science, technology and medicine.

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Backfile coverage starts with 1997.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to provide a guide to the principal contributions of the field.

Coverage:

All issues since May 1973 (Vol. 1)

Annual Reviews

Indexes review articles published in Annual Reviews series. Primarily science & technology.
Also access to full-text for all series. Enters at the Advanced Search page.

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Cold Regions Bibliography Project

This database combines the Antarctic Bibliography and the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology. It is useful for biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, environmental issues related to cold regions and cold region engineering.

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United States Geological Survey Publications Warehouse

Index of reports published by the USGS, including maps, bulletins, technical reports, professional papers, etc. (Details of contents.) The number of online materials is increasing daily.

Full text links where available.

Coverage:

1880 to the present

Geologic Names Lexicon

A search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names from the USGS.

Mindat.org

An online database of thousands of minerals, including mineralogical and geochemical data, photographs, locality maps, references to the literature and more.

Powerful search tools allow users to enter mineralogical data and get a mineral name.

Mineralogy Database

5,000 pages of mineral data with information on all known mineral species. Users can browse the database of 4,442 individual mineral species data descriptions by crystallography, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana's New classification, Strunz classification, and alphabetical listings.

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AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology)

Access all the articles from the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Includes the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms.

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Encyclopedia of Earth

”An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.”

Earth Science World Image Bank

High resolution photos of geologic formations, rocks, minerals, and interesting earth features.

National Geologic Map Database

Traditional text-based search of geologic map data held by the USGS. Links to online map images, where available, as well as text citations. Robust search tools allow queries of any place name or a lat/long search.

Coverage:

North American, mostly the United States

National Geologic Map Database - Data Portal

A map based interface for the National Geologic Map Database. Point and click to see what geologic maps are available for any given point. This is still a prototype, and the interface is a bit awkward, but it shows promise.

Coverage:

United States, lower 48.

OneGeology

Geologic map information from around the globe. Most maps are at approximately a 1:1,000,000 scale. Data are contributed by participating national geologic survey organizations.

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Worldwide

Geologic Hazards

Links to Geomagnetism, Landslides, Earthquakes and Interactive maps.

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United States Geological Survey

Web portal for all USGS content, including web pages, publications, maps etc.

Topics include: volcanoes, floods, earthquakes, geology, climate change, remote sensing and many more

US Geological Survey in New York State

Provides important data on topics such as acid rain, earthquakes, ground water, surface water, and suspended sediment. Reports on regional environmental issues can be accessed in full-text format.

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Coverage:

1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

Coverage:

Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles