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Subject: Geography

Key Databases

GEOBASE

Worldwide coverage of journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports relating to geography, geology, and ecology.

GeoRef

The premier database for the geological sciences.  Provides indexing to more than 3500 journals as well as books, maps and reports.  References all USGS publications and indexes US and Canadian dissertations and theses in the geosciences. Coverage:1693 - present (North America coverage)
1933 - present (Worldwide coverage)

Related Databases

Academic Search Premier

This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,600 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.  Searchable cited references are also included for more than 1,000 titles. Coverage:  1975-present

Current Contents Connect           

As the title suggests, this resource provides some of the most current indexing available for journal articles. In addition to a searchable index, table of contents are provided for journals in the areas of Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences (ABES), and the Life Sciences (LS). Updated daily.

Coverage:  1998-present

Ecology abstracts

More than 550 journals are indexed for articles relating to ecosystems management, climate impacts, water resources, pollution, etc.  Relevant conference proceedings and some book titles are indexed as well.  Coverage:1982-present

Environmental sciences and pollution management

A multidisciplinary database, this resource provides comprehensive coverage for all aspects of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 6000 international sources including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.    Coverage: 1967-present.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Indexes approximately 3,500 journals including 2,100 peer-reviewed titles.  Many citations lead directly to full-text links.  Coverage goes back to 1980.

General science fulltext 

Indexes approximately 280 journals with items of general interest to science students and the public. Includes Discover, Impact of Science on Society, Issues in Science & Technology, New Scientist, New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Science Digest, Science News, etc.  Coverage: 1984-present

Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective

Provides indexing to journals in the social sciences and humanities dating back to 1907.

PAIS International

The Public Affairs Information Service provides access to thousands of articles, books, documents, reports, and grey literature relating to social science and politics.

Social Sciences Full-Text

Indexes more than 600 journals relating to the social sciences.  Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1983.

Web of Science

Includes Science Citation Index, one of the most comprehensive databases for locating scientific literature.  Links to full-text articles when available through USF subscriptions.  Updated weekly.

Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition

A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects.  Many citations link to the full-text of the article.  Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.

E-journal collections

AMS Journals Online

Full-text, searchable access to the journals of the American Meteorological Society.

Annual Reviews

Searchable full-text access to the entire content of 33 Annual Review titles including Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics; Environment and Resources; and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Blackwell Synergy

Searchable access to the journals from Blackwell Publishing including the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, International Migration Review, and Transactions in GIS.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals.  More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.

GeoScienceWorld

Provides full-text access to journals for six societies in the geosciences, including the Geological Society of America (GSA).

JSTOR

This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals.   Some titles date as far back as the 17th and 18th centuries.

OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online

A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.

Project Muse

Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals.  The majority of the titles are in the arts and humanities, however, some geography related titles are also included such as:  Journal of Latin American Geography, Southeastern Geographer, African Studies Review.


ScienceDirect

A searchable collection of more than 1,000 Elsevier science journals. Also provides access to articles that are in press but not yet published in the print version.


Wiley Interscience   

Searchable access to the journals from John Wiley & Sons.


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