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The following bibliography is a selective guide to information sources for the geosciences discipline available from SF State's J. Paul Leonard Library.
Recommended Databases
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost)
Dates vary. This multi-disciplinary database is an excellent source for articles from the core geology journals. Click on the blue "i" icon for list of selected titles. - Applied Science & Technology Abstracts 1913-date. This is an excellent starting point for finding articles from core journals on geologic, meteorological, or energy resources topics.
- Engineering Village 2 Site provides access to the Compendex database (1969-present) which comprehensively indexes journals, technical reports, books, and conference proceedings in all of the engineering disciplines. This is an excellent resource for engineering geology topics.
- Environmental Issues & Policy Index 1973-date. Comprehensively indexes the environmental science journal literature.
- GEOBIB Online Geographical Bibliography
1985-date. Online version of Current Geographical Publications. See blue "i" icon for more info. - Geography 1990-date. Comprehensively indexes the physical geography literature.
- GeoRef 1785-date. Comprehensively indexes the earth science, paleontological, and paleobiology literature. Journal
articles, books, dissertations, state and United States Geological Survey publications are all indexed. - Oceanic Abstracts 1981-date. Topics covered include: physical oceanography, marine geology, geophysics, and geochemistry.
- Web of Science 1900- . Indexes scholarly journals in all of the scientific disciplines. Use this database to conduct cited reference searches (that is, search for articles that cite a specific author or article).
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