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Earth Sciences (Geology and Geography)

For more information about Earth Sciences resources, contact Linda Brothen.

Contents: Databases | Guides | Web Sites

Library Databases (For Finding Articles) UWM only

Academic Search
1984-present; indexes over 3,400 scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in the areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, and multi-cultural studies. Full-text is available for 2,000 journals starting with January 1985. Guide
AGRICOLA FREE ACCESS
1970-present; citations to journal articles, books (15th century to present), and audiovisuals about food, nutrition, and most aspects of the agricultural sciences.
Applied Science and Technology Full Text
1983-present; indexes over 480 English-language scientific and technical publications. Topics include engineering, acoustics, chemistry, computers, metallurgy, physics, plastics, telecommunications, transportation, and waste management. Guide
Biological Abstracts [BIOSIS]
1990-present; citations with abstracts to over 5000 journals world wide in the life sciences. Thesaurus with detailed subject indexing available from 1993 to date. Guide | Tutorial
Biological and Agricultural Index
1983-present; citations to articles in the life sciences from over 300 journals. Guide
BioOne
2000-present; provides access to full-text articles from 72 bioscience research journals. Covers biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Cold Regions Bibliography (CRREL) FREE ACCESS
1950s-present; contains over 220,000 bibliographic records on Antarctica, cold regions science and technology.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
Current; an encyclopedia of geographical places and physical and/or cultural features. Features worldwide coverage and detailed information.
Digital Sanborn Maps (Wisconsin)
Large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.
Environment Abstracts (REF) GE 1 .E58x
General Science Full Text
1984-present; more than 280 journals and magazines from the U.S. and Great Britain, covering such subjects as anthropology, astronomy, biology, computers, medicine, and health. Full-text is available for 61 journals starting with January 1995. Guide
Geobase
1980-present; indexes worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. It includes over 2,000 journals, books, conference proceedings and reports. Guide
GEOBIB (Online Geographical Bibliography)
1985-2005; an online bibliography to the literature of geography. It contains entries appearing in Current Geographical Publications.
Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography (REF) G 1 .G322x
GeoRef
1785-present (1933-present for non-North American coverage); Geology and geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses (over 2 million references). Also includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Guide
GreenFILE
1948-present; information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment; connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
IngentaConnect [Formerly Carl Uncover] FREE ACCESS
Current; free abstracting service covering over 29,000 scholarly journals in many academic fields including engineering, library science, medicine, science, and technology. Full-text of selected journal articles is available to signed in UWM users. Individual users can order articles for a fee. Free e-mail alert service is also available. Guide
Knovel Scientific and Engineering Online References
Dates vary; a collection of over 600 handbooks, dictionaries and proceedings in technical disciplines. Full text is searchable by keywords and numeric property values. Contains interactive tables, graphs, and equations. Data from tables can be manipulated and further imported in an Excel spreadsheet. Field Guide | Guide
Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
1974-present; Indexes literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences. Guide
Pollution Abstracts
One year ago-current; citations and abstracts for more than 2,000 journals, newsletters and proceedings in the areas of air pollution, marine pollution, freshwater pollution, sewage and wastewater treatment, waste management, land pollution, toxicology and health, noise, radiation, environmental action. Current and back issues are available in print at (REF) TD 180 .P6x. Guide
Readers' Guide Full Text
1983-present; indexes over 360 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Includes current events, news, and many other subject areas. Full-text is available for most journals starting with January 1994. Guide
Web of Knowledge - Tutorial
1987-present; includes three databases within the Web of Science platform: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals, providing complete bibliographic data and author abstracts. Also includes ISIHighlyCited.com, which lists the most influential scientific authors, and EndNote Web, an online bibliographic citation manager. Guide

Research Guides

For more information on finding resources, see the following guides.

To find books and other materials in the library, use PantherCat, the online library catalog (guide).

Selected Earth Sciences Web Sites FREE ACCESS