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Geography: Selected Databases


  • Conference Papers Index (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts --choose from alphabetical list))
    Provides citations to papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific meetings around the world. Subject emphasis since 1995 has been in the life sciences, environmental sciences and the aquatic sciences, while older material also covers physics, engineering and materials science.
  • Digital Dissertations (Proquest)
    A database that has bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to the present. Full text is available starting with dissertations published from 1997 forward.
  • Elsevier Science Direct
    A searchable database that provides the full-text of research journals in environmental science and other disciplines.
  • Environmental Science and Pollution Management Databases
    (Located in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts -- search subfiles.)
    Subfiles include:
    * Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts
    * ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution and Environmental Quality
    * Ecology Abstracts
    * EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements
    * Environmental Engineering Abstracts
    * Health and Safety Science Abstracts
    * Industrial and Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology A)
    * Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B)
    * Pollution Abstracts
    * Risk Abstracts
    * Toxicology Abstracts
    * Water Resources Abstracts
    * Links To Environmental Routenet
    * Links To Water Resources Routenet
  • Florida Documents Index
    This online database identifies publications housed in the Florida Documents Collection at Florida Atlantic University. The collection includes public documents distributed by the State Library of Florida since 1967.
  • GeoBase (FirstSearch)
    Contains citations with abstracts covering the worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology and related disciplines. Coverage from 1980.
  • GeoRef (Located in Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
    A database that covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present.
  • Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index (Located in Web of Science)
    Multidisciplinary databases, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences and social sciences. SCI indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines from 1945 forward. SSCI indexes over 1725 journals spanning 50 disciplines from 1956 forward.
  • Synergy
    Provides access to full-text journals of scientific, technical, and medical interest servicing the international and scholarly communities.
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