Archer Library: Earth Sciences: Home

Key Databases

GeoRef
An index to international journals, books, maps, reports, most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and U.S. and Canadian master's theses and doctoral dissertations. Use the provided thesaurus to identify subject terms that will increase the effectiveness of your search.

GeoRef In Process This database has articles, etc., that will be added to GeoRef when full indexing has been completed. The thesaurus is not available in GeoRef in Process.

Geoscan
Publications and reports on geological subjects from the Government of Canada.

Web of Science (ON CAMPUS ACCESS)
Web of Science indexes over 8,000 international journals in the sciences. This database allows you to learn who has cited a particular article, and also offers navigation to electronic full-text journal articles.
Web of Science (OFF CAMPUS ACCESS)
Use this link whenever accessing Web of Science from off of the University of Regina campus!

Google Scholar Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

SciFinder-n
Instructions for accessing SciFinder-n, a database of the American Chemical Society. [links to Chemistry Research Guide]

Science Direct
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Over 1800 full-text journals from Elsevier Science. Major subject areas: biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, business, economics, engineering, environment, earth sciences, medicine, mathematics, physics, and psychology. The University of Regina Library has a current license to access the full text of over 1800 of the journal titles back to 1995 (1993 for Academic Press titles) as well as access to several subject backfile collections with coverage from volume 1, issue 1. Selected books are also available.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

NASA Technical Reports Server (at http://ntrs.nasa.gov/?method=aboutntrs) Publications from NASA, including lots of planetary science documents and a surprisingly large number of geological publications. Many documents are available freely online; others must be ordered through Interlibrary Loan. More information about NASA's publication program is available at http://www.sti.nasa.gov/.