Guides: Earth and Climate Sciences: Articles

Major Earth and Climate Science Databases

GeoRef This link opens in a new window
The GeoRef database, established by the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) in 1966, provides access to the most comprehensive geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains millions of references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Coverage for North American resources starts in 1669, whereas worldwide coverage starts in 1933.
Tips:
- Shortcut = go/georef
- Do not enclose phrases in quotes " ".
- Truncate using an asterisk * .
- More tips at ProQuest Help
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Its content falls most heavily in the physical and life sciences, but it also covers social sciences and humanities literature.
-Contains more than 47 million records, 70% with abstracts, more than 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. 70% of content is pulled from international sources. Includes MEDLINE.
-Records since 1996 include searchable cited references.
-Shortcut: go/scopus (on campus) or http://go.middlebury.edu/scopus (off campus).
SciFinder-n This link opens in a new window
SciFinder-n searches Chemical Abstracts and is a comprehensive index to pure and applied chemistry literature. You can also search by drawing chemical substances. It is accessible to Middlebury users but you must first create an account using your Middlebury email address.
Click here to create an account.
SciFinder Support Guides

General Science Databases

LibrarySearch
Middlebury Library's search engine. It searches nearly everything we own or have access to, including books, articles, films, reference materials, primary sources and more. (go/LibrarySearch/)

Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Full text is available, but not in a formatted pdf.

Google Scholar
Finds scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Remember to add Middlebury to Library Links, under Google Scholar settings, to check if you have access to an article from your Middlebury login.

JSTOR All Collections This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Generally more historic in science content, utilize the advanced search and add journal filters to search content specific to subjects relevant to your search.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Journal, newspaper, and magazine articles on topics from all major subject areas. Click "Change databases" to add or subtract relevant content.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Sociology research database encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. It features abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals, and extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources.

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