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Earth & Planetary Subject Guide

Top Article Databases
  • BIOSIS Citation Index (BCI)
    This is the BIOSIS Previews database with article citation counts added. Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. You can search BIOSIS, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Web of Science at the same time. Choose the All Databases tab.  
    Covers: 1926-present. Citation analysis from articles 2006-present.
  • BIOSIS Previews
    Citations and abstracts to journal articles in the life sciences. Very interdisciplinary within biology, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. You can search BIOSIS, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Web of Science at the same time. Choose the All Databases tab.
    Covers: 1926 - present
  • GeoRef
    Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
    Covers: 1669 - present
    Alternate access.
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  • Google Scholar
    Large multidisciplinary search engine with results ranking and previews. Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature including journal articles. *Note:  free public access available at http://scholar.google.com/
  • SciFinder Scholar
    Database of articles and patents in chemistry and chemistry-related fields such as biochemical genetics. Also includes chemical information such as molecular formulas, structure diagrams, reactions, and experimental and predicted property data. UCSC students and researchers need to register for a password to use this database at the link above.
    Covers: 1907 to present; some from 1840 to present.
  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
    Multidisciplinary index to scholarly and authoritative articles. Provides access to all three parts of the Citation Index: Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science. Search by subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles that cite an author or article that you specify.
    Covers: 1900 - present.
Other Article Databases
  • Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
    Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts.
    Covers: 1971 - present
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  • Astrophysics Data Systems (NASA ADS)
    ADS contains abstracts and citations for materials in astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, physics and geophysics, Los Alamos preprints, and many archives.
  • Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
    This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Dissertations & Theses (a.k.a. Digital Dissertations or Dissertation Abstracts)
    Citations for U.S. dissertations and masters' theses. Abstracts are included for all entries published since 1980. Full-text for many University of California dissertations isFSee  available in pdf format.
    Covers: 1861 - present
    See CRUZCAT for UCSC-only dissertations
  • Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA)
    Earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation.
    Covers: 1971 - present
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  • INSPEC
    Index of citations for articles and conference papers on physics, electrical engineering, computers, and information technology. Contains abstracts.
    Covers: 1969 - present
  • Oceanic Abstracts
    Citations and abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish water environment.
    Covers: 1981 - present
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