Geological databases
- If you already know the journal title, volume and pages of an article, do not use databases. Instead search for the journal title directly in the Library Catalogue.
- Use databases when you know only your topic or an author's name and need to find journal articles.
- First link to a database from the list below. Then search your topic. See Library tutorial for science for help.
- Most databases are restricted to members of the University of Adelaide community, for non-commercial research, education or personal use. You will be prompted for your University ID.
For most searches, the best places to start are:
- Georef, 1785- (for North America), 1933- (for rest of the world)
- The most important database. Indexes journal articles, books, conferences and reports.
Georef's own web site has a Preview database of recent references.
- Geobase, 1980-
- Covers earth sciences with a geographical emphasis. Useful for geomorphology, environmental geology, climatology and for European material.
In Georef and Geobase searches, use Advanced Ovid Search not Basic Search.
- Web of Science, 1980- for cited reference and topic searching
- Scopus, 1996- for cited reference searching and 1980- for topic searching via Geobase content
- Web of science and Scopus are large databases covering science and other subjects and allowing cited reference searching to find articles that have cited a given article. The 1980 onwards date range of Web of science makes it the more useful for cited reference searching.
Both databases can also be searched by topic but do not replace geological databases like GeoRef.
- Journal citation reports
- gives rankings and impact factors for journals.
- AESIS, 1976-2001, through Informit
- The original AESIS database, formerly the main database for Australian geology, is offered by Informit as a closed database.
- Georef
- Includes much Australian material from 1933 onwards and in 2004 it extended this coverage with AusGeoref, which is automatically included in Georef. Much of the original AESIS database has also been incorporated into Georef, but not unpublished literature such as open file exploration reports or Departments of Mines reports.
- SARIG and SAMREF, PIRSA Minerals
- Databases on South Australian geology:
REPORTS (SAMREF) which includes published and unpublished literature from 1952 onwards, some of which can be downloaded, and
GEOSCIENCE LIBRARY CATALOGUE which includes books and journals held by the PIRSA Geoscience Library.
- Streamline, 1982- and EVA, 1987-
- Cover Australian environment and natural resources.
- Reef, 1982-
- Great Barrier Reef.
- Australian science index. CSIRO, 1957-83.
- Reference collection 505 A93.2
An index to Australian science journal articles. Useful for earlier Australian geological literature.
- Open file circular. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and
Geophysics (Australia). 1964-76.
- Reference collection 559.405 A938Mo
Lists unpublished BMR information available to the public. Includes titles, authors and abstract.
Major publishers' search engines let you search some or all of the full text of articles so may be useful for very specific topics. However such search engines are usually restricted to a few publishers' journals so always search wider ranging databases such as Georef as well.
- Zoological record, 1978-
- Biosis previews (Biological abstracts), 1980-
- Bibliography of fossil vertebrates, 1509-1993, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Also as printed bibliographies:
Bibliography of fossil vertebrates. 1978. Main collection 566.05 B582
Geological Society of America memoir. 1939-72: Main collection 550.6 G17me 37, 57, 84, 92, 117, 134, 141
Bibliography of fossil vertebrates exclusive of North America 1509-1927 in Geological Society of America memoir 87. Main collection 550.6 G17me 87
- A List of Theses by Canadian Palynologists and about Canadian Palynology
- Energy Citations Database, U.S. Department of Energy, 1948-, indexes energy related report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents from DOE.
- WorldWideScience.org, U.S. Department of Energy and British Library - global search of government and other science and technology databases
- EicompendexWeb, 1884-, the main engineering database
- Quakeline database, Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)
- OilRef - free trial version giving 5 references per search - indexes the petroleum geochemistry literature from journals, conference proceedings, theses, books, patents, and open-file reports
- SPE elibrary, Society of Petroleum Engineers - leads to full text of SPE conference and technical journal papers; searches the full text since 1997 and bibliographic descriptions before 1997; can download full papers.
- International petroleum abstracts, 1973-1998. Reference collection 665.05 I61
Theses, eprints, etc
To find which other Australian libraries hold books and journals, search:
- Libraries Australia (Kinetica)
Note: Use Advanced search and change all of these to exact match or starts with. Apply the Journals limit when searching for journals.
- Publishers worth checking for new book announcements: American Association of Petroleum Geologists |
American Geological Institute |
Blackwell |
Cambridge University Press |
Earth Science World |
Elsevier |
Geological Society |
Geological Society of America |
Geological Society of Australia |
Geoscience Books - out of print books |
Oxford University Press | Schweizerbart |
SEPM |
Society of Exploration Geophysicists |
Springer |
Taylor and Francis |
Wiley
- General and science databases including Newspapers, Older material, Library catalogues and journal lists, Research project reports,
Official publications, Translations, Conference proceedings, Book reviews, Publishers' lists.
- Geological Society of America journals index - indexes Geology, GSA Bulletin, GSA Today
- GEOLIS-JP, Geological literature about Japan or by Japanese authors
- Zentralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, 1908-1949, and its later titles Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Paläontologie and Zentralblatt fur Mineralogie, 1950-1994.
Main collection 550.5 Z5 and 550.5 Z5.2 and 549.05 Z5 - especially for European geology.
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