Databases for Geography/Environmental Studies
Databases useful for most Geography/Environmental Studies topics
Geobase
[Key database for Geography and Environmental Studies. Coverage also includes ecology & development studies]
Web of Science
[Indexes a wide range of journal articles in the sciences, social sciences & humanities. Choose the General Search option to search for journal articles. Choose Cited reference search to find articles that have cited a previously published work]
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) and Academic OneFile (Thomson Gale)
[Both these databases cover a core collection of peer-reviewed journals in the sciences, social sciences & the humanities]
Databases for non-current material
JSTOR and Periodicals index online
[Neither of these databases index current journal literature. Date coverage varies depending on individual journal titles - some go back as far back as the late 18th century]
Databases for Australian topics
ANR Index (2000-) & ANR Index Archive (1975-2000)
[ANR Index abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resources including sustainable Australian agriculture, food, forestry and fisheries industries and the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of Australia's environment, water and natural resources. The Archive covers earlier material]
APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Information Service) and Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
[Both these databases index Australian topics, mostly in the humanities and social sciences]
AESIS
[Main database for Australian geoscience, minerals and petroleum literature for the period 1975-2001. From 2002 absorbed into GEOREF]
Australian Heritage Bibliography
[Covers Australia's natural & cultural environment]
EVA (Environmental Abstracts)
[Indexes journal articles from Australian & overseas sources that deal with the environment & related fields]
FAMILY (Australian Family & Society Abstracts)
[Useful for issues such as demography, housing, urban development etc.]
MAIS (Multicultural Australia & Immigration Studies)
[All aspects of Australian immigration & multicultural issues]
SAMREF
[Contains references to reports and publications dealing with any aspect of South Australian geoscience, mining and exploration dating back to 1952. SAMREF is searchable through SARIG (South Australian Resources Information Geoserver). To locate it, select the Start SARIG option from the opening screen, then click on Information for the SAMREF database]
Broad-based Subject databases
Agricola
[For agricultural & related topics. Choose the "article citation database" to search for journal articles]
Aquatic Pollution And Environmental Quality (ASFA 3)
[The contamination of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and estuaries]
Biosis Previews
[A database of citations from international biological journals. Formerly Biological Abstracts]
CAB Abstracts
[Includes agricultural economics, forestry, rural sociology, tourism]
GEODOK
[It's value lies in the European geographical journals it indexes which are not included in Geobase]
GeoRef
[Citations to international geoscience literature]
Sociological Abstracts
[Sociology, social policy and related disciplines]
Water Resources Abstracts
[Index to the world's literature on water resources]
More specialised databases which are useful for individual subjects (such as Demography) are listed in individual subject guides.
Full-text Newspaper Articles are available from Factiva (or consult the Newspaper Indexes guide for more options).
Books held by other libraries can be identified via the Other library catalogues guide
Databases for identifying Theses are listed in the How to find Theses guide
Last update: 3 September 2007. This page is maintained by Helen Attar
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