Searching Databases for Information - ESCI 997 - Graduate Seminar in Earth Sciences

Key Research Databases for Earth Sciences

Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) This link opens in a new window
Premier reference in the field of aquatic resources (freshwater, brackish, marine) including serial publications, books, reports, conference proceedings, translations and limited distribution literature. A detailed search guide for ASFA with Oceanic Abstracts is available athttps://proquest.libguides.com/asfa
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. Contains over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, theses and dissertations, conference papers, and reports, including all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. A detailed search guide is available at: https://proquest.libguides.com/georef
Oceanic Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Oceanic Abstracts is searched by default if you use ASFA, but you can select it to search separately. Focuses on worldwide technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment including marine biology and physical oceanography, fisheries, aquaculture, non-living resources, meteorology and geology, plus environmental, technological, and legislative topics.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Facilitates research-level interdisciplinary search. Use the Basic Search to locate articles in high-impact scholarly journals in science, social science, arts, and humanities. Use the unique Cited Reference search for articles that cite an article you already know of, so you can track citations forward in time.

Geologic Guidebooks of North America
Consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America. Most of the guidebooks cited are from the period 1940-1988. A few are from earlier years. Geoscience Information Society (GSIS) volunteers have added many post-1988 guidebooks to the database.

GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new window
A collection of peer-reviewed articles and other materials from high-impact journals in a broad range of geoscience areas, including publications of major professional societies such as the Geological Society of America, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Mineralogical Society of America, and Geological Society of London.

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Environmental Science Index
Covers several key databases, including Water Resources Abstracts and Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management. Provides abstracts of and links to technical and scientific literature.
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On Proquest.

See a more complete list of earth sciences-related databases provided by the UNH Library HERE.

IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
A digital library providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. It contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Conferences. UNH no longer has access to IET Journals.

SciFinder
The premier research discovery tool for pure and applied chemistry. It has an index of chemical structures and reactions, as well as bibliographic information from a broad base of scientific literature, including conference articles, dissertations, patents, and more. SciFinder includes millions of citations from 1907 to present, in the fields of chemistry, biomedical sciences, agricultural science, materials science, and other related fields.
SPIE Digital Library
Subscription database of journals and conference proceedings published by SPIE -- optics and photonics applied research.

INSPEC This link opens in a new window
The world's leading resource for coverage of research literature in physics, including astronomy and astrophysics. Its other subject strengths are electrical engineering; control, and computing, including information technology. International journals and conference proceedings are covered, with selected indexing of books and reports. This resource allows searching by specialized fields. Dates of coverage: 1896-current

Quick, but not thorough

Library Search Box
The open search box on the home page searches the library catalog plus many article databases by default. For an easy first-try to find out if the library already has an article you need, paste the DOI or a distinctive portion of the article title (within "quote marks" to make it a phrase) into the box.
-- Unfortunately, this search does not include some really important databases that you need for a comprehensive research literature search. That is why there is a Databases menu!
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If you want more guidance on selecting databases, your subject librarian and your faculty advisor can help.

Do we have that journal?

The UNH Library Finding Articles & Journals page, https://www.library.unh.edu/find/articles-journals, has good tips.

Please note that the DOI search in the Citation Linker ("Fetch It") is not currently functional. You can search a DOI in the regular Search Box; if it works, great! If not, a good way is to go to crossref.org, and do a Metadata search on the DOI -- you can put other key article metadata into the library search or citation linker to see if we have the article linked. If not, just create an InterLibrary Loan request with the metadata.