Library guides: Environmental Science: Soils and geology

Soils and geology

Databases

Agriculture and Natural Resources Index (via Informit)
ANR-Index is a bibliographic database with informative abstracts and links to full text for agriculture and natural resrouces 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. NOTE: Coverage - 2000 to June 2007.
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Agriculture and Natural Resources Index Archive (via Informit)
ANR-Index Archive (formerly ABOA and STREAMLINE) is a bibliographic database of older pubilcations on 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. NOTE: Coverage - 1975 to June 2007

ScienceDirect
Multi-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal article database covering research in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.
ScienceDirect is a Web database for scientific research that contains the full text of more than 1,000 Elsevier Science journals. Subject coverage includes the life, medical, technical, social and physical sciences.

MOBILE ACCESS: iPhone and Android apps are available for SciVerse. You need to register on main site to access.
Scopus
Abstracts and indexes journals, books and conference proceedings for all disciplines. Includes tools to track, analyse and visualise research.
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It provides a Journal Analyzer tool which uses citation information to indicate impact and journal ranking. Subject areas covered are: chemistry, physics, mathematics and engineering, life and health sciences, social science, psychology and economics, biological, agricultural and environmental sciences, and general sciences.
MOBILE ACCESS: iPhone and Android apps are available for SciVerse. You need to register on main site to access.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary journal index database which abstracts and indexes articles from some 5,100 journals in science and technology; 1,700 journals in the social sciences and 1,200 journals in the arts and humanities.
A multidisciplinary journal index database which abstracts and indexes articles from some 5,100 journals in science and technology; 1,700 journals in the social sciences and 1,200 journals in the arts and humanities.
Note: The Web of Knowledge product platform has changed to the Web of Science. The collection of Citation Indexes which comprise the Web of Science - including the Arts & humanities citation index, Book citation index, Science citation index expanded and Social sciences citation index are unchanged and will now be known as the Web of Science Core Collection.

Books

The handbook of geoscience

Journals

Data, Images and Maps

Maps of Australia
A collection of maps of Australia for free download, including: topographic, bathymetric & boundary maps; satellite images of Australia (requires plug-in); geological, geophysical, geothermal, and minerals maps.
Interactive Maps
Interactive Maps is a discovery and exploration view of Geoscience Australia's geospatial services. It has curated content comprised of maps and functions. Each map has queries and functions with linked access to OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) web services and metadata.
PANGAEA : data publisher for earth & environmental science
An Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing geo-referenced data from earth system research.
GSA Data Repository
The GSA Data Repository was established in 1974. It is an open file in which authors of articles in our journals can place information that supplements and expands on their article. These supplements will not appear in print but may be obtained from GSA.