Research Guides: Earth Sciences *: Home

Introduction

Welcome to the Earth Sciences guide. This identifies basic resources in the subject including databases, journals, and websites that are useful for Earth Sciences research.

Browse e-Journals

These are computer generated lists of e-journals in Earth Sciences available at USC.

Getting Started with Databases

Primary Databases for this subject

AAPG Foundation Digital Products
This resource includes a variety of geological society publications, generally from volume 1 of the publication, as well as publications from the AAPG itself covering a broad scope of earth science topics.

This resource is provided by an endowment.

AGU Digital Library
The AGU Digital Library contains more than 110 years of Earth and Space Science research from the American Geophysical Union.
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
This website provides data, remote sensing, publications, and images. It offers the latest headlines and allows the user to view Landsat imagery live.

GeoRef
GeoRef is an index of articles from over 25,0000 journals addressing geology and earth science. Updated twice a month.
GeoScienceWorld
This includes about fifty titles in the broad scope of earth sciences, including environmental geology, mineralogy, paleontology, seismology, etc., from a number of geologic societies around the world.

It also includes links to open access journals and U.S. state governmental survey publications in earth sciences.

Lyell Collection: Geological Society Publications
The Lyell Collection represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth science literature. It includes journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform.

Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
Contains records drawn from the World's literature on meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, astrophysics, hydrology, glaciology, physical oceanography and environmental sciences.

Summaries from over 600 journal titles, as well as conference proceedings, books, technical reports and other monographs are included. MGA is produced by the American Meteorological Society with coverage from 1974 â current and update on monthly basis.