Earth & Planetary Sciences Research Guide

Subject Guide for Earth & Planetary Sciences

Article Databases

Subject Specific:

GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Covers the geology of North America from 1693 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Describes materials in geology and geophysics, in particular: energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, groundwater pollution, erosion, nuclear reactor sites, the structure of the earth, and geostatistics. Includes abstracts.
BIOSIS Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Primary article database for life sciences, including biochemistry, ecology, genetics, microbiology, ocean sciences, plant biology, and zoology. Can search with Web of Science and sort by citation count.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (EEA) This link opens in a new window
Earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) This link opens in a new window
Covers aquatic science, aquatic organisms, fisheries, oceanography, ocean technology policy and non-living resources, and aquatic pollution and environmental quality. Includes citations and abstracts.

Multidisciplinary:

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Large multidisciplinary database of scholarly articles. Citation analysis tools include sorting by citation count, searching by topic and institution, and more.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Database covering many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, and online repositories. Use Eduroam (on campus), or the VPN (off-campus) to access full-text of UCSC subscribed content.
UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
This searches across all 10 UC Library collections and beyond. Sign in using your CruzID Gold in order to find: books, e-books, articles, journals, films, maps, and more.

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Connect From Your Computer

For access to e-books, online journals, databases:

For Off-Campus Access - Use the Campus VPN
For On-Campus Wireless Access - Use eduroam (note: Cruznet no longer works for access to library resources.)

Find Open Access versions of paywalled articles with the Unpaywall browser app.

Use the Nomad extension for quick links to subscription-based full text. Works on publisher sites, Wikipedia and some databases.

Preprints

EarthArXiv
Preprint server for Earth Sciences. This effort is broad-based, international, and non-publisher-based. Hosted by the California Digital Library.
PaleorXiv
Repository for preprints, postprints and working papers on paleontology topics.

arXiv.org This link opens in a new window
Open access to over one million e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

bioRxiv
The preprint server for the life sciences. Hosted by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

eScholarship Repository This link opens in a new window
Includes Open Access journals, working papers, previously published works, conferences, and books from departments, research units, publishing programs, and individual scholars associated with the University of California. eScholarship is also serves as a platform for affiliates to have direct control over the creation and dissemination of the full range of their scholarship.

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