Key Scientific Databases - ESS413 - Cornell - Library at Shippensburg University

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GeoRef This link opens in a new window
Covers geological information on North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. Contains more than 1.9 Million geoscience records from American Geological Institute.
Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
ScienceDirect: Subscribed Content This link opens in a new window
This database indexes all journals, books, and reference works published by Elsevier, one of the world's largest and most important scientific publishers. Can limit search to subscribed content but can also identify articles to obtain through InterLibrary loan services.
Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
GEOBASE This link opens in a new window
Primary index to scholarly geographical literature. Covers earth sciences, ecology, human geography, geomechanics, and oceanography. Includes almost 2 million abstracts for scientific journal articles and other publications.
Ship Discovery Search This link opens in a new window
Use this search to find articles and books in a wide variety of databases to which Ship Library subscribes. Useful for when you are not finding many results in a more-targeted database.
Access on-campus or off-campus with your ShipID

Google Scholar
This database, freely available from Google, is one of the most important scholarly databases, especially in the natural and social sciences. It brings the power of Google to the search for academic/scholarly publications, including journal articles, books, theses and dissertations, and other research documents. Google creates this database from "academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites" -- website. It has incredibly powerful citation searching features, which enable you to easily locate sources that cite a particular document (using the "Cited by" feature) and to find similar documents which often share related citations (using the "Related Articles" feature).

When using Google Scholar off campus, be sure to set your Scholar Preferences to use the Shippensburg University proxy to access library full-text through the "Full-Text@My Library" linking feature.