Databases & E-Reference Materials

This database consists of references to geologic field trip guidebooks of North America and contains information from the print publication The Union List of Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America, sixth edition.

A part of Elsevier's Engineering Village, GeoRef is an international database of geoscience literature of the world. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. This database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and is the electronic equivalent to Bibliography and Index of Geology.

GeoScience World is a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. Built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals, this database is linked and inter-operable with GeoRef. Provides access to journals by over 30 earth sciences publishers and indexing for over 2,000 books.

Global Plants is the world’s largest database of digitized plant specimens and a locus for international scientific research and collaboration. It includes a growing herbaria community-contributed collection of nearly three million high-resolution type specimens and related materials. Also includes reference works and primary sources, such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, photographs, and links to taxonomic literature.

GlobalData Explorer is an upgrade of our existing Marketline subscription, offering more coverage and deeper insight into companies and sectors throughout world. Spanning across all major industries, GlobalData Explorer provides key insight that allows for the comparison of sectors and understanding of market drivers shaping an industry. The database contains all content and functions that are available in MarketLine as well as added features, including an advertising database, job analysis, sector reports, themes, and social media analytics. This resources offers broad yet detailed coverage of the global trends that are shaping industries, impacting companies, and driving innovation.  

Provides access to Godey's Lady's Book, a 19th century publication intended for American women. Covers topics such as fashion, mineralogy, handcrafts, dance, health and hygiene, recipes, and remedies. Resources in this collection include poems, stories, articles, chromolithographs, color plates and color plate fashion, advertisements, cartoons, drawing, engravings, fashion plates, illustrations, maps, mezzotints, portraits, sheet music, and woodcuts. Full text is available.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Provides access to information disseminated by the U.S. Government Printing Office, including official information from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Index of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.).

A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Full text is available.