Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) includes peer-reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef index. Also includes specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web. GSW is a collaboration of six leading earth science societies and one institute.

The Founding Organizations:
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG),
American Geological Institute (AGI),
Geological Society of America (GSA),
The Geological Society of London (GSL),
Mineralogical Society of America (MSA),
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and
Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full-text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

The USGS Publications Warehouse contains more than 70,000 USGS bibliographic citations, including citations to USGS numbered series published as early as 1880. The Warehouse also contains electronic version of many USGS Publications, including new publications, which are added regularly. Availability of content ranges from full text to bibliographic citation only. The database will eventually include citations to all USGS-authored products. Currently it primarily contains products published by the USGS. 

Users are now able to search for recently published reports, including reports published during a particular month and year, which have been registered with the Publications Warehouse. The database does not include the articles published in scientific journals at this time. 

The database can be used to search for and link to the full content of a publication. Availability, price, and purchase options are also provided for publications that are in print. 

The database contains citations to a number of Biological Resources Discipline report citations, primarily historical research reports. These citations include reports released by the Fish and Wildlife Service as well as the National Biological Survey prior to the creation of the Biological Resources Division of the USGS.

First published in 1934, GSA Special Papers were originally developed for articles that were too long to be published in the society's journal, The Geological Society of America Bulletin. The series has evolved over the years and now includes monographs, symposium-based volumes, and longer, multi-author volumes with dedicated volume editors. Many Special Papers have made lasting and significant contributions to the science, and all are vetted by science editors, who choose proposals and completed volumes that are of high quality and broad interest. A wide range of topics is covered from regions throughout the world.

Includes full-text and abstracts.  Contents include, but are not limited to: AAPG bulletin -- AAPG special volumes -- Bulletin of Canadian petroleum geology -- Gulf Coast group (USA) -- Journal of petroleum geology -- Journal of sedimentary research -- Mid-continent group (USA) -- Pacific & Asia group -- Rocky Mountain group (USA) -- Southwestern group (USA)

Periodic articles include reports from the GSA-USGS Congressional Science Fellow, Rock Stars biographical features, and news and information about the Society, its activities, and the geological community at large. Archives goes back to 1991.

Access to the CAS content collection, patent documents and step-by-step synthetic procedures and methods. 

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IndianaMap or the GIS Atlas for Indiana is an interactive digital atlas that can be used to make maps related to Indiana's environment, geology, biology, hydrology, transportation, demographics and population. It can be used to access and map over 250 layers of geographic and geologic information. GIS Data for Indiana can be viewed online using a web browser, or downloaded for use with geographic information systems (GIS) software.

Comprehensive, editorially maintained database of funding opportunities combined with a unique database of over 3 million pre-populated scholar profiles. Pivot's proprietary algorithm compiles pre-populated researcher profiles unique to Indiana University and matches them to current funding opportunities in the expansive COS Pivot database. This allows users to search for a funding opportunity and instantly view matching faculty from inside or outside IU.

Searchable catalog providing access to maps and other spatially referenced data for geology, geophysics, marine geology, earth resources, hazards, geochemistry, geochronology, and paleontology. Includes links to other sources of topographic and related maps, other earth science databases, and additional Web resources related to geology.

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names is a Federal body created in 1890 and established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government. The Board comprises representatives of Federal agencies concerned with geographic information, population, ecology, and management of public lands. Sharing its responsibilities with the Secretary of the Interior, the Board promulgates official geographic feature names with locative attributes as well as principles, policies, and procedures governing the use of domestic names, foreign names, Antarctic names, and undersea feature names.

Launched in 2007 to celebrate 200 years of the Geological Society of London, the Lyell Collection is an online collection comprising of the Society's journal titles, Special Publications and key book series. - plus journals published on behalf of other societies.

Queries are formed like taxon = 'Tyrannosaurus'. Detailed instructions are available for writing queries, including complex Boolean statements and the use of pattern-matching.

The online Glossary of Geology contains 39,000 entries that appeared in the print version of the Fifth Edition. In addition to the Fifth editions's 13,000 updated entries there are over 1,100 changes, emendations, deletions and additions in the online Glossary. More than 100 geoscientists in many specialties reviewed the definitions and added new terms. It is updated regularly to provide online access to terminology in the geosciences, including abbreviations, acronyms, dating of terms, the meaning of prefixes, term preferences, synonyms, syllabification, and background information.

The database is maintained by American Geological Institute's GeoRef Information Services in cooperation with GSIS. GSIS compiled all print editions of Union List of Geologic Field Trip Guidebooks of North America, on which it is based.