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Searching the Literature

GeoRef
Covers the geology of North America from 1669 to the present, and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Contains over 4 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Updated bi-monthly. 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. Contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.

GeoRef Preview Database
This special database highlights references to geoscience publications which have recently been added to our GeoRef production system. Each weekend, completed references are removed from the Preview database and transferred to GeoRef, new references are added, and changes are made in the remaining data.

Web of Science
Science Citation Index covers more than 12,000 journals in all subject areas, including selective coverage of the earth science and environmental journal literature. Does not include reports, government publications, maps, or other formats.

Updated weekly. Covers more than 12,000 journals in all subject areas. Also includes citations to conference proceedings. Choose Search in order to search the database by topic, author journal or address. This search includes articles, reports, books and book reviews and may be searched by keyword (topic searching), author (person searching), institution, or geographical area. Choose Cited Reference Search to search for articles that cite an author or work. This search includes the list of references at the end of articles and will allow you to search by the cited author, cited work, cited year or a combination of the three. Choose Advanced Search to combine aspects of the other two searches. The default selection for searching is for all the citation databases and for all years of coverage; both selections can be changed from the main search screen at the time that you select your search.
The Web of Science platform currently provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record
Google Scholar
Better for quick lookups than in-depth literature searching. Coverage is digital-only, wide, but indeterminate.

Google Scholar uses the popular Google search engine to enable searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from broad areas of research. It includes a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Google Scholar includes full text and citations.
Use this link to access Google Scholar, and see our Google Scholar Guide for information on using this resource.
If you encounter a warning about the security certificate when using the FindIt@UT tool in Google Scholar, you can learn more about that using this guide.
OSTI.GOV
Bibliographic and full text access to the Department of Energy (DOE) tech reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

Updated regularly. Provides bibliographic and full text access to the Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.
AGRICOLA
USDA's index database has some coverage of soil science and hydrology.

Updated daily. Contains bibliographic citations with some abstracts covering agriculture, animal husbandry, animal and human nutrition, forestry, plant pathology, plant science, human ecology, agricultural economics and rural sociology. Includes journal articles, books, state extension and experiment station publications and USDA documents.
Access the USDA National Agricultural Library through AGRICOLA Books.

Library Catalog
Discover the physical and electronic holdings of all UT libraries: books, reports, maps, journals, series, media, UT theses, and more.
Geology Databases at UT

Full Text Resources

USGS Publications Warehouse
The Pubs Warehouse provides access to over 160,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau.
USGS Library Catalog

GeoScienceWorld
Provides full text access to about 50 core journals from 30+ geoscience publishers around the world.

Updated weekly. Provides full text access to over 30 core journals from a variety of geoscience publishers.
GeoScienceWorld eBooks Collection
A platform with hundreds of selected e-books from various society publishers. UT Austin does not have access to all titles on this platform because of availability on other platforms such as AAPG and Lyell.

GeoScienceWorld eBook Collections launched in 2014, and is the first nonprofit, multi-publisher eBooks platform dedicated to the study of the earth sciences, complementing the journal holdings in the GeoScience World journals platform. It includes more than 1,000 earth science titles from 10 leading society publishers
Special Note on UT Holdings: Since the UT Libraries already license materials from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and The Geological Society of London, and some Geological Society of America items, our license is restricted to approximately 700 titles of the original 1000 in this database. For materials that will not open here, try the original publisher’s database entry.

For more information on ebooks see the Ebook Guide
AGU (American Geophysical Union) Journals
Provides full text access to the journals published by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), an organization known for peer-reviewed scientific journals geared towards earth and space science research. Coverage includes titles such as the Journal of Geophysical Research (7 parts), Tectonics, Water Resources Research, Reviews of Geophysics, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, and Paleoceanography.
AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Datapages
Warning: the search interface is very poorly designed and requires persistence. When browsing for specific series volumes, look under the Browse heading for "AAPG Special Volumes" to see a list of various series and titles therein.

Contains a variety of source materials and book series published by global and regional oil and gas professional societies. AAPG makes available its own bulletins, meeting abstracts, and special publications for download as full-text PDFs. Subjects include petroleum geology and related fields, such as structural geology, organic petrology, and sedimentary research. Some international coverage.
Lyell Collection
Full text access to the publications of the Geological Society of London. Includes the full content of the Society's journals, Special Publications and key book series.
Updated daily. Provides full text access to the publications of the Geological Society of London. Includes the full content of the Society's journals, Special Publications and key book series.
- Features Journal of the Geological Society, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, the Geological Society’s prestigious Special Publications, and the Engineering Geology Special Publications and Memoir book series.
- 14,000 peer-reviewed articles
- 230,000 pages of Earth science content
- Selected open access articles
- Free public access to abstracts and specially created extracts
- Full electronic functionality
- Fully searchable content throughout
- Active reference linking via CrossRef, GeoRef and ISI
- Free full text linking to many other key Earth science journals, including GeoScienceWorld
Virtual Landscapes of Texas
Full text access to public domain publications related to the landscape of Texas.

Provides full text access to the publications related to the landscape of Texas. These public domain documents have been made available through the combined efforts of the TX Treasures program of the Texas State Library, the University of Texas Libraries - Digital Library Services Division: Digitization Center, and the Walter Fund of the UT Geology Foundation.

Preprints & Repositories

EarthArXiv
Preprints in the earth sciences.
EarthChem
EarthChem provides open data services to the geochemical, petrological, mineralogical, and related communities. Services include data preservation, discovery, access, and visualization.
ESSOAr
The Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr) is a community server established to accelerate the open discovery and dissemination of Earth and space science early research outputs, including preprints and posters presented at major scientific meetings. (AGU)
PaleoRxiv
Preprints in paleontology.