Library guides / Biblioteekgidse: Earth Sciences: Finding articles / Databases

Quick access to full text articles

1) Follow the full-text link from databases, OR

2) Search A-Z list of e-journals by journal title, OR

3) Search article titles on Google Scholar

How to link Google Scholar to SUN A-Z electronic journals

Requesting books and articles not available in SUN Libraries

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Submit your interlibrary request online

Internet Archive Scholar

Includes over 25 million research articles, books and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of 18th century journals though the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web

Earth Science Open Access Reprints

* ESSOAr Earth and Space Science Open
Archive
* EarthArXiv PrePrints

Search for print journals in the Library

Search journal titles in the Library print journal collection (select journals from material type)

Key databases for Earth Sciences

* Scopus
Scopus from Elsevier is a comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and features tools to analyze and visualize research
Training material

* SADC Groundwater Literature Archive (with compliments of the British Geological Survey and the SADC Groundwater Management Institute)

* SciFinder-n Valuable resource for geochemistry research
Use your existing SciFinder credentials to log into SciFinder-n.
First-time users should go to the registration page at https://ez.sun.ac.za/login?url=https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=A62F817B-86F3-5055-48F7-37DC9AA75526 to register as a CAS user before they continue to SciFinder-n
Training tutorials

* ScienceDirect
Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database
Training material

* Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to Science Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports. Also features bibliometrics tools to analyse results
Training material

* JSTOR
Digitized back issues of academic journals, but also includes books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals

* CAB Direct
Looking for information on environment impact?

* SA GEOLit
Contains information on geoscience publications, held by the Information Centre of the Council for Geoscience (CGS). About 1880 - present

* Sabinet African Journals (includes South African journals) (also indexed on databases Scopus, Web of Science and Ebsco)

* GeoRef
A comprehensive geosciences database by the American Geological Institute. More than 3500 journals, books, maps, government reports, conference papers and theses and dissertations