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Find Articles: Recommended Physical Geography Databases

Start with the following Databases & Indexes to locate scholarly journal articles related to Physical Geography.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary resource which provides indexing to peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports. Approximately half of the publications include the full-text.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Note: To determine if the University of Lethbridge Library has the full-text of an item, conduct a search and click on the Find it @ the U of Lethbridge link from the results list. If it's not available in the Library, use the Library's Interlibrary Loan service. Content: Books, Free Access, General/Multidisciplinary, Scholarly Journals, Theses & Dissertations
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes citation mapping and citation reports. Search can be limited to the following databases: Science Citation Index Expanded Social Sciences Citation Index Arts & Humanities Citation Index Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities Book Citation Index - Science Book citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities Current Chemical Reactions Index Chemicus To limit your results to one of the above citation indexes, scroll down the main search page and click on the appropriate database.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window IEEE Xplore is the flagship digital platform for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. It contains more than 6 million documents and other materials from some of the world's most cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and related sciences. Content: Books, Conference Proceedings, Magazines, Scholarly Journals
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Access scientific, technical, medical and scholarly content covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Content: Scholarly journals, books, reference works, laboratory protocols
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window Environment Complete is a leading full-text database for environmental studies. It provides hundreds of top environment journals covering ecosystem ecology, energy, environmental policy, sustainability and other related subjects. Content: Magazines, Scholarly Journals

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AGRICOLA This link opens in a new window AGRICOLA is an online database created and maintained by the United States National Agricultural Library of the United States Department of Agriculture. The database serves as the catalog and index for the collections of the United States National Agricultural Library. It brings PubAg, the NAL Digital Collections (NALDC), and itself together in one place. Content: Books, Free Access, Government Documents, Reports, Scholarly Journals, These & Dissertations
SPRILIB Ice and Snow This link opens in a new window Indexes glaciological literature from 1661 to the present, relating to all aspects of ice and snow worldwide. Provided through the Scott Polar Research Institute. Content: Scholarly journals, books & book chapters, conference papers
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) This link opens in a new window GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive resource for research and communications in the Earth Sciences. GSW works with societies, institutions, and researchers around the world and provides a single source of access to more than 50 preeminent scholarly journals, 2,200+ eBooks, and over 4.5 million GeoRef records with specialized and map-based search capabilities and links to curated earth science research around the web. Content: Books, Free Access, Maps, Reports, Scholarly Journals, Theses & Dissertations

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