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GeoRef
GeoRef is the online version of the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. The database is the equivalent of four major reference publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology. Additional items come from special bibliographies produced on request for state surveys or societies, and annual subject and author indexes.
SciFinder
SciFinder is a key database for chemistry, chemical and biochemical engineering, environmental sciences, materials science, and geochemistry. Its coverage includes journal articles, conference papers and patents from many patent issuing organizations. You can search by research topic, chemical substance, structure and substructure.
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Scopus
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Scopus covers 29 million abstracts of over 15,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers, 265 million references and 265 million quality web pages through Scirus' web search to cover the scientific web. This includes cited and citing references.
Web of Science
Provides access to three multidisciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Each Web of Science database includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography). This unique feature allows searching for articles that cite a known author or work. Tutorial

Wiley-Blackwell AGU Digital Library
American Geophysical Union's Digital Library Collection of publications from the American Geophysical Union (includes journals, books, lectures/interviews). Full-text (journal articles) / Full-text (e-book collection) from 1896.
Lyell Collection
"The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth science literature available. Bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform, the Lyell Collection is a unique resource for researcher and student alike" (from the publisher's website).
OnePetro
OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. From one place, you can search documents from many different professional societies, or similar organizations, that serve the oil and gas industry. Launched in March 2007, OnePetro currently contains more than 130,000 documents, with more being added frequently. The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is operating OnePetro on behalf of the participating organizations. Current organizations with technical documents in OnePetro: API, ARMA, ASSE, IPTC, ISRM, OTC, NACE, NETL, PETSOC, PSIG, SEG, SPE, SPEE, SPWLA, SUT, WPC.

Subjects: Earth Sciences