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Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) & NRCan:

• GEOSCAN provides online access to most GSC materials including bulletins, memoirs, papers, and maps.
• For print materials:
  • GSC Bulletins [print]
  • GSC Memoirs [print]
  • GSC Papers [print]

United States Geological Survey (USGS): 

• USGS Publications Warehouse
• For print materials:
  • USGS Bulletins [print]
  • USGS Professional papers [print]
  • USGS Water supply papers [print]

New Earth Sciences books

Journal Article Databases

GeoRef
Covers worldwide literature in geology and earth sciences. Indexes journals in 40 languages as well as books, maps, reports, most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and American and Canadian masters and doctoral theses. Coverage: 1785 to the present.

GEOSCAN
Scientific and technical publications of the Earth Sciences Sector (ESS) of Natural Resources Canada including Geological Survey of Canada Memoirs, Bulletins, and maps.

AAPG Datapages 
Articles, bulletins and memoirs by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Geoscience Data Repository
A collection of Earth Sciences Sector geoscience databases that is managed and accessed by a series of Information Services (GDRIS). From Earth Sciences Sector. Natural Resources Canada.

GEOBASE
An extensive collection of bibliographies of books, articles, monographs, reports and theses in physical and human geography, geology, mineralogy, ecology and development studies. The scope is international, dating back to 1980. The interdisciplinary coverage makes it suitable for researching environmental issues. 

Web of Science
Search citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources across the sciences as well as in social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches and citation analysis.

​IsisCB Explore
A research tool for the history of science, whose core dataset comes from bibliographical citations in the Isis Bibliography of the History of Science. The IsisCB currently contains 40 years of citation data from 1974 to 2014. 

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