Subject guides: Science: Earth, Atmosphere and Environment

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Key Databases

Engineering village (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Includes literature across the earth sciences including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, international development, oceanography and geomechanics. Includes: Compendex, INSPEC, Geobase and Georef.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Proquest is a leading multidisciplinary portal providing access to a large collection of scientific literature. Includes the Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database and the Environmental Science index and WATERnetBASE ebooks.
Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new window
Scientific, technical, and social science literature. including peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings. Includes Science Direct.
SDG online This link opens in a new window
Sustainable Development Goals Online (SDGO) is an interdisciplinary collection themed around the SDGs. The collection was created in partnership with United Nations.
Web of science -- all databases This link opens in a new window
Web of Science includes journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences and social sciences. Includes Biological abstracts.

Atmospheric science

Environmental abstracts (Informit) This link opens in a new window
Produced by the EPA Victoria Library, EVA is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles on the environment and related fields to 2011.
MathSciNet This link opens in a new window
MathSciNet covers the world's mathematical literature. It is created and maintained by the American Mathematical Society. Journals, conference proceedings, and books of mathematics research are included.

Geographical science

CAB Direct This link opens in a new window
A source of reference in the applied life sciences, including the Environmental Impact database.

Geoscience

AAPG/Datapages This link opens in a new window
This is the combined collections of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Australia's national geosciences, minerals and petroleum reference database (Informit) This link opens in a new window
Archive of geoscience literature written by Australian authors, to 2001.
Australia 1:1,000,000 topographic map series (Geoscience Australia) This link opens in a new window
Covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:1 million. Also includes links to maps of varying scale: 1:250,000; 1:100,000; 1:50,000.
Paleobiology database This link opens in a new window
Provides researchers and the public with information about the entire fossil record.
Scitation This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journals published and distributed by the American Institute of Physics and its member societies including articles in geosciences, physics, chemistry and more.

Other

There are numerous other databases which may be relevant to research in atmospheric sciences.

EBSCOhost research databases This link opens in a new window
Portal to full text and/or bibliographic EBSCOhost databases (Monash University Library current subscriptions are displayed). Databases are sourced from leading information providers, and subject coverage is multi-disciplinary.
Gale academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles on sciences, podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, and the New York Times, the Times (London) and the Financial Times
Gale virtual reference library This link opens in a new window
See: Gale ebooks
Informit search This link opens in a new window
Includes 22 collections of scientific literature with a focus on Australia. Includes EVA: environmental abstracts (to 2011), MEDGE: management and environment information (to 2006), and STREAMLINE: Australia's natural resources database (to 2004).
JSTOR sustainability collection This link opens in a new window
Explore journals, e-books and research reports on environmental stresses and their impact on society. Research spans the Biological Sciences, Business & Economics, Ecology, Environmental Sciences, Law, Public Health, Urban Studies, and many other disciplines.
Lyell collection This link opens in a new window
A large integrated collection of online earth science literature containing key journals, special publications, and society book series within the fields of Geology, Hydrogeology, and Engineering Geology.
OECD Library This link opens in a new window
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics, and is the gateway to OECDs analysis and data. It replaced SourceOECD in July 2010.
VicMap topographic maps series This link opens in a new window
Maps cover the state of Victoria in a variety of scales and sizes. These maps depict cultural, constructed and natural features such as rivers, roads, contours, towns, national parks, waterfalls, hospitals and more.

Click on the topics below to access books from the collection.

Atmospheric Sciences subject headings
Atmosphere Climate change Meteorology

Atmospheric Sciences subject headings

Atmosphere

Climate change

Meteorology

Geographical Sciences subject headings
Geographic information systems Human geography Physical geography Urbanisation

Geographical Sciences subject headings

Geographic information systems

Human geography

Physical geography

Urbanisation

Earth science subject headings
Geology Geophysics Plate tectonics

Earth science subject headings

Geology

Geophysics

Plate tectonics

The following titles are some of the more popular journals in atmospheric sciences, geographical sciences and geosciences. The library subscribes to many more journals which can be found through Search or Browzine.

Atmospheric Sciences

Geographical Sciences

Geosciences

Comprehensive Nuclear Materials
Major topics in the field of nuclear material research for fission as well as fusion reactor systems
Earth systems and environmental sciences
In depth and comprehensive compendium of Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences. *NOTE Scroll past banner to search the collection
Encyclopedia of geology (2nd Ed.)
State-of-the-art reviews on the various aspects of geologic research, all of which have moved on considerably since the writing of the first edition.
Encyclopedia of Nuclear Energy
Environmental encyclopedia
Provides in-depth, worldwide coverage of environmental issues.
Oxford english dictionary
Definitive record of the english language
SAGE reference online
Collection of encyclopedias, handbooks and dictionaries including Earth and Environmental Science
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Covers geology, geomorphology, remote sensing, and anthropogenic impacts on coasts, including coastal processes, habitats, erosion, geological features, research and observation.