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Literature Search Databases

The following websites include free (or partly free) online databases that can be used for literature searches. The content of each of these is different, some are specialist and others contain a variety of science subjects.

British Library Document Supply Service
GeoScienceWorld - Earth Science publications from c30 publishers
Google Scholar
Lyell Collection - Geological Society publications only
MinAbs online - search abstracts from Mineralogical Abstracts between 1982 and 2008
OnePetro - petroleum, oil and gas only. Articles can be downloaded from this site for a fee, but abstracts are free
SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) - while mainly covering astronomy/astrophysics, this is useful for geochemistry & tectonics
ScienceResearch.com
SciTech Connect - citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) including science information previously searchable in the Energy Citations Database and the Information Bridge
WorldWideScience