LibGuides: Geography and Geology: Journal Articles & Databases

Using databases for your subject

For more specialist searching use an online database

What are online databases?

Databases are specialist search engines that search for quality information, such as journals articles, in specific subject areas.

The databases below are listed in order of relevance for your subject. Hover over the title for a description and the icons to see what help is available.

For help searching the databases contact your Science, Engineering and Design librarians. Details on the Home page.

Please note that all databases are provided for educational use only

GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new window
GeoScienceWorld Journal Collection provides fulltext access to 46 top-tier journals focused on various branches of geology and earth sciences from 28 global publishing societies. This amounts to 171,000+ articles and abstracts. This is integrated with over 4 million resources in the American GeoSciences Institute's GeoRef database. GeoRef is the most comprehensive bibliographic database in the geosciences, covering geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Covers all aspects of human impact to the environment. Topics include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy and recycling. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 612,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 9,100 records
Scopus This link opens in a new window
Easy to use and comprehensive, Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature covering 20,500 journals.

Further Help and guidance is available at http://libguides.tees.ac.uk/cinahl/support - please select the Scopus tab
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
An abstracting & indexing database covering over 12,000 journals via the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Conference proceedings for science and social sciences & humanities are also indexed
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
An extremely popular comprehensive database of primary literature which provides the full-text of more than 2,500 peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical journals
Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Business Source Ulitmate is a business database, providing bibliographic and full text content for many academic business journals back to 1886 . Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, major reference works, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses and more
Cambridge University Press Journals This link opens in a new window
Cambridge University Press journals cover a broad range of subjects including all the main subjects in the humanities, social sciences and hard sciences. Their key areas are applied science, environment and conservation, agriculture, neuroscience and biomedicine, history, area studies, language and linguistics, political science and international relations
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals Online provides access to the following collections:
Premier Journals Collection portfolio of 1,101 titles
SAGE IMechE portfolio of 18 titles
SAGE RSM portfolio of 28 titles
Taylor and Francis Online This link opens in a new window
In this journal collection we have access to:
1475 titles in Social Science and Humanities Library
532 titles in Science & Technology Library
203 titles in Medical Library
African Journals Online This link opens in a new window
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is the world's largest and preeminent platform of African-published scholarly journals. It's aim is to increase global and continental online access, awareness, quality & use of African-published, peer-reviewed research. Relevant subjects covered are: Agriculture & Food Sciences (65); Aquatic Sciences (10); Biology & Life Sciences (105); Chemistry, Mathematics & Physics (46); Earth Sciences (8); Environmental Sciences (39); Fish & Fisheries (4); General Science (broad subject range) (150); Health (208); Veterinary Science (19)

Specify It (Knowledge Workspace) This link opens in a new window
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Specify It contains product and supplier information for the construction industry.
Construction Information Service - CIS This link opens in a new window
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Construction Information Service is a comprehensive source of technical standards legislation and technical guidance for construction industry professionals.

Digimap This link opens in a new window
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Digimap Collections are EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education.
Users can view, print and customise maps with our Roam application, or map data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD.
To access Digimap you first need to register following the below steps:
Click the blue 'Login' box and search for 'Teesside University'
Login using your University email address and password.
You then need to Register using your University email address.
You will receive a verification email, click to link in the email to verify your email address.
You are then required to accept the licence agreement for all of the collections.
Tick to accept each licence you also need to add the 'purpose' of use. Click 'Next'
You then need to confirm that you are requesting access to collections and that licences have been accepted.
Finally click 'Submit'

Further YouTube videos on Digimap

Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
Sage Research Methods Cases This link opens in a new window
Search and browse this collection of case studies of real social research, specially commissioned and designed to help you understand abstract methodological concepts in practice.

NewsBank: Access World News This link opens in a new window
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This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.
It includes 221 full-colour image edition newspapers from across the world.

Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Content is easily searched and sorted through an intuitive, map-based interface.
PressReader This link opens in a new window
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PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines from over 100 countries in 60 different languages. Issues of magazines and newspapers appear as they would do in print as soon as they are published.
For information on how to access PressReader go to: Access Instructions

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
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BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels and search our extensive archive.

For use in the UK. If you are in a non-EU country the licence and associated exceptions in law do not apply and may not access BoB content even if you are an authorised user in the UK

Users will need to register when logging in to BoB for the first time, and then complete registration by clicking on the link in the verification email. The purpose of registration is for access error reports and account migration.

How to find journal articles

Do you want to find journal articles on a topic or look for a specific article?

Use Discovery - input your topic or the details of a journal article to search across most of the Library's resources

Discovery

If you have a journal title use Journal Finder to check if the Library has access to full text.

Journal Finder

What are journals?

They are: Journals

like magazines but of a scholarly nature
published at regular intervals with no predetermined end
contain articles on a variety of topics
the articles are written by different authors
sometimes they also contain reviews and other information
in printed and electronic formats

Why Should I use them?

journal time is much quicker than for a book
using information from journals will keep you up to date and informed of new developments in your subject
journals articles are more specific than books. They give you more detailed information in a more scholarly and concise format
subject may not yet (or may never) be covered in books
quality research - academic reputation - peer reviewed.

What is scholarly/peer reviewed?

Written by an academic, who is a specialist in the subject
Submitted to an editor, who then passes the work to other professionals or 'peers' for a critiques, the work is then passed back to the original writer for changes to be made before being published
Longer articles, heavily text based
Charts, tables, statistics and images
Properly referenced with a list of references at the end of the article.

Click on the link below to access a list of e-journal titles. Then click on the titles to view the Library's holdings. To access the e-journals off campus use your IT username and password.

PressReader has over 7000 newspapers and magazines. Relevant titles for Geography and Geology include:


National Geographic Traveller	Geographical	Asian Geographic

How to evaluate an article

"How do I know if the information I have found is relevant and/or appropriate?"

Basic evaluation takes into consideration an article's:

Relevance
Authority
Currency

Examine the article and consider the following points:

Is the journal the article appears in of significant academic standing for this level? Where did you find the article? (Database, references etc.)
Who wrote the paper and what is their expertise. Are the authors experts in the field (Academics, industry professional) and have they written other published articles?
Is the article current, does the date of the article matter for this subject area?

Evaluation Checklist

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