Subject guide Earth Sciences, Geomatics and Planning
This subject guide contains tips on where to search for information within earth sciences, geomatics and planning.
Search guide
The library's search guide contains information on how and where to search for articles, books and other publications for your assignment or thesis. You are guided through the four steps of information retrieval: how to plan your search, how to conduct it, how to find material and, finally, how to evaluate your search results.
In databases you can search for articles on a subject in many journals at the same time.
Multidisciplinary
- Academic Search Premier
Aggregated database with journals from several publishers. About 75% of the journals are peer reviewed. - Taylor & Francis Online
Covers several tens of geomatics/planning journals. - SAGE journals online
Covers about 20 geomatics/planning journals. - ScienceDirect
Covers at least 50 geomatics/planning journals. - SpringerLink
Covers more than 30 geomatics/planning journals. - Wiley Online Library
Covers about 50 geomatics/planning journals.
- Sveriges länskartor (Swedish county maps)
Public map service from the Swedish County Administrative Boards.
Covers journals from several publishers. Contains primarily references and abstracts but have links to fulltext databases.
Subject specific
- ASCE Civil Engineering Database (CEDB)
Articles, conference papers and other publications from American Society of Civil Engineers. No subscription to fulltext. - Geolagret (in swedish)
Swedish geology
Multidisciplinary
- Web of Science
References and abstracts to journal articles and conference papers on many subjects. Links to citing articles and a function for searching cited author and/or cited document. - Scopus
A new alternative to Web of Science covering more journals and conference series.
Some search tools dedicated to searching for scholarly documents on the web.
- Google Scholar
Indexes free web resources and many commercial publishers' journal archives as well. Links to citing articles. - CORE
Freely available articles, reports and other research output in open repositories.
Use the journal list to browse specific journals or to find articles you already know about.
- An introduction from Jönköping University Library.
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