Literature Search Databases

A number of online Literature Search Databases including GeoRef and Petroleum Abstracts are available for use by Fellows and Corporate Affiliates within the Library. Library staff can also carry out searches on their behalf. For details of this service see our Literature Searches page in the Services section of our Library website.

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 Direct

Energy citations database

Citations and documents are made publicly available by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

GeoScienceWorld

Only the e-journals hosted on this site are searchable here.

Google Scholar

Lyell Collection

Geological Society publications only.

MinAbs online

Contains mineralogical abstracts only.

OnePetro

Petroleum, oil and gas only.

Sageolit

African geological literature database

SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

While mainly covering astronomy/astrophysics, this is useful for geochemistry & tectonics.

ScienceResearch.com

Scirus

Scitopia.org

WorldWideScience