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ScienceDirect platform
We are delighted to announce a major expansion of the e-journals and e-books available to Fellows on the ScienceDirect platform.
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Annales de paléontologie (1998 onwards) Antarctic science (all issues) Applied geochemistry (all issues) Australian journal of earth sciences (vol.52 2005 – vol.55 no.1 2008) Central European geology (formerly Acta geologica Hungarica) (2002 onwards) Chemical geology (1995 onwards) Computers & geosciences (1995 onwards) Continental shelf research (1995 onwards) Contributions to mineralogy and petrology (1997 - 2011) Coral reefs (1997 - 2011) Cretaceous research (1995 onwards)
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (all issues) Earth and planetary science letters (all issues) Earth-science reviews (all issues) Engineering geology (all issues) Environmental geochemistry and health (1997 - 2018) Geobios (1995 onwards) Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (all issues) Geodinamica acta (1997 onwards) Geofluids (vol.6 2006 – vol.9 no.1 2009 Athens password needed) & (2017 onwards freely available online) Geological magazine (all issues) Geological Society of America bulletin (all issues) Geology (all issues) Geomechanics and geophysics for geo-energy and geo-resources (2015 - 2016) Geophysical prospecting (vol.54 2006 – vol.57 no.2 2009) Géotechnique (2009 - 2020) Geotectonic research (2007- 2015) Global and planetary change (1995 onwards) Gondwana research (all issues) Ground water (1997 - 2009) Icarus (all issues) Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces (1997 - 2006) International journal of coal geology (1995 onwards) International journal of geosynthetics and ground engineering (2015 - 2016) International journal of rock mechanics and mining sciences [& geomechanics abstracts] (all issues) Journal of African earth sciences (all issues) Journal of Asian earth sciences (formerly Journal of Southeast Asian earth sciences ) (1995 onwards) Journal of geochemical exploration (1995 onwards) Journal of geodynamics (1995 onwards) Journal of hydrology (all issues) Journal of ocean engineering and marine energy (2015 - 2016) Journal of paleontology (2014-2020) Journal of South American earth sciences (1995 onwards) Journal of structural geology (all issues) Journal of systematic palaeontology (all issues) Journal of volcanology and geothermal research (all issues) Lithos (1995 onwards) Marine geology (all issues) Marine micropaleontology (1995 onwards) Marine and petroleum geology (all issues) Mathematical geosciences (formerly Mathematical geology) (1997 - 2011) Mediterranean geoscience reviews (2019 - 2020) Mineralogy and petrology (1997 - 2012) Modeling earth systems and environment (2015 - 2016) Nature (2010 onwards) Nature reviews earth & environment (all issues) Nature geoscience (2011 onwards) Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. Abhandlungen (2007 - 2012) Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. Abhandlungen (2001 onwards) Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie. Monatshefte (2002 - 2004) Ore geology reviews (1995 onwards) Organic geochemistry (all issues) Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (all issues) Precambrian research (all issues Proceedings of the Geologists' Association (all issues)
Quaternary international (1995 onwards) Quaternary science reviews (1995 onwards) Remote sensing in Earth systems science (2018-2019) Revue de micropaléontologie (1995 onwards) Sedimentary geology (all issues) Stratigraphy & timescales (all issues) Surveys in geophysics (1997 - 2011) Swiss journal of geosciences (formerly Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae and Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen) (1997 onwards) Systematics and biodiversity (all issues) Tectonophysics (all issues)