Earth Sciences and Geology

Contains more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, Academic Complete (formerly Premier) offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of more than 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. Subject areas covered include: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. Updated on a daily basis.

As an American publisher of historical and current maps of US cities and towns, the Sanborn Map Company has been a driving influence in the mapping industry since it started in 1866. Sanborn maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urbanized areas in the United States. The maps include detailed information regarding town and building data in approximately 12,000 US towns and cities from 1867 to 2007. They are a highly useful resource for historical research, planning, preservation and restoration, genealogical research, sociological studies, and research of urban geography. Select Sanborn maps of Canada (British Columbia), Cuba and Mexico are also included.

The Jefferson Weather & Climate Records is a digital historical documentary edition of Thomas Jefferson’s 50-year compilation (1776-1826) of meteorological observations, sometimes expanded to include information on local ecology and seasonal patterns; and supplemented by related materials found elsewhere in Jefferson’s personal papers. Registering this type of scientific data across an extended period was a rare undertaking in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century North America. The synthesis and online presentation of these materials, a joint project of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University (PTJ) and the Center for Digital Editing at the University of Virginia (CDE), has transformed them from a heterogeneous assemblage of manuscript notations to a coherent digital archive that can be readily accessed, understood, and interpreted for a notable range of research investigations, from scientific and cultural history to presidential biography to the urgent contemporary project of tracing the historical development of climate change.

Moscow University Press (Vestnik MGU in Russian) published by the most prominent academic institution in Russia: Moscow State University, offers 26 different topics on all important areas of scholarly knowledge ranging from mathematics and chemistry to economy, law and history. The database also contains two correlating journals: The Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Nature Studies: Biology and The Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Nature Studies: Geology. The Moscow University Press database provides a wealth of research materials to scholars in various areas of knowledge, especially working in the cross-disciplinary fields and studying the latest scientific developments in Russia.

TIGER Geodatabases are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER database for use with Esri’s ArcGIS. However, Open Source GIS such as QGIS also support the Geodatabase format. The geodatabases contain national coverage (for geographic boundaries or features) or state coverage (boundaries within state).
These files do not include demographic data, but they contain geographic entity codes that can be linked to the Census Bureau’s demographic data, available on American FactFinder.
See the documentation for the description of geographic boundaries and features contained in each geodatabase. Further details of the geographic boundaries and features can be found in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles technical documentation. These files will be released up to two times a year.