Earth Sciences

Oxford has outstanding collections in Geography and the Environment. This page gives you fast access to some key resources, which will lead to many others.

Subject Librarian

Sue Bird

Geography, Earth Sciences and Environment Subject Librarian

Please contact for help or information on:

  • Library services & resources
  • Literature searching
  • One-to-one or group training on e-resources such as subject databases and reference management
  • Keeping up-to-date with developments in your field.

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Libraries

Principal collections:

Associated collections:

To make suggestions for purchase

Book

http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/recommendations  [Opens in new window.]

E-resource (including journal or database)

http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/erc/proposals/index.html [Opens in new window.]

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Catalogues

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Databases

Those below can also be accessed and cross-searched through OxLIP+, the complete list of Oxford's databases, online reference works, and e-journal and e-book packages. 

Searching the geography and environment literature

  • Scopus: covers 15,000 journals, plus web sources and patents across science & medicine. Includes GeoBase - major database for Geography and Environmental Sciences.
  • Web of Knowledge: platform for Web of Science (Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Conference Proceedings), Journal Citation Reports (impact factors). 

Dissertations & theses

  • Index to Theses: a comprehensive listing of theses accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.
  • Dissertations & Theses: master's and doctoral, from the USA and around the world, 1861 onwards.

Full-text database

ScienceDirect: Elsevier's full-text platform offers over a quarter of the world's STM (Science, Technical and Medical) articles integrated with a growing range of authoritative books, including reference works, handbooks and book series. More than 2,000 journals are available.

Reference management tools

Store useful references and create your own bibliography: EndNote is on sale at OUCS, while web-based systems RefWorks and EndNoteWeb are free to Oxford University members.Yale University have compiled a chart comparing EndNote, EndNote Web and RefWorks.

The Harvard System (author-date) is the most commonly-used style of referencing worldwide. Anglia Ruskin University did this guide to the Harvard System.

Keeping up to date: search alerts and volume/issue alerts

Set up email alerts or RSS feeds for automatic notification of new journal articles or tables of contents for the latest issue.

For search alerts (by topic): do a search on a database such as Scopus then choose Save as Alert to get notification of new articles on the subject.

Volume/issue alerts (for specific journals): use Zetoc: the British Library's electronic table of contents, or ScienceDirect: for journals available on this platform.

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Journals

Finding journals

  • Oxford e-Journals: access to e-journals available on the University network.
  • OLIS: search for hardcopy journals.

Quick links to major Geography and Environment journals (latest issues; more backfiles may be available via the e-Journals list)

  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
  • Annals of the Association of American Geographers
  • Geographical Journal

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    Reference sources

    Quick links to Geography and Environment reference sources

    General

    • Encyclopedia of Life Sciences: comprehensive and authoritative, written by leaders in the field.
    • Handbook of Statistics: a series of self-contained reference books. Each volume is devoted to a particular topic in statistics.
    • Encyclopedia of Human Geography
    • Oxford Reference Online: quick reference collection including English & bilingual dictionaries, English grammar & thesaurus guides, plus subject dictionaries.

    The following is a selection of E-books 

    • The Blackwell companion to globalization
    • A companion to cultural geography
    • A companion to economic geography
    • A companion to the city
    • A dictionary of earth sciences
    • A dictionary of environment and conservation
    • Environmental protection : European law and governance
    • Fundamentals of hydrology
    • Geographies of Nature: Societies, Environments, Ecologies
    • The global environment, natural resources, and economic growth
    • International encyclopedia of environmental politics
    • Nature : Key ideas in geography
    • The Oxford companion to global change
    • Post-colonial studies : the key concepts
    • Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-network-theory
    • Remaking reality : nature at the millennium
    • Using Social Theory: Thinking Through Research
    • Water law & policy : governance without frontiers
    • Water Supply 5th ed
    • Worlds of Food: Place, Power, and Provenance in the Food Chain

    Websites

    • Intute: Health and Life Sciences: a subject gateway providing links to quality websites to support education & research.
    • Scirus: science specific internet search engine. Good coverage, currency and functionality.

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    Training & online tutorials

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    Comments, suggestions or questions? please get in touch.

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