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Geography | Mātai Matawhenua: Journals & Databases

Key Earth Sciences Databases

GeoRef is the gold standard for geology and other earth science disciplines. GeoScienceWorld is a comprehensive earth sciences database that has innovative modern features like map based searching. Both databases are an excellent place to find journal articles as well as other source types including grey literature such as reports.

Key Multidisciplinary Databases

Scopus database is great source of high quality peer-reviewed Science and Social Science journal articles and to a lesser extent other types of sources.

Keenious is an exciting new research tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse your writing and find relevant sources for you and is used as an add-on for either MS Word or Google Docs

Google Scholar is a free online databases that is very broad. Google scholar has full-text links to UC paid sources if you add UC as a library link in the settings.

Other Useful Databases

News and New Zealand Content

Medical Databases

These databases may be useful for any Health Geography topics.

Publisher Databases

Legislation and Commentary

  Resource management
     Legislation and commentary. New Zealand