GeoRef, produced by the American Geological Institute, is a comprehensive geosciences database that provides citations to the geoscience literature of the world.
For most topics in this class, the following search terms provide good results.
Combine one or more terms above (using Boolean operators appropriately) with terms that describe the specific geographic area you are researching, like this example:
View a brief video (4:01) on searching in GeoRef.
Limit your results set in GeoRef to those items that are obtainable and useful: Academic Journals, Books, Reports. Use the Source Type limiters displayed in the left-hand column:
Academic journal articles, books and reports are usually easy to get using I-Share or interlibrary loan. Conference papers only provide abstracts (summaries of papers) and so will not be useful; interlibrary loan requests for these will be rejected.
