GLG 121: Environmental Geology: Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles

Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains bibliographic records for geosciences literature from around the world. GeoRef contains a vast amount of indexed information, including 3.7 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals covering a wide spectrum of geoscience literature. Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Coverage within the database includes the geology of North America from 1669 to the present, as well as global coverage dating back to 1933.

Miami University Libraries Search

• Start searching for articles here (searches multiple databases at once).
• Use limiters to narrow your results - peer-reviewed, subject, date, etc.  
• Use the "Citation" option below the citation when you click on it to create an APA or MLA citation.
• To share this article, click and copy the Permalink option option below the citation when you click on it (not the browser URL).

Watch this short video on how to search for articles in Miami University Libraries Search (4:31 minutes; John Burke, 2025).

Need a Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Journal Article?  Who writes them?  Why?  Where do you find one?

• Peer Review in 3 Minutes (NCSU Libraries) 
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article  (NCSU Libraries)