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University of Dayton students, faculty and staff can access most electronic resources on or off-campus. For off-campus access, use your UD Porches username and password to authenticate.
- UDiscover This link opens in a new window
A search tool that lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A citation database with multidisciplinary coverage in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Contains over 150 million records. Includes international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Presents a collection of journal articles & book chapters published by Elsevier. Subjects include physical sciences, engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences, and humanities. All abstracts are available, but only subscribed content is full text.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary resource that includes journals, magazines, books, reports and proceedings. Contains over 10,000 titles, some coverage from 1880s to the present.
- GeoRef This link opens in a new window
GeoRef contains more than 3500 indexed 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 1666 to the present, as well as global coverage dating back to 1933. - AGU Journals This link opens in a new window
Earth, atmospheric, ocean, hydrologic, space, and planetary science research articles from journals and a number of open-access books developed by the American Geophysical Union.
- USGS Publications Warehouse This link opens in a new window
This repository of the United States Geological Survey provides access to over 170,000 publications written by USGS scientists over the century-plus history of the bureau. - Landsat Image Gallery This link opens in a new window
Provides satellite imagery of the Earth's surface from NASA's LANDSAT satellite. Urban growth, natural resources, and crop health are a few of the issues that may be monitored with this data. Images archived back to 1972. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Large database of citations from papers, reports and books.
