Focuses on US agriculture, goes back to 1970. PDF Guide Available

Largest biological database, goes back to 1969. PDF Guide Available

A comprehensive database of Ag publications worldwide. It covers a diverse range of topics but those most relevant to Soil Science are Environmental Sciences, including: ecology and climate change, forestry, soil science, and hydrology. PDF Guide Available

Allows you to do keyword searches using multiple databases such as Geobase and GeoRef. Covers an article date range of 1785 to the present.

GEOBASE® is a multidisciplinary database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management, and nature conservation. Covering thousands of peer-reviewed journals, trade publications, book series, and conference proceedings, GEOBASE has the most international coverage of any database in the field.

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 90,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses.

Search for thesis and dissertations published either at the UIUC or any other university (full text access is available for some but not all thesis and dissertations). PDF Guide Available

Scopus is a large abstract and citation database containing over 20,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide. Basic and Advanced Guides Available

Provides the most current index to the world's leading scholarly research journals in all disciplines; includes abstracts. Available: 1982-present. Includes a unique "cited reference" feature, to find articles that have cited a given article. Basic and Advanced Guides Available