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GeoRef
Comprehensive geoscience database includes references to geoscience maps, serial, and non-serial literature, all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey, master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities. North American resources from 1669; worldwide coverage from 1933.
PolicyMap
Leverage thousands of U.S. data indicators to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block up to the national level. Users can also upload data and customize searches for their research and studies.

While setting up an account is not necessary, College of Charleston faculty, students, and staff may want to create individual accounts in order to save their work.
Data Planet
A repository of standardized and structured statistical data including 157 billion data points, 12.6 billion data sets, and over 500 source databases. Users can easily compare and contrast multiple data series, perform statistical calculations, and customize output views.
Web of Science
Provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, dating from 1980.
ScienceDirect Journals
Full-text database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.
Academic OneFile (Gale)
Comprehensive resource for serious academic research. Includes thousands of peer-reviewed and full-text journal in a wide variety of subjects.
Academic Search Complete
Includes thousands of full-text journals and magazines, thousands of peer-reviewed journals, access to over 1,400 journals without an embargo, over 2,000 journals indexed in Web of Science and Scopus, and more.
JSTOR
Full text articles from several scholarly journals of physical, economic, and human geography
Science Reference Center
Contains full text for hundreds of science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, and other reliable sources. In addition, the database includes high-quality science images from sources such as UPI, Getty, NASA, National Geographic and the Nature Picture Library.

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