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The American Geological Institute (AGI): The GeoRef database, Open-Access Journals covered in GeoRef. Excellent!

! Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The Directory of Open Access Journals is a service that indexes and provides access to quality, peer reviewed Open Access research journals, periodicals and their articles' metadata.

! Electronic Journals Library, University Library of Regensburg, Germany.
The Electronic Journals Library is a service to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the internet. It offers a fast, structured and unified interface to access full-text articles online. The journals are presented in lists sorted by research area. Excellent!
! Journal List by Title.
! Journal List by Subject.

! GEOREF Information Services (provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI), Alexandria, VA). The GeoRef database 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 60,000 references a year. Search the GeoRef Preview Database for free access. Check an invaluable online resource:
Serials list. An alphabetical listing of un-abbreviated versions (!) of journal titles covered in GeoRef (PDF files). Decipher the full names of virtually every journal published, including those that are old or obsolete. Excellent!

! Geoscience e-Journals, the portal. This website incorporate peer-reviewed electronic journals in the field of Earth Sciences (geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, regional geology, stratigraphy, geography, etc.) permitting free online access to all or at least a major part of their current issue and/or archives. Excellent!

! GeoScienceWorld (GSW). A comprehensive internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. GSW is an unprecedented collaboration of six leading earth science societies and one institute (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), American Geological Institute, Geological Society of America, The Geological Society of London, Mineralogical Society of America, Society for Sedimentary Geology, and Society of Exploration Geophysicists).

! Google Scholar.
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Focus also on fulltext search of open access journals and conference proceedings. Check out the nuts and bolts:
! Search Help.
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! JSTOR. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization, founded to help academic libraries and publishers.

! V. Lariviere and C.R. Sugimoto (2019): The journal impact factor: A brief history, critique, and discussion of adverse effects. In PDF, Springer handbook of science and technology Indicators, pp 3–24.
See also here.
"... The inflation of the JIF [Journal Impact Factor} and the weakening predictive power is discussed, as well as the adverse effects on the behaviors of individual actors
[...] the JIF will likely remain part of the research ecosystem and as long as journals remain the primary mechanism for diffusing new knowledge, their reputation. ..."

The Linnean Society, London, United Kingdom.
The Linnean Society of London is the world’s oldest active society devoted to natural history. Go to:
Open Access Resources.

Zweigbibliothek Medizin der ULB Münster, Germany:
! Elf legale Wege an Elsevier-Artikel zu kommen, die nicht in Münster verfügbar sind (in German). Eleven legal ways to get Elsevier articles!

nature web debates: Future e-access to the primary literature. There has been considerable debate about many aspects of the future of the electronic literature, including ways to improve access to the scientific literature, proposals for making research papers free, and changing the application of copyright.

! Open access (OA), Germany, and Public Library of Science (PLoS). "Open access means immediate, free and unrestricted online access to digital scholarly material, primarily peer-reviewed research articles in scholarly journals" (Wikipedia). Excellent! Go to:
Earth Sciences, and Biology (in German). See also:
Open access to scientific literature (OASE, Universitätsbibliothek Karlsruhe),
Open Access Overview. Focusing on open access to peer-reviewed research articles and their preprints, and
Open Access News. News from the open access movement.

! OpenAlex (made by OurResearch with support from Arcadia).
OpenAlex (launched in January 2022) is an index of hundreds of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system. Please note:
Open Access Basics: Was ist OpenAlex? In German, by Philipp Falkenburg, 2022.
Also worth checking out: Wikipedia information about:
OpenAlex, and its forerunners:
Live Search Academic (existed from April 2006 to May 2008).
Microsoft Academic Search (retired in 2012, relaunched in 2016 as Academic).

! The University Library of Regensburg, Germany: Electronic Journals Library, Geosciences. A comprehensive list of journals. Excellent!

! ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific information online.

! Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia:
Category:Academic publishing.
Category:Scholarly databases.
Category:Scholarly search services.
! List of academic databases and search engines.
List of online encyclopedias.

! Mark Wilson, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds: ISI Journal Title Abbreviations.

Acta Geologica Polonica

Advances in Geosciences (ADGEO). Advances in Geosciences is an international, interdisciplinary journal for fast publication of collections of short, but self-contained communications in the Earth, planetary and solar system sciences, published by the European Geosciences Union on WWW with the option of a publication on paper (print-on-demand) and on CD-ROM.

! Albertiana (The Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy).
The primary mission of Albertiana is to promote the interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding among members of the Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy and the Triassic community at large. Albertiana are posted in a blog-style format and archived (by volume) as fully-formatted pdf issues at year end.
Albertiana past issues are available from here and likewise from Geobiology.cn. Scans of the rare early volumes of Albertiana!
Still available via Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

American Geophysical Union (AGU), Washington: AGU Journals. A quick source of mainly geophysical research results. With view contents of recent AGU journals, e.g. Russian journals in English translation.

Albertiana. The primary aim of Albertiana is to promote the interdisciplinary collaboration and understanding among the members of the IUGS Subcommission on Triassic Stratigraphy. Issues are available for download (PDF).

American Journal of Science.
The Journal is devoted to geology and related sciences and publishes articles from around the world presenting results of major research from all earth sciences.
! Open access since 2023.

American Scientist.
American Scientist is a general-interest science magazine.

Annales Geophysicae. Annales Geophysicae is an international, multi- and interdisciplinary scientific journal (Springer). The page provides access to tables of contents and abstracts of issues from 1994 onwards. See also here.

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae.
Note the links to other Polish Geojournals.

Annual Reviews. The mission of Annual Reviews is to provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. Full Online Access for Articles. Go to Search All Available Annual Reviews Content, Keyword Search, e.g. in "Word(s) Anywhere in Article". Excellent!

Antarctic Journal of the United States. This journal (PDF files) reported on U.S. activities in Antarctica, related activities elsewhere, and trends in the U.S. Antarctic Program.

Antarctic Science (Cambridge University Press). The journal attracts papers from all of the countries undertaking Antarctic research at present.

Applied Geochemistry (Elsevier). Journal of the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry.

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences covers the whole field of earth science including basin studies, regional geophysical studies and metallogeny.

Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences.
Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences (open access) is the official journal of the Austrian Geological (ÖGG), Mineralogical (ÖMG), Palaeontological (ÖPG) and Hydrogeological (ÖVH) Societies.
See also here.

Biogeosciences (BG) & Discussions (BGD). Biogeosciences (BG) is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and discussion of research articles, short communications and review papers on all aspects of the interactions between the biological, chemical and physical processes in terrestrial or extraterrestrial life with the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. The objective of the journal is to cut across the boundaries of established sciences and achieve an interdisciplinary view of these interactions.

Bulletin de la Société géologique de France

The Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (an English-language journal). News updates on science in China.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark. The Bulletin publishes contributions of international interest in all fields of geological sciences, with a natural emphasis on results of new work on material from Denmark and Greenland.

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. This journal is recognized for its wide-ranging coverage of research in geophysics, economic geology, paleontology, biostratigraphy, Quaternary geoscience, structural geology, tectonics, sedimentology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, stratigraphy, and glacial geology. With table of contents.

Carnets de Géologie - Notebooks on Geology. There are three categories of contribution: 1- Memoirs (long copiously illustrated papers presented in HTML with many links), 2- Articles (1500 to 50,000 words presented in PDF or HTML), 3- Notes (less than 1500 words, mostly in PDF). Online since October 14, 2002.

Chemical Geology (Elsevier). Chemical Geology(including Isotope Geoscience) is an international journal that publishes original research papers on the isotopic and elemental geochemistry and geochronology of the Earth. With tables of contents.

Chemie der Erde (Urban & Fischer Verlag). An interdisciplinary journal for chemical problems of the geosciences and geoecology.

Clay Minerals. Mineralogical Society Publications.

Comptes Rendus de l´Academie des Sciences - Series IIA - Earth and Planetary Science (Elsevier).

The Computer Oriented Geological Society: COGSletter.

Computers & Geosciences. An international journal (By Elsevier) devoted to the publication of papers on all aspects of geocomputation and to the distribution of computer programs and test data sets.

Data in Brief. This is a multidisciplinary, open access, peer-reviewed journal, which publishes short, digestible articles that describe and provide access to research data.

The Depositional Record.
This is a fully open access journal publishing high quality articles from across the field of sedimentology.

DMG-FORUM (in German), issued by Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft (DMG).

Doklady Earth Sciences (Doklady Akademii Nauk). Doklady Earth Sciences, a journal of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It contains English translations of papers published in Doklady Akademii Nauk (Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences), which is published 36 times a year. Doklady Earth Sciences includes materials from geology, mineralogy, petrology, oceanology, geography, soil science, paleontology, geochemistry, and geophysics. With table of contents and abstracts. See also:
IAPC Nauka/Interperiodica: Zhurnal translations. Starting in 1996, contents and abstacts of the articles have been freely accessible.

Earth
The American Geosciences Institute, Alexandria, VA.
Earth (open access) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on earth science published quarterly online.

Earth and Planetary Sciences. Go to Keyword Search, e.g. in Search ALL Earth and Planetary Sciences content.

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (Elsevier). Articles published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reflect the great impact made on research in the geosciences by the use of successful research methods from other disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and mathematics. It also covers research into all aspects of lunar studies, plate tectonics, ocean floor spreading, and continental drift, as well as basic studies of the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of the Earth's crust and mantle, the atmosphere and the hydrosphere.

earth.elsevier.com. Earth & Planetary Sciences Backfiles Online. earth.elsevier.com includes around 70 journals, with direct navigation to more than 58,000 online articles published since 1995, over 400 books, and various other publications and services of Elsevier, Pergamon, Academic Press, Butterworth Heinemann, and Gulf Professional Publishing. To view all the articles ever published in your favourite Elsevier Earth & Planetary Sciences journal - back to volume 1, issue 1 - simply go to the Journal List and click on the title of your choice ! Users at institutions with a Science Direct licence can access the full text of journal articles from this website.

Earth Sciences History. Journal of The History of Earth Sciences Society.

Earth-Science Reviews (Elsevier). The international geological journal bridging the gap between research articles and textbooks. With table of contents.

Earth Science Teachers´ Association (ESTA).
The aim of the Association is to advance education by encouraging and supporting the teaching of Earth sciences at all levels, whether as a single subject such as Geology, or as part of Science or Geography or other courses.
! Don´t miss the archive access, especially of the journal "Geology Teaching". Excellent! This archive contains back issues of ESTA publications which have been scanned and stored in Portable Document Format (pdf).

EdgeNET. Searchable online version of "The Leading Edge", the journal of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Electronic Geology. Electronic Geology is a virtual-only, peer reviewed journal published by Electronic Journals Ltd. in association with Kingston University and Kingston University Press. The journal aims to provide a rapid, flexible and inexpensive publication service for earth scientists.

Episodes Journal of International Geoscience.
Episodes, an international and interdisciplinary open access journal, is a quarterly journal of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).

Evolving Earth.
Evolving Earth is a multi-disciplinary open access journal publishing novel geoscience research that addresses all aspects of Earth system science, the past and future evolution of our planet, and global change mitigation.

Facies Carbonate Sedimentology and Paleoecology.
The journal Facies presents papers dealing with the interpretation of ancient and modern biotopes and carbonate depositional environments by means of facies analysis in its broadest sense.

Freiberger Forschungshefte.
See also here (in German).

G³ - Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Published by the AGU and Geochemical Society. G³ is a new electronic journal dedicated to the timely publication of research that bears on our understanding of Earth as a dynamic physicochemical system. It endeavors to publish papers of broad interest in the Earth sciences.

Geo.Alp. A yearly journal devoted to Alpine geology (and palaeontology), formerly named as "Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck".

Geochemical Transactions. An e-only journal, published in collaboration with the ACS Division of Geochemistry, which serves as a medium for the rapid publication of high quality research in all areas of chemistry as it relates to materials and processes occurring in the Earth's aquasphere and geosphere.

Geochemistry International (Geokhimiya). Geochemistry International is a journal of cosmochemistry; geochemistry of magmatic, metamorphic, hydrothermal, and sedimentary processes; organic geochemistry; applied geochemistry; and chemistry of the environment. With table of contents and abstracts.

Elsevier: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta publishes research papers in a wide range of subjects in terrestrial geochemistry, meteoritics, and planetary geochemistry. With table of contents of published issues, starting 1995.

Geoconservation Research (GCR):
GCR is an international open access journal.

GEO Explorer. The web site of GEO Magazine. In German.

Geoheritage. This journal details all aspects of our global geoheritage. It examines conservation of sites and materials.

geoinformatik_online. From the Institute of Geoinformatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (in German).

Geologica Acta (Barcelona, Spain). Geologica Acta aims to stimulate rapid diffusion of results and efficient exchange of ideas between the widespread communities of Earth Science researchers (with special emphasis on Latinamerica, The Caribbean, Europe, the Mediterranean). Free access to all its publications and contents via internet.

Geologica Carpathica, Geological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Registration free of charge.

The Geological Curator.
Geological Curator publishes articles on studies which contribute novel results and/or perspectives of relevance to the care and management of geological collections and their use in teaching and engagement.

Geological Journal. Published on behalf of the Liverpool Geological Society and the Manchester Geological Association (John Wiley & Sons). This Journal has a particular interest in publishing papers on regional case studies from any global locality which have conclusions of general interest. Such papers may emphasize aspects across the full spectrum of geological sciences (Sedimentology and Geomorphology, Palaeontology, etc).

Geological Magazine (Cambridge University Press).
Geological Magazine publishes original scientific papers covering the complete spectrum of geological topics.

Geologica Saxonica. Journal of Central European Geology. Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Abteilung Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie.

Geologische Rundschau (now: International Journal of Earth Sciences).

The Geological Society of America Bulletin.
This is a leading international journal for major scholarly research in all branches of the earth sciences. Published continuously since 1890. Full-text available for all issues.

Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern und angrenzende Gebiete. Go to: Index vol. 1 bis 55 (1951 - 2005), compiled by Alfons Baier (in German).

Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe A. General and regional geology of Germany and adjoining areas, tectonics, stratigraphy and paleontology (Schweizerbart).

Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck.
See also here Many Triassic topics!

Geology (by Geological Society of America). The journal Geology publishes timely, innovative, and provocative articles relevant to its international audience, representing research from all fields of the geosciences.

Geoscience Canada.
This is the journal of the Geological Association of Canada (GAC).
! Volumes 1 through 43 are freely available (click on "Archives" on the top menu).

GeoSpectrum (The American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia). GeoSpectrum is the free quarterly electronic newsmagazine of the geoscience profession. GeoSpectrum coverage includes mMeeting results, society news, awards, promotions, obituaries, pinion pieces and geoscience workforce issues. Each issue is provided in two different size files: a small file appropriate for screen viewing, and a larger one for printing.

Geosphere (Geological Society of America). Geosphere seeks papers from the entire spectrum of the geosciences and accepts manuscripts in several categories. Abstracts are available free.

Geostandards Newsletter. The Journal of Geostandards and Geoanalysis. The Official Journal of the International Association of Geoanalysts.

GEOSTATISTICS. GEOSTATISTICS is an interdisciplinary newsletter published quarterly by the North American Council on Geostatistics.

Geotectonics (Geotektonika). Geotectonics publishes articles on general and regional tectonics, structural geology, geodynamics, and experimental tectonics, considers the relation of tectonics to the deep structure of the earth, magmatism, metamorphism, and mineral resources. With table of contents and abstracts.

Geotimes. Geotimes is the monthly news magazine for geoscience professionals and geoenthusiasts, issued by the American Geological Institute.

GFF
This is the journal of the Geological Society of Sweden.
GFF was founded in 1872 by the then “Geologiska Föreningen i Stockholm” under the name of Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar. As from 1994, volume 116, the journal was formally renamed GFF, its nickname since 1963 (an acronym of its original name).

Global and Planetary Change (Elsevier). The journal focuses on the record of change in planet and earth history and the analysis and prediction of recent and future changes. Topics include, but are not limited to, changes in the chemical composition of the oceans and atmosphere, climate change, sea level variations, human geography, global geophysics and tectonics, global ecology and biogeography.

GSA Today (The Geological Society of America).
GSA Today (formerly "The Geologist Newsletter" and "GSA News & Information") provided high-quality science articles, commentary, and Society news to GSA members. GSA’s mission is to be a leader in advancing the geosciences.
Navigate from the GSA Today Archive.

International Journal of Coal Geology (Elsevier).
The International Journal of Coal Geology deals with fundamental and applied aspects of the geology, petrology, geochemistry and mineralogy of coal, oil/gas source rocks, and shales.
The scope of the journal encompasses basic research, computational and laboratory studies, technology development, and field studies.

International Journal of Earth Sciences Prior to April 1999 this publication was named "Geologische Rundschau".

iScience .
iScience is a peer-reviewed journal from Cell Press that provides a platform for original research in the life, physical, earth, social, and health sciences.

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth (Fizika Zemli), The journal publishes results of original theoretical and experimental research in relevant areas of the physics of the earth’s interior and applied geophysics. With table of contents and abstracts.

Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins, N.F. This is a scholarly journal with an emphasis on geology, geomorphology, stratigraphy, tectonics, landscape evolution, river history of the upper Rhine region (upper rhine graben) and adjacent areas. A special highlight of contributions to the journals are field trip guides documenting field trips to many interesting field locations, mostly in Germany and adjacent countries.

Journal of African Earth Sciences. Tables of contents, with abstracts, search facilities on abstracts, authors and keywords (Elsevier).

Journal of Geochemical Exploration (Elsevier). The Journal of Geochemical Exploration covers all aspects of the geochemistry of the environment and the application of geochemistry to the exploration and study of mineral resources and related fields. With tables of contents.

Journal of Geology (University of Chicago Press). The Journal of Geology is currently available online free of charge. Internet users can access full-text articles with internal links to references and figures (.html, .pdf, .ps).

Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth. This journal, published monthly by the American Geophysical Union, contains timely research papers on the physics and chemistry of the solid earth and the liquid core of the earth.

Journal of Geoscience Education.
The Journal of Geoscience Education (JGE) is the premier peer-reviewed publication for geoscience education research and curriculum and instruction at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. JGE is the publication of record for NAGT, and serves as the only international forum dedicated solely to the publication of research concerning the pedagogy, assessment, and philosophy of teaching and learning about the geosciences.

Journal of Palaeogeography.
This journal (open access) aims to introduce the latest results in palaeogeography.

Journal of Sedimentary Research Abstracts. Formerly the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, the journal is issued is two parts. A. Sedimentary Petrology and B. Stratigraphy and Global Studies.

Journal of South American Earth Sciences (Elsevier). The Journal of South American Earth Sciences provides an international medium for the publication of scientific work concerned with all aspects of the earth sciences in the South American continent and the surrounding oceans.

Journal of Structural Geology (Elsevier). This journal publishes original research and review articles in structural geology and tectonics. All features and processes of deformation in rocks are considered, at any scale. Specific topics include natural structures such as folds, fractures and fabrics; structural associations in orogenic belts, strike-slip zones and extensional regimes; strain analysis, experimental rock deformation and rock mechanics applied to geology; and theoretical and experimental modelling.

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. The journal include source technology, instrumentation and techniques over all the spectral ranges relevant to synchrotron radiation research.

Journal of the Geological Society - London.

Mass Spectrometry Bulletin (MSB). MSB provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of mass spectrometry. At least 500 new literature references are published each month from over 800 sources, including journals, books, patents and conference proceedings. With costs.

Mathematische Geologie. The periodical is devoted to the application and use of mathematical approaches supporting the solution of geological problems, to the search for new geological fields of successful mathematical applications, and to the development of new mathematical methods and models.

Mesozoic (Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand).
Mesozoic (free online access) is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the study of Earth and life evolution during the Mesozoic Era.

Microscopy Online. A hyper-journal published on the World Wide Web.

Nachrichten der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (DGG). PDF-file for Acrobat-Reader, in German.

naturalSCIENCE. naturalSCIENCE is an independent journal published without government subsidy or lobby group suppport.

NATURE. Table of contents, summaries of recent articels with supplementary information, as well as downloadable indexes of previous issues are available after a nitpicking registration procedure. You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader to view and print the index.

The German gateway to Nature: deutsche.nature.com (Macmillan Publishers Ltd).

Naturwissenschaften. This interdisciplinary journal (Springer-Verlag) publishes review articles and short original articles of all kinds of scientific fields. The electronic edition provides access to tables of contents and abstracts of issues from 1994 onwards.

Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.
Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie continuously publishes current original contributions from all fields of geology, ever since its foundation in 1807.
On the occasion of its 200th anniversary in 2007, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie is proud to announce the merger of its Monatshefte into the Abhandlungen! This means that as of 2007, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie is published as a single, unified journal of Earth Sciences.

Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1860. By Karl Cäsar von Leonhard, Heinrich Georg Bronn (E. Schweizerbart's Verlagshandlung), digitized by Google Book Search.

Permophiles.
The newsletter is published by the Permian Subcommission, The International Commission on Stratigraphy.

NewScientist, Planet Science; Magazine

Newsletters on Stratigraphy (Schweizerbart). See also here. An international, peer-reviewed journal, publishing articles of international interest dealing with stratigraphical matters. Go to: Available tables of contents.

Ore Geology Reviews (Elsevier).

Organic Geochemistry. The official journal of the European Association of Organic Geochemists (by Elsevier).

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (Elsevier). P3 is an international medium for the publication of high quality and multidisciplinary, original studies and comprehensive reviews in the field of palaeo-environmental geology. The journal aims at bringing together data with global implications from research in the many different disciplines involved in palaeo-environmental investigations.

Palaeoworld (published on behalf of the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS).
Palaeoworld is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal dedicated to the study of past life and its environment.

Permophiles.
Newsletter of the Subcommission on Permian Stratigraphy.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Ser. A. For more details see The Royal Society Publications Homepage.

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth (Elsevier). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth is an international interdisciplinary journal for the rapid publication of collections of refereed communications in separate thematic issues, either stemming from scientific meetings, or, especially compiled for the occasion. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth incorporates the separate Parts A, B and C which existed until the end of 2001. With tables of contents.

Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors (Elsevier). This journal is entirely devoted to the physical and chemical processes of planetary interiors. With tables of contents, abstracts, and search facilities on abstracts, authors and keywords.

PLOS One.
PLOS One welcomes original research submissions from the natural sciences, medical research, engineering, as well as the related social sciences.
Have a look in Wikipedia for "PLOS One".

PLOS (The Public Library of Science), San Francisco, California, USA. A nonprofit organization to accelerate progress in science.
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PNAS Online (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America). PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences (published by the National Academy of Sciences).

Precambrian Research (Elsevier). Precambrian Research publishes studies on all aspects of the early stages of the composition, structure and evolution of the Earth and its planetary neighbours.

ProGEO NEWS. ProGEO is the European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage.

Radiocarbon.
Radiocarbon is the main international journal of record for research articles and date lists relevant to ¹⁴C and other radioisotopes and techniques used in archaeological, geophysical, oceanographic and related dating.

Scanning. Scanning provides an international and interdisciplinary medium for the rapid exchange of information among all scientists interested in scanning electron, scanning probe, and scanning optical microscopies.

Science Advances.
Science Advances is the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) open access multidisciplinary journal, publishing impactful research papers and reviews in any area of science.

Science China Earth Sciences.
Science China Earth Sciences is published in both print and electronic editions. Coverage includes research papers reporting on important original results in all areas of earth sciences. It is cosponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and published by Science China Press.
Navigate from here.

Science magazine (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with assistance of Stanford University's HighWire Press. Publishes research in every field of science. Go to the Search Engine. Search for authors, titles, subjects and words in abstracts. See also: Science Collections, Geosciences.

Scientific American. Selected articles from the current and previous issues. Search Engine. Article search by keyword or concept.

Dan Hogan & Michele Philpot: ScienceDaily Magazine. ScienceDaily is a free online magazine that brings you breaking news about the latest discoveries and research projects.

Science Service, Washington, DC: Science News Online. Science Service is a non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing the understanding and appreciation of science among people of all ages through publications and educational programs. Search the archives of selected full-text articles & online features.

Scientific Reports - Nature.
Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature.
Have a look in Wikipedia for "Scientific Reports".

Scottish Journal of Geology (The Geological Society Publishing House). Traditionally, the Journal has acted as the focus for papers on all aspects of Scottish geology and its contiguous areas, including Europe, the North Sea and the margins of the North Atlantic.

Sedimentary Geology (Elsevier). In scope, the journal encompasses all aspects of research into sediments and sedimentary rocks. It thus aims to provide a forum for the publication of research papers across the entire subject, from analytical techniques to regional or geodynamical aspects of sedimentary systems and basin analysis; subsurface analysis of sedimentary sequences, diagenesis, chemical sedimentology and numerical modelling.

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP). Go to:
TSOP Newsletters as PDF files.

Solid Earth.
Solid Earth (open access) is a not-for-profit journal that publishes multidisciplinary research on the composition, structure, dynamics of the Earth from the surface to the deep interior at all spatial and temporal scales.
See also here.

Sedimentology (Blackwell). The Journal of the International Association of Sedimentology.

Stratigraphy. A new journal dealing with the broader implications of the current advances in the specialized subdisciplines within stratigraphy.

Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation (Stratigrafiya, Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya). The journal is designed to provide comprehensive coverage of the fundamental and applied aspects of stratigraphy and the correlation of geological events and processes in time and space. With table of contents and abstracts.

Studia Geologica Polonica.
The journal includes original scientific monographs or sets of contributions on selected geological topics, including geological results of the Polish Arctic and Antarctic scientific expeditions, monographs on regional geology, stratigraphy, tectonics, sedimentology, Quaternary of Central Europe, palaeontology etc.

Tectonics (published by the American Geophysical Union). Tectonics contains original scientific contributions in analytical, synthetic, and integrative tectonics.

Tectonophysics (Elsevier). Tectonophysics is an international medium for the publication of significant original research studies and comprehensive reviews in the fields of geotectonics, and geology and physics of the earth's crust and interior.

Terra Nostra (Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung). In German.

Terra Nova (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).
Terra Nova publishes short, innovative and provocative papers of interest to a wide readership and covering the broadest spectrum of the Solid Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Visual Geosciences. Visual Geosciences (by Springer, formerly Electronic Geosciences) is a multimedia, electronic journal that covers the entire spectrum of the Earth Sciences, including planetary and environmental geoscience.

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft. Index with abstracts.

Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geologie.

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