GEOBASE Produced by Elsevier Science and part of the Engineering Village platform, this database indexes journals, books, conference proceedings and reports in the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation. It includes citations and abstracts published in several print abstracting journals: Geographical abstracts : Human geography; Geographical abstracts : Physical geography; International development abstracts; the Geological abstracts series (Geophysics and tectonics, Economic geology, Palaeontology and stratigraphy, Sedimentary geology); Mineralogical abstracts; and Ecological abstracts. Database coverage extends from 1980.