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Scientific articles
Historical articlesScienceDirect has many articles on both the societal and scientific aspects of earthquakes.
Web of science - Provides access to Science Citation index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences that indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Also provides access to Social Science Citation Index, a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences that indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. Citations from 2001 forward. This database only has citations. If you want to see the full text, try the Link to Article links. If we can't proved the article through the Link to Article link, you can request it through interlibrary loan.
PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES (EbscoHOST) - can be searched for articles on the societal effects of earthquakes.
Cross disciplineJSTOR - is a retrospective collection that goes back to the 1800's. You can find some interesting articles on earthquakes in this database. Search the Anthropology, Archaeology, Ecology, Geography, History or Sociology journal collections depending on your interests.
Historical newspapers. - New York Times. - This database offers full-page-images and article images from the New York times from its first issue in 1851 to three years before the current date. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files. (This database is really fun to try. You can watch the news unfold and see it just as the people 100 years ago did.)
Project Muse : scholarly journals online. - journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Disciplines covered are humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Academic Search Premier - can be a good choice for earthquake articles. Be careful how you search it though. It is a huge database with many newspapers and popular magazines. Using the Scholarly/Peer Reviewed limiter is highly recommended.
Learn more about an author's credentials, expertise, and biases.
Biography reference bank -Contains biographical information on approximately half a million people, from antiquity to the present, along with thousands of images.
Web of Science - Provides the author's address and contact information in addition to the article citation and abstract. Learn more about the author at his or her institution's web site as well.