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Online Archives

Find out more about the Geological Society's Online Archives, including our Special Publications and the Journal of the Geological Society.

  • The archives are hosted on the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection, and there is no annual maintenance charge. 

  • An archive purchase gives you the security of knowing your readers have access to content forever

  • Content covering a diverse range of Earth science disciplines

  • Content preserved in CLOCKSS

Special Publications Online Archives

This extensive 500-volume archive includes over 9,000 articles and is hosted on the Geological Society’s Lyell Collection.

The 500 volumes are also available to purchase in six separate archives (options below).

Access to all Special Publications can also be purchased as a ongoing annual subscription or as part of the Lyell Collection Complete.

Single site Special Publication Archive rates
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SP Archive name SP Volumes Number of articles Number of pages
SP Archive 1 1 to 100 2,520 41,700
SP Archive 2 101 to 200 2,020 37,000
SP Archive 3 201 to 300 1,900 36,600
SP Archive 4 301 to 400 1,750 36,600
SP Archive 401-450   401 to 450 836 17,600
SP Archive 451-500   NEW 451 to 500  877 18,900
SP Archive 300 1 to 300 6,440 115,300
SP Archive 400 1 to 400 8,190 151,900
SP Archive 500    NEW 1 to 500 9,903 188,400 
       
Download the list of Special Publications 1 to 500

Special Publications Online Archive article highlights

 

Accretionary orogens through Earth history

Channel flow, ductile extrusion and exhumation in continental collision zones: an introduction

Permian tetrapod biochronology, correlation and evolutionary events

Internal structure of a detachment horizon in the most external part of the Pyrenean fold and thrust belt (northern Spain)

Strain modelling, seismic anisotropy and coupling at strike-slip boundaries: applications in New Zealand and the San Andreas fault

Geology, petrology and alteration geochemistry of the Palaeoproterozoic intrusive hosted Älgträsk Au deposit, Northern Sweden

Palynological calibration of Devonian events at near-polar palaeolatitudes in the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic

Over 8,000 articles included - view now in the Lyell Collection

"The Geological Society publishes first-rate materials covering a variety of topics in the geological sciences. One of their most well-respected publications is the Special Publications series. This series, currently at over 500 volumes, began publishing in 1964. The material presented is first rate, with full color images and photographs, as well as fold out maps and charts as needed for articles.

The online access is first-rate. Content is easily accessible and discoverable, and the same high-quality print has been well digitized and presented in full color as well. Accessibility is top-rate. HTML format is also available for those that prefer HTML, with clearly defined sections. References are hyperlinked, and the content can be easily integrated into your library’s link resolver.

Our institute has obtained the entire archive of the content, and the process of acquiring it has been extremely easy. Our researchers have been accustomed to high quality research, and the Special Publications series continues the mission of providing first cut research materials to our institute."

Tony Diaz, CalTech

Journal of the Geological Society Archives

 

The Journal of the Geological Society Archive includes over 17,000 articles and comprises over 150 years of geoscience research, including historically important content from many eminent scientists.

Access to all volumes of Journal of the Geological Society can also be purchased as a ongoing annual subscription or as part of the Lyell Collection Complete.

Pile of archive Journal of the Geological Society covers

  • Give your students and faculty the ability to learn how the geosciences evolved with access to the very earliest geological research from the greats such as Darwin, Murchison and Buckland, to modern cutting-edge research from an international field of authors

  • JGS 1845 to 2007 content is available as one archive purchase or in four individual archives

  • Over 17,000 articles included

 

Single site Journal of the Geological Society Archive rates
JGS Archive name Years of content
JGS Archive 1845 to 2007 1845 to 2007
JGS Archive part 1: 100 Years of Geology 1845 to 1945
JGS Archive part 2 1946 to 1986
JGS Archive part 3 1987 to 2007
JGS Archive part 4    NEW 2008 to 2012


Journal of the Geological Society Online Archive Highlights

 

Part 1: 100 years of Geoscience 1845-1945

The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs ; being the first Part of the Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle under the Command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the Years 1832 to 1836

Part 2: 1946-1986

Ordovician and Silurian changes in sea level

Part 3: 1987-2007

The emergence of life from iron monosulphide bubbles at a submarine hydrothermal redox and pH front

Part 4: 2008-2012

Large-scale magmatic pulses drive plant ecosystem dynamics

Sector collapse of mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan

Estimates of yet-to-find impact crater population on Earth

New insights into the cone sheet structure of the Cuillin Complex, Isle of Skye, Scotland

Plus many more JGS articles - view now in the Lyell Collection

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