Paleontological E-Journals Accessible from the University of Maryland
Current for Spring Semester 2016
Content of the following journals are accessible from a University of Maryland IP address through these links;
additionally, they may be retrieved through the Journals tab of Research Port. A shortcut to the ResearchPort access is to copy the text ".proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu" (without the quotation marks) and paste it into the URL of the article you are interested, after the .edu, .org, or .com but before the first "/". For interest, if you wanted to access:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7584/full/nature16447.html
you would copy .proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu and put it after "...nature.com" but before "/nature...", like this:
http://www.nature.com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/nature/journal/v529/n7584/full/nature16447.html
(NOTE: the University of Maryland subscriptions to these are subject to budget cuts over time...).
Primary Paleontology Journals:
- Acta Paleontologica Polonica: despite its Latin title and Polish origins, papers in this journal are in English.
Covers the entire field of paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Ameghiniana: Argentina's premier paleontology journal.
Papers in Spanish (and occasionally English, or with extended English abstracts).
- Annales de Paléontologie: papers in both English and French.
Covers the entire field of paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Comptes Rendus Paleovol: papers either entirely in English or with extended
English apbstracts. Covers the entire field of paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Cretaceous Research: covers geological and paleontological issues from the greatest
Period of Earth's history
- Geobios: Covers the entire field of paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Geodiversitas: papers
typically in English, even if this is the journal of France's national museum. Covers the entire field of paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Journal of Micropalaeontology: as the name suggests, a micropaleo journal.
- Journal of Paleontology: Premier US journal for invertebrate
paleontology, but includes micropaleontology, paleobotany, vertebrate paleontology, and ichnology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: Not surprisingly (given the name), emphasizes
systematic paleontology.
- Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: The premier journal of
vertebrate paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Memoirs of the Paleontological Society: longer format articles from
the Journal of Paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Memoirs of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: longer format
articles from the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Micropaleontology: not surprisingly, a journal concerning micropaleontology.
- Palaeodiversity (formerly
Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B): focus on central European paleontology, covering the whole diversity of descriptive paleontology.
- Palaeontology: the UK's premier palaeontology journal. Covers the entire field of
paleontology. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Palaios: emphasis on the interaction between the living world
and the sedimentary record. Focus on ichnology and other similar topics.
- Paleobiology: premier journal for analytical paleontology.
- Paleontologia Electronica: an exclusively on-line journal. Covers a diversity of topics.
- PLoS ONE: The Paleontology Collection:
a collection of the paleontological-related papers from the entirely-electronic Public Library of Science ONE. Covers the entire field.
- Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology: covers paleobotany and palynology. Primarily descriptive.
- Revue de Paléobiologie: papers in both English and French. Emphasis on descriptive paleontology.
- Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology: monographs, typically
of a descriptive nature.
Journals that regularly feature paleontology content
Last modified: 8 January 2016
