Groundwater and Soil Contamination (GSC) database

The Groundwater and Soil Contamination (GSC) database is a bibliographic geoscience database that covers topics primarily related to geology, hydrology, and the environment. In addition, documents on economics, chemistry, civil engineering, and health effects are also included.

This database is available by subscription to individuals (consultants), companies and organizations.

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The GSC database includes more than 188,813 bibliographic references to the worldwide literature on this subject. Coverage is worldwide, with emphasis on the United States. Journal articles, books, conference proceedings, theses and dissertations are included. Also covered are all relevant reports of the U.S. Geological Survey, and reports of the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The GSC database is updated on a weekly basis.

References contain complete bibliographic information and URLs for documents published on the web. Thorough indexing, based on the controlled vocabulary found in the GeoRef Thesaurus, is included. Specific geographic locations are listed as place names and, for principal locations, latitude and longitude coordinates are provided. Entries include ISSNs as well as information about publishers and the availability of the documents cited.

Subject Coverage

Documents cited in the GSC database are primarily related to geology, hydrology, and the environment. In addition, documents on economics, chemistry, civil engineering, and health effects are also included. Topics covered include:

  • Sites: soils, groundwater, aquifers, wetlands, unsaturated zones
  • Geographic locations: place names, latitude & longitude
  • Contaminants: pollution, remediation, reclamation, leaching, pollutants, radioactive, isotopes, heavy, metals, sewage, waste, disposal, organic, compounds, petroleum, hydrocarbons, trace, metals, solute, transport, radon, pesticides, herbicides

Serials Coverage

The top 20 serial titles, in order of number of references in the GSC database are:

  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
  • Open-File Report - U. S. Geological Survey
  • Water-Resources Investigations - U. S. Geological Survey
  • Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union
  • Ground Water, National Ground Water Association
  • IAHS-AISH Publication, International Association of Hydrological Sciences
  • Environmental Science & Technology, ES & T, American Chemical Society
  • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Elsevier Scientific Publishers
  • Journal of Environmental Quality
  • Water, Air and Soil Pollution
  • Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier Scientific Publishers
  • Environmental Geology (Berlin)
  • Bioremediation
  • Chemosphere (Oxford)
  • Contaminated Soil…International TNO/BMFT Conference on Contaminated Soil
  • Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • Ground Water Management
  • Water Science and Technology
  • AAPG Bulletin, American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Geographic Coverage

Over 2,500 journals, proceedings, and report series from over 100 countries are covered in the GSC database. The countries of publication are:

  • USA: 950 serials
  • Germany: 241 serials
  • International: 142 serials
  • United Kingdom: 137 serials
  • France: 103 serials
  • Canada: 93 serials
  • Netherlands: 74 serials
  • China: 69 serials
  • India: 58 serials
  • Japan: 57 serials
  • Others: 616 serials

Ordering Information

The Groundwater and Soil Contamination database is available through an Annual Subscription

Annual Subscription

The cost of an annual subscription to the Groundwater and Soil Contamination database is:

  • Individuals (Consultants) $65 US
  • Institutions $195 US

If you would like to subscribe, please fill out the Subscription Request Form, and our staff will follow up with you by email to finalize your subscription. If you have any questions, please contact Monika Long, ml@americangeosciences.org, at the American Geosciences Institute.

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Contact Information

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American Geosciences Institute
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(703) 379-2480
ml@americangeosciences.org