Coverage includes 2000 peer reviewed journal, and trade journal titles. Other journal titles and books are included in the archival coverage of this database. With more than 2 million records, it has temporal coverage from 1980 to the present. Each year, at least 100,000 additional citations and abstracts are added, and it is updated every two weeks. Access is covered through both online (internet), and CD-ROM.[1][2]
Other types of publications indexed in this database are magazine articles, product reviews, directories and all related materials. International literature coverage pertains to Non-English language papers, and lesser available books, conference proceedings and reports.[1][2][3]
This database is published monthly, and contains abstracts from 2000 journals. It provides bibliographic coverage of each abstracted journal. Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography, and Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering are considered to be of related interest.[4]
This database was formed by the union of the following abstracts journals:
^ abcd"Database description". Bibliographic database for the Earth, Geographical and Ecological sciences. Elsevier. September 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-08-25. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
^ abcd"Geobase". Database description. Dialog. September 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-03-09. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
^ ab"Geobase". More in depth database description. OCLC. September 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-12-04. Retrieved 2010-09-30.