RESEARCH
RESOURCES
GEOLOGY
Electronic Journals
Databases
and Indexes (Subject Specialized)
Databases
and Indexes - Multi-Disciplinary
Selected Links
to Geology Resources
Electronic Journals
To see which electronic journals BC Library subscribes to, search our Full text E-journals database.
Annual Reviews
http://www.annualreviews.org
Full text of articles in 17 Annual Reviews and abstracts of articles
in 15 other titles in social, biological, and physical sciences.
Chemical and Engineering
News
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/index.html
Electronic Green Journal
http://www.egj.lib.uidaho.edu
The Electronic Green Journal provides peer reviewed articles, book
reviews, news, and information on current printed and electronic sources.
Journal of
Geology (University of Chicago Press)
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/JG/home.html
Journal of Petrology
http://www/oupjournals.org
Enter as a subscriber. Ask a reference librarian for user ID and password.
Highwire Press
http://www.highwire.stanford.edu
A full text science archive covering free and subscription based access
to more than 180 journals in science, technology, and medicine. Includes
links to online sites of 500 most frequently sited journals
Project Muse
http://muse.jhu.edu
Provides full text of articles in humanities, social science and mathematics,
archaeology and other disciplines from over 45 scholarly periodicals. [Available
on campus only.]
IDEAL- International Digital Electronic
Access Library
http://idealibrary.com
A full text database covering 174 Academic Press Journals. You may
search by subject or specific searches in selected journal and issues.
Databases and
Indexes (Subject Specialized)
Georef
http://webbeta.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=cuny&databases=S(GE,NP,SJ)
From the American Geological Institute. Covers the world's literature in
geology and the geosciences. A comprehensive resource with over 1.9 million
citations, many with abstracts, GeoRef covers the geology of North America
since 1785 and the geology of the rest of the world since 1933. Over 3,000
journals in 40 languages are scanned, as well as books, maps, reports,
most U.S. Geological Survey publications, and U.S. and Canadian master's
theses and doctoral dissertations.
GeoArchive
http://dialog.carl.org:3005/cgi-bin/cw_cgi?7005+REDIRX+setDatabase_6200
A comprehensive database covering all types of information sources
in geoscience, hydroscience, and environmental science. The criteria for
inclusion in GeoArchive are that the source should be publicly available and have relevant information content, even if the reference is to a small
news item in a magazine. GeoArchive, provides international coverage
of over 5,000 serials, books from over a 2,000 publishers,
geological maps, and doctoral dissertations.
Databases
and Indexes - Multi-Disciplinary
Alternative
Press Index
http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AltPressIndex;done=referer;autho=100207621;FSIP/
The Alternative Press Index cites articles from about 380 alternative,
radical, and left publications which report and analyze the practices and
theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. A good source
of information on public attitudes about scientific issues.
Applied
Science and Technology Abstracts
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AppSciTechAb:done=referer,FSIP
Cites articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, and
new product reviews; in 350 periodicals covering applications of scientific
information to all fields including medicine, biology, engineering, environment
and ecology, mining, mineralogy, etc.
Biological
and Medical Sciences - Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
http://www.csa2.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=bky&access=bky842&cat=medbisci
This database cites works in over 24 areas of biology including bacteriology,
biotechnology, entomology, genetics, paleontology, and zoology.
[Available only on campus or through proxy server.]
Dialog @ Carl
http://dialog.carl.org:3005/
Dialog contains a wide array of information resources in all disciplines
including science, technology, medicine, and intellectual property. Dialog@CARL
offers direct access to features such as arrangement of databases by topic
and subtopic, basic and advanced searching. Choose the environmental sciences,
global regions, and science clusters of databases for focused searching
in geological sciences. Includes GeoArchive, AESIS (Australia's geoscience,
minerals and petroleum database), AGRICOLA, NIOSH, USGPO and others.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHOST)
http://search.epnet.com/login.asp?USER=s8684074&Password=Password&profile=asp
[Available only on campus or through proxy server.]
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Universe
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Find legal, business, government and academic information from around
the world on a wide range of topics in newspapers, reports, periodicals,
legal briefs and other sources. Includes coverage of all aspects of geology
and related areas.
[ Available on campus and through proxy server.]
Selected
Links to Geology Resources
Glossary
Illustrated
Glossary of Geologic Terms
http://www.geology.iastate.edu/new
100/glossary.html
Earth Science
Geoscience Information Center
http://www.geosciences.org
A fully interactive web site from Scripps Institution Of Oceanography
where users can find and post earth science information.
Earthquakes
National Information Service
for Earthquake Engineering
http://www.eerc.berkeley.edu
A comprehensive guide to earthquake information.
Global Warming and Climatology
A
Paleo Perspective on Global Warming
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/home.html
Information on the important societal phenomena related to climate
variability.
Remote Sensing
GeoWeb Interactive
http://www.ggrweb.com/oldingex.html
Online resources for geographic information systems, global positioning
system and remote sensing.
Maps
Cornell's Digital Earth
http://atlas.geo.cornell.edu
Interactive digital map of the world.
Descriptions
of the Ecoregions of the United States
http:www.fs.fed.us/land/ecosysmgmt/ecoreg1_home.html
Paleontology
Paleomap Project
http://www.scotese.com
Full color, global paleographic maps.
Paleontology
Without Walls
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibit/eshibits.html
Virtual exhibits from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Review and Atlas
of Paleovegetation
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tjms/adams1.html
A collection of continent-wide paleovegetation spanning 18,000 years.
Global land environments
since the last interglacial period
http://www.esd.ornl.gov/ern/qen/nerc.html
Regional paleogeography maps outlining vegetation patters over the
past 130,000 years.
Mineralogy
Mineralogy database
http://web.wt.net/~daba/Mineral
A user friendly database covering over 4,102 individual mineral descriptions
with links.
Government Agencies and Libraries
U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/
U.S. Geological Survey Library
http://www.usgs.gov/library
Questions? Ask a Librarian or contact Professor
Mariana Regalado
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