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://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://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://www.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.

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 Index
        http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=AppSciTechInd;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.

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

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.

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/oldindex.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/exhibitsnew.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/projects/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