Subject Guide: Geosciences

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Geosciences Department Homepage

Science Liaison - Moriana Garcia

Online Resources

Databases and indexes provide information about books and articles from journals, magazines and newspapers.

  • GeoRef  - indexes Geoscience scientific literature of North America from 1785 to the present and the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.
  • Environment Complete - covers applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.
  • BIOSIS Previews - collects abstracts and bibliographic references to worldwide biological and medical literature, also a good source for paleontological research.
  • JSTOR - contains full-text journal back issues from subject areas such as Music, Mathematics & Statistics, Language & Literature, Business, Ecology & Botany and General Science as well as Archaeology, Classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic Studies. Three to five year moving walls characterize the coverage of these journals.
  • General Science Abstracts - is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals.
  • History of Science, Technology & Medicine - is a resource for the history of science, technology, and medicine, and their influence on culture, from pre-history to the present.
  • Web of Science - provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in approximately 5,900 of the world's leading scholarly science and technical journals covering more than 150 disciplines.

Reference Books

Kilauea eruption

Kilauea eruption, 19 February 2008. Thanksgiving Eve Breakout rootless shields collapsed revealing the furnace-like cavities hidden beneath thin crusts (http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/ archive/2008/Feb/20080219-2978-TRO_S.jpg)

Reference books provide background information on people, terms and concepts.


Web Resources

Here are a few web sites you might find useful:

Online Journals

Here are a few of the journals available via the web in this field:

 

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