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Earth and Environment
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Background Information
- Beacham's Guide to Environmental Issues & Sources
GE 115 B43 1993 Ref.
- Encyclopedia of Environmental Science and Engineering
TD 9 E5 1992 Ref.
- Encyclopedia of Global Change
GE 149 E47 2002 Ref.
- Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
GC 9 E58 2001 Ref.
- Encyclopedia of the Environment
GE 10 E53 1994 Ref.
- Glossary of Geology
QE 5 B38 1997 Ref.
- Oxford Companion to the Earth
QE 5 O94 2000 Ref. Journal Articles
- America : History and Life
- Covers 1964 to the present
- Indexes social science and humanities literature (including about 2100 journals) on all aspects of US and Canadian culture, history, and current affairs
- For Mexico or other areas of the world, use the companion database Historical Abstracts
- Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates
- Indexes the world's literature in vertebrate paleontology
- Covers 1509-1958, 1981-1993
- Print edition in Reference at QE 841 B52 1928-1972
- Environment Abstracts Annual
- Covers scientific and technical literature on environmental sciences and pollution management
- Produced in the US
- Ask Sarah Oelker to search DIALOG File 40: Enviroline (1971- )
- Environmental Issues and Policy Index
- Formerly Environmental Periodicals Bibliography or Environmental Knowledgebase Online
- Indexes about 500 current environmental periodicals as well as additional older titles.
- Ask Sarah Oelker to search DIALOG File 68 (1973- )
- Geoarchive
- British geoscience database, covering geology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, stratigraphy, mathematical geology, planetology, oceanology, and engineering geology from 1974-present
- Particular emphasis is given to economic geology, hydrology, water resources, environment, and conservation
- Searchable via DIALOG (ask Sarah Oelker)
- GEOBASE
- Covers 1980-present
- Indexes the worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, their related disciplines
- GEOREF
- Covers 1785-present
- Deals with worldwide literature on geology, including information on energy sources, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, ground water pollution, nuclear reactor sites, landslides, and erosion, as well as the history of the earth, the structure of the earth, the study of ore deposits, and geostatistics
- Excludes astrophysics, biology, hydraulics, and meteorology
- GEOSCAN
- Over 40,000 bibliographic records on the Canadian landmass and offshore regions. Predominantly publications of the Geological Society of Canada (GSC).
- ScienceDirect
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- Covers approximately 1800 journals from Reed-Elsevier Publishing
- Includes publications from 1995-present
- Web of Science
- Covers 5,700 journals in science and over 2,000 in other disciplines.
- Search by cited reference to find newer papers that cite older papers you have already found
Books
- To browse the stacks for Geology books, go to:
- G-GB (geography)
- GC (oceanography)
- GE (environment)
- GF (human ecology)
- QE (geology)
- TD (environmental pollution and technology)
- TN (mineral resources)
- To find books on a particular topic or by a particular author or title, search the Library Catalog
Websites
- Athena: Mineralogy includes Systematic List of Minerals.
- Geological Time Scale
- Geosource a metasite resource for geographers, planners, geoscientists, and environmental scientists
- Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)metasite funded by NSF, built by community of educators, students, and scientists to support education at all levels.
- Best Environmental Resources Directory long list of websites by subject, selected for European audience [caution: 14 Mar 2003 was last update of this website, as viewed in June 2004]
- Dinosaurs and paleontology links (Illinois State Geological Survey)
- Earthquake Information (U.S.G.S.)
- Electronic Volcano (Dartmouth)
- Environmental ethics and philosophy
- Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 (American Memory/Library of Congress)
- GeoData Information Sources (U of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research)
- Geologic Book Publishers and Dealers (commercial, society, state survey, and other)
- Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS)
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) search for data sets
- Integrated Earth Information Server (IEIS) real-time data (NSF Geosciences UNIDATA program)
- Internet Resources for Geographers (U of Texas, Austin)
- National Geophysical Data Center (USDOC, NOAA, NESDIS)
- National Library for the Environment , a project of the Committee for the National Institute for the Environment (CNIE)
- Organizations
See also our guide to Maps.
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