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Below are a few major, frequently used sources for the study of geology. The geology literature is international in scope, and organized into primary (the first public record of the research) and secondary (works derived from primary sources) publications, although this distinction is beginning to be blurred in some web resources. See also the research guides for Engineering, Environmental Science, Ecology & Biodiversity, and Science. For additional information on sources please consult a librarian. Internet resources require a Tufts I.D. number for off-campus access (authorized users statement). |
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Reference Resources
Atlases
Color Atlas of the Surface Forms of the Earth
[PRINT. Tisch Reference G1046 .C2 B5 1992]
Photographs of landforms from many different environments.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
Island Directory
Basic environmental and geographic information on the significant
islands of the world.
National Atlas of the United
States
A comprehensive, map-like view of data collected by the Federal
Government. Provides high-quality, small-scale maps as well as
national geospatial and geostatistical data sets.
Compilations
Columbia
Earthscape
An online resource on the global environment with a focus on teaching,
learning, research and policy. Includes:
Research
Links: Geology
Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Glossary of Geology
[PRINT Tisch Reference QE5 .B38 1997]
The definitive geology glossary.
Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences
[PRINT. Tisch Reference QE5 .E5137 1996]
Covers resources and their use, environmental awareness, natural
hazards, and earth in space.
Dictionary
of Geologic Terms
Dictionary with concise definitions of geology terms. From Geotech.org.
Illustrated
Glossary of Geologic Terms
A basic glossary of geologic terms prepared by Steven Richard
of Iowa State.
Oxford Reference Online--A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Directories
Community
of Science (COS)
An internet site for the global research and development community.
Within the site are COS Expertise, which gives personal profiles
of professional in the research community, and COS Funding Opportunities,
a prime source for grant information.
Government Resources
Earth Science Division at
NASA Ames Research Center
Issues on global change are the primary interest of this website.
National Cooperative Geologic
Mapping Program
A project to collect and disseminate earth-science information
via geologic maps.
National Geophysical Data
Center
A center for data management and services.
United States Geological Survey
(USGS)
Provides scientific information to describe the earth and natural
disasters and manage U.S. water, biological, energy and mineral
resources.
United States Geological Survey
(USGS): Search
Search engine for the USGS website.
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
Information on worldwide earthquake activity.
USGS Geology
Provides information on geologic hazards, resources, and processes.
USGS Index of
USGS Websites
Subject listing of USGS websites.
Handbooks & Data Tables
A Field Guide to Geology
[PRINT. Tisch Reference QE78.3 .R62 1996]
Guide to the earth's crust and its formation in Eastern
North America.
Geoindicators
Resource for information on geoindicators; the measures of geological
processes occurring near the earth's surface.
World Data
Center System
Provides access to solar, geophysical and related environmental
data gathered by various scientific communities around the world.
Images
Earth From Space
Images of earth taken from NASA space shuttle observations.
Earthshots:
Satellite Images of Environmental Change
Landsat images from 1972 to the present showing environmental
events.
The Electronic Volcano
Information on the world's active volcanoes.
Images and Data
Source of real-time and archived weather and satellite data.
Maps
Relief Maps of the United States
Societies & Associations
American Geological Institute
Promotes understanding of earth and space for the benefit of humanity.
Geological Society of America
Primary mission of the society is to advance the geosciences.
The Geological Society of
London
A national society for geoscience.
Reviews
Annual Review of Earth & Planetary Science 1984-
Resources for Writing
Bibliographic Citation Manager(s)
RefWorks
A web-based reference/citation and bibliography manager. Allows
users to keep track of and download citations from our
internet databases/indexes and then use these references in
writing papers and automatically formatting papers and the bibliographies.
This software works with EndNote too!
Dictionaries
Oxford Reference Online. A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Style Manuals & Guides
Elements of Style by William J. Strunk
A library’s catalog covers most aspects of a subject over centuries of publications in many languages. Catalogs can be searched by author, title, subject, and keyword. Tisch Library uses the Library of Congress (LC) classification scheme. LC classification brings similar books together on the shelves, which facilitates browsing. Geology books are classified in QE.
The Catalogs
Boston Library Consortium Catalogs
Harvard University Library System Catalog (HOLLIS)
National Research
Council of Canada
Includes Canada Institute for Scientific & Technical Information
(CISTI).
WorldCat.
FirstSearch.
Click on WorldCat or select WorldCat database from the search
box.
Covers almost all of the catalogs of the major research libraries,
as well as public libraries.
Other Sources for Books
Books
in Print
Lists books currently in print and available on the market for
purchasing.
Document
Delivery
Borrow from other libraries, both books and journal articles.
The
Online Books Page: QE Geology
List of online books from the University of Pennsylvania's Digital
Library. Freely readable.
To locate articles or research papers within periodicals and journals, it is necessary to use specialized databases known as indexes. Database Searching Tips (also available in PDF) provides valuable information on how to construct a search for best results.
Indexes
Geology Indexes
GEOBASE.
First Search. 1980-
More than 500,000 records covering the worldwide literature on
geology, geography, and ecology.
GeoRef.
COS platform. 1785-
Bibliographic references to articles, books, and maps.
Science Indexes
Science
Citation Index Expanded 1945-
Part of the ISI Web of Science, provides author, subject and citation
access to journal articles and book reviews in the sciences, citation
values for particular papers, and citation tracking and related
records. Updated weekly.
Scopus. Elsevier, 1966-
An index to the world's scientific, technical and medical literature (14,000 scholarly titles),
including 2,700 titles in Social Science, Psychology and Economics. Updated daily. Non-English
titles are covered as long as English abstracts are available. Full-text linking is available
wherever the technology and the access arrangements permit and continues to expand as such
arrangements allow. Integrated web searching and patent searching by Scirus.
Current
Contents
An ISI current awareness database with an interdisciplinary focus;
covers science, social science and humanities; includes latest
issues of journals with table of contents from over 8,000 of the
world's research journals and some evaluated scholarly websites.
Can create auto alerts for e-mail updates. Has search and journal
browse functions. Updated daily.
Electronic Journals
Periodicals are listed in the library catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in electronic format contain a hyperlink to the source. Searches in the web-based catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A complete list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals.
Key Weekly Science Journals
Nature. Nature Publishing Group.
Current:
v387-, 1997-
Back volumes v. 54-84 (1896-1910) and v.132- (1937-): [PRINT.
Tisch Bound Periodicals Q1 .N2]
Back volumes v.112-131 (1923-1933): [MICROFORMS. R93]
Science
Current:
v270-, (1995- )
Back
volumes v.1-270, (1800-1995)
Collections of Electronic Journals
Blackwell
Synergy. Blackwell Publishing.
Provides full-text access to 600+ scholarly journals. To browse
Earth Science, select Life and Physical Sciences.
GeoScienceWorld
GeoScienceWorld is a collection of core peer-reviewed journals in the geosciences.
ScienceDirect.
Elsevier.
A database of over 1,700 journal titles covering the life, physical,
technical and social sciences. Titles start with the initial volume
of publication; all titles have tables of contents and abstracts,
and most have full-text articles. Tufts has access to approximately
800 titles from 1995 to date. The titles formerly published by
Academic Press commence with 1993. Green boxes indicate subscribed
titles; white boxes are for non-subscribed titles. Please note:
ScienceDirect no longer provides access to non-subscribed titles.
Articles from non-subscribed titles must be obtained from Tisch
Document Delivery or purchased directly from ScienceDirect.
Browse Earth and Planetary Science journals.
SpringerLink.
Springer Verlag.
Provides access to 460+ electronic journals with full-text and
some book series. The focus is on science and technology. Browse
the Geosciences Online Library. To gain access to the Springer
A-Z journal list, pull down the top right hand bar.
Wiley
InterScience
Provides full-text access to 300+ journals published by John
Wiley & Sons. Browse the Earth
Science journals.
Other Sources for Research Papers
Conferences and Proceedings
Many scientific papers are first presented at a conference and
published in the proceedings of the meeting.
ISI
Proceedings
An index of published literature from significant conferences,
symposia, and seminars.
Dissertations
Doctoral dissertations are another source for original research.
Dissertation
Abstracts. FirstSearch. 1861-
Indexes dissertations accepted at accredited institutions, covers
all disciplines. Updated monthly.
Tufts University
Dissertations. ProQuest, 1996-
Tufts dissertations and theses published in Dissertation Abstracts
from 1996 to date. Provides full-text access.
Government Reports
GrayLit Network. U.S.
Government.
A science portal to technical reports from the Department of Energy,
Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency and NASA.
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File
Reports 1990-
Included are unpublished reports, maps, and other materials.
Maps
Geography-The National Map
Provides scientific information to describe America's landscape
by mapping the terrain and analyzing changes over time.
USGS Geologic Maps
[PRINT. Tisch Library Map Room, Cabinets 1-29]
Topographic maps for each state.
Geologic Atlas of US Folios
[PRINT. Tisch Library Map Room, Cabinets 33-34]
USGS Map Series
The following series are located in the Tufts Geology Department,
Lane Hall:
Series GQ: Geological Quadrangle Maps
Series I: Miscellaneous Geology Investigation
Series MF: Miscellaneous Field Map Studies
The following series are located in the Tisch Library Map Room,
in the regular-size cabinets against the south wall.
Series A: U.S. Antarctic Research Program Maps
Series C: Coal Investigation
Series GP: Geological Investigation
Atlas Series HA: Hydrologic Investigation Atlas
Series L: Land Use Series
Series MR: Mineral Investigation Maps
Chart Series OC: Oil and Gas Investigation Charts
Series QM: Oil Investigation Maps.
Find Web Resources on the Internet
In the 1980’s the World Wide Web emerged and spawned publications of its own, independent of the print traditions. Information retrieved from the open web must be reviewed for authority, accuracy and authenticity. Keeping these limitations in mind, there are some excellent information resources available from the open web, especially those associated with government agencies and universities. See how to evaluate web resources.
General Web Search Engines
Google
A top ranked web search engine, with good relevancy. Uses tabs
at the top of the search box. Groups tab leads to a usenet news
database: sci.geology.
The Directory tab is a Page Rank version of the Open Directory:
Earth
Science. There are also tabs for Images and News.
Alltheweb.com
Good web search engine. Indexes full webpage, PDF files, Microsoft
Word files, and text within Flash files. Also includes tabs for
databases of news, pictures, videos, audio and FTP files.
Science Web Search Engines
Scirus
A comprehensive science-specific search engine. Locates peer-reviewed
articles.
Earth Science
Virtual Library
A compilation of web links.
Earth
Science
A directory of earth science resources on the web by Paul Farrar.
Earth
Science
A directory of earth science resources compiled by Yahoo.
Earth
Sciences Gateway
A directory of web resources compiled and indexed by the Resource
Discovery Network (RDN), a collaborative group of educational
and research organizations.
Earthguide
Earth, marine & environmental science resources for teachers
and students by the University of California, San Diego.
Geophysics
on the Internet
Geophysics web resources maintained by John C. Butler.
geosource
Collection of geographical science webpage links. Created by
Utrecht University, Netherlands.
EQNET: Earthquake Information
Network
Web resource for earthquake information.
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Contact for questions about library collections.
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