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Databases & indexes

	Current Contents Connect via Web of Knowledge Multidisciplinary, current awareness database of articles as they are published. Provides access to the table of contents and bibliographic data from 8000+ leading scholarly research journals and book.
	GeoRef via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) A comprehensive Geoscience database with over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
	GeoScienceWorld A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.
	Lyell Collection Full-text publications in the Earth Sciences from the Geological Society of London, featuring complete journal archives, special publications and book series. Cross-linked to GeoRef and ISI databases.
	ScienceDirect Full-text, peer reviewed journals, books, and reference works. Covers a broad range of subjects in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Health Sciences, Life Sciences, and, Physical Sciences and Engineering.
	SciFinder Scholar (from CAS) First time users must register for web version (see below). A research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases that contain literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more. Client version available in Science and Medical Libraries.
	SciFinder Scholar (registration) First-time users must register for the web version at this site before following the link in the above record.
	Scopus A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and web sources. Over 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers. Includes some full text links. Access Scopus Tutorials online.
	Web of Science via Web of Knowledge Citation databases with over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences.

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Reference

• Dictionaries
• Encyclopedias

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Dictionaries

• Glossary of geology 4th ed - Sci:Ref QE/5/GJ51/1997
• Hey's mineral index 3rd ed - Sci:Ref QE/357/CK62/1993
• Oxford dictionary of earth sciences -Sci:Ref QE/5/DJ19/1998

Encyclopedias

• Dinosaurs; the enyclopedia - Sci:Ref QE/862/D5/GJ64
• Encyclopedia of earth system science - Sci:Ref QE/5/EJ7
• Encyclopedia of earthquakes and volcanoes - Sci:Ref QE/521/RK86/2001
• Encyclopedia of environmental science - Sci:Ref GE/10/EJ8
• Encyclopedia of European and Asian regional geology - Sci:Ref QE/260/EJ7
• Encyclopedia of geomorphology - Sci:Ref GB/400.3/EJ8
• Encyclopedia of geology - Sci:Ref QE/5/EJ85
• Encyclopedia of mineral names - Sci:Ref QE/357/BL66
• Encyclopedia of paleontology - Sci:Ref QE/703/EJ73
• Encyclopedia of sediments and sedimentary rocks - Sci:Ref QE/471.2/EJ7
• Encyclopedia of volcanoes - Sci:Ref QE/522/EJ7
• Environmental encyclopedia - Sci:Ref GE/10/EL42
• Oxford companion to the earth - Sci:Ref QE/5/OZ5
• Treatise on geochemistry - Sci:Ref QE/515/TS39

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Web sites

• American Geophysical Union
• Earth Pages - News, publications, links to resource centres and organizations
• Geokem, geochemical data analysis program
• Geological Society - London Picture library and links to directories and information sources
• Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. (IGNS)- Useful NZ site with historical information and links to research in Antarctica.
• Links for mineralogists
• Multidisciplinary centre for earthquake engineering research
• Scitopia - Search the electronic libraries of 15 leading science and technology societies, including the American Geophysical Union, the American Institute of Physics, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and SPIE.
• Te Puna Web Directory - Science & Technology
• University of Otago Geology Department
• US Geological Survey Library
• Volcano Watch - Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
• Volcano World

Last revised: 21 January, 2008