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This guide is meant to help you locate and explore information resources that will be useful to you as you research your seminar topics. Feel free to ask for research help, or to send us questions, comments or suggestions. Use the Contents links to help you find specific information. Other helpful starting points include
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These resources are all listed elsewhere in this guide, but provide the best launching points for your research. AccessScience is an authoritative encyclopedia and dictionary for science and engineering terms topics, and it includes references to key journal articles and books. If you like to use Wikipedia, check in AccessScience too! Summon Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry online via Geoscience World; great source for authoritative overview articles. Scientific American Excellent articles written by experts for the non-expert. Kresge and Dana shelved by title; Baker/Berry T1 .S5; online full text archive since 1995 |
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You can locate print and online mineralogical journals by title in the online catalog by doing the subject search: For articles within these journals, see the Indexes and Abstracts section of this guide. Selected journal titles: |
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| Summon | This new service runs a search across multiple sources at once, including article databases and the library catalog. |
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Applied Science Abstracts 1983-present Part of Wilson Web |
Indexes 390 technical and engineering journals; covers journals include: AAPG Bulletin, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geology. |
| General Science Abstracts Part of WilsonWeb |
Indexes popular science magazines to professional science journals. Covers about 135 popular multidisciplinary journals, including: Geotimes, Mineralogical Record, Science, Scientific American, Nature, American Scientist; covers all the sciences. |
| GeoRef Cambridge Scientific Abstracts |
American Geological Institute's worldwide technical literature resource covering all aspects of geology and all kinds of materials, from journal articles to technical reports to USGS publications. GeoRef provides a subject thesaurus to help focus your search. For example, search for a mineral name and add the phrase "depositional environment" or use the term "geothermometry" with a class of minerals to understand the timing and temperature of mineral formation. |
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GoogleScholar |
Many publishers are making the basic information about author, title and publication freely available for scholarly material, so Google can index this kind of material. Generally, the coverage of the material in Google is less consistent, less thorough, and less reliable than the coverage in the other indexes, so it's not a place to go for either very current or very in-depth research, but could be a place to start to see what topics are appearing in what journals. Then you could follow-up with more focused indexes. The Dartmouth College Library is providing Google with links to our full-text journal materials, so you can go from a Google Scholar citation to the full-text. |
| Web of Science 1900 - present |
Science Citation Index offers the unique Cited Reference Searching which allows you to go search forward in time based who has cited a paper. Indexes the major journals in geology but no conference proceedings or books. |
| WilsonWeb | Applied Science and Technology Abstracts 1983-present ; Biological and Agricultural Index Plus 1983-present ; Book Review Digest 1983-present ; General Science Abstracts 1984-present ; Readers Guide Abstracts 1983-present ; Readers' Guide Retrospective; Social Sciences Abstracts 1983-present. |
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Find crystal structure, chemical composition and other data about minerals, as well as definintions, statistics, and references to scientific articles and books using these selected resources: |
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Crystal Structure Database from the Mineralogical Society of America and other organizations This searchable crystal and chemical structure database includes structures published in scientific journals such as American Mineralogist, the Canadian Mineralogist, the European Journal of Mineralogy, and the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. You can search by crystal symmetry and chemistry as well as by name. |
Crystal Structure Database from the American Mineralogist |
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Dana's New Mineralogy |
Kresge Ref. QE372 .D23 1997 |
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Dictionary of Gems and Gemnology |
Kresge Ref QE392 .M29 2000 |
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Encyclopedia of Minerals |
Kresge Ref. QE355 R6 1990 |
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GeoDIL: A Geoscience Image Digital Library Contains pictures and descriptions of minerals. |
GeoDIL |
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Geochemical Reference Materials and Certificates Standardized descriptions of minerals to be used as a reference to compare other sameples, from the USGS. |
Geochemical Reference Materials and Certificates |
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Glossary of Geology |
Kresge Ref. QE15 G37 1987 |
| Handbook of Mineralogy Presents a great deal of data on a large number of minerals; many literature references as well. |
Kresge Ref. |
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International Tables for Crystallograpy |
Kresge Ref. QD908 .I56 multiple volumes |
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A meta-site maintained by the Institute of Mineralogy at the University of Würzburg in Germany, with many types of web sites linked from it. |
Links for Mineralogists |
| McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology On the Web, along with a dictionary and biographical information, as AccessScience |
Kresge Ref. Q121 .M3 |
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Searchable database of crystal structure, chemical composition and x-ray diffraction information for over 5000 minerals and structural analogues; produced at the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy in Russia |
MinCryst |
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Mineral Physics and Crystallography: a Handbook of Physical Constants |
Kresge Ref. |
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Compiled and maintained by David Barthelmy, this contains over 4,000 minerals with descriptions and an image library. Mineral data available includes: crystallography, X-Ray powder diffraction, chemical composition, physical and optical properties, Dana's New classification, Strunz classification, mineral specimen images, and alphabetical listings of mineral species. |
Mineralogy Database Online |
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Authoritative source for the mineral industry, supply and distribution information. |
Kresge Ref. Print TN23 .U612 |
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Rock-forming minerals (2nd ed.) A standard reference source for minerology, this multi-volume set is sometimes known as "Deer, Howie and Zussman" after its authors. Includes definitions, chemical compositions, structures and a host of other useful mineral properties. Also note the related one-volume reference work, "An Introduction to the Rock-Forming Minerals" by the same authors (Kresge Ref. QE364 .D44 1992). |
Kresge QE364 .D44 1997 |
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Sciences of the Earth: An Encyclopedia of Events, People, and Phenomena |
Kresge Ref. QE11 .S38 1998 |
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Great source for authoritative and well-illustrated discussions of topics such as The Crust, Weathering, Environmental Geochemistry, and Biogeochemistry. The full text is searchable in the Basic and Advanced Search options. You can search by specific minerals and find them within the text or in a table. |
Treatise on Geochemistry |
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Carbonate minerals In GeoRef, these are helpful terms to combine with a mineral name:: |
Searching by subject is more specific, keyword searching is broader. A combined subject and keyword search is possible (use keyword access and "s:" for the heading).Keyword search example: In GeoRef, in addition to the boolean "and" and "or", you can use operators like "near", or just type in a phrase to search words in that exact order. |
| USGS INFORMATION - Images, Regulations, Fact Sheets, Reports, Data, Experts, Standards |
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EVALUATING, CITING, & MANAGING SOURCES
"Testing the Surf: Criteria for Evaluating Internet sources." This 1997 article provides a time-tested list of criteria that you should apply in considering using any information resource. Critical Evaluation of Resources, a guide from the UC Berkeley Library that covers issues like determining bias and objectivity in a source.
Sources Their Use and Acknowledgement (Dartmouth College)
RefWorks is a very easy to use reference management program. You can access your reference lists, add to them and work on your paper from any networked computer. All help files are online, so you always have access to the documentation. It is useful for groups working at a distance because they can all share the same files. View this workshop guide for additional help using RefWorks. Kresge Library will offer workshops on EndNote and RefWorks upon demand. See Choosing a Reference Manager for help in what program to use. More information about reference management programs is on the Managing your References page. |
| LIBRARY LOCATIONS, MAPS, HOURS |
GETTING MATERIALS Borrow Direct: Delivers books from the combined library catalogs of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale within 4 business days.Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or that are not in the Dartmouth Library system (Interlibrary Loan requests). See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services. You can also use the Request Selected Item feature of the Library Catalog to request books or articles from Storage.
ACCESSING RESOURCES FROM OFF CAMPUSMost library resources require that you be on campus so that the Dartmouth IP address is recognized. However, you can access resources from off campus by setting up your computer connection in several ways. This page describes many of the ways you can set up your computer so you can use library resources when you are not on campus. Accessing Resources from Off-Campus
GET ADDITIONAL HELP
Contact a Kresge Librarian:
Jane Quigley, Reference Librarian, 6-3564
Ann Perbohner, Reference Librarian, 6-3845
Email an online request to Kresge Library.
Guide compiled by Barbara DeFelice for: EARS34 Summer 2006
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