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Use this guide to locate the most important information resources for scholarly research in all areas of Earth Sciences. This guide emphasizes sources for locating current journal and conference papers, current news, and web sites with high quality data.
Just getting started with research in earth sciences? See the General Earth Sciences Research Guide.
GeoRef is the major index to the international geological literature from 1785 to present, and is the computerized equivalent of the Bibliography and Index of Geology (BIG). GeoRef is produced by the American Geological Institute, and the Web-based interface is developed by the Community of Science.
The database covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and a wide variety of publications from international, national and regional geological surveys and societies.
GeoRef has excellent coverage of regional geology. Topics include all aspects of terrestrial and extraterrestrial geology, geochemistry, geophysics, mineralogy, petrology, economic geology, hydrology, oceanography, geomorphology, geoarchaeology, and engineering geology. Abstracts are available for recent journal articles. GeoRef on the Web includes the GeoRef Preview Database, a file of the week's most recent articles; most of these are not yet completely indexed for the full GeoRef file.
You can find papers by author, keywords from the title and abstract, geographic location, and subject descriptors. To locate proper forms of geographic, stratigraphic, formation, and other types of subject terms, use the GeoRef Thesaurus, Phys-Sci Ref. Z/6031/G401.
Access to GeoRef is through the CSA Internet Database Service.
GeoBase is the major indexing and abstracting service covering all areas of human and physical geography, including ecology, climatology, demography, regional planning, environmental science, marine science and geomorphology. Over 2000 journals, as well as conference proceedings, books and technical reports from all over the world are indexed from 1980 to the present. This is a useful file for international, multidisciplinary studies. Each record includes a descriptive abstract.
GeoBase is the equivalent of these print indexes:
Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography Ecological Abstracts International Development Abstracts Geological Abstracts Oceanographic Literature Review
Types of materials indexed are books and monographs, conferences, symposia, meetings, journal articles, and technical reports.
Covers 5,300 journals in the basic and applied sciences, including earth and environmental sciences, engineering, and biology. Years covered are 1945-present. Updated weekly.
Search features include: cited reference searching, current awareness searching, keyword searching across all files, related records linking, interdisciplinary searching, and number of times a paper was cited. Searching "This week's update" or "Latest 2 weeks" or "Latest 4 weeks" or "All years" or "Year selected" are possible date limits.
Journals indexed by Web of Science.
Chemical Abstracts is an important resource for the geochemistry literature, including journal articles, conference proceedings and books on isotope geochemistry and analytical chemistry techniques, from 1967 to present online and back to 1907 in print. Access is via SciFinder Scholar, client software available for downloading and on the science workstations in Kresge Library.
Applied Science Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 390 periodicals. It indexes English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, such as AAPG Bulletin, Geological Society of America Bulletin and Environmental Geology. Non-English-language articles are indexed if English abstracts are provided. Periodical coverage includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals. It covers 1984-present and is updated monthly. Abstracts are provided for citations added to the database since 3/93.
General Science Abstracts is a bibliographic database that cites every article of at least one column in length in more than 135 popular science magazines and professional periodicals, such as Geology, Geotimes, Nature, Science, and Scientific American, and Nature. It indexes English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere from 1984-present and is updated monthly. Abstracts are provided for citations added to the database since 3/93.
Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA) covers the international literature meteorology, climatology, atmospheric chemistry and physics, hydrology, physical oceanography, glaciology, and related environmental sciences. The Web index covers 1974 to present, and the CD-ROM in Kresge Library covers 1950-1971. Examples of the subject coverage include: basic and applied research related to physical meteorology, weather modification, cloud physics, hydrology, satellite meteorology, air pollution meteorology, agricultural and forest meteorology, and applied meteorological numerical models of all types, climate research and impact analysis, changes in the climate system on seasonal and longer time scales, climate modeling and forecasting, and the impact of climate changes on society
Digital Dissertations provides a subject, title, and author guide to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. In addition, since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that have been collected by and filmed at The British Document Supply Centre. Beginning with DAIC Volume 49, Number 2 (Spring 1988), citations and abstracts from Section C, Worldwide Dissertations (formerly European Dissertations), have been included.
Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author; citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. The full text of more than one million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats upon request. The complete file of Dartmouth dissertations is available in digital format starting with titles published in 1997.
Dartmouth doctoral dissertations are cataloged and shelved with books on similar subjects in the stacks. Masters and senior theses are shelved by department and by author within each department. There are several indexes to theses and dissertations, including GeoRef, which lists many dissertations in the Earth Sciences, and the following reference:
Bibliography of Geoscience Theses of the United States and Canada
Ref./ Z6034/ .U5/ .B54/ 1993
This has author, subject and geographic indexes, and covers the years 1867-1988.
General Information about access to library-licensed resources from off-campus
The VPN (Virtual Private Network) Client is software that allows you to establish a secure, encrypted connection to the Dartmouth network -- open a VPN session and it is as though you were on campus. Recommended to install on your own computer for regular use.
Directly request books from the combined library catalogs (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale) using BORROW DIRECT
Please fill out the DartDoc Form for documents that are in Storage or not in the Dartmouth Library or use Borrow Direct for books. See the Document Delivery webpage for more details on these services.
Bates, Robert Latimer. Writing in Earth Science.
Alexandria, Va. : American Geological Institute, c1988.
Kresge Ref. QE48.85 .B37 1988
Cochran, Wendell, Peter Fenner, and Mary Hill, eds. Geowriting : A Guide to Writing, Editing, and Printing in Earth Science.
5th ed. (Rev.) Alexandria, Va. : American Geological Institute, 2004
Kresge Ref. QE48.85 .G44 2004
Hansen, Wallace R., ed. Suggestions to Authors of the Reports of the United States Geological Survey.
7th ed. Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 1991
Kresge Ref. QE 48.85 .S84 1991
Online version
EndNote is a bibliographic management database that can be used in several ways to help you organize and track citations to the literature. You can download searches from databases such as the online catalog, GeoRef, General Science Index and Web of Science directly into EndNote. EndNote provides an index to the articles by author, keyword, date, etc.., and can be used to produce a bibliography when combined with a word processing program like WORD.
RefWorks is a very easy to use reference management program, with in-context guidance. 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.
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.
For assistance, please see the Kresge Staff Directory.
Consult the Web pages of the Libraries on Campus.
See the map of the libraries, and the map of campus.
For assistance with the Kerberos Authentication system that uses SideCar and KClient, see: Kerberos Authentication at Dartmouth. This is important since many of the eResources are licensed to be accessed only by members of Dartmouth College. Access the Digital Library from Off-Campus.
Research guide developed by Barbara DeFelice.
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