Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections
SOCRATES
Stanford's Library Catalog; Requesting Items Stanford Doesn't Own
Use SOCRATES — Stanford's
Web-based Catalog to find the location of needed books, journals, maps,
data files, and technical reports.
If you can't find what you need in SOCRATES, check one of other Library catalogs below or send a question to (Stanford only) to Branner Reference staff: at
brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.
If Stanford doesn't have a document (article, map, book, report) that you need, fill out the appropriate online form:
- Document Delivery Request Forms:
- Request for yourself from RLCP Libraries: UC-B or UT-Austin
Other Library Catalogs
Research Library Cooperative Program (RLCP)
If Stanford doesn't own items that are needed, faculty and graduate students can order them directly from UC-Berkeley or University of Texas via email after registering for a RLCP card. Request items
via the RLCP Borrowing Request Form. If you are not positive Stanford doesn't
own the item, send a request for verification to the Branner
Reference staff:
brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.
- UCB Web Catalog. Select Quick Search or Full Feature Search from UCB
Library OskiCat page.
- University of Texas' UT-Cat.
Particularly useful for materials in Petroleum Engineering, Petroleum Geology, and Mexican Earth Sciences
Other Library Catalogs with Strong Earth Sciences Collections
- USGS Library;
Search help is available.
- A Web Interface for Melvyl;
NOTE: If you will be on a UC campus and want to use the library there, get an
RSP card
at Stanford before going there.
- RLIN:
Research libraries' union catalog for everything from books
and serials to archives, manuscripts, maps, computer files, and more.
- World Catalog
(OCLC).
- British Library Public Catalogue
- CISTI: Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
- Global Climate Change: Selective List of Online Resources
Particularly useful for documents on climate or
the environment
- Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog
- Library of Congress World Wide
Web Home Page
Particularly useful for searches in Climate, Earth Systems, Envirogeochemistry, Hydrogeology
- Linda Hall Library
Useful particularly for finding documents in Geomechanics, Petroleum Engineering, and Soils
- Lunar and Planetary Institute Library Catalog
Useful for documents in Geophysics
- National Agriculture Library Home
Page
Particularly for Documents in Soils and Earth Systems.
GeoRef Doc. Delivery
- National Technical Information Service
(NTIS) Report titles searchable
from 1990 to the present; links to some full text and pdf available; downloading more than 21 pages costs $8.95 per report.
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- National Wetlands
Research Center Library
Particularly for documents in Earth Systems, Hydrogeology and Soils.
- NOAA Central Library
Useful for documents in Climate, Environment, Geophysics and Marine Geology. GeoRef Doc. Delivery
- Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, Library
- University of Goettingen Library
Particularly for documents in Earth Systems.
-
University of Toronto Library
- LibDex - The Library Index
Useful for documents in Earth Systems and Petroleum Engineering
- Lists of
Earth Sciences Associations,
Government Agencies,
University Earth Sciences Departments and
Earth Sciences related Internet Guides
SOCRATES — Stanford's Online Catalog
Socrates is Stanford's
Web-based catalog, available for members of the Stanford University
community. It offers many new features such as the ability to search
full records to find works by publisher, place of publication,
contents notes information, etc. It does not yet include the Hoover
East Asian Collection or Stanford University Archives.
SOCRATES open to all:
Stanford Library Catalog (version open to all)
Please send
comments, suggestions, bug reports concerning this
server (especially non-functioning links) to Ask Us.
Find at: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/branner/research_help/earth_sciences/index.html.
Compiler: Charlotte Derksen, cderksen@stanford.edu.
Last modified:
January 25, 2010
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