Government Documents Library
will have Environmental Protection Agency reports and other government
documents.
Maps
of Library Locations, Lists of Library Hours
and Reserve Lists for most Stanford
Libraries are available.
Use SOCRATES - Stanford's
Web-based Catalog to find the location of needed books, journals,
maps, data files, and technical reports. 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.
If you don't find what you need in SOCRATES, you can check:
- the UCB or UC Davis Library catalogs using Melvyl,
the combined catalog for the Univ. California Libraries;
- USGS
Library Catalog. Search
help is available.
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 the RLCP Libraries:
UC-B or UT-Austin
If you are not positive Stanford doesn't own the item,
send a request for verification to the Branner Reference staff:
brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.
Indexes
Stanford Only, except where otherwise noted.
Indexes will lead you to articles in journals and series, and
to papers in conference proceedings, as well as technical reports.
There are 2 indexes of major importance for Hydrogeology: GeoRef
and Water Resources Abstracts (WRA).
From 1967 through 1993 Selected Water Resources (SWRA) was
produced by USGS; it includes water-related U.S. government
documents, as well as the majority of state water documents.
In 1994, USGS cancelled production of SWRA, and it is now available
on the internet as WRSIC. The SWRA was reborn at Cambridge Scientfic
as Water Resources Abstracts (WRA), but with a changed coverage,
but with the old file intact. GeoRef includes all USGS publications,
as well as the state survey publications no longer covered in
WRA.
- Water
Resources Abstracts--[information
about the file] Stanford Only.
- WRSIC
Research Abstracts 1967-1993; collection
of international water research in the life, physical and
social sciences, as well as engineering and legal issues.
- GEOREF
[1755-present] More Information.
Stanford only
- Other Indexes of possible interest:
- Agricola
1970+ [Indexes worldwide literature on agriculture
and related topics, such as groundwater.] Stanford
Only.
- Agricola
is also accessible directly from the National Agricultural
Library.
- Arctic & Antarctic
Regions--[information about the file] [Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia, Siberia, etc.]
- EI/Compendex:
Engineering Index Information
about the file (1969+) Stanford Only.
- Environmental Sciences
and Pollution Management Databases--- [information about the file] [Stanford Only.]
- Expanded
Academic ASAP General index to over
1500 magazines with some fulltext. (1980+)
- IES
Water Data Base Middle East Water Bibliography
compiled at University of Pennsylvania's Institute for
Environmental Studies. Open to all
- Ingenta Use
primarily as Source of "Table of Contents" via Uncover
linkStanford Only.
- LexisNexis
Academic fulltext news, business, and
law resources. Stanford Only.
- Monthly
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications Open to
all. 1994+ [Indexes print and electronic
publications created by Federal agencies. When available,
links are provided to the full-text of these publications.]
- NTIS
Government Reports 1964-present [information
about the file] Stanford Only.
- Search Publications
of the USGS or Formal
Publications of the USGS: Bulletins, Professional Papers,
Circulars, Water-Supply Papers, and Thematic Maps - title
word access only---
[USGS publications, author/subject as well as OFRs and
WRIs]
- SciSearch
(1900+) Web version of Science Citation Index.
Stanford Only.
(Stanford-affiliated users only)
Summary: Includes abstracts of journal articles, monographs,
reports and other publication formats on water resources as
treated in the life, physical and social sciences and the related
engineering and legal aspects of the characteristics, supply
condition, conservation, control, use, or management of water
resources.
Endnote users: there is a filter for importing records
from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts' version of Water Resources
Abstracts, available from Endnote.
None of the CSA provided files are yet searchable using EndNote's
Z39.50 capability.
Summary: contains the Bibliography on cold regions science
and technology, and the Antarctic bibliography, 1950 - present
Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Contents: Search, separately or combined, 13 files offering
abstracts for the worldwide literature covering the environmental
sciences including air, land, water and noise pollution, bacteriology,
ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental biotechnology
and engineering, waste management, water resources, policies
and regulations, and U.S. federal environmental impact statements.
Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 1500 scientific
journals and thousands of other sources including conference
proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
(Updated monthly. Over 76,000 records/year.)
- Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts,
1993-present
- ASFA 3: Aquatic Pollution & Environmental Quality, 1990-present
- Bacteriology Abstracts (Microbiology B), 1982-present
- Ecology Abstracts, 1982-present
- EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements, 1985-present
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts, 1990-present
- Health & Safety Sciences Abstracts, 1981-present
- Industrial & Applied Microbiology Abstracts (Microbiology
A), 1982-present
- Pollution Abstracts, 1981-present
- Risk Abstracts, 1990-present
- Toxicology Abstracts, 1982-present
- TOXLINE, 1991-present
- Water Resources Abstracts, 1967-present
Endnote users: there is a filter for importing records
from CSA's suite of enviroment and pollution databases, available
from Endnote.
None of the CSA provided files are yet searchable using EndNote's
Z39.50 capability.
1785 - Present. Summary: The American Geological Institute's
geoscience database containing over 2.2 million records of North
America since 1785 and other areas of the world since 1933.
It is the equivalent of four major reference publications: Bibliography
of North American Geology; Bibliography and index of Geology
exclusive of North America; Geophysical abstracts; and, Bibliography
and index of Geology. Help is available at the site.
Endnote users: there is a filter for importing records
from CSA's version of GeoRef, available from Endnote.
None of the CSA provided files are yet searchable using EndNote's
Z39.50 capability.
The GeoRef Preview Database
consists of references to recent geoscience publications. Caution:
This data is in process for inclusion in GEOREF. It may not
yet have been indexed, been given a translated title, or been
checked by a GEOREF editor when you see it. Each weekend, completed
references are removed from the Preview database and transferred
to GeoRef, new references are added, and changes are made in
the remaining data. Two views of the database are available:
Subject and Journal. A word search is also provided. The word
search includes all words in the reference, the abstract, if
any, and index terms, if the reference has already been indexed.
The GeoRef
In Process database or GRIP file is now available from CSA
only. Stanford Only. GRIP consists of references to
documents published before 1995. The references are from databases
and print bibliographies produced by surveys or institutions
in: Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia
or Spain. These In-Process Records are being edited and indexed,
and on completion, will be transferred out of GeoRef in Process,
into GeoRef.
Coverage is from 1964-present. Use NTIS Database to access
the latest U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide
scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information.
NTIS is the source for purchasing unclassified and publicly
available information from research reports, journal articles,
data files, computer programs and audio visual products from
Federal sources. Some information is available from international
government departments and other international organizations
including those from Canada, Japan, the former Soviet Union,
Western and Eastern European countries.
NTIS items that Stanford owns can be found in Socrates.
For all others use the Interlibrary
Borrowing Request Form.
Endnote users: See these instructions
for exporting citations from NTIS into EndNote.
Publications Of The USGS
An index to the formal Publications of The USGS:
Bulletins, Professional Papers, Circulars, Water-Supply Papers,
and Thematic Maps is available; this index includes access
only by title words. For author index or for a more comprehensive
index of USGS publications, including Open-file reports and
Water Resources Investigations, use GEOREF,
or the Search Publications
of the USGS. Both of these databases (GeoRef and Pubs of
the USGS) contain references to USGS publications issued 1880-2000;
213 references to reports of the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler
surveys; 15,227 references to non-Survey publications by Survey
authors which appeared in GEOREF from 1983 to Feb. 1989. Coverage
of Open-File reports before 1971 is incomplete. For some Bulletins,
Professional papers, and Open-File reports which have chapters,
there are separate references for each chapter. Many USGS publications
are also listed by author and title in SOCRATES,
Stanford's Web-based Catalog .
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks
Listed here are a just a few of the dictionaries and handbooks,
designed to give you a flavor of the types of information available.
Either come in and browse the shelves or browse Socrates
if you can't find the information you need in one of these.
- Britannica Online (Stanford
only)
- Encyclopedia of applied geology: Branner Library
Reference, QE501 .E56 V.13
- English
Language Dictionaries
- Glossary of Geology: Branner Library Reference,
QE5 .B38 1997
- List of terms of hydrogeology, geochemistry, and geothermal
of mineral and thermal waters: Branner Library
Reference, GB1001.4 .L35 1984
- Water Encyclopedia: Branner and Engineering
Library Reference, TD351 .V36
Full Text Materials
For more complete listings: search SOCRATES
- Stanford's Web-based Catalog for the availability of journals,
maps or other items. Display the
full record to obtain the URL, determine number of accessible
volumes, or confirm access restrictions, if any.
Full text Earth Sciences Monographs:
Books, Government Documents, Series Volumes, Technical Reports,
Theses Selected
Software
Data Resources Selected
Some rainfall, streamflow, and other data for hydrogeology
can still be found only on CD-ROM products in the Branner Library.
For any of the CD-Rom products, plan either to come into the
library Mon-Friday 1-5 PM to use them or send email to branner@pangea
for an appointment. Many data sets are now available directly
from the USGS Water Division:
Also check SOCRATES -
Stanford's Web-based Catalog for available data sets. To
request additional data sets or help in locating information:
send email to brannerlibrary@stanford.edu
Stanford Community Members Only, Please
Directories
Directories, of course, lead you to people, institutions, agencies,
addresses, phone numbers, etc.
Other Information Resources for Earth
Sciences
Guides to the Internet for the Earth
Sciences
Associations, Societies and Organizations
in Alphabetical Order
Web Pages for Government Agencies
Web Pages for Universities and Institutions
Additional Stanford Sites of Interest
