Databases and Indexes to Journal
Articles, Reports, Maps, Etc.
Earth Sciences Databases
Science and Engineering Databases
All Databases, A-Z
Table of Contents
A | B | C | D-F
| G | H-L | M-O
| P-Q | R-S | T-Z
A
- Aerospace
Database (1962+) Stanford Only.
- Agricultural
& Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (1993+) Stanford
Only.
- Agricola
(1970+) [Indexes worldwide literature on agriculture
and related topics, such as groundwater.] Stanford Only.
- Annual review in Earth and Planetary Sciences Stanford Only.
- Applied
Science and Technology Abstracts (Accessed
through Expanded Academic ASAP database) 1983+ [Indexes 390 engineering
and science journals. Included are “special issues”
such as buyers’ guides, directories, and conference proceedings.
Selected abstracting began 3/93]
- Aquatic
Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) — [Coverage
includes all aspects of the marine and freshwater environments
ranging from biology, aquaculture, oceanography, geology, meteorology,
climatology, engineering, remote sensing. Indexes journals, monographs,
dissertations, gray literature, and conference proceedings.]
Stanford Only.
- Arctic
& Antarctic Regions Includes Bibliography
on cold regions science and technology, and the Antarctic bibliography,
1950 - present. Stanford Only.
B
C
D-F
G
H-L
M-O
P-Q
- PAIS International (1972+),
articles on agriculture, forestry, energy resources,
environment, and policy issues in these and other areas, part
of FirstSearch. Stanford
only
- Plant
Fossil Record (International Organization for Palaeobotany:
descriptions and occurrences of extinct plants,
as well as modern genera with fossil species
- Publications Index The
Digital Cumulative index of SEG, EAEG, ASEG and CSEG Publications,
1936 - present — [information
about the file]
- 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]
R-S
- Referativnyi Zhurnal. Geologiia. Only in print
form: Branner Library Bibliographies and Indexes section at 016.551.R332.
Worldwide coverage of the discipline; in Russian
- Science.gov: index
to selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies,
including research and development results; some full text reports
- SciSearch
(1945+) Web version of Science Citation Index. Stanford
Only.
- [Listing
of] Soil Surveys by State US Department of
Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Social
Science Citation Index (1974+) Also available
through ISI’s Web
of Science now part of Web of Knowledge. Note: Ports to
ISI are limited. Please log out when done. Stanford Only.
- SPE: On-line Information Library
Stanford Only. Information about the file.
- Structure reports. Section A. Metals and inorganics
Vol. 30-58 (1965-1993) and All compounds Vol.1-29 in Branner Bibliography
& Indexes Section.
T-Z
Information about the Indexes
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.
Ford-Fleischer file of mineralogical references
File in the Branner Library USGS open-file microfiche collection:
550.6.U58o.
Summary: A complete list of references to minerals in the literature
from 1916 to 1988: W.E. Ford began the file in 1916 with the intent
that it should include abstracts of every paper that contains significant
data on the physical and chemical properties of minerals. After
Ford’s death in 1939, M. Fleischer continued the file. The
coverage is of course not quite as comprehensive as its aim, especially
as the volume of publication has increased in recent years. During
the Ford years, journals covered included: Mineral. Mag.; Am. Mineral.;
Canadian Mineral.; Bull. Soc. Franc. Mineral. Crist. (now Bull Mineral.);
A. Kristallogr.; Tschermaks Mineral. Petrogr. Mitt.; Periodico Mineral.;
Neues Jahrb. Mineral. Montash.; Neues Jahrb. Mineral. Beil.-Bd.
(now Abh.); Mineral. Abstr.; Neues Jahrb. Mineral. Ref. (later Zentralbl.
Mineral.); and A. Kristallogr. abstracts. Since 1939, in addition
to the preceding journals, Chemical Abstacts and Mineralogical Abstracts
have been consulted. And since 1980, additional journals consulted
have included Contrib. Mineral. Petrol.; Chem Geol.; J. Petrol.;
and Lithos, among others. Through 1977 (OFR 81-1169), 1979-1981
(OFR 81-1174), 1981-1982 (OFR 83-0615), 1983-1988 (OFR 88-0689).
GEOBASE, GEOARCHIVE, and PASCAL
Geobase (1980 - present) covers the worldwide literature on geography,
geology, ecology, their related disciplines. In particular, coverage
includes: climatology, landforms, mineralogy, photogrammetry, remote
sensing and tectonics. It is the online version of Geographical
Abstracts.
Geoarchive (1974 - present) is a British geoscience database, covering
geology, geochemistry, geophysics, paleontology, stratigraphy, mathematical
geology, planetology, oceanology, and engineering geology. Particular
emphasis is given to economic geology, hydrology, water resources,
environment, and conservation. Coverage is considered worldwide.
Pascal (1973 - present) is a multidisciplinary database produced
by the CNRS (France). It covers all aspects of the earth sciences,
as well as biology, chemistry, civil engineering energy, and physics.
These databases are available at cost from Dialog. Request a database
search as needed; send email to Julie
Sweetkind-Singer (Stanford Only).
GEOLEX is a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit
names. It replaces the Stratigraphic Nomenclature Databases For
The United States, Its Possessions And Territories or Lexicon.
Summary: Data compiled from published geologic literature of the
U.S. Geological Survey and may be sorted by geographic name, stratigraphic
rank, age, geologic province or region, state, author, and specified
keywords. Information on more than 10,000 stratigraphic-unit names
from the GNULEX database and 20,000 unit names from GEONAMES database
are included.
For stratigraphic units not in the United States, consult the:
Lexique Stratigraphique International at QE645.I57 in the
Branner Library Reference section.
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.
From 1983 through 1992, the National Geophysical Data Center compiled
a comprehensive, computerized bibliography and geochemical database
on offshore marine mineral deposits as a cooperative effort with
the Ocean Minerals and Energy Division of the National Ocean Service
of NOAA, and the Office of International Activities and Marine Minerals
(INTERMAR) of the Minerals Management Service. Additions to the
bibliography and database stopped in 1991. The NOAA & MMS Marine
Minerals CD-ROM Data Set, contains the entire NGDC Marine Minerals
Bibliography and Geochemical Database and several data files compiled
by other organizations. The bibliography and two geochemical databases
are searchable on-line on NGDC’s web server. The entire CD-ROM
data set is available at the Branner Library reserve desk.
The NGDC Marine Minerals Bibliography includes references to present-day
marine deposits of ferromanganese nodules and crusts, placers/heavy
minerals, phosphorites, and polymetallic sulfides. The final bibliography
contains citations from 1831 through 1990. Information in the file
includes author, title, publication/serial title, date of publication,
language, etc., as well as several key word categories including
geographic area and type of study conducted. Key words also include
the names of each mineral and each element mentioned in the article.
The NGDC Marine Minerals Geochemical Database contains chemical analyses
and auxiliary information on present-day marine deposits of primarily
ferromanganese nodules and crusts but also contains some data for
heavy minerals.
The database indexes geologic, geophysical, geochemical, geochronologic,
and paleontologic information. Listed are maps produced by the U.S.
Geological Survey, some state geological surveys, and other institutions;
coverage is primarily that of U.S. areas. Currently, the database
covers primarily, the USGS thematic map series: Geologic Quadrangles,
Folios, etc. USGS Open-file maps and state survey maps are in the
process of being indexed.
Publications Index
The cumulative index of SEG, EAEG, ASEG and CSEG Publications,
1936-present
Summary: provides access to the Digital Cumulative Index of publications
of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), the European
Association of Exploration Geophysicists (EAEG, the Australian Society
of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG) and the Canadian Society of
Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG). The database contains 18,800 entries,
and covers the time period 1936-present. Full-text searching is
only available with SEG’s GEOROM
product, which has full papers from Geophysics.
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 .
Summary: includes an archive of more than 30,000 technical papers
from almost one-half century of research, study, and innovation,
1951-present. The collection includes meeting papers, and unsolicited
papers, as well as those published in the Journal of Petroleum Technology
(JPT) and other peer-reviewed SPE journals, which are also available
in the Branner Library.
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.
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