General Earth Sciences

Most used resources:

• GEOREF now available from Proquest.
• Geoscience World (access to GeoRef and core earth science journals)
• SPE OnePetro: Online Information Library Stanford Only.

Table of Contents

Can't find what you're looking for? Send a question to (Stanford only) to Branner Reference staff at brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.

Indexes

Indexes will lead you to articles in journals and series and papers in conference proceedings, as well as technical reports.

• Arctic & Antarctic Regions Includes Bibliography on cold regions science and technology, and the Antarctic bibliography, 1950 - present. Stanford Only.
  • Access to Cold Regions Bibliography also available directly.
• Bibliography of the Grand Canyon and Lower Colorado River
• CQ On Congress Includes full text of: Senate and House Bills, Congressional Record, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, Committee and Floor Schedules, and Member Profiles. Stanford Only.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (formerly Dissertation Abstracts), 1881+, with links to free Stanford Dissertations (1989) Stanford Only.
• Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Databases Stanford Only. Search, separately or combined, four databases offering 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. From Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Science and Pollution Management, GeoRef In Process and Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
• GEOREF via Proquest's web-based interface [1755-present] Stanford only 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. GeoRef Brief Guide.
• Geoscience World Stanford only
• Global Newsbank (1996+) Full text of selected articles from wire services, broadcasts, newspapers, and periodicals worldwide. Stanford Only.
• Ingenta Stanford Only.
• LexisNexis Academic Full-text news, business, and law resources. Stanford Only.
• Newsbank NewsFile (1991+) Full-text news. Stanford Only.
• NTIS Government Reports (1964+) Stanford Only.
• Web of Science (1945+) Web version of Science Citation Index. Stanford Only.
• Water Resources Abstracts Stanford Only. From Proquest. Includes 14 databasess of 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.

Library Catalogs

Searchworks— Use Stanford's Web-based Catalog to find the locations of books, journals, maps, data files, and technical reports.

Other Library catalogs including UC Berkeley and UT Austin.

If Stanford doesn't have the document (article, map, book, report) that you need, fill out the appropriate online form:

• InterLibrary Loan Service (Document Delivery) Request Forms:
  • Books,Theses, Maps, Government Documents, Technical Reports
  • Journal Articles, Conference Proceeding Papers, Book Chapters
• Faculty and Graduate Students, request for yourself from RLCP Libraries: UC Berkeley or UT Austin

Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks

Listed here are a selected few of the dictionaries and handbooks available in Branner and Swain libraries, designed to give you a flavor of the types of information available.

• Access Science at McGraw-Hill— McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 8th edition and McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 6th Edition. Also at Branner Reference: Q121 .M3 1987
• All that JAS: Journal Abbreviation Sources
• Britannica Online (Stanford only)
• Encyclopedia of earth sciences series: Branner Library Reference, QE501 .E56 V.1-24.
• Encyclopedia of earth system science: Branner Library Reference, QE515 .F24
• English Language Dictionaries
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• USGS Earthquake Glossary
• Glossary of Geology: Branner Library Reference, QE5 .B38 1997
• International Research Centers Directory, part of Gale's Ready Reference Shelf
• Periodic Tables of Elements

Full Text Materials

• Stanford E-journals
• Geoscience World Stanford Only. A resource that delivers electronic journal content of not-for-profit and independent earth science publishers along with access to GeoRef.  Currently includes 30 core journals from American Association of Petroleum Geologists, American Geological Institute, Geological Society of America, Geological Society of London, Mineralogical Society of America, Society for Sedimentary Geology, and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
• Maps
• Stanford Theses (1989 - present) Stanford Only.

Data Resources Selected

Earthquake, geochemical, rainfall, streamflow, and other data sets of interest to earth scientists are enumerated on the relevant earth science subject pages. For any of the CD-Rom products, plan either to come into the library Mon-Friday 1-5 PM.

Note: For GIS Data sets see: Branner Library GIS Data Collection and Web Sites for Digital GIS Data.

Search SearchWorks— Stanford's Web-based Catalog for data sets on cd-roms or other media that can be checked out. To request additional data sets or help in locating information: send email to brannerlibrary@stanford.edu Stanford Community Members Only, Please

• Association of Bay Area Governments
• California. Probabalistic Seismic Hazard Map; See also Earthquake Hazards Program - Northern California
• El Nino theme page [Includes data, images, modeling, newspaper articles, etc.]
• USGS Earthquake Information Includes:
  • Significant Earthquakes of the World
  • Largest Earthquakes in the World, 1990-1998
  • US Earthquake History, State by State
  • Largest Earthquakes in the United States

Weather Conditions

• Local California Weather forecasts
• National Weather Service: San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey
• Unidata Program
• The Daily Planet — Weather and Climate Info.
• UNISYS Weather

Directories

Directories, of course, lead you to people, institutions, agencies, addresses, phone numbers, etc.

• Association of American State Geologists Sites and directories of state surveys.
• Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Projects
• Directory of Geoscience Organizations of the World 2010
• Natural Hazards Data Resources Directory
• USGS Electronic Directory

Media/Imagery

These tools are a means of finding photographs, movies, slides or other multimedia items related to earth sciences topics. Check the specific subject pages for more listings.

• 1906 Earthquake photos from the Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
• 1906 San Francisco Earthquake photos from the USGS
• American Environmental Photographs, 1891-1936 from the Library of Congress and the University of Chicago Library
• Association of Bay Area Governments, Bay Area Projects
• Earth Science World ImageBank from American Geological Institute
• FEMA Photo Library Photographs on floods, tornadoes and coastal storms, etc.
• Images of Historical Earthquakes
• NASA's Planetary Photojournal [Images of earth, planets, moons, and asteroids taken by Voyager, Magellan, etc.]
• NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• National Archives-Pacific Sierra Region for the for the Study of Science, Technology, Natural Resources and the Environment [The depository for the permanently valuable, noncurrent records of Federal courts and agencies in northern California, Hawaii, Nevada; information available includes environment, land use, mining, and petroleum.]
• Plate Tectonic Animations
• Top-down views of the Earth from NASA
• Water Resources Archive, UC Berkeley
• Wind Erosion Multimedia Archive

Other Information Resources for General Information Sources

Guides to Internet Resources for General Earth Sciences Interest

• GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
• Geosource - Web Resources for Geographers, Planners, Geoscientists, and Environmental Scientists
• Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page
• United States Geological Survey EarthExplorer Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.
• List of Natural History Museums

Associations, Societies and Organizations

• American Geological Institute (AGI) and AGI Member Societies
• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Government Agencies

• Enviro$en$e (Pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and enforcement information and databases — a part of the EPA website.)
• California Dept of Conservation, Division of Oil and Gas and Geothermal Resources
• California Energy Commission
• Community of Science (NSF) Contains database of Federally Funded Research in the US.
• Global Change Master Directory
• Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST)
• National Park Service, Geology Division: Park Geology, Tour of National Parks, USA
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• NIOSH National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (formerly US Bureau of Mines)
• NOAA: National Ocean Service: Office of Ocean and Earth Sciences
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management
• U.S. Department of Energy
• USGS

  US Geological Survey Library

  USGS Geology in the Parks

• U.S. Geological Survey, Water Resources of California
• FEDWORLD — Fedworld provides a central access point for locating and acquiring government information.
• UC Berkeley Library's Guide to Geological Surveys & Natural Resources Departments
• Illinois State Geological Survey — Library and Public Information's Guide to Geological Surveys & Natural Resources Departments

Software Resources for the Earth Sciences

• The SOFT EARTH — a Tour of the Web for Geoscientists — Software and Software Sites

Web Pages for Universities and Institutions

• Geology Field Camps on the Web
• National Academy of Engineering
• National Academy of Sciences
• National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado, Boulder, USA
• Oxford University Department of Earth Sciences Note:Links to other UK University web pages included.
• [Comprehensive] List of Geology Departments & Schools or Universities for Earth Sciences

Additional Stanford Sites of Interest

• Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SUL/AIR) Home Page
  • Reserves for most Stanford Libraries (excluding Lane, Jackson, & SLAC)
  • SUL/AIR Collections [available in Electronic Form]
• Stanford School of Earth Sciences
• Earth Systems Program
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (IPER)
• Stanford Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences
• Stanford Geophysics Department
• Petroleum Engineering Department

Back to Branner's homepage, or view other subject guides:

General Earth Sciences | Climatology and Meteorology | Earth Systems / The Environment | Earthquakes and Seismology | Environmental Geochemistry | Geochemistry - Mineralogy - Metamorphic and Igneous Petrology | Geomathematics and Geostatistics | Geomechanics, Rock Mechanics, & Structural Geology | Geophysics and Geodesy | Hydrogeology | Indexes to Journal Articles, Reports, Maps, Etc. | IPER | Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography | Ore Deposits | Petroleum Engineering | Paleontology - Petroleum Geology - Sedimentary Petrology - Stratigraphy | Soils | Selected Sites for Geoscientists | Writing in the Earth Sciences

Author: Charlotte Derksen

Last modified: September 20, 2011