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Library and Internet Resources
JCU Library Resources
 InfoHelp
- questions answered,
assistance given online,
by phone or email
Catalogue
Library
Guides
Databases
- General Information
Indexing/Abstracting
Databases
- Data
Metallogenia Data
Metallogenica is a global
reference system for ore
deposit information.
- Current
Contents Connect multidisciplinary
current awareness service
for over 8,000 journals
and more than 2,000 books
- Geobase information for development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography
- GeoRef (via GeoScienceWorld)
provides abstracts to
the geoscience literature
of the world.
- IngentaConnect provides book and journal article searches as well as search alerting and tables of contents services.
- SciFinder
Scholar Primarily
a chemistry database,
but with significant coverage
of the life sciences.
- Web
of Science Access
to Science Citation Index
Expanded and other citation
indexes. As well as topic
searching for journal
articles, the citation
indexes allow "cited
reference" searching
and enable you to examine
a document's historical
origin and follow through
to its current position
in the research literature
Full
text databases and electronic
journals
- InfoTrac
- indexes over 2,000 journals with full-text articles from over
half available online
- Proquest
5000 -
includes ProQuest Science Journals and other databases covering a range of disciplines.
- ScienceDirect
- Full text for around 290 of the 1700 titles, with contents
pages and abstracts for the remainder.
- Wiley
Interscience - provides full-text of all 311 Wiley journals
back to 1997
Electronic
Journals
- Electronic journals
linked, alphabetical listing of full-text journals available to members of James Cook University. You can also link directly to journals via the JCU Library Catalogue (Tropicat)
Databases on the WWW
Associations and Societies
Australian Government
Websites
Earth Sciences Resources
- Argus
clearinghouse: Earth sciences
- Athena
Mineralogy subject mineralogy database
- Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals and Textures part of the "virtual geology" project at the University of North Carolina is a good resource for
introductory petrology.
- Australian Cartographic
Resources on the Net
- Australian Geodynamics Cooperative
Research Centre
- Australian Science
and Technology on the Internet National Library's selective list
of Australian science and technology Internet sites
- Australian
Web servers - Resources
- British Geological
Survey Lexicon of Named Rock Units
- DINOFLAJ:
Dinoflagellate Classification Database
- Dinosauria Online - window
to the mesozoic
- Earth Science Australia
- Earth/Geoscience
Information on the Web Illinois State Geological Survey - Library
and Public Information of over 550 links
- Earth
Science World ImageBank provided by the American Geological
Institute (AGI). This ImageBank is designed to provide quality geoscience
images to the public, educators, and the geoscience community.
- EarthRef.org -
umbrella site for sources of reference data and models for a range
of earth science sub-disciplines
- Earthquake Hazards Program
- USGS
- Free
Pint No. 73 - Geology on the Web by John Elliot
- GeoCommunity GIS data and
geo-specific search engine.
- Geo-Guide
subject gateway for earth sciences. Covers Geology, Mineralogy,
Geophysics and Geography.
- Geology
Research - catalogue of internet resources
- Geophysics
on the Internet - well organized and selective site at the University
of Houston authored by John C. Butler
- GeoReM - Geological and Environmental Reference Materials About 10,000 analyses (and preferred analytical values) for almost 1200 geological reference materials (e.g., rock powders and synthetic and natural glasses) and mineral, isotopic, river water, and seawater reference materials
- Geoscience Australia - maps
online
- Global Change Master Directory
NASA's GCMD holds descriptions of and access information for many
Earth Science data sets.
- Hydrology Web:
Hydrology and related Internet resources
- Intute: science, engineering & technology Selected web resources for education and research. It covers the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science
- Links
for Mineralogists Annotated links to internet resources, especially
for mineralogists, petrologists, crystallographers, geologists.
- Mineralogy Database individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library
- National Geophysical Data
Center
- Ocean Drilling Program
Basic research into the history of the ocean basins and the nature
of the crust beneath the ocean floor.
- Online
guide to meteorology
- Paleomap Project
Select a time zone and travel through time and check out what the
Earth looked liked in the far distant past or what it might look
like far into the future. At each stop there is more information
about each geological time period.
- PSIgate (Physical
Science Information Gateway) is the physical sciences hub of the
Resource Discovery Network. It aims to provide access to high quality
Internet-based resources in the physical sciences: astronomy, chemistry,
earth sciences, physics, science history and policy, and aspects
of the material sciences.
- Sciences
of soils Online journal for the soil sciences Biweekly issues.
- This Dynamic Planet
: World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate
Tectonics - USGS
- The Virtual Earth:
A tour of the WWW for earth scientists
- Virtual
Geologic Field Trip to the Permian Reef Complex, Guadalupe and
Delaware Mountains, New Mexico-West Texas
- VolcanoWorld
- Websurfers
Biweekly Earth Science Review
- World Data Center
for Marine Geology and Geophysics
- WWW virtual library
earth sciences
- Yahoo:
Australia: Earth Sciences
Directories and Gateways
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eiNET: Geosciences searchable Internet directory aims to provide contextually relevant information by integrating technology with the human touch
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SciCentral Gateway to scientific research news sources
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www.science.gov.au Science information and services to industry, investors and the research and education communities
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Search Engines
- Google - simple, fast
with excellent results
- Alta Vista - great
for complex searches and one of the biggest, though it still
indexes less than a sixth of the Internet
- Metacrawler - if
searching the Web with 11 popular search engines simultaneously
appeals, try this
- SciNet Science Search
- science, engineering, and medical search engine and directory
- Scirus for scientific, technical
and medical information source
- Geoindex -
search engine for those in geo-environmental professions
- Internet Searching
Tools - check out some other search engines here
Research, Study & Assignment Aids
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