Earth Sciences
Resources for Earth Sciences
Earth Sciences definitions and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
Online dictionaries and encyclopedias
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ENVIROnetBASE
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Includes remote sensing, GIS, geology, ecology, water sciences, environmental engineering
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Geology
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Covers alluvial systems - magmas and marine terraces - weathering and errosion
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SpringerLink Reference Works
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Reference works include: World's Coasts, Climatology, Environmental Geology, European and Asian Regional Geology, Mineralogy, Sedimentology, Soil Science, Structural Geology and Tectonics
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Oxford reference online
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Includes a Dictionary of Earth Sciences, Dictionary of Ecology, Dictionary of Geography, Dictionary of the Weather, Oxford Companion to the Earth, world maps
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Treatise on Geochemistry
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Comprehensive, integrated summary of the present state of the field of geochemistry. Volumes include: meteorites, comets and planets; the mantle, core, crust and atmosphere; suface and ground water, weathering and soils; oceans and marine geochemistry; sediments, diagemesos and sedimentary rocks; biogeochemistry; environmental geochemistry
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Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Dictionary of physical geography
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910.0203/1
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Encyclopedia of global environmental change
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363.7003/8
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Glossary of geology
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550.3/2
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International GIS dictionary
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910.285/51
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Monthly weather review: NSW, WA, VIC, QLD, SA, TAS
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551.65944/1 Serials
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Seas at the millennium: an environmental evaluation
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577.7/3
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Other material
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Scientific papers and presentations
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501.4/10
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Scientist's guide to poster presentations
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808.0665/12
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Writing the laboratory notebook
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542/30
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
physical geograph** AND dictionar**
geolog**AND encycloped**
topographic AND map*
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. geograph** will retrieve geography, geographic, geographical
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Earth Sciences books and more
Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, CDs, maps
If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. GIS AND application**
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. geograph** will retrieve geography, geographic, geographical
Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. GIS AND application** AND geolog**
OR
Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Earth Sciences journal articles
Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and research reports
Try these first
Complete list of Science databases
Found a useful reference?
Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.
Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. GIS AND water management
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. GIS OR geographic information systems
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword
e.g. geograph** will retrieve geography, geographic, geographical
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial
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Earth Sciences Internet sites
It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.
Try the following sites as a starting point.
Search engines
Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.
Try these first:
Directories
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
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