Books: Use the Library Catalog

Articles

Academic OneFile

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.  Millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text.  Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Academic Search Elite
Contains full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,550 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals
Scientific and scholarly journals which have been peer-reviewed and are free.

General Science Abstracts, 1984+
In print 1978/79-1984    Storage Q 158.5 G45
Indexes and abstracts about 160 popular scientific journals. 

GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography and geology

GEOSCAN
A bibliographic database of over 40,000 records, most of which are Geological Survey of Canada publications.  Searchable by title, author, and subject, area.  Searches can be limited by province. Free site.

Google Scholar
Scholarly journal articles on all subjects, some are full text; many have links to cited references.

JSTOR
An archive of more than 1200 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Fulltext back to their date of first publication to within the current 2-5 years.

Scirus
Indexes journal articles,  but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.

Biographical Information

Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science : Pioneering Lives from Ancient Times to the mid-20th Century. Call Number: Reference Q 141 B5285 2000
Biographical information for 2,500 women scientists from antiquity to mid-20th  century ( all are dead).  Give several paragraphs of information for each woman and bibliographic references.

Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography
Biographical information for over 1000 scientists.  Can search by name, gender, minority status, historical period, nationality, and prize winners

Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
This dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the world of science.

ISIHighlyCited.com
Lists the most cited researchers in 21 subject categories.  Includes biographical information and a listing of publications.  You can search by name, category, country, and institutional affiliation.

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography.Call Number: Reference Q 141 N45 2008

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Credo Reference
Over 360 online reference titles in all subject areas.  Allows cross-referencing between titles and expanding searches into the Truman catalog and other library resources.

Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

Encyclopedia of Paleontology

Encyclopedia of Volcanoes

Rivers of North America

Field Guides

Guide to Gems

Guide to Minerals, Rocks and Fossils

Government Information

EROS Data Center: Earth resources observation systems
Satellite images, aerial photographs, and digital maps recording land-surface phenomena.  It is the largest archive of such images in the world.

Science.gov
Science.gov searches over 38 databases and 1,950 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

U.S. Geological Survey
The primary United States government agency responsible for: maps, geology, geography, biology, geospatial and water.  They have a major interest in earthquakes, volcanoes, oil and gas, U.S. landscape, natural resources and natural hazards. 

Library Catalogs

U.S. Geological Survey Library Online Catalog
Search the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) library catalog by author, title, subject, keyword, or number. Free site.

Style & Citation Guides

Citation and Writing Guides
Guides for how to use the American Psychological Association (APA) citation style; the Modern Language Association (MLA) citation style; and the Chicago/Turabian citation style.  This page also has information on how to use tools that automatically format bibliographic information for you like: EndNote, Zotero, and EasyBib.com.

Web Sites

Geological Time Scale

INFOMINE
INFOMINE is a huge collection of scholarly internet sites. It has a special section for maps and GIS. Each website is carefully evaluated, cataloged and checked for status by the Libraries of the University of California.

Minerology Database
 Contains almost 4,000 mineral descriptions with information about physical and optical properties, chemical formulaes, classification (Dana and Strunz), and crystal form.