Covers journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports. Includes over 600,000 records with abstracts.

This database is a comprehensive geoscience resource containing over 2.6 million bibliographic records covering subjects such as mineralogy and crystallography, general mineralogy, mineralogy of silicates, and mineralogy of non-silicates. Bibliographic records from more than 3,000 journals are included in the database as well as journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Over 60,000 references are added to the GeoRef database annually.

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit corporation formed by a group of leading geoscientific organizations for the purpose of making geoscience research and related information easily and economically available via the Internet. GSW is an unprecedented collaboration of six leading earth science societies and one institute.

Academic Search Premier,designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.

This database covers Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Sciences, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information Technology, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Engineering, Fire & Fire Prevention, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Industrial Engineering, Machine Learning, Machinery, Marine Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Mining Engineering, Neural Networks, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, Optical & Neural Computing, Petroleum & Gas, Physics, Plastics, Robotics, Solid State Technology, Space Science, Textile Industry & Fabrics, Transportation, Waste Management, Other Industrial & Mechanical Arts

This interdisciplinary database offers abstracts and citations to a wide range of research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology and ecology, and some aspects of agriculture and veterinary science. Supporting over two dozen areas of expertise, this CSA database provides access to literature from over 6000 serials, as well as conference proceedings, technical reports, monographs and selected books and patents.

HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Content - Full-text of 867 leading journals available from the journals' own sites for complete and accurate representation of the research at its source including articles published online ahead of print; plus all of Medline -- with links to full text.

Open Science Directory is a tool for finding open access journals from developing countries in science, medicine, and several other fields.

Project Muse® offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. A rich journals collection is supplemented by relevant abstract databases to expand literature searches further and a growing program of online reference works, handbooks and book series.

Scopus is a unique new navigational product for all science from Elsevier. Apart from being the world's biggest abstract database covering 25 million abstracts from over 17,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, Scopus also offers powerful and innovative searching and browsing tools.

SpringerLink is Springer's online full-text archive for journals and books. SpringerLink currently offers over 1,250 fully peer-reviewed journals.

It features over 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books, Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and databases as well as a suite of professional and management resources.

C&EN Online is a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society.

The Electronic Green Journal provides peer-reviewed articles, book reviews, news, and information on current sources concerning international environmental topics.

The Journal of Geology publishes research and theory in geophysics, geochemistry, sedimentology, geomorphology, petrology, plate tectonics, volcanology, structural geology, mineralogy, and planetary sciences.

Nature is a weekly, international, interdisciplinary journal of science.

Open Science Directory is a tool for finding open access journals from developing countries in science, medicine, and several other fields.

Dictionary of Geologic Terms

Glossary of Geologic Terms

The USGS serves the Nation by providing reliable scientific information to describe and understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life.

The U.S. Geological Survey Library,is the largest library for earth sciences in the world. The library system includes four libraries and is part of the Geographic Information Office of the USGS.

Covers travel in 51 African countires. Includes data on climate, currencies, visa requirements, transporation and accommodations, favorite destinations, sports, and national festivals.

This website is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based soil information.

Full color, global paleographic maps.

USGS maps range from detailed local areas to the world. Because they can show many kinds of information, they are excellent for a wide range of uses.

The Brooklyn College Geology Department is a depository for US Geological Survey Quadrangle Maps in print. To access these maps, please contact Guillermo Rocha at (718) 951-2887 or GRocha@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Links to earth science resources in over 35 topic areas from the University of Kentucky.

This website is part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey, an effort of Federal and State agencies, universities, and professional societies to deliver science-based soil information.

The mission of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) is to rapidly determine location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide and to immediately disseminate this information to concerned national and international agencies, scientists and the general public.

A comprehensive guide to earthquake information.

EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society.

Information on the important societal phenomena related to climate variability.

Weather forecasts from around the world and related information on weather and climate.

Annotated links to internet resources, especially for mineralogists, petrologists, crystallographers, geologists.

This mineral database contains 4,442 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library.

Information on topics related to oceans and climate from air quality to whales.

Oceanography information categorized by subject. Covers research institutions, newsgroups, societies, publications and links to other oceanography sites.

Regional paleogeography maps outlining vegetation patters over the past 130,000 years.

Exhibits, programs and educational resources on geologic time, diversity of life through time and evolution.

Full color, global paleographic maps.

Virtual exhibits from the University of California Museum of Paleontology.

Covers government and industry sites and links to publications, research and university resources.

A collection of continent-wide paleovegetation spanning 18,000 years.

Explains remote sensing and its applications to sustainable development and environmental protection and geospatial information and providing electronic access to spatial database.

Visual presentations in still images and short movies on remote sensing data from Goddard Space Flight Center.

This rock site is intended to help rock lovers understand the basics of rock formation and the different types of rocks you will come across. There are also some useful hints on rock collection and storage.

Links to curricular resources and instructional material on rocks, minerals and mining.

A good site for learning about volcanoes.

Describes how volcanoes work and where they are located.