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Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...


Info Database Name Access Database Description
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information Academic OneFile  Access  options  Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals 
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information Academic Search Premier  Access  options  Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles 
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information GEOREF  Access  options  Comprehensive index to articles, reports, and maps in geology 


Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info Database Name Access Database Description
more  information CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics access  options A core reference database for chemical and physical data with interactive tables.
more  information Dissertations & Theses access  options Doctoral dissertations, including limited full-text of University of Minnesota dissertations from 1997 to present
more  information ENGnetBASE access  options 207 engineering handbooks
more  information ENVIROnetBASE access  options Contains the full text of almost 200 books dealing with various facets of the environment. Searchable by any word, author, or title.
more  information Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management access  options Articles and reports in all areas of terrestrial study, including pollution and ecosystems, industrial hygiene and safety science
more  information GEOBASE access  options All areas of geography, ecology, and related geosciences.
more  information JSTOR access  options Full text of over 100 periodicals from first issue. A tutorial is available
more  information Knovel Interactive Library access  options Full text and index of over 1000 engineering and science titles. Some databases are included as well as interactive tables and graphs.
more  information netLibrary access  options The full-text of electronic books in many subject areas. You can search the text for key terms or browse the table of contents and read the book online.
more  information Science Direct (Elsevier) access  options Elsevier journals in the life, physical medical, technical, and social sciences
more  information Science.gov access  options Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.
more  information SpringerLink access  options interdisciplinary, including life sciences, medicine, chemistry, earth sciences, engineering, mathematics, economics, business, engineering, psychology, law, computer science, physics, astronomy, and humanities
more  information Water Resources Abstracts access  options Water resources science and applied hydrology. Includes studies of groundwater, limnology, estuaries, water pollution, hydrologic processes, and all areas of water management.
more  information Web of Science access  options Citation Index that covers journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

 

 

Web Sites

 

American Astronomical Society

American Geophysical Union

American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)

Astronaut Photography

Astronomical Society of the Pacific

Astronomy and Astrophysics on the Web

Astronomy Center

Astronomy Picture of the Day

AstroWeb

Athena: Mineralogy

Center for International Earth Science Information Network

Cosmic Evolution

Energy Citations Database

Geodata.gov

Geologic Guidebooks of North America Database

Geological Society of America

Geology.com

Glaciological Data Series

Global Change Master Directory

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Great Lakes Environmental Atlas

Hydrogeologist's Homepage (ground water)

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Internet Encyclopedia of Science

Intute

Kitt Peak National Observatory

LIMA - Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica

Limnology and Oceanography

NASA Technical Reports Server

National Geologic Map Database

National Geophysical Data Center

NOAA Paleoclimatology

Paleontology Portal

Royal Astronomical Society

Science Accelerator

Scitopia.org

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

This Dynamic Planet

U.S. Geological Survey

USGS Topo Index

Visible Earth

Volcano World

Water Resources of the United States

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

 

Research Help

 

  

For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:


Pam Enrici, 
Email:penrici@d.umn.edu
Phone:218-726-8586
L278
University of Minnesota Duluth Library
416 Library Drive
Duluth MN 55812-2495 

 

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