Geological Science
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Selected Resources for: GeoSciences (Display only the highlighted/core resources).
Subject Description: Geosciences involves rock-forming mechanisms and controls, deformational and tectonic processes, the weathering and erosion of geologic materials, the transport and deposition of derived sediments, and the physical and biological history of the Earth 6/2007/P. Dawson
Revised DL (05-27-2009)
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Abstracts and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Applied Science and Technology Full Text
- "Turn here for fast, convenient access to the most important sources in applied science and technology-much of it from peer-reviewed journals. This database features full text, graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations that convey an abundance of data in scientific and technical articles."
Biological and Agricultural Index Plus
- "Biological & Agricultural Index Plus offers researchers convenient online access to the core literature of biology and agriculture-much of it from peer-reviewed journals-plus full text. Full text citations also link to PDF page images, featuring graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and illustrations indispensable to science research."
- "Abstracts of dissertations and theses from institutions in the North America and Europe."
General Science FullText Authentication Required
- "General Science Full Text is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain plus the full text of selected periodicals. Periodical coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. General Science Full Text also covers The New York Times Science Section (published weekly on Tuesday). Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in March 1993. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995."
JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive Available in Full Text Authentication Required
- JSTOR is a collection of journals from the the fields of arts, sciences, business, education, and social sciences. The archive begins with the first issue of most of these journals and continues to within the past three to five years.
- The National Library of Medicine "provides a wide variety of resources related to the biomedical and health sciences, both past and present. The format of these resources varies: searchable databases & databanks, bibliographic citations, full text (when available), archival collections and images." Medline is a part of this collection and is an index with abstracts of articles from hundreds of medical journals.
- Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.
- "ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information."
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
- "Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 1800 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, human resources, finance,computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal." Coverage: 1971 - current
- "Academic Search Premier provides full text from nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies."
- Factiva contains the full text of all Dow Jones publications and 8,000 other publications, 20,000 company reports, and selected business web sites. In addition it contains the full text of Reuters Business Briefings which include global business news as well as foreign language publications. Works best with Internet Explorer 5.01 and newer.
- “Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.”
- National Newspaper Index indexes articles from America's top five newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. Coverage is from 1977 to the present. All five newspapers are available in Moore Library.
Audio/Visual Resources
DVD Collection
Planet earth : the complete series
- V. 1 The Living machine; the Blue Planet.
- V. 2 The Climate Puzzle; Tales from other Worlds.
- V. 3 The Solar Sea; Gifts from the Earth; Fate of the Earth.
- Call Number: QE631.2 .P52 2004
- Shelving Location: Circulation Desk
- Number of Items: 3
Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
- Find any or all journals available to the Rider Community.
MATILDA, the Rider University ONLINE CATALOG
- Search MATILDA for books, journals, government documents, videos, selected internet resources available to Rider University students at Moore Library on the Lawrenceville Campus and at Talbott Library on the Princeton campus.
General Book Collection
America's wetland : Louisiana's vanishing coast
- Call Number: GB459.4 .K53 2005
Annual review of earth and planetary sciences
- Call number: QE1 .A674
Atlas of Coastal Geomorphology and Zonality
- Call Number: G1046.C2 K4 1995
Atlas of Igneous Rocks and their Textures
- Call Number: QE461 .M219 1982
Atlas of Landforms
- Call Number: G1046.C2 A8 1984
Atlas of Sedimentary Rocks Under the Microscope
- Call Number: QE471 .A28 1984
Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
- Call Number: QC981.8.C5 A96 2006
Dinosaur Provincial Park : a spectacular ancient ecosystem revealed
- Call Number: QE734 .D56 2005
- Notes: Accompanying CD-ROM at Circulation Desk.
Environmental planning for communities : a guide to the environmental visioning process utilizing a geographic information system (GIS)
- Call Number: QH76 .E56 2000
Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health
- Call Number: RA566 .E87 2005
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago
- Call Number: QE721.2.E97 E96546 2006
Global Positioning System: a Field Guide for the Social Sciences
- Call Number: G109.5 .G56 2003
Ice : the nature, the history, and the uses of an astonishing substanc
- Call Number: QC926.32 .G67 2005
In search of swampland : a wetland sourcebook and field guide
- Call Number: GB624 .T56 1998
Living with the Changing California Coast
- Call Number: TC224.C2 G75 2005
Monitoring rocky shores
- Call Number: QH541.5.S35 M87 2006
Norwegian Sea ecosystem
- Call Number: QH77.N8 N67 2004
Occurrence of radium-224, radium-226, and radium-228 in water of the unconfined Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer system, southern New Jersey
- Call Number: TD427.R3 Q33 2005
Restless skies : the ultimate weather book
- Call Number: QC981 .D68 2005
Rivers by design : state power and the origins of U.S. flood control
- Call Number: TC530 .O55 2006
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
- Call Number: QE22.S6 W55 2001
Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth
- Call Number: QC981.8.C5 F438 2005
General Reference Sources
Atlases & Maps
Atlas of North America
- Call Number: Ref G1105 .A8 2005
Color Atlas of Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section
- Call Number: Ref QE434 .M33 1994
Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans
- Call Number: Ref G2800 .R3 1977
United States Energy Atlas
- Call Number: Ref TJ163.25 .U6 C83
World Atlas of Geology and Mineral Deposits
- Call Number: Ref G1046.C5 D45 1980
- Shelving Location: Ready Reference
Dictionaries
Biographical Dictionary of Scientists
- Call Number: Ref Q141 .B528 2000
Dictionary of Geological Terms
- Call Number: Ref QE5 .A48 1976
Dictionary of Geology
- Call Number: Ref QE5 .C45 1978
Dictionary of Physical Geography
- Call Number: Ref GB10. D53 2000
Energy Dictionary
- Call Number: Ref TJ163.2 H87
Longman Illustrated Dictionary of Geology
- Call Number: Ref QE5 .W36 1982
New York Times Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Environment
- Call Number: Ref TD173 .S27 1971
Directories
Rivers of the World: a Social, Geographical, and Environmental Sourcebook
- Call Number: Ref GB1201.4 .P46 2001
Encyclopedias
Cambridge Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences
- Call Number: Ref QE26.2 .C35 1981
Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments
- Call Number: Ref GB450.4 E53 1982
Encyclopedia of Deserts
- Call Number: Ref. GB611 .E65 1999
Encyclopedia of Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences
- Call Number: Ref QE515 .F24
Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
- Call Number: Ref GB400.3 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia of Minerals
- Call Number: Ref QE355 .R6
Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .E57 2001
Encyclopedia of Paleontology
- Call Number: Ref QE703 .E52
Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences
- Call Number: Ref GC9 .I58 2002
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of the Geological Sciences
- Call Number: Ref. QE5 .M29
North American Reference Encyclopedia of Ecology and Pollution
- Call Number: Ref TD175 .W55
Oceans and Islands
- Call Number: Ref GB471 .O22 1991
Water Encyclopedia
- Call Number: Ref TD351 .V36 1990
General Reference Works
Earth
- Call Number: Ref QE501 .E27 2005
Geology of National Parks
- Call Number: Ref QE77 .H36 2004
Mineral Reference Manual
- Call Number: Ref QE372.2 .N53 1991c
Minerals of the World
- Call Number: Ref QE363 .J613 2002
Smithsonian Earth
- Call Number: Ref QE501 .E27 2005
System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University, 1837-1892
- Call Number: Ref QE372 .D23 1944
Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada
- Call Number: Ref QE524 .V66 1992
Guides
Guide to the National Parks: Their Landscape and Geology
- Call Number: Ref GB427.5 .M37 1973
Handbooks and Manuals
Handbook of Geochemistry
- Call Number: Ref QE515 .W42
Handbook of Mineralogy
- Call Number: Ref QE366.8 H36 1990
Handbook of Soil Science
- Call Number: Ref S591 .H23 2000
Ocean Basins: Their Structure and Evolution
- Call Number: Ref GC11.2 .O23 v.6
Practical Handbook of Marine Science
- Call Number: Ref GC11.2 .K46 1989
Internet Resources
Gateways & Megasites
EarthGuide: a part of the Geosciences Research Division at Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- “An interactive and easy-to-use educational resource about Earth, oceans, and the environment.”
- “a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by the U.S. Government agencies including research and development results.”
GEMS Environmental Science Links
- Local, state, and national organizations listed, plus job and career links
Geology Resources (Education Index)
- An annotated list of Geology websites compiled by Education Index.
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
- “Contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.”
- “a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.”
- “Science Accelerator…via resources made available by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), U.S. Department of Energy. Science Accelerator was developed and is made available by OSTI as a free public service.” This tool searches across collections including the Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, Science Conference Proceedings, DOEpatents, E-Print Network, Energy files, DOE R&D Project Summaries, and DOE R&D Accomplishments.
- “Gateway for US Government science and technology information organized by subject.”
ScienceResearch.com: your one-stop source for scientific research
- “Deep Web Technologies is proud to present ScienceResearch.com-a free, publicly available web portal allowing access to numerous scientific journals, public science databases & pertinent science information quickly and easily.
WorldWideScience.org: the global science gateway
- "...connect[s] you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org." This site is created and maintained by the "Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), an element of the Office of Science within the U.S. Department of Energy."
Internet Directory
Global Change Master Directory List of Earth Science Acronyms, Glossaries and Gazetteers
National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA Satellite and Information Service)
National Science Digital Library: Middle School Portal: Science
New Jersey State Library Research_Guides: Maps
New Jersey State Library’s Research Guides on Environmental Resources
- Contains a table of content listing environmental websites for agriculture, air, energy, transportation, climatology, environmental health, environmental engineering, environmental policy and sustainability, glossaries, government resources, libraries, maps, natural resources, news, organizations, research databases, and water including hydrology and hydrogeology
Official Agency and Organization Web Sites
American Meteorological Society (AMS)
Center for Coastal and Watershed Studies (USGS)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
United States Geological Survey (USGS)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Teaching Resources
Welcome to Virtual Worlds Almanac
- "This is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to virtual worlds. So far we have 156 entries on virtual worlds written and edited by people from around the globe. Check out the Help page to see how you can edit any page right now or the Projectsemantic-enabled and uses various properties and templates that make editing easy and uniform. Please see our Introduction to learn how this wiki is different than most." This wiki is produced by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and covers a number of disciplines at various grade levels, including undergraduate and graduate levels. page for more information about us and getting involved.
Websites
- "Here are mineral lists (IMA approved mineral names and varieties names) sorted either alphabetically or arranged systematically. As every science, mineralogy is changing: new analysis often modify formulas and other datas; new minerals are discovered; others are discredited." Information about each mineral includes its formula, crystal structure, and journal references. Pictures are available for uncommon minerals.
- This website is an educational resource that describes the science behind volcanoes and volcanic processes. It is intended for the education of university students of geology and volcanology and teachers of earth science.
- Articles with an unlocked icon are free to non-subscribers and may be downloaded and printed out.
- "Mindat.org is the largest mineral database and mineralogical reference website on the internet. This site contains worldwide data on minerals, mineral collecting, mineral localities and other mineralogical information."
Scientific Commons: a Community for Scientific Information
- "The major aim of the project is to develop the world’s largest communication medium for scientific knowledge products which is freely accessible to the public. A key challenge of the project is to support the rapidly growing number of movements and archives who admit the free distribution and access to scientific knowledge....Currently ScientificCommons.org has indexed about 13 million scientific publications and successfully extracted 6 million authors' names out of this data (January 2007)...ScientificCommons.org is a project of the University of St.Gallen (Switzerland) and hosted and developed at the Institute for Media and Communications Management."
Science Daily.com (Earth Sciences)
- “Your source for latest research news”
- The Atlas is an information system designed for use by policy makers who need to become familiar with ocean issues and by scientists, students and resource managers who need access to underlying data bases and approaches to sustainability.
- "This mineral database contains 4,442 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library."
- Can only access what geoscientists do (study ricks, water, air, space and life).
World-Wide Web for Operations Research and Management Science
Career Information Resources
Rider Faculty Publications
Geological, Environmental & Marine Sciences Department
- The Rider University Faculty Publications Database is a bibliography and archive of works by Rider University faculty from 1956 to the present. It contains not only citations to published works, but also links to the text or media presentation when permissible. If you have any questions about the database.
NIH Public Access Policy for submission of journal articles in PubMedCentral
- "The Office of Extramural Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently made several updates to the NIH Public Access web page to clarify the submission process. The site explains four methods to ensure that a manuscript is submitted to PubMed Central in compliance with the NIH public access policy. These methods vary based on the version of the paper submitted and the actions undertaken by the author and publisher."
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
Statistical Record of the Environment：
- Call Number: TD180 .D37 1995
Online Translation Tools
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
- NoodleBib 6 Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with the rules of the current MLA Handbook and APA Publication Manual. Starter and Advanced versions.The user's guide is also available for download. © Copyright 1999-2006 NoodleTools, Inc.
Style Manuals
The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information
- Call Number: QD8.5 .A25 2006
Scientific Style and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editor, and Publishers
- Call Number: T11 .S386 1994
The Council of Biology Editors (CBE) Style of Documentation in Science and Mathematics
Writing Guides
Beginner’s guide to scientific method
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Doing science : design, analysis, and communication of scientific research
- Call Number: Q180.A1 V35 2001
How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper
- Call Number: T11 .D33 1988
Scientific papers and presentations
- Call Number: Q175 .C27 1994
Library Information
Moore Library
- Moore Library is a comprehensive general library with heavy emphasis on business, education, language and literature, communication and science. A collection of video and DVD formats and the Riderana/University Archives provide special support.
- Located on Rider's Lawrenceville campus, the building is named for Franklin F. Moore.
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