Hampshire College

Journal Articles for Geology

• Academic Search Premier An index to almost 5,000 scholarly journals in all disciplines, many of which have full text.
• Blackwell-Synergy Journals in Science, Technology and Medicine. Over 400 current full-text journals in the sciences, technology and medicine.
• Geobase. The most extensive index to geology literature.
• PubMed.  The major index to medicine, both animal and human.
• ScienceDirect College Edition A full-text database for journals in the life, medical, social, behavioral and physical sciences.

Web Sites for Geology

• Cornell's Digital Earth Allows you to retrieve and synthesize geological and geophysical information about large areas of the earth?s surface and interior.
• EPA Global Warming Another good job from the EPA, with both text and graphics.
• Climate Change: The Discovery of Global Warming. A good source from the American Institute of Physics.
• Global Change The gateway to global change data and information. The site includes, "Ask Dr. Global Change", which provides help in accessing data to answer specific questions.
• Global Warming/Climate Change books. Full-text.
• The National Academies Full-text publications on education, science, technology, and health.
• NOAA Paleo Global Warming The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration updates and links together the critical information that impacts on the important societal phenomena related to climate variability. The site provides data, models, maps, reports and publications.
• The Ozone Depletion Phenomenon
• Science and Sustainable Development books. Full-text.
• Science in the Headlines Provides summaries of reports on hot science topics, from AIDS to Urban Development. Link to the full text of reports and to related publications. From the National Academy of Science.
• SciTechResources.gov The catalog of the government's science and technology websites.
• UCB Earth Sciences and Map Library. Provides students, faculty, and professionals with a rich set of resources, including access to high quality documents of enormous scope. You can find aerial photography of the Yosemite Valley, a 16th century map of Ireland, or San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake. Best for the area around California, but very good for the rest of the world too. From the University of California at Berkeley.
• US Geological Survey Links to the Survey's divisions (biological sciences, geology, mapping, and water resources) and from there to a myriad of information resources in geology.
• The Virtual Earth An introduction to the Web for earth scientists.
• Virtual Geosciences Professor A comprehensive collection of online courses, syllabi, journals, organizations and related information. Also includes “virtual field trips”.