LibGuides: Geoscience: Getting Started

Melissa Bowles-Terry, Science Librarian

Melissa Bowles-Terry

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melissa.bowles-terry@unlv.edu

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Subjects: Chemistry & Biochemistry, Geoscience, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics & Astronomy, Science

Welcome Geociences Students! This guide is a starting point for your information needs. Find articles, reports, books, and data.

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GeoRef
1785-
Access is limited to 2-4 simultaneous users
Index to scholarly literature in the earth sciences.
Update frequency: Updated bimonthly
It includes books, maps, government publications, theses, dissertations, and conference proceedings. GeoRef's citations number nearly 3 million. Coverage of North American geology goes back to 1785; all other areas go back to 1933.
GeoScienceWorld
Good for: Researching earth sciences.
Contains: Earth sciences journals.
Dates covered: 2000-present.
Full-text access is available only when searching GeoScienceWorld independently. Searching GeoScienceWorld and GeoRef together does not allow for full-text access.
Google Scholar
Good for: Conducting academic research on all subjects.
Contains: Articles, theses, books, abstracts, patents, and court opinions
Google Scholar searches for scholarly materials such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and reports from many academic and technical fields. It is freely available to anyone searching the Internet; however, many of the links that lead to full text resources are not. On your first visit, go to Google Scholar Preferences and use the Library Links box to set UNLV as your source for no-fee access to many full text articles.
Web of Science
1990-
Web of Science is a platform for Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Index, Journal Citation Reports, Biological Abstracts, MEDLINE, and Inspec.
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