LibGuides: GEOL 330: Introduction to Geochemistry: Getting Started

Welcome GEOL 330 Students! This guide is a starting point for your final presentation and paper for this course. It will focus on breaking down the literature searching process and finding sources based on your information needs.

STARTING POINTS: GEOSCIENCE & GENERAL SCIENCE DATABASES

GeoRef
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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
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2000-
Collection of earth sciences journals that may be searched simultaneously with GeoRef.

Full-text access is available only when searching GeoScienceWorld independently. Searching GeoScienceWorld and GeoRef together does not allow for full-text access.
Google Scholar
Searches scholarly journal articles. Set preferences to UNLV for full text access!

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. For answers to questions about Google Scholar, check out the FAQ.
Web of Science
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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.

SEARCHING THE LITERATURE

SKIMMING SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

MODELING

PHREEQC
This is the link for the PHREEQC homepage. Check out the documentation sections for help with the program.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

Interlibrary Loan
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Use this library guide, to help you set up your interlibrary loan account. An interlibrary loan account allows you to get articles and borrow books from other libraries. It takes about 48 hours to get an article and about a week for a book. Please contact me if you have problems setting up your account.

GEOL 330: Introduction to Geochemistry

STARTING POINTS: GEOSCIENCE & GENERAL SCIENCE DATABASES

SEARCHING THE LITERATURE

SKIMMING SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

MODELING

INTERLIBRARY LOAN

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