Links for Mineralogists: Table of Contents
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Institute of Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Bern: Electron Microprobe Laboratory
Donna Cunningham, ScienceDaily Magazine: New X-Ray Microprobe From Bell Labs, and Bell Labs: Lucent Technologies.
ElectroScan Corporation, Wilmington, Massachusetts: Bibliography Page / Papers on ESEMTM
UMass Dept. of Geosciences, Morill Science Center, Univ. of Massachuttes: Probe image of the week. Images on this page were acquired using the Cameca SX-50 electron microprobe.
University of Michigan, Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory: The Microbeam Analysis Society (MAS). MAS is an organization of professionals who work with or have an active interest in microbeam instrumentation. Microbeam instrumentation includes, but is not limited to, instruments utilizing electron, ion, or photon beams to characterize any material, organic, inorganic, or biological. This page provide a microscopy and microanalysis software library and a data and image archive.
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri: UM-StL Scanned Tip and Electron Image Lab. With Image(s) of the month.
University of Oregon microprobe lab: The Electron Probe Technique Some information on the microprobe and SEM techniques and a glossary of terms. See also EPMA & SEM facilities, World Wide.
Dave Waters, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford: Microprobe analyses. Briefly, how they are performed, their precision and accuracy. How to spot good and bad ones. Tips for acquiring good ones.
Geology & Cartography Division, Oxford Brookes University: Scanning Electron Microscopy. This site provide an introduction to electron microscopy and microanalysis and access to an online EDS spectra database. See also Electron Microprobe facilities on the World Wide Web.
Susanne Pignolet Brandom, MicroWorld Resources and News: Guide to Microscopy and Microanalysis on the Internet. An annotated listing of the best WWW sites in electron, light, confocal, laser, scanning probe, nuclear magnetic, and x-ray microscopy, image analysis, nondestructive evaluation, spectroscopy, and surface science.
Croneis Electron Microprobe Facility at Rice University: Elemental and mineralogical analysis. Quantitative elemental analyses with the Cameca SX50 Electron Microprobe. Compare the actual price list.
U.S. Geological Survey: The Electron Microprobe. (still under construction).
University of Oregon microprobe lab: Microprobe/SEM
Glossary
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Meta Indexes
On-line Geochemical Data
Meta Indexes
Science Hypermedia, Inc., Blacksburg: Analytical Chemistry and Instrumentation.
EINet Galaxy: Geochemistry. Only a few entries.
The Geochemical Society. Server is still under construction.
The Geochemical Earth Reference Model (GERM): The GERM initiative is a grass-roots effort to establish a consensus within the geosciences community on a chemical characterization of the earth, its major reservoirs, and the fluxes between them.
GEOMINE (hosted by: INFO-MINE): Exploration Geoscience Geochemistry, and Other Geochemistry Sites.
Hazardous Waste Research and Information Center (HWRIC), Department of Natural Resources, University of Illinois: Home Page. HWRIC services include: clean manufacturing and pollution prevention technical assistance; research (basic and applied) support; information clearinghouse; waste managment database; and analytical laboratories.
Earth Sciences Division of the Lawence Livermore National Laboratory: Geochemistry. Interesting contributions!
Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool: Links for Chemists. These pages provide a selection of links to chemistry resources worldwide.
Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, London: Global Instructional Chemistry
U.S. Geological Survey: Geochemical Topics.
William White, Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University: A selection of Geochemistry-related WWW links. Scarcely annotated index.
YAHOO, Sience: Chemistry.
On-line Geochemical Data
Metal Powders & Compounds, ATLANTIC EQUIPMENT ENGINEERS, Bergenfield: Periodic Periodic Table. This interactive periodic table provides information about the atomic weight, atomic number, electronic configuration, oxidation states, state of matter, boiling and melting point, physical description, use and history of that element, etc.
University of California at Berkeley: WebElements. WebElements is a periodic table database. Also available via Sheffield or via Technical University of Vienna. David A. Barthelmy: Minerals by Chemical Composition. A periodic chart, displaying the list of minerals by element (formulas courtesy of Athena Mineralogy).
CambridgeSoft Corporation (formerly Cambridge Scientific Computing): ChemFinder A WWW-based chemical search engine. Fill in any of the fields that you want to search over, ChemFinder will locate any compounds that match all of the criteria you specified. Excellent!
ChemScape, General Chemistry Division, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison: GENERAL CHEMISTRY GLOSSARY.
E. Richard Cohen and Barry N. Taylor, Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards, 92, 85 (1987): The 1986 CODATA Recommended Values of the Fundamental Physical Constants. This document gives the values of the basic constants and conversion factors of physics and chemistry.
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN): Go to: Chemistry. Access to chemistry information of the San Diego State University and the Daresbury Laboratory (gopher).
Department of Geological Sciences, Cornell University: Composition of the Continental Crust. Cosmochemical Abundances of the Elements. Solar System Initial and Terrestrial Parent-Daughter Ratios of Radioactive Decay Systems. Radioactive Decay Systems of Geochemical Interest, and U-Th Decay Series.
GERM (Geochemical Earth Reference Model): Reservoir composition data organized by chemical element.
The Geological Survey of Japan, Geochemistry Department: Geochemical Standards DataBase. A list selection of igneous and sedimentary rock series.
HordeNet (U Akron): Hazardous Chemical Database. This database will allow the user to retreive information for any of 2000 hazardous chemicals based on a keyword search.
Burkhard Kirste, Department of Chemistry, FU Berlin: General chemistry. Access to physical quantities, constants (fundamental physical constants), units (SI units), conversion of units. The excellent bilingual Chemistry index gives access to further databases.
Felix Mutschler, Eastern Washington State University. In: U.S. National
Geophysical Data Center & World Data Center A for MGG, PETROS Igneous
Petrology Databank version 6.1.
PETROS is a worldwide data bank of major element chemical analyses of igneous rocks.
PETROS 6.1 includes 37,300 major element chemical analyses divided into 307 major groups
representing geographic areas or petrologic provinces. Also included are 468 average
igneous rock compositions calculated by various authors, a bibliography of information
sources, and complete format/operating instructions for PETROS. Data are available for
free download from NGDC´s WWW server.
Eric W. Weisstein: Eric´s
Treasure Trove of Chemistry,
Institute of Solid State Physics TU-Berlin: Cathodoluminescence. Cathodoluminescence is ideally suited to investigate the optical properties of simple and complex semiconductor structures spatially, spectrally and time-resolved.
S. Myhajlenko, R.A. Puechner, J.L. Edwards & D.B. Davito: CAN PHOTO- AND CATHODOLUMINESCENCE BE REGARDED AS COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES? Research report from Arizona State University, submitted to Proceedings of 13th Pfefferkorn Meeting on Luminescence, Niagra Falls, Canada (1994).
G.V. Saparin, S.K. Obyden, E.N. Mokhov and A.D. Roenkov (provided by the Université de Genève): Cathodoluminescence scanning electron microscopy with color display of spectral information as a new technique for study of SiC - materials and devices. The present paper is a review of the diagnostic capacity and of physical data taken by color cathodoluminescence scanning electron microscopy (CCL-SEM).
Department of Geology and Geophysics, Rice University, Houston, Texas: Cathodoluminescence Image of a Zircon Crystal. When energetic electrons bombard the surface of certain materials, visible radiation is emitted. The process is called cathodoluminescence (CL), and is the basis of a technique which is now widely used for the petrographic examination of geological and other materials.
Oxford Instruments: Cathodoluminescence.
See also the Application Site,
displaying illustrated examples.
J.Mullis, Institute of Mineralogy and Petrography, University of Basel, Switzerland: Fluid Inclusions
Mineralogisch-Petrographisches Institut, Universität Bern: Fluid Inclusion Laboratory. (Under construction).
Fachgruppe Petrologie und Lagerstättenkunde, Universität Halle: The German homepage of fluid inclusions. With short course notes for an introduction to the principles of fluid inclusion analysis.
Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, NEW ZEALAND: Fluid Inclusion Equipment. (Short Explanation).
Dept. of Geology, University of Kansas: Interpreting Fluid Inclusion Assemblages. Click on a fluid inclusion assemblage of your choice to see the interpretation flow chart.
Department of Geology & Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: FLUID INCLUSIONS. A page for people who interested in the properties, behaviors and origins of fluid inclusions in natural and synthetic materials. With a schedule of meetings and short courses, the listserver and newsletter as well as the Fluid Inclusion E-mail Address List.
Quest Consultants Inc.: The Fluid Phase Equilibria Page This page is designed to allow users to select a pure component or a mixture of components and determine either the vapor pressure curve for a pure component or the pressure-temperature phase envelope for a mixture. This page is currently using the Peng-Robinson equation of state to predict the properties of these mixtures.
Department of Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University: FLUID INCLUSION LABORATORY.(Under construction).
University of the Witwatersrand: Fluid Inclusion Studies at
Wits.
C. Hilgers, RWTH Aachen: Structural Geology & Tectonics. Online courses and infos about structural geology and tectonics, virtual field trips/photos, structural geology and tectonics courses, "structural" societies, structural groups in Europe and worldwide, German seminars.
Active Tectonics. The Active Tectonics initiative is intended to enhance multidisciplinary research on active tectonic environments.
Susie Barber, University of California, Santa Cruz: Earth Sciences 150 - Structural Geology.
Jürgen Kraus, Department of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada: Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology Resources on the WWW.
Hope Nesmith, Department of Geology, University of Newcastle, Australia: Geological structures useful as sense of movement indicators in deformed rocks. 8 images are displayed.
Steven H. Schimmrich, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Structural
Geology on the Web. A collection of annotated hypertext links to assorted structural
geology and tectonics resources.
The Stanford Exploration Project (SEP).
The Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
The Society of Exploration Geophysicists. The Society of Exploration Geophysicists objectives are to promote the science of geophysics, especially as it relates to exploration and research.
Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
MTNet: An international electronic forum for the free exchange of knowledge, programs and data between scientists engaged in the study of the Earth using electromagnetic methods.
Ted Smith, ORES: Geology, Geophysics Resources.
Denver Geophysical Society (DGS). The DGS is a non-profit organization operated by its members to promote the science of geophysics, especially as it applies to exploration.
YAHOO: Top:Science:Earth Sciences: Geology and
Geophysics, and Science:Earth Sciences:Geology and Geophysics: Exploration
Geophysics.
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CARL Corporation: UnCover. UnCover is actually an online article delivery service, a database of current article information taken from 17,000 multidisciplinary journals. UnCover contains brief descriptive information about over 7,000,000 articles which have appeared since Fall 1988. More than 4000 current citations are added daily. WWW Gateway (New!). Go to: "Search UnCover Now", or alternate access via telnet.
GeoRef Preview Database. Free access to references of recent geoscience publications! Each weekend, completed references are removed from the Preview database and transferred to GeoRef, new references are added, and changes are made in the remaining data. Go to GeoRef Preview by Subject, or visit the search engine. Excellent!
Peter Scott, Saskatoon, Canada: HYTELNET.
This second to none utility which gives an IBM-PC user instant access to all
telnet-accessible library catalogs, FREE-NETS, BBSs, Gophers, WAIS etc. Passwords and
log-in procedures are briefly explained. You can get it via anonymus ftp from ftp://ftp.usask.ca/pub/hytelnet/pc/latest/hyteln69.zip
or http://www.lights.com/hytelnet/hyteln69.zip
Alternative WEB access via EiNet is HYTELNET 6.8 by GALAXY.
The State Library of Colorado, the Electronic Journal Access Project: ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ACCESS. With electronic journals, alphabetically by title, electronic journals by Library of Congress subject headings, and other directories of electronic journals.
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, Germany: Preprintserver, and Electronic Books. In German.
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS LIBRARY (IDEAL). IDEAL is an online electronic library containing all 175 Academic Press journals. Abstracts and tables of contents are presented in HTML and full-text articles are delivered in Adobe Acrobat© format. Guest access, or via http://www.janet.idealibrary.com/glogin.htm
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University of Virginia Library: Books and Other Electronic Texts
On-line Earth Science Journals, available via http://www.colostate.edu/~cwis70/journals.html.
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Earth Sciences Information Centre (ESIC), formerly Canadian Geoscience Information Centre and Geomatics Information Centre: GEOSCAN GEOSCAN is a bibliographic database of predominantly GSC publications containing over 40 000 bibliographic records concerning the Canadian landmass and offshore regions.
ElectroScan Corporation, Wilmington, Massachusetts: Bibliography Page / Papers on ESEMTM
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Geosciences Journals: Meta Index
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Geosciences Journals: Meta Index
The State Library of Colorado, the Electronic Journal Access Project: ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ACCESS. With electronic journals, alphabetically by title, electronic journals by Library of Congress subject headings, and other directories of electronic journals.
Department of Geology, University of Dayton: Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web.
EurekAlert, Science Media, Research Publications: Colleges, Universities and Institutes, and Commercial Magazines.
Jörg Schulz-Rojahn, National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics (NCPGG): On-line Earth Science Journals. Organized by journals and memoirs, searchable publisher databases, newsletters, news bulletins, scout reports, educational geoscience. Mirrored from Dipartimento di Mineralogia e Petrologia, University of Padova
Anurag Sharma, Department of Earth Sciences, State University of New York at Oswego: GEOSCIENCE JOURNALS
On-line Earth Science Journals, available via http://www.colostate.edu/~cwis70/journals.html. Categorized by full articles available, with selected articles, abstracts, searchable indices, etc. Excellent!
Bill Thon and Ted Smith, Online Resources for Earth Scientists (ORES): Mineralogy and Mining Journals, Newsletters, Zines. Sorted in alphabetical order.
Joseph Jones, University of British Columbia Library: Ejournal SiteGuide : a MetaSource. A selected and annotated set of links to sites for ejournals is provided.
North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh: Electronic Texts Journals Newsletters Magazines and Collections.
Daniele L. Pinti, Graduate School of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan: Earth Science Journals. See: Mineralogy & Petrology
Virtual Library: Electronic Journals List. All topics, and Scientific, Technical, Medical (Peer-Reviewed).
Slicco´s GEOLinks, Institute of Geology, Geocenter Vienna: Earth Science Journals on the Net
POINT: WWW Virtual Library: Electronic Journals. With search-engine.
National Library of Australia: Australian Journals. This is a current listing of over 900 Australian electronic journals, magazines, webzines, e-mail fanzines, etc. of all topics.
Heinrich C. Kuhn: eJournals.
Interesting considerations to this topic (in German).
Access to Geosciences Journals
American Geophysical Union, Washington: AGU Journals. A quick source of mainly geophysical research results. With view contents of recent AGU journals, e.g. Russian journals in English translation.
Acta Crystallographica Section A. Section A of Acta Crystallographica publishes papers reporting fundamental advances in all areas of crystallography. With notes for authors and contents of issues.
The American Mineralogist. Including tables of contents.
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Starting with volume 24, search about volume contents and abstracts supposed to be available.
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. With table of contents.
The Mineralogical Association of Canada: The Canadian Mineralogist (published bimonthly). Explore the abstracts from previous issues and the papers in the new issue.
The Computer Oriented Geological Society: COGSletter.
Computers & Geosciences Online. Subscriber Access Full access is now available to institutional and IAMG subscribers to Computers & Geosciences until the end of 1998. As a registered user, you may use Computers & Geosciences Online to browse at leisure through the contents and abstracts of the latest issues published. For more in-depth research, the search facility allows for free text searching over titles, authors and abstracts of the articles.
Contributions to Mineralogy and
Petrology. With Table of Contents.
See also: Springer: Links. Search engine (Gateway to
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, Abstracts).
EPSL Online. The online version of Earth and Planetary Science Letters is a publication of the Earth Sciences Department of Elsevier Science. The electronic version is updated monthly simultaneously to the publication of the hardcopy journal.
Earth-Science Reviews. The international geological journal bridging the gap between research articles and textbooks. With table of contents.
Electronic Geology. Electronic Geology is a virtual-only, peer reviewed journal published by Electronic Journals Ltd. in association with Kingston University and Kingston University Press. The journal aims to provide a rapid, flexible and inexpensive publication service for earth scientists.
EOS, a weekly AGU newspaper of geophysics.
European Journal of Mineralogy With table of contents.
ERZMETALL Journal for Mining, Processing, Metallurgy, Recycling and Environmental Technology. With article titles.
Gemmology Canada, the Newsletter of the Canadian Institute of Gemmology. Selected articles written by students of the Canadian Institute of Gemmology in fullfillment of their "Accredited Gemmologist (C.I.G.)" diploma requirements and by other contributors.
Elsevier: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. With table of contents of published issues, starting 1995.
Lars Giegling, Dept. of Geology, University of Bremen, & Christian Kiesl, Dept. of Geology, University of Hannover: Geo-Info. Online journal for geology students, in German.
GEO Explorer . The web site of GEO Magazine. In German.
geoinformatik_online. From the Institute of Geoinformatik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster (in German).
Geology. With indexes and abstracts.
Geological Society of America, Bulletin. With indexes and abstracts.
Geological Society of America, GSA Today. Downloadable files.
Geotimes. Geotimes is the monthly news magazine for geoscience professionals and geoenthusiasts, issued by the American Geological Institute.
GEOSCIENCE AND MAN, Table of Contents. Provided by Owen Kent Davis, Department of Geosciences University of Arizona, Tucson. Explore the index TOPICS OF PALYNOLOGY AND GEOSCIENCE AND MAN, and Authors List for Palynology and Geoscience & Man.
Elsevier: International Journal of Coal Geology (Special Issues). Without table of contents.
Journal of Solid State Chemistry . Access via INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS LIBRARY (IDEAL). IDEAL is an online electronic library containing all 175 Academic Press journals. Abstracts and tables of contents are presented in HTML and full-text articles are delivered in Adobe Acrobat© format. Guest access, or via http://www.janet.idealibrary.com/glogin.htm Go to: >Browse mode >Engineering and Material Sciences >Materials Sciences >Journal of Solid State Chemistry .
The Journal of Metamorphic Geology. A bi-monthly publication of Blackwell Science, with table of contents (from 1995). Access also via http://www.es.mq.edu.au/jmg/jmg.html
Oxford University Press: The Journal of Petrology Tables of contents and abstracts where available from January 1996 onwards.
Dept. Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Arkansas Fayetteville: Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The Journal of the Meteoritical Society. Contents pages for forthcoming and published issues and abstracts of accepted papers. (published and unpublished).
MINERALIUM DEPOSITA. (Only table of contents).
The Mineralogical Record. The Mineralogical Record Magazine is published bimonthly by Mineralogical Record, Tucson, a non-profit organization, associated with the Friends of Mineralogy. With a search engine for topics in back issues.
Microscopy Online. A hyper-journal published on the World Wide Web.
naturalSCIENCE. naturalSCIENCE is an independent journal published without government subsidy or lobby group suppport.
NATURE. Table of contents, summaries of recent articels with supplementary information, as well as downloadable indexes of previous issues are available after a nitpicking registration procedure. You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader to view and print the index.
Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. Gopher, with article titles.
University of New Mexico, (hosted by INFOMINE): POMP NEWSLETTER. PROTEROZOIC OROGENESIS AND METALLOGENESIS PROJECT.
Mineralogical Society of America: Review in Mineralogy. With table of contents.
New Scientist. Popular British weekly general science magazine.
SCIENCE Magazine On-Line. Weekly journal by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publishes research in every field of science. Go to the Search Engine. Search for authors, titles, subjects and words in abstracts.
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Superlattices and Microstructures. Access via INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ELECTRONIC ACCESS LIBRARY (IDEAL). IDEAL is an online electronic library containing all 175 Academic Press journals. Abstracts and tables of contents are presented in HTML and full-text articles are delivered in Adobe Acrobat© format. Guest access, or via http://www.janet.idealibrary.com/glogin.htm Go to: >Browse mode >Engineering and Material Sciences >Materials Sciences >Superlattices and Microstructures.
Swiss Bulletin of Mineralogy and Petrology. With table of contents.
Terra NOVA. Full articles available.
Zeitschrift für Kristallographie.
With contents of the issues, as well as subject index, formulae index and author index.
Meta-Indexes
Ann Chambers Theis, Chesterfield County Public Library, Book Links: Links to major book sites.
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ABC Bücherdienst GmbH, Regensburg: ABC Bücherdatenbank. A search engine let you choose between one million titles.
Amazon.com Books: Search one million titles by author, title, or subject, by search engine.
American Geophysical Union, Washington: AGU Bookstore. Earth science books, sorted in branches, reviewed, with view table of contents.
Blackwell´s Bookshops. With search engine.
Book Serve, La Vergue: There supposed to be a million books in this searchable database.
Book Stacks Unlimited: Search the shelves. This bookstore carries more then 400 000 searchable titles and provided access to the most extensive collection of electronic books.
BookWire. All around books, including search engine.
The Carnegie Mellon University: Books On-line: Physical Sciences.
Central index of second hand books- In German.
Michael Dennis Cohan, Montana: Geoscience books. Without search-engine.
Dial-A-Book: A bookstore with complete books for download delivery to your hard disk.
German books and media: VLB - Verzeichnis Lieferbarer Bücher. Books available in Germany.
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Library of Congress: LC Advanced Search Form.
The On-line Books Page. An annotated index of more than 2000 books whose full text is available on-line. Search by author or by title.
(UK): Internet Book Shop. Supposed to be the largest online bookshop in the world. With search engine and subject tree root.
Springer: Links. A lot of the material
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and password. With search
engine.
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Cambridge University Press: Search for a Cambridge title by Search Facilities, or Search the Complete Catalogue. Another Cambridge University Press search engine (by subject) is also available via Chicago.
Chapman & Hall. The page provides search engines about electronic journals online, journals by discipline, journal abstracts and other Chapman & Hall products.
Elsevier Science. With catalogue, subject areas and publication home pages, tables of contents service, and What’s New? Go to: Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service, Earth and Planetary Sciences. Very useful! See also: Elsevier Science Tables of Contents Service. An invaluable compendium of the contents of more than 1,000 journals.
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. With search engine
Macmillan Publishing USA
Oxford University Press. See: Oxford Journals online and Subjects Covered by Oxford Journals.
Springer
Verlag and Springer-Verlag, Scientific.
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Springer: Links. A lot of the material
available on this server is free of charge, such as access to catalogs, meta-information
and requests for abstracts, which are fully accessible to anybody. Access to complete
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Hans-Dieter Hartges´s Bookmarks. In German.
Eric Lease Morgan, North Carolina State University: Online catalogs with "webbed" interfaces
Joan M. Cherry & Joseph P. Cox, Faculty of Information Studies, University of
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InterNIC Directory and Database Services at AT&T: Library Catalogs. Index without annotations.
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The Thomas Parry Library (PICK), Aberystwyth: OPACs and library Web pages, and The National Libraries, including the Non-European.
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U.S. Geological Survey: Library Referal Services. The U.S. Geological Survey maintains this registry of earth and environmental science snternet resources as a service to the research community.
YAHOO: Libraries.
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FH-Bibliothek Nürnberg: Online-Kataloge nach Bestandsschwerpunkten and Online-Kataloge anderer Bibliotheken. In German.
web.de: Bibliotheken. In German.
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Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut, Berlin.
Access to: IBAS databases (telnet
capability required), and
DBI Link databases.
Go to: WWW\Logon.
Public user-id: db
Public password: dbilink
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Library of the University of Hamburg, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Webis. World-Wide-Web- Library-Server for every topic (In German). See the Geoscience and Natural Science section. Explore the Gateway to other German Libraries.
Karlsruhe University Library: Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog. Easy access to the holdings of Germanys university libraries. More than 35 millions of books and serials. Allows combined search, e.g. in the British COPAC. Excellent!
Südwestdeutscher Bibliotheksverbund, Universität Konstanz: 471 German libraries with location of monographs or monographs and periodicals.
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Bibliotheken der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (in German).
Geo-Forschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ): Library (In German).
Library of the University of Würzburg:
Gateway to the OPAC
and the databases.
Sweden
Library of the University of Lund, Nordic WAIS/World Wide Web Project: WWW subject tree of WAIS databases, and
All WAIS databases sorted by ASCII, with annotations. Very helpful!
United Kingdom
NISS (formerly "JANET-OPACS"): OPACs in Britain and Ireland. A directory of library catalogues and services. See also: Higher Education & Research Library Catalogues (OPACs)
Manchester Computing, University of Manchester & Consortium of University Research Libraries: COPAC. COPAC is a new Online Public Access Catalogue, providing unified access to the online catalogues of some of the largest university research libraries in the UK and Ireland.
The British Geological Survey: Direct library catalog access by telnet. Log in (user name): LIBRARY
The Natural History Museum, London: (Requires telnet capability, login: libcat).
Access to the British Library via Deutsche
Bibliothek - Z39.50 Gateway. Go to: "Europäische OPACS".
U.S.A.
University of California Santa Cruz Earth and Marine Science Gopher(Gopher)
Northwestern University, Department of Geological Sciences(Gopher)
North Carolina State University Earth Science(Gopher)
Duane Marble, Eric J. Miller, Jim Saunders, Ohio State University Department of Geography: GIS Master Bibliography Project, search engine. Database is also available via anonymous ftp by clicking here.
Duke University, Durham, NC USA: Duke Libraries Online Catalog. Easy search by author, title, subject heading, keyword(s), etc.
Rice University Geology and Geophysics(Gopher)
TOCPU - The Online Catalog, Princeton University Libraries
Princeton University Observatory. The Astrophysical Sciences WWW server at Princeton.
The Library of Congress, Washington (via PICK, Aberystwyth: The Library of Congress is a major information provider on the Internet. The Library of Congress Home Page can be accessed from either of two URLs http://www.loc.gov/ or http://lcweb.loc.gov/
The Library, University of California, Berkeley
(Catalog via telnet).
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