Table of Contents

• Online Catalog. Finding books in the I.D. Weeks Library

• Online Catalog Resources from other Institutions or Database Vendors
• Back Ground Reading Resources - Bibliography, Biography, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Guides
• Gazetteers on the Internet
• Indexes and Abstracts on the Internet and LAN
• Finding Periodical Articles in the Library

• Online Access to Journals
• Geological Societies on the Internet
• Earth Science Directories on the Internet
• Government resources on the Internet

• Earth and Planetary Photography on the Internet
• I.D. Weeks Library Map Collection
• Maps on the Internet

• Weather and Climate on the Internet

Earth Science materials can be easily located by using the Library's catalog PALS. A web version of PALS is available through the library's homepage. Access: http://www.usd.edu/library/ Click library catalog on the tool bar. Select WEBPALS from the box. Materials can be searched by either keyword(s) or Library of Congress Subject Heading (most specific). PALS also provides access to over 30 other libraries in the South Dakota.

Books are located on the 3^rd floor of the I. D. Weeks Library and are classified by the Library of Congress Classification System. Note browsing by call numbers below.

Call numbers for browsing

U.S.G.S. Circular.
Two locations: 3^rd floor, QE 75 C5 No.__; 2^nd floor Documents Collection I 19.4/2:___

U.S.G.S. Professional Papers.
Two locations: 3^rd floor, QE 75 P9 No.__; 2^nd floor Documents Collection I 19.16:___

U.S.G.S. Water Supply Papers.
3^rd floor, TC 801 .U2 No.__

The Library of Congress.
Access: http://www.loc.gov/
The United States' library of record.

The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology's Devereaux Library.
Access: http://www.sdsmt.edu/services/library/library.html
Holds significant geological collections.

U.S. Geological Survey Library.
Access: http://www.usgs.gov/library/index.html
One of the largest earth science libraries in the world. The library serves the research needs of USGS scientists, organizations, and individual researchers.

WorldCat
Access:Weeks Library homepage under "research databases." http://www.usd.edu/library/idweeks.html
Contains more than 30 million records describing items owned by libraries around the world.

Bibliography of Geoscience Theses of the United States and Canada. Ref QE 76 .B53 1993

Biography:

Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Ref Q 141 .D5 1981

Dictionaries/Guides/Handbooks:

Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils. Ref QE 718 .T5 1982

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Earth Sciences. Ref QE 5 .66 1991

Dana's new Mineralogy. The System of Mineralogy of James D. Dana and Edward S. Dana. Ref QE 372 .D23 1997

Geostatistical Glossary and Multillingual Dictionary. Ref QE 33.2 N3 G46 1991

Glossary of Geology. Ref QE 5 .B38 1987

Practical Handbook of Physical Properties of Rocks and Minerals. Ref QE 431.6 P5 P73 1989

Roadside Geology of South Dakota. QE 163 .G68 1996

Encyclopedias:

Dinosaurs, the Encyclopedia. Ref QE 862 .D5 G652 1997

Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology. Ref QE 260 .E53 1997

Encyclopedia of Paleontology. Ref QE 703 .E523 1999

Macmillan Encycopedia of Earth Sciences. Ref QE 5 .E5137 1996

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology. Ref Q 121 .M3 2002

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of the Geological Sciences. Ref QE 5 .M29 1988

The Oxford Companion to the Earth. Ref QE .094 2000

Geographic Nameserver. Access: http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo
Purpose: Emphasis on the United States. Provides telephone area code, latitude, longitude,population, elevation and zip code.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names. Access: http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/index.html
Purpose: Search for place names and retrieve records for places, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates and place types.

U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Gazetteer. Access: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer
Purpose: Search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state, or 5-digt zip code.

• Agricola
• Applied Science & Technology Index
• Biological and Agricultural Index
• BIOSIS
• Environmental Protection Agency Publications
• General Science Index
• GeoRef
• Science Citation Index
• Science Direct

Periodical titles held by I.D. Weeks Library can be identified by using the Online Catalog.

Location of Periodicals in the Library: Current issues of periodicals are kept in the reading area, north side of the 2^nd floor, while older issues (bound periodicals) are available on the east side of the 2^nd floor. The periodical collections are arranged alphabetically by title.

The Library has access to a limited number of online earth science titles through the following databases:

• Expanded Academic ASAP
• EbscoHost
• Science Direct
• WilsonSelect

American Geological Institute (AGI) http://www.agiweb.org/

American Geophysical Union (AGU) http://www.agu.org/

Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (CSPG) http://www.cspg.org/

Geological Society of America (GSA) http://www.geosociety.org/

International Association for Mathematical Geology http://www.iamg.org/

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) http://earth.agu.org/iugg/internat.html

Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) http://www.minsocam.org/

National Speleological Society (NSS) http://www.caves.org/

Paleontological Society http://www.paleosoc.org/

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG)http://www.rmag.org/

Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) http://www.seg.org/

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) http://www.spe.org/

University of Waterloo's List of Scholarly Societies in the Earth Sciences http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/earthsci_soc.html

South Dakota Geological Survey http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/

University of California at Berkeley's Library http://www.lib.berkeley.edu./EART/EarthLinks.html.

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESIDS)
Access: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/

Selected NESDIS home pages:

Environmental Information Services Access: http://esdim.noaa.gov/

National Oceanographic Data Center. Access: http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/

National Climatic Data Center. Access: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/ncdc.html

National Geophysical Data Center. Access: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

United States Geological Survey. Access: http://www.usgs.gov/

Search the  USGS Web Servers: Access: http://search.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Search engine for the USGS Web Servers

EROS Data Center Access: http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Data center for the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive. Handles data from several satellites, and archives photographs taken from airplanes. The EDC also is designated a World Data Center - one of a global system of centers that have agreed to hold and share Earth observational data.

National Earthquake Information Center. Access: http://gldss7.cr.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Determines the location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide. Maintains a seismic database and a global seismograph network. And undertakes seismic research. National 

Geomagnetic Information Center. Access: http://geomag.usgs.gov/ngic.html
Purpose:  Part of the USGS Magnetic Field Monitoring and Charting Program

National Landslide Information Center. Access: http://landslides.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Responsible for distributing information about landslides.

National Water Information Center. Access: http://water.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Serves as a focus for the dissemination of water-resources information.

U.S. Geological Survey Library. Access: http://www.usgs.gov/library/index.html
Purpose: One of the largest earth science libraries in the world. The library serves the research needs of USGS scientists, organizations, and individual researchers.

Environment Canada. Access: http://www.ec.gc.ca.
Natural Resources Canada. Access: http://www.NRCan.gc.ca/

NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service) Access: http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/

Tiger Map Server (TMS). Access: http://tiger.census.gov/
Purpose: Provides a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps anywhere in the U.S., using public geographic data.

National Geologic Map Database (Geolex). Access: http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/Geolex/geolex_home.html
Purpose: Geolex is a search tool for lithologic and geo chronologic unit names.

Federal Geographic Data Committee: Access: http://www.fgdc.gov/
Purpose: Coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. Geographic 

Names Information System: Access: http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/
Purpose: Developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic names, contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural features in the U.S.

MapQest. Access: http://www.mapquest.com
Purpose: Trip planning and routing information. Interactive atlas lets you pinpoint places on the map, down to the street level. 

Mid-Continent Mapping Center. Access: http://mcmcweb.er.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Production, research, and data management facility for maps and digital cartographic data products.

National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. Access: http://ncgmp.usgs.gov/
Purpose: Creates geologic maps and digital geologic data bases.

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