Geology via Supersearch

The  GeoRef database was established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1966 to provide access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive AGI database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 60,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.2 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

The GeoRef database covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. The database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered.

To maintain the database, GeoRef editor/indexers regularly scan more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports. They record the bibliographic data for each document and assign index terms to describe it. Each month between 4,000 and 7,000 new references are added to the database and also printed in the Bibliography and Index of Geology
A subscription to the GeoRef database also includes access to the GeoRef In Process database (both databases are searched at once) and a link to the GeoRef Preview database on the AGI web site.

Results can be sorted by

• date
• relevancy rank

*is the truncation or wildcard symbol. It is used to expand a search term to include all forms of a root word.

charact* retrieves   (character OR characterized OR characters OR characteristic  OR characteristically OR characteristics)

The GeoRef Advanced search offers a number of useful searching options.

Searching by field codes.

AB = Abstract	LL = Latitude & Longitude
AF = Affiliation	MP = Map
AN = Accession Number	MT = Monograph Title
AU = Author	NT = Notes
AV = Availability	ON = Organization
CA = Corporate Author	PB = Publisher
CD = CODEN	PD = Publication Date
CE = Collection Title	PG = Pages
CF = Conference	PT = Publication Type
CL = Classification	PY = Publication Year
CP = Country of Publication	RL = Resource Location
CY = Copyright	RP = Report Number
DE = Descriptors	SL = Summary Language
ED = Editor	SO = Source
FE = Features	SP = Sponsor
HL = Holding Library	TA = Target Audience
IB = ISBN	TI = Title
IS = ISSN	UD = Update
LA = Language

Operators

AND is the narrowing logic                        DE=" dinosaurs " and DE=" physiology " and DE=" temperature

OR is the broadening logic                       dinosaur * and ( thermophysiology or warm blood * or cold blood *)

Proximity searches limit the number of words between your search terms.

no operator	Finds the words as a phrase
WITHIN X	Find words within a specified radius
NEAR	Find words within 10 words of each other
BEFORE	Finds words in a relative order. Adjacency is not implied.
AFTER	Finds words that contain words in the relative order specified with the after expression. Adjacency is not implied.

Order of Operations NEAR, NOT, AND, OR

Limits

Publication Type
Language
Formats Covered
Classification

When searching by author use the BROWSE Index

A browse of the author index locates four different forms of Marvin U

marvin u b
marvin ursula
marvin ursula b
marvin ursula bailey

A search strategy may be saved as Alert. A message will be delivered to your email address when new content is found in GeoRef.

Web of Science (ISI) is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,700 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines, covering approximately 2,100 more
journals than its SCI print and CD-ROM counterparts, with all cited references captured.

   

The Web of Science provides the following types of searches.

Easy Search -  searches by topic, person, or place and returns a maximum of 100 results. This is the easiest search option.
General Search - searches for articles by topic, author, source title, or author address. This is the most flexible search option.
Cited Reference - searches articles that have cited a specific work by an author.
Advanced Search- searches using the General Search field tags and set combinations. This type of search is for expert users.
Combined Search- enables combined search sets (also called queries) created from the General Search or Advanced Search screens.

The General, Advanced and Combined Searches can be sorted by

         latest date
         times cited
         relevance
         first author
         source title

 

To view earth science journals, go to Find Journals and select Catergory, then choose Earth Sciences

Other relevant full text journals or databases databases

Google Scholar - an advanced and limited Google search into scholarly materials.

JSTOR

Other resources

U.S. Geological Survey World Wide Web Information (U.C. Berkeley)

Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey

Minnesota Geological Survey

Popular Magazines VS Trade Magazines VS Scholarly Journals

Locating Books

Online Catalog

Universal Borrowing enables UW-RF students, faculty, and staff to search for and borrow books directly from other UW System campus libraries.  This is FASTER that traditional Interlibrary Loan.

Interlibrary Loan  (Use to request journal articles and books, not found through Universal Borrowing.)
This service now includes an electronic delivery service for interlibrary loan articles. Some libraries can supply articles in an electronic format, when possible the Chalmer Davee Library will receive materials this way and store them on our server for 30 days.

Citation guides for the geological sciences

Format for Geological Bibliographies

CSE Citation Guide a guide is based on Scientific Style and Format: The CSE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers 7th edition, 2006.

Summary of the pertinent writing guidelines taken from those established by the Geology Department at SUNY Cortland [Note access to this cite is through the Internet Achive's Wayback Machine.]

Geological Society of America at bottom under 'Samples of different reference styles:'

Author Information PDF- The Geological Society of America Bulletin

...References Cited. All references mentioned in the text, figures, captions, tables, and appendixes must be listed in the References Cited section. Only references cited in the paper are to be listed. The reference list for your Data Repository material should be separate and complete (do not omit references also cited in the paper itself) and placed in the Data Repository. Do not cite or list papers that are in preparation, in review, or in revision (see previous description of alternatives to "unpublished manuscript" citations). List references alphabetically by author's surname. For references with two authors, list alphabetically by first author's surname and then alphabetically by second author's surname. For references with more than two authors, list alphabetically by first author's surname and then chronologically, earliest year first. Distinguish by addition of letters those references that would otherwise have identical citations (e.g., Smith, 1979a, 1979b). Do not abbreviate journal titles or book publishers in references. For references that do not match any of the examples given here, include all information that would help a reader locate the reference. See the following table for sample references; note the kinds of information required, its order, and the punctuation. See also a current issue of the Bulletin.

Abstract

Sammis, C.G., 1993, Relating fault stability to fault zone structure: Geological Society of America   Abstracts with Programs, v. 25, no. 6, p. A115-A116.[Note: the issue number is required for this   particular publication after 1988.]

Book

[last name], [initials], [year], [book title]: [city], [publisher], [no. of pages].
or
[last name], [initials], [year], [chapter title], in [last name], [initials], ed., [book title]: [city], [publisher], [pages].

Vail, P.R., Audemard, F., Bowman, S.A., Eisner, P.N., and Perez-Cruz,  C., 1991, The stratigraphic   signatures of tectonics, eustasy and  sedimentology-An overview, in Einsele, G., et al., eds., Cycles
  and events in stratigraphy: Berlin, Springer-Verlag, p. 617-659.   
   [Note: only the first editor's name need be listed.]

Journal

[last name], [initials], [year], [article title]: [journal title], [volume], [pages].
Doglioni, C., 1994, Foredeeps versus subduction zones: Geology, v. 22, p. 271-274.

Comment, Discussion, Reply
Retallack, G.J., 1993, Classification of paleosols: Discussion:   Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.  105, p. 1635-1636.

Guidebook
Blackstone, D.L., Jr., 1990, Rocky Mountain foreland exemplified by the Owl Creek Mountains, Bridger   Range and Casper Arch, central Wyoming, in Specht, R., ed., Wyoming sedimentation and tectonics:
  Casper, Wyoming Geological Association, 41st Annual Field  Conference, Guidebook, p. 151-166.  [Note: Casper is the city of publication; don't list the meeting site.]

In Press
Hoffman, H.J., and Masson, M., 2002, Archean stromatolites from Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec,   Canada: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114 (in press).

Maps

Abrams, G.A., 1993, Complete Bouguer gravity anomaly map of the State of Colorado: U.S. Geological   Survey Miscellaneous Field  Studies Map MF-2236, scale 1:500,000, 1 sheet.

Open-File Report
Alpha, T.R., 1993, Landslide effects: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-0278-A, 43 p.

Proceedings from a Symposium or Conference
[Include year of conference if it differs from publication year.]
Baar, C., 1972, Creep measured in deep potash mines vs. theoretical predictions, in Proceedings,   Canadian Rock Mechanics Symposium, 7th, Edmonton: Ottawa, Canada Department of Energy, Mines   and Resources, p. 23-77.

Thesis
Wopat, M.A., 1990, Quaternary volcanism and tectonics in the Mexican volcanic belt near Tequila, Jalisco,   southwestern Mexico [Ph.D. thesis]: Berkeley, University of California, 277 p.