2008* Earth Sciences and related Information Resources 'Core' or Essential Reference Tool (Geology, Meteorology, Volcanology, etc.) Results
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Web-Sites
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Dictionary of Organic Compounds, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Encyclopedia of Earth System Science
- Geographical Dictionary- Merriam Webster, Glossary of Geology- AGI, Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States
- Manual of Mineralogy
- Moffatt- Map Index to Topographic Quadrangles
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Web-Sites
- Google http://www.google.com and Google Scholar - http://scholar.google.com/
- Chem Informatics (was Chemweb – http://www.chemweb.org) now http://www.cheminformatics.org/, WebElements-Periodic Table on the Web - http://www.webelements.com
- Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology - http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/
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Web-Sites
- National Institute of Standards and Technology/(NIST) Chemistry Webbook - http://www.nist.gov or http://webbook.nist.gov
- U. S. Geological Survey - http://www.usgs.gov
- ChemIDplus Advance - http://chem.sis.nlm.nih.gov/chemidplus/
- Science.gov - http://www.science.gov/
- National Weather Service – http://www.weather.gov/
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Web-Sites -- Govdocs Sites -- Fee-Based
Web-Sites
- GeoRef - http://www.agiweb.org/georef/index.html
- Chemical Abstracts - http://www.cas.org/
- Geobase - http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bibliographicdatabasedescription.cws_home/422597/description#description
- Web of Science - http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/scientific/Web_of_Science
- GeoScienceWorld - http://www.geoscienceworld.org/, Scopus - http://www.scopus.com/scopus/home.url, Water Resources Abstracts - http://www.csa.com/factsheets/water-resources-set-c.php, data files from NOAA
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*This survey was posted in May and in August 2008 to:
- eldnet-l@u.washington.edu
- LIS-SCITECH@jiscmail.ac.uk
- sts-l@ala.org
- LISNews and LISNewsWire Blogs - lisnews-owner@lishost.net
- ResourceShelf Blog - gary.price@resourceshelf.com
- ERIL-L@LISTSERV.BINGHAMTON.EDU
- dig_ref@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
- collib-l@ala.org
- LIS-LINK@jiscmail.ac.uk
- Libref-L@listserv.kent.edu
- GOVDOC-L@lists.psu.edu
- publib@webjunction.org
- livereference@yahoogroups.com
- Libref-L@listserv.kent.edu
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