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Associations and Organizations
General
Geological Society of America: The Geological Society of America (GSA) is a global professional society with a growing membership of more than 18,000 individuals in over 85 countries.
Geological Society of London: The Geological Society of London (1807) is the UK national society for geoscience. It exists to promote the geosciences and the professional interests of UK geoscientists.
Association of American State Geologists (AASG): The Association of American State Geologists (AASG) is an organization of the chief executives of the state geological surveys in 50 states and Puerto Rico. Almost all function as a basic information source for their state governments' executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
American Geological Institute: AGI serves its member societies and the geoscience community of more than 120,000 geologists, geophysicists, and other earth and environmental scientists. AGI provides information services, serves as a voice of shared interests in our profession, plays a major role in strengthening geoscience education, and strives to increase public understanding of the vital role the geosciences play in society's use of resources and interaction with the environment.
Geoscience Information Society (GIS): The Geoscience Information Society facilitates the exchange of information in the geosciences through cooperation among scientists, librarians, editors, cartographers, educators, and information professionals. GSIS is a member society of the American Geological Institute (AGI), and an associated society of the Geological Society of America (GSA).
International Union of Geological Services (IUGS): The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) is one of the largest and most active non-governmental scientific organizations in the world. Founded in 1961, IUGS is a member of the International Council of Scientific Unions. IUGS promotes and encourages the study of geological problems, especially those of world-wide significance, and supports and facilitates international and interdisciplinary cooperation in the earth sciences.
Specialized
Dallas Geological Society: Founded in 1919, The Dallas Geological Society, a constituent member of the Southwest Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and, as a non-profit entity, strives to advance the professional interests of all geoscientists in the Dallas area, regardless of the geoscientific discipline they practice or the industry in which they serve.
National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT): The National Association of Geoscience Teachers was established in 1938. Its purpose is to foster improvement in the teaching of earth sciences at all levels of formal and informal instruction, to emphasize the cultural significance of the earth sciences and to disseminate knowledge in this field to the general public.
American Geophysical Union (AGU): AGU is an individual membership society open to those professionally engaged in or associated with the Earth and space sciences.
Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM): SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) is an international not-for-profit Society based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Through its network of international members, the Society is dedicated to the dissemination of scientific information on sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, environmental sciences, marine geology, hydrogeology, and many additional related specialties.
General Resources
Scholarly Societies Project – Earth Science listing of Associations: This resource provides links to a number of Earth Science associations.
Digital Library for Earth System Education: DLESE is a “geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth systems”. Resources for DLESE include lesson plans, scienctific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and many web-accessible teaching or learning materials
Geoscience Internet Links: This website provides links to various University departments all over the world within the geosciences field, as well as links to societies, surveys, jobs, research institutes, oil & gas companies, geo-software, newsgroups, and museums. (**Disclaimer: McDermott Library does not own all of the journals that may be listed on this website. Please check the library catalog to see what we have.)
Earth Science Directory of Information – Yahoo: This directory site will provide you with more information on any given topic within the field of Earth Science.
Librarians’ Index to the Internet – Earth Sciences: An index of various Earth Science websites.
Librarians’ Index to the Internet – Geology: An index of various Geology websites.
Earth Science Web Links: A listing of links related to the topic of Earth Science.
PSIgate: PSIgate provides free access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in the physical sciences, specifically in: astronomy, chemistry, earth sciences, physics, and science history and policy.
Structural Geology on the Web: This is a collection of hypertext links to assorted structural geology and tectonics resources available on the world-wide web.
GEOSOURCE: Geosource is a collection of links to webpages with information in the subjects that are being taught and studied in the Faculty of Geographical Sciences of Utrecht Unversity, Netherlands. These are: Cartography, Environmental Science and Policy Studies, Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Planning Science.
Federal and State Government Resources
EROS Data Center : Earth resources observation systems: Houses and distributes satellite images, aerial photographs, topographical, and digital maps recording land-surface phenomena.
Geo-Data: Geode allows users to manipulate the various types of maps topographic, geologic, satellite images) in order to view population, transportation, natural resources, etc. based on the selected country/region of choice.
Index of USGS Websites: This is a listing of the websites found within USGS.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): USGS provides information about the Earth, its natural and living resources, natural hazards, and the environment through news reports, maps, images, and much more. This website allows for further research of volcanoes, earthquakes, forest, glaciers, wildlife and human health. A collection of resources for students, teachers, and explorers is also available.
U.S. Geological Survey Library: Established in 1879 to build and organize a collection of scientific materials in the earth sciences, the U.S. Geological Survey Library is now the largest library for earth sciences in the world. The library system includes four libraries and is part of the Geographic Information Office of the USGS.
Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC): The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is an interagency committee that promotes the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of geospatial data on a national basis. This nationwide data publishing effort is known as the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI is a physical, organizational, and virtual network designed to enable the development and sharing of this nation's digital geographic information resources.
USGS Geography Information: USGS Geography confronts some of the most pressing natural resource and environmental issues of our Nation. Observing the Earth with remote sensing satellites, USGS geographers monitor and analyze changes on the land, study connections between people and the land, and provide society with relevant science information to inform public decisions.
Federal Geographic Data Committee – National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse:
The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a collection of over 250 spatial data servers, that have digital geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), image processing systems, and other modelling software. Publications of the United States Geological Survey: The [biblographic] database provides access to the publications of the USGS and includes references to U.S. Geological Survey reports and maps published from 1880 to date, references to non-USGS publications with USGS authors published from 1983 to date, and 225 references to reports produced by the Hayden, King, Powell, and Wheeler surveys. A subset of the GeoRef Database.
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC): NGDC provides scientific stewardship, products and services for geophysical data describing the solid earth, marine, and solar-terrestrial environment, as well as earth observations from space.
NGDC Marine Geology & Geophysics: The Marine Geology and Geophysics Division provides scientific stewardship, products, and services for data from the seafloor and lakebeds
NGDC Solid Earth Geophysics: Scientific stewardship, products, & services for data from Earth's terrestrial, & geomagnetic environment.
World Data Center System: The World Data Center (WDC) system was created to archive and distribute data collected from the observational programs of the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year. Its holdings include a wide range of solar, geophysical, environmental, and human dimensions data.
National Park Service – Geologic Resources:
Ask USGS:
Maps
Alexandria Digital Library Project:
Cornell’s Digital Earth: GEOID (GEOscience Interactive Databases) is a GIS based database system with menu-driven data manipulation, search, and plotting tools designed for earth scientists' use in research and education. Hosted by the Cornell University's Institute for the Study of the Continents, this website includes an interactive digital map of the world that allows users to manipulate, retrieve and synthesize geological and geophysical information about large areas of both the earth's surface and interior core.
National Atlas of the Unites States:
Online Map Creation:
Paleomap Project:
Topozone:
UT-Austin Perry-Castaneda Library Digital Map Collection:
UT-Austing PCL Map Collection: Maps on Other Web Sites:
TerraServer:
National Geological Map Database: GEOLEX is a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names...The Geolex database contains 16,005 entries. 75% of the unit names from the USGS Geologic Names Committee (GNC) card catalog have been entered in the database. Several thousand unit names remain to be checked and entered.
U.S. Census Bureau Maps and Cartographic Resources:
National Atlas of the Unites States: From the U.S. Geological Survey. This Atlas updates a large bound collection of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this largely digital National Atlas promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural landscapes.
Tiger Map Server Browser:
Online Journal Collections or Titles
Geoscience Internet Links: (Please note: While the UTD Library may have many of the journals listed here we do not own all of them. If any of the journals listed are of interest to you, you should consider using Interlibrary Loan to request a specific volume)
USGS Geologic Information – Books and Other Publications:
McDermott Library Databases
AGRICOLA (agriculture): AGRICOLA, created by the National Agricultural Library, contains citations to agricultural literature. It covers all aspects of agricultural science including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences. AGRICOLA indexes and cites books and book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and audiovisual materials. It contains about 5 million records indexing materials as far back as the 15 th century.
General Science Abstracts: General Science Abstracts covers articles written in a broad range of scientific disciplines, including anthropology, astronomy, biology, geology, and much more. Over 270 leading science journals and magazines are indexed in General Science Abstracts from 1984 to the present.
GeoRef: GeoRef provides access to geoscience literature by indexing geoscience journals, books, conference proceedings, government reports, and dissertations as far back as 1785. International in scope, GeoRef indexes more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages.
GeoRef Preview Database (AGI): GeoRef Preview Database contains recently indexed records from geoscience literature to be included later in the primary GeoRef database. GeoRef Preview is useful for locating recent information without retrieving numerous older records.
ScienceDirect (electronic journals from Elsevier): ScienceDirect provides full-text access to over 1,800 scholarly and peer reviewed journals from Elsevier Science. The journals cover a broad range of disciplines, including agriculture, the arts and humanities, genetics, biology, business, accounting, chemistry, engineering, computer sciences, earth and planetary sciences, economics, materials science, medicine, neuroscience, physics, psychology, and the social sciences. Full-text coverage varies from journal to journal. Some extend as far back as the 1970s.
Science Citation Index / Web of Science: Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, citations, and bibliographies covering the journal literature of the sciences, including agriculture, astronomy, neuroscience, biology, pharmacology, physics, chemistry, computer science, medicine, and zoology. The Science Citation Index indexes more than 5,700 major journals and includes all cited references for each article. Coverage begins in 1975.
Scopus: SCOPUS is a multidisciplinary database covering scientific, technical, medical and social science literature – over 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from 4,000 publishers. Abstracts to over 25 million records reach from present back to 1966 with selective linking to full text. Specifically, SCOPUS covers topics in health, life sciences, agricultural and biological sciences, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, social science, psychology, and economics, business, and management.