Research Guides: GEOG 4101: Getting Started

Head of Geology Library & Map Room
Mathematical Sciences Librarian
Science Education Specialist

Danny Dotson

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180E Geology Library
Orton Hall

614-688-0053

Subjects: Computer Science, Earth Science (Geology), Engineering, Geography, Math & Statistics

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A database with extensive text and video content on doing research, particularly in social sciences.

Find Books

Electronic Book Center (OhioLINK) [Full Text] This link opens in a new window
Electronic Book Center included ebooks on all subjects, including many encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, and guides.

Find Articles

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track analyze and visualize research. Tools to sort, refine and quickly identify results help researchers focus on the outcome of their work.
GeoRef This link opens in a new window
GeoRef is the electronic version of the American Geological Institute's geoscience database containing over 1.9 million records of North America since 1785, and other areas of the world since 1933. The database is the equivalent of four major reference publications: Bibliography of North American Geology, Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geophysical Abstracts, and the Bibliography and Index of Geology.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Environment Complete contains all of the content available in Environment Index, as well as full text for 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline, such as Environment (back to 1975), Ecologist, Conservation Biology, etc. Environment Complete also provides full text for 80 monographs, such as Encyclopedia of World Environmental History (3 volumes), Advances in Water Treatment & Environmental Management, etc. Further, the database offers full text for the conference papers of the North American Association of Environmental Education.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to citation indexes which can be searched individually or as one file.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index indexes 1,100 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.
- Science Citation Index Expanded indexes 5,300 major journals across 164 scientific disciplines and contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 70 percent of the articles in the database.
- The Social Sciences Citation Index indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
- Book Citation Indexes- Science and Social Sciences & Humanties indexes over 30,000 editorially selected books in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, with 10,000 new books added each year. It contains searchable, full-length, English-language author abstracts for approximately 60 per cent of the articles in the database.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar indexes items Google considers scholarly, including articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, conference proceedings, and technical reports. The OSU Libraries subscribes to the electronic version of many of these materials and may own the print copy. See Make Google Scholar Work For You to set the Google Scholar Preferences to ensure you find materials available free to you from the OSU Libraries and OhioLINK.

Accessing items

You'll see some important buttons while using the OSU Libraries resouces. Especially important are these 4:

Where: OSU Library Catalog.

What: Have an item sent to another location for pickup or recall an item checked out.

Where: OSU Library Catalog.

What: Check for access of an individual item via OhioLINK - such as an item checked out at OSU. Also repeats searches in the OhioLINK catalog to see additional options for your need.

Where: OhioLINK Catalog

What: Click to have an item delivered to OSU from an OhioLINK library.

Where: Library Databases

What: Check for online access to journal articles, conference papers, and more. Also gives interlibrary loan option if item is not available online.

Help!

Choosing & Using Sources
Tutorials on finding and using info.
Citing Help & Software
Article Express / Interlibrary Loan
Request articles, conference papers, and even books (check OhioLINK first) when unavailable at OSU. Request scans of print-only journal articles available at OSU.

GEOG 4101

Head of Geology Library & Map RoomMathematical Sciences LibrarianScience Education Specialist

Recommended E-books

Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

Sage Research Methods

Find Books

Find Articles

Accessing items

Help!

Head of Geology Library & Map Room
Mathematical Sciences Librarian
Science Education Specialist