Subject Guides: Earth Sciences: Finding Subject Specific Information

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In this section of the Library's Moodle space you will find resources and activities to help you develop your information searching skills.

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Through this link you will find more information about accessing Senate House's physical and online resources, as well as information about accessing libraries at other institutions.

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Recommended Resources

These are some useful resources for Earth Sciences, but we have many more! You can see the full list of subject specific resources here or see our Library Resources A-Z for all the resources you have access to as a member of Royal Holloway.

Digimap - Ordnance Survey This link opens in a new window
The Ordnance Survey collection contains a number of datasets ranging from small scale base maps, such as MiniScale®, to detailed large scale mapping including OS MasterMap®, which is the most detailed large scale vector dataset available from Ordnance Survey. Complete coverage of Great Britain is available for all the products in the collection and all products are updated throughout the year, as and when updates are received from Ordnance Survey.

Ordnance Survey Digimap is an EDINA (Edinburgh Data and Information Access) service and you will need to register your details with them. Following this, please read the collection's licence agreement carefully and only accept it if you agree to the terms of use.
Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Second Edition) This link opens in a new window
This encyclopedia covers all areas of Quaternary Science, written by experts. It is accessible to undergraduate students.
Geofacets This link opens in a new window
Geofacets contains over 2 million maps, figures, and tables sourced from scientific publishers. There are also overlays that you can add to your map.
GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new window
A collection of key geology journals put together by geological societies from across the world. A comprehensive resource for researchers in Earth Sciences.
Lyell Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text journals and books published by the Geological Society of London.Contains 18,000 peer-reviewed articles and 260,000 pages of Earth science content.Full-text archives back to 1845.
Physical Sciences Data-science Service This link opens in a new window
The PSDS is an EPSRC-funded National Research Facility provided by the University of Southampton, and Science and Technology Facilities Council. It replaced the National Chemical Database Service

To use this resource from off campus, you will need to register with the PSDS.
Datasets included:

ACD/I-Lab2
Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) from CCDC
DETHERM from the Dechema
SPRESIweb from InfoChem
Available Chemicals Directory from Accelrys
Inorganic Crystal Structure Database from Fiz Chemie
Chemicalize from ChemAxon
ChemSpider from the RSC
ARChem from SymBioSys

(Together with some temporary trial databases.)

ArcGIS Explorer
ArcGIS Explorer Desktop is a free GIS viewer that gives you an easy way to explore, visualize, and share GIS information. ArcGIS Explorer adds value to any GIS because it helps you deliver your authoritative data to a broad audience.
ESRI
The software house responsible for ArcInfo, ArcView and other industry standard GIS data sources. They give examples of how GIS can be used in various industries and sectors.
Geosimulation
Information about solving complex spatial problems with computers.
National Centers for Environmental Information
covers glaciology, marine geology, geophysics, paleoclimatology, solar-terrestrial physics, and solid earth geophysics.

Note: This resource was formerly the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

This is a few of our larger journal databases. You can find these and many more by using LibrarySearch

GeoScienceWorld This link opens in a new window
A collection of key geology journals put together by geological societies from across the world. A comprehensive resource for researchers in Earth Sciences.
Lyell Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text journals and books published by the Geological Society of London.Contains 18,000 peer-reviewed articles and 260,000 pages of Earth science content.Full-text archives back to 1845.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
A major collection of journals on science, technology, medicine and the social sciences.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
Access to ejournals and full-text articles in Biochemistry, Behavioural Science, Physics, Astronomy, Medicine, Earth Sciences and Computer Science.
Wiley-Blackwell Online Library This link opens in a new window
Over 750 journals on science, technology and medicine, with selected journals on humanities and social sciences.
Full Text

General resources

BoB - On Demand TV & Radio for Education This link opens in a new window
BoB is a viewing and off-air recording and media archive service which allows you to search for, watch and also record from a list of recorded channels. You can also create clips, search for programmes coming up, create playlists and share them with others.
BoB is only available in the UK.

Financial Times This link opens in a new window
The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations which provides a broad range of information, news and services for the global business community.

To access the articles on FT.com, you will need to first create an account.
1. Go to ft.com and click on Subscribe in the top right hand corner
2. You will see 4 boxes. The last box is titled 'Team or Enterprise' and under this there is a link which says: 'Does my organisation subscribe?' Click on this link. Please see attached screenshot for guidance.
3. Fill out the form using your University email address.
4. You will receive an email from noreply@enterprise.ft.com containing a sign up link, so you can finish setting up your FT account. Please check junk/spam folders if this does not appear in your inbox.

Once you have completed setting up your account you should be able to access the content. If you have any further questions or problems, please let me know.
Gale OneFile: News This link opens in a new window
OneFile News is a full-text international newspaper resource that allows users to quickly search and compare news articles published worldwide.
Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window
A collection of historical archives (modern to present), newspapers and periodicals (17th to 19th centuries) including:
Daily Mail Historical Archive,
The Economist Historical Archive,
The Illustrated London News Historical Archive,
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals (Series 2, Empire),
Political Extremism and Radicalism,
The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis provides access to a wide range of UK and international newspapers. It also includes a collection of in-depth company profiles and industry reports covering millions of public and private companies.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window
Regional Business News provides full-text regional business publications for the United States and Canadian provinces. You can search newspapers, magazines and other resources from different news sources.

The link below will help you find Royal Holloway PhD theses, UK theses through British Library's EThOS service and theses and dissertations from other countries through ProQuest.

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Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
The online academic edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including articles, biographies, images, videos and a world atlas. The 'Compare Countries' tool shows a range of facts and statistics for different countries.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
The online version of the OED including over 500,000 definitions, together with etymological analysis and variant spellings. Traces the development of English from 1150 AD to the present.
Video tutorial on using the Oxford English Dictionary
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Over 100 general reference works, language dictionaries and subject dictionaries covering languages, science and medicine, humanities, social sciences and business.
Full Text
Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new window
A series of online research guides in a range of subjects including American Literature, British and Irish Literature, Cinema and Media Studies, Environmental Science, Victorian Literature,Geography, Classics and Philosophy. Each guide contains a series of articles introducing key topics, and lists recommended readings about each topic.
Video User guide (YouTube)