Geology 321 – Rock-Forming Minerals

• Books and Journals
• Indexes and Abstracts
• Full-text Journals
• World Wide Web Links
• Other Information

Books and Journals

• Library Catalog

Indexes and Abstracts

• GEOREF
  Index and bibliography of geologic information from 1785 to the present
• Web Of Science
  Information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals in all areas of research. Includes Science Citation  Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index.  COVERAGE 1990 - PRESENT

Full-text Journals

• Science Direct
  Searchable full-text collection of all Elsevier journals.

World Wide Web Links

• Athena: Mineralogy
  Collection of mineral databases.
• Mineralogy Database
  More than 5,000 web pages of mineral data with over 4,000 mineral species described.
• Mindat.org
  Probably the largest mineralogical reference on the web.

Other Information

• Interlibrary Loan
• Request books and journals that Swem Library does not own.
• GSA Format
  Guidelines for authors including format for tables and references
• RefWorks
  Citation manager; create a database of references and format bibliography using selected styles
• RefWorks Tutorial
• A series of brief videos present tips for using RefWorks