Atmospheric Sciences Research Guide
This is a general research guide to support OSU's Atmospheric Sciences program. You'll find suggestions for locating books, articles, topical overviews, research tools, and data sources. If further assistance is needed, please contact the subject librarian for Atmospheric Sciences: Andrea Wirth (Andrea.Wirth@oregonstate.edu).
| Finding Books | |
| Finding Articles | |
| Science Databases | |
| Multidisciplinary Databases | |
| Internet Sources | |
Finding Books
OSU Libraries Catalog: Use the catalog to find books, journals, government publications, maps, and other materials owned by OSU Libraries. The catalog can be searched in a variety of ways (keyword, author, title, subject, call number, ISSN/ISBN, etc). In addition, searches can be limited or sorted for easier discovery of materials. This feature is available directly from the keyword search option or indirectly from the results page of other types of searches (choose the “Limit/Sort Search” button).
You may also opt to “Repeat in Summit” to quickly search regional academic library holdings (see below).
Summit Catalog: This catalog expands our patrons’ access to academic library collections throughout Oregon and Washington. The search features of this catalog are similar to those of the OSU Libraries Catalog. You can request materials directly through Summit. Materials take approximately 3 business days to be delivered to your home library.
OCLC WorldCat: Index to over 60 million records cataloged by libraries worldwide. Materials indexed include books, journals, conferences, films, videos, recordings, musical scores, computer software, maps and manuscripts.
Atmospheric Sciences Reference
Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences. Online (OSU only) and in print (QC 854 .E522 2003). This authoritative resource covers all aspects of atmospheric sciences including both theory and applications. Nearly 350 articles and over 1,900 figures and photographs are presented.
Science Databases
(Science databases that include Atmospheric Sciences)
Environmental Science & Pollution Management (ESPM) - Abstracts and index: 1967-present. Comprehensive, multi-disciplinary index to research articles from all fields in the environmental sciences. Indexes U.S. government environmental impact statements.
GeoBase - Index only: 1980-present. Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography and ecology.
GeoRef - Index with some abstracts: 1785-present. Index to U.S. Geological Survey publications, U.S. and Canadian Masters' theses and Ph.D. dissertations, journal articles, books, maps and government reports.
INSPEC - Abstracts and index: 1969-present. INSPEC Published by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Covers physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. More than 6,000,000 abstract records and 330,000 new abstracts, 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings added each year. Each record contains an English-language title and descriptive abstract.
National Technical Information Service (NTIS) - Abstracts and index: 1964-present. Government sponsored research reports and technical papers from all areas of physical, life and applied science.
SciFinder Scholar - Abstracts and index: 1907-present. SciFinder Scholar provides electronic searching of Chemical Abstracts (CA) and the CAS Registry file. CA is the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of chemical information, with more than 20 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index) - Index: 1996-present. The Web of Science accesses bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. In addition to searching for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address, you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
General Databases
(Multidisciplinary databases that include Atmospheric Sciences)
Academic Search Premier - Full-text and abstract/index: 1975-present. Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.
ArticleFirst - Index only: 1990-present. Indexes articles from over 12,500 journals in all fields. Use ArticleFirst to search by author, title and keyword. Also contains table of contents and holdings information for the ArticleFirst journals; search by journal name, journal subject or year.
Dissertation Abstracts - Abstracts and index: 1861-present. Index to doctoral dissertations and masters theses in all academic disciplines completed at U.S. institutions. Abstracts only since 1980.
PapersFirst/ProceedingsFirst - Index only: 1993-present. Index to conferences and the papers presented at them. Use PapersFirst to search by author or paper title. Use ProceedingsFirst to search by subject or conference name.
Internet Sources
Atmospheric Sciences links on del.icio.us. Includes sites for data, agencies, organizations, and education as well as topical information (such as climate change).
For links to the websites with the most heavily used tags, choose from the list below.
