Subject Guide Geography and Geosciences

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Databases

Earth Sciences in General

• Geo-Leo: geoscience and mining related bibliographical resources; joint portal of
  • Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (Geography) and
  • UB der TU Freiberg (Geosciences)
• DBIS
  freely accessible databases and electronic full texts on Earth sciences (incl. National licenses)
• Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
• Digital Cumulative Index of SEG, EAGE, ASEG and CSEG Publications
  Report period: from 1936 on
• GeoRef Preview Database
  "Citations to recent geosciences publications prior to their inclusion in the full GeoRef database. The information is in a working form, and may not be fully indexed or verified yet"
• Web of Knowledge - Info zur Datenbank Isi Web of Knowledge
  International bibliographic records of articles with abstracts. Accessible 1945 to present. Contains:
  • Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-expanded)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
  • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)

Separate Items in Earth Sciences

• U.S. Geological Survey Library
  Report period: since 1975
• U.S. Geological Survey Publications and Data Products
  Database of publications (Professional Papers usw.)
• GSA Publications
  Publications of the Geological Society of America
• GSA Electronic Retrospective Index.
  Includes data* from:
  • Geology articles (1973-2000)
  • GSA Bulletin articles (1972-2000)
  • GSA Today science articles (1991-2000)
• American Geophysical Union AGU Publications
  Publications (books, journals and congresses) of the American Geophysical Union
• Search the GRC Catalog Database - Database of the Geothermal Resources Council
  "Over 30,000 citations for individual articles from GRC and other geothermal publications can be found..." - Report period: since 1970
• American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
• Mineralogy Database
• Klimaatlas Nordrhein-Westfalen (Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW)
  Large information on the climate and its development in North Rhine-Westphalia"

Geography

• RSWB  
  Database on spatial planning, urban development, housing and civil engineering. Provides bibliographic information covering 1,000 journals since approx. 1975
• DBIS
  freely accessible databases and electronic full texts on Geography (incl. National licenses)
• Erdkunde-Wissen.de
  Current information on geography, economy, politics, culture and schools for all countries of the earth
• The CIA World Factbook
  Facts and data on all countries of the earth
• Duden Geographische Namen

Regional Bibliographies

• Nordrhein-Westfälische Bibliographie
  Bibliography of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1982
• Further Regional bibliographies

Cartography and Geodesy

• Bibliothek des Vermessungstechnischen Museums Dortmund (Library of the Museum of Surveying, Dortmund. Excel, ZIP-format)
• Landkartenindex
• nationalatlas.de - Portal for atlasses and atlas cartography (Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde, Leipzig)
• Planiglobe
  "Make your own digital map!"
• TIM-online
  all digitised maps of North Rhine-Westphalia (Topographical Information Management North Rhine-Westphalia)

Didactics of Geography

• Fis Bildung Literaturdatenbank
  German Education Index. - Contains bibliographic records from all fields of educational sciences and specialized didactics. Report period: 1980 -

Journal Articles

• Online Contents SSG Earth Sciences
  Bibliographical searches in geography, geology, mineralogy, petrology, soil science, geophysics, mining, thematic maps. The database contains the contents of 679 journals from 1993 on. Currently it contains more than 1 million records of articles and reviews

Electronic Full Texts

• Lexikon der Geowissenschaften (Spektrum-Verlag)   - Information on Lexikon der Geowissenschaften
• Lexikon der Geographie (Spektrum-Verlag)   - Information on Lexikon der Geographie
• Statistisches Jahrbuch für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland: download free of charge
• Landesdatenbank NRW
  "A database which contains official statistical data in great detail. Its content is continuously enlarged. The tables provided can be retrieved free of charge and be adjusted to the individual needs of users"
• Dortmunder Statistik: Jahresberichte

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Links

• Lotse: Tutorial for students and academic staff
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie (DGfG)
  with its subsections:
  • Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen (VGDH)
  • Verband Deutscher Schulgeographen (VDSG)
  • Deutscher Verband für angewandte Geographie (DVAG)
  • Hochschulverband für Geographie und ihre Didaktik (HGD)
• Westfalen regional
  Geographical and cultural online documentation on Westphalia (Geographical Commission for Westphalia)
• Regionalverband Ruhr (Ruhr Metropolitan Area, RVR)
• Geobasisdatenportal der Landesvermessung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Data portal of Topographic Information Management NRW)
• The Weather at TU Dortmund (Meteomedia)
  with 3 days forecast
• Geologischer Dienst NRW
  (Geological Service NRW)
• Materials on Geographical instruction of the German Education Portal
• Zentrale für Unterrichtsmedien: Materials on geographical instruction
• Curricula and Guidelines of all German federal states on Geographical instruction
• Evifa: the Virtual Library of Social Anthropology (Humboldt University, Berlin)

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