Electronic Databases
Many of the databases listed below are for use by UW-P students, faculty and staff only. For information on using databases from off campus, please see the Guide for Off-campus users or Service to Distance Education Students.
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- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- Applied Science Full Text
Indexes and abstracts for 760 science and technology journals, from as far back as 1983.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index A citation index can be searched by author, topic, and citation.
- Biological & Agricultural Index PlusIndexes to the leading journals in biology and agriculture.
- Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS)An index to a wide range of bioscience topics.
- General Science Full TextIndexes and abstracts and full text articles from popular and professional science publications.
- GEOBASE Worldwide literature on geography and geology.
- GEOREF This database is a comprehensive geoscience database containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals and other sources. GeoRef provides coverage in subject areas such as mineralogy, engineering geology and geophysics.
- GPO Monthly CatalogAn index to information published by the U.S. Government. Also available in print (Government Documents, 3rd Floor - Index Tables)
- JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collections 1 & 2 Archives of scholarly electronic journals in Sociology, Political Science, Economics, Mathematics, History, and more.
- Pollution Abstracts Indexing to journal articles on all aspects of pollution and waste management.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area Index Tables)
- SIRSResearcherGeneral reference database exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
- Social Sciences Full TextIndex to social science journals. Full text.
- General Electronic Databases
Comprehensive Sites on Geology
- WWW Virtual Library - Environment"Presents the environment section of the WWW Virtual Library. Lists related virtual library subjects, such as biodiversity and ecology, earth sciences, energy, environmental law, forestry, landscape architecture, and oceanography. Offers links to WWW resources. Posts an online form to report a new environmental resource, or to request a change in one of the links."
- Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO)
- Earth Fact Sheet
- Earth's Active Volcanoes
- Earthquake Information from the USGS
- Gemology & Lipidary Pages
- Geological and Geophysical Databases, Information, and GIS Map Server
- Geomine
- GeoScience: K-12 Resources
- An Introduction to Quantitative Geomorphology
- Lists and Maps of Recent Earthquakes
- United States Geological Survey
- University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP)
- The Volcano Information Center (VIC)
- Volcano World
- World-Wide Earthquake Locator
- Galaxy: Geosciences
Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library
Geology at UW-Platteville
- The Geology Office is located in 247 Gardner. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1791.
- James Hibbard is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Geology program. Contact James at (608) 342-1229 for individualized consultations and/or library instructions sessions in geology. His e-mail address is hibbardj@uwplatt.edu.