Tips and Tricks
Most databases will let you use truncation and searching tricks:
- Hawai* {note only one i} will find Hawaii, Hawai‘i, Hawaii's, Hawai‘i's, Hawaiian, Hawaiians, Hawaiiana
- navigat* will find navigate, navigating, navigation, navigators
- Phrase searching will keep two or more words together: "quantum theory" "multiple personality" "marine biology"
Operated by the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, USGS. This database "contains over 13,000 references" and is intended "to contain all of the literature, from 1779 to present, pertinent to the volcanological history of the Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain." Note: Files must be downloaded.
Provides "access to over 300,000 book, map, and serial records in the U.S. Geological Survey online catalog." The USGS also offers an online ASK-A-LIBRARIAN reference service.
Geology field trip guides for geology field trips are great resources that are often difficult to locate. While some field trip guides are online, many are only available in print through geologic surveys or as part of a conference. If you are looking for a specific survey, try searching by survey name.
- National Surveys: Association of American State Geologists state surveys
- International Surveys: There are many places to look, but start here http://www.eurogeosurveys.org/geology-worldwide1.html
For conference field trips, search by organization and year of the conference. (Examples include: the Geological Society of America; National Association of Geology Teachers; or the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists.)
Can't find what you are looking for? Ask a librarian!
The premier index to published geologic guidebooks, particularly those published by societies. Note: this index publishes titles only; it is not full-text.
Covers worldwide technical literature on geology and geophysics -- as well as some field trip guides. Coverage Dates: 1785 - present.
Compiled by the California Geological Survey, this index is searchable by California Geomorphic Province regions. Note: many links are broken.
A list of PRINT resources at Stanford, through SearchWorks: Field Trip Guides in Branner Library (QE section)
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