A Guide to the Geoscience Literature


An idiosyncratic guide from the Carleton College Geology Department and the Laurence McKinley Gould Library at Carleton designed to help geoscientists and geoscience students navigate through the literature.

New to Geoscience?


If you answer yes to any of the following questions, click here for some basic references:

And, by the way, what is geoscience?

What are the types of geoscience literature?


Why would you want to access the geoscience literature?

Who publishes geoscience literature?


Finding the geoscience literature:


Becoming a "smart searcher"

Geoscience resources at the Laurence McKinley Gould Library

Reading the geoscience literature


© 2001-02 Mary Savina, Department of Geology, Carleton College
Charles Priore, Laurence McKinley Gould Library, Carleton College