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Earth Sciences

Tutorial about background information

Finding Background Information - http://lehigh.libwizard.com/scitech1

Agenda:

Learn about different publication types often used for background information
Use AccessScience, an online encyclopedia
Understand what a review article is and how to find them in a library research database.

Background Info (Reference) Resources

Elsevier Reference Works (and books)

There are various ways to search this extensive collection:

Click here. You can refine by Domain on the left, or click on the Advanced Search link (center near top)
Click here for journal/book searching
Use see the Topic Pages:

ALSO SEE:

Access Science
Online encyclopedia and dictionary for the sciences. Includes biographies, images and animations, and videos.
Treatise on Geochemistry
Encyclopedic resource providing coverage of a wide range of areas, for example, the cust, mantle and core; the atmosphere; oceans, grounwater, sediments,biogeochemistry, planets, and much more.

Last Updated: Jul 24, 2020 1:56 PM
URL: https://libraryguides.lehigh.edu/earthsciences
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Subjects: Earth & Environmental Sciences

Tags: earth_sciences, environmental_sciences