September 11,  2007

Introduction to Library, Online and Campus resources:
Nevada research project

• Library website: http://www.library.unr.edu/

  • Catalog, databases, full-text journals online, your record, etc.

• Introduction to basic research steps and online resources:

  • Select topic > intro to topic > locate articles, reports, books
  • Identify specialized source materials > write paper
  • Subjects: http://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/
  • Geography: http://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/subject.aspx?p_subj=24
  • Databases: America: History & Life, GeoBase, Environmental Sciences, NV Historical Society Quarterly, etc.
    • Additional Sites:
      search under Subject guides
      Nevada-related Information sources
      Map sources (inc. NV focus) — many online: http://www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/reference.html
      Geoscience sources (inc. NV focus): http://www.library.unr.edu/subjects/subject.aspx?p_subj=25
      Basque Studies, UNR

• Map Library introduction http://www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/

• Special Collections Department, Getchell Library

  • http://www.library.unr.edu/specoll/Default.htm
    unique NV materials including photographs > many online.

• NV Bureau of Mines & Geology >  Information Office

  • http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/

• Writing and Information guides:

  • Geowriting: a guide to writing, editing, and printing in earth sciences.
        DeLaMare  Reference QE 48.85 .C63 1995
  • Making sense: a student's guide to research and writing: geography & environmental sciences.
        DeLaMare  G70 .N67 2005.
  • Key methods in geography    DeLaMare G70 .K49 2003
  • Communicating in geography and the environmental sciences.
        UNR Main  G70 .H35 1996
  • Statistical methods for geography   Main  G70.3  .R64 2001
  • Study Skills for geography students: a practical guide.
        UNR Main  G73 .K546 1996
  • Style Guides for Research Papers:
        http://www.library.unr.edu/depts/reference/webref/style.html
  • Dictionaries, thesauri online:
        http://www.library.unr.edu/depts/reference/webref/diction.html
  •     Physical geography glossary of terms [online]    The Physical Environment Glossary [online]

• Additional web sites for NV:

  • USGS Programs in Nevada:
  • Basin & Range Study Unit - water quality
  • Water related activities in Nevada: http://nevada.usgs.gov
  • Lake Tahoe Data Clearinghouse: http://blt.wr.usgs.gov/
  • US Forest Service: http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/ltbmu/
  • US BLM Nevada: http://www.nv.blm.gov/
  • EPA Watershed: http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm
  • US Census Bureau: Nevada Quick Facts
  • Northern Nevada Bioregional Information

• Google Earth

  • Google Earth™ mapping service

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