General Earth Science WWW Resources

This is my larger list of links to online resources and to other people's lists of links, in the general areas of Earth Science and Earth Science Teaching.

General Earth Science links
Lists of Earth Science departments and institutions
Organisations and institutions
Journals and Publishers
Searching the Web

General Earth Science links

These vary in style and flavour depending largely on whether they are hosted by academic or commercial servers. Academic resources are often better focussed, but might be less regularly maintained.

PSIgate Earth Sciences Gateway
Physical Sciences information gateway from the UK academic community's Resource Discovery Network. Selected, annotated, high-quality sites.
http://www.psigate.ac.uk/ROADS/subject-listing/earth/num-earth.html

Geoscience Internet Links
University of Mainz. Mostly links to departments, institutions, journals: fewer general links here now. Links to other links pages.
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoInst.html

Earth/Geoscience Information on the WWW
Illinois State Geological Survey. Updated site Aug 2003.
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/earthsci/es_links.htm

NewScientist.com Web Links, Geology section
http://www.newscientist.com/weblinks/categories/geology1.jsp

Athena Earth Science Resources
with emphasis on mineralogy, by Pierre Perroud, Geneva. Still there, with 2002 modification date, but uncertain how current all the links are.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/mineral/minlinks.html

Geology Central
General and virtual field trip links collected by Richard Robinson, Santa Monica College, still maintained, March 2003
http://welcome.to/geologycentral

Worth Publishers - GeologyLink
Still there and trying to keep current
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/index.html

Earth Pages, from Blackwell's publishers, includes a links page:
http://www.earth-pages.com/resource.asp

Galaxy Earth Science Links
http://www.galaxy.com/cgi-bin/dirlist?node=23549

ABCentral EDU2 : Level 3
Database of educational links, Geography-Geology section
http://www.my-edu2.com/EDU/geogra.htm

ANON - Another Node On the interNet
http://www.uh.edu/~jbutler/anon/anon.html
Resources for Geosciences, Mathematics and Computing, from John Butler at the University of Houston, including the Virtual Geosciences Professor. John Butler passed away in October 2001, but this valuable resource is still there.

Geological Society of London
Annotated links, suitable for teaching and learning
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=geoteaching

A Geologist's Lifetime Field List
http://www.uc.edu/geology/geologylist/
Old site, but still intermittently maintained, of links featuring wonders of the geological world.

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Lists of Earth Science departments and institutions

Oxford's list of UK Earth Science departments
http://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/department/uk.htm

European List from Mainz
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoInst/Europa.html
and for the rest of the world:
Africa ; America ; Asia ; Australia & Oceania

N American Geoscience Departments (originally by V.J. Ansfield, S Dakota)
http://www.usd.edu/esci/geodepts.html

Illinois State Geological Survey list (last updated Oct 2000)
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/earthsci/schools.htm

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Organisations and institutions

The Geological Society, London
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/

Geological Society of America
http://www.geosociety.org/

American Geophysical Union
http://earth.agu.org/

American Geological Institute
Including links to and information about Geotimes, Georef, publications and member societies.
http://www.agiweb.org/

Mineralogical Society of America
http://www.minsocam.org/

Geoscience Societies
A list from the University of Mainz
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoSoc.html

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Journals and Publishers

Geoscience Journals, University of Mainz
http://www.uni-mainz.de/FB/Geo/Geologie/GeoJournals.html

Links to publishers:
http://archive.museophile.sbu.ac.uk/publishers/

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Searching the Web

On modern browsers searching has got easier and not so much advice is necessary - the browser itself will provide links to the better search engines.

Search engines:

Google
Alta Vista
Scirus (Elsevier science search engine; web pages and journal articles)

Directories:

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