Water: Collection Development, Acquisitions, and Subject Cataloging
This page:
Collection Development, generally |
Publishers |
Booksellers and Document Delivery |
Standards |
Databases |
Subject Cataloging
Collection Development, generally
- Developing a Core Water Collection, a bibliography I compiled of useful resources
- Geology Librarian's Resources
- AcqWeb, information sources for the acquisitions librarian
Water Publishers
- Academic Press
- American Fisheries Society
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Engineering Libraries Division (Engineering Literature Guides series)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publications — books, journals (including current tables of contents), and the Civil Engineering Database. E-mail marketing@ny.asce.org to get on the mailing list.
- American Water Resources Association (AWRA)
See also Journal Publishers' Sites
- Ann Arbor Press
- Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA)
- Balkema
- Blackwell Science
- R. R. Bowker
- Bowker-Saur UK
- Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
- California Dept. of Water Resources
- CRC/Lewis/St. Lucie - Recently acquired the books of Technomic Publishing
- Elsevier Science (Includes Pergamon)
- Freshwater Biological Association publications, UK
- Gale Research
- Geraghty and Miller's Water Information Center
- Government Institutes
- IWA (International Water Association) Publishing
- Island Press
- McGraw-Hill
- National Academies Press - Thousands of reports available in free full text
- NRC Research Press, Canada (journals and monographs)
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
- National Technical Reports Library - Search NTIS publications. Registration required to view full text documents.
- Pacific Institute - "Studies in Development, Environment, and Security"
- Prentice Hall
- Solano Press, publishers of environmental law books
- Springer Verlag (including Kluwer)
- Taylor & Francis - Includes CRC Press
- Terrene Institute
- United Nations publications
- Publications of the Corps Headquarters (Many available online)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publications
- National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) - Main site for EPA publications.
- Other sources:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency publications
- USGS Publications and Data Products - Start here for all USGS products
- USGS Store
- Publications Warehouse - Search titles for bibliographic data, purchase link, or full text
- National Geologic Map Database - Catalog of maps published by the U.S. Geological Survey, state geological agencies, and other organizations
- Water Resources Reports
- New Publications 1997 to date (See also Immediate Release, a supplement to "New Publications")
U.S. Geological Survey
- Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (formerly Monthly Catalog)
- U.S. Government Online Bookstore
U.S. Government Publishing Office
- University of California Press - Many titles available in E-editions
- University of Kansas Press' Building the Ultimate Dam by Donald C. Jackson - on John S. Eastwood and dams in the West
- Water Resources Publications
- Wildland Hydrology
- Wiley
- American Association of University Presses
- Geologic Book Publishers and Dealers
- Hydrology,
Marine/Freshwater Science, Aquaculture Journals
Water Encyclopedias:
Several of these have been published in recent years.
- Encyclopedia of Hydrology and Water Resources Also available online (Kluwer, 1998)
- Encyclopedia of Water (Greenwood Press, 2003)
- The Encyclopedia of Water (Wiley, 2005)
- Encyclopedia of Water Science - Print and online (Dekker, 2003)
- UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science - Also avaliable as an E-book (Gale, Dec. 2004)
- Water: Science and Issues - Also available as an E-book (Macmillan Reference, 2003)
Web Directories of Scholarly Publishers:
Booksellers and Document Delivery
- GeoRef Document Delivery (American Geosciences Institute [AGI])
- Majors Medical, Scientific, Technical, Business, and Law books and multimedia
- National Science Library, Canada (formerly CISTI)
- Natural History Book Service, Ltd., Totnes, Devon, England
- Powell's Technical Books, Portland, Oregon
- Reiter's Scientific & Professional Books, Washington, D.C.
- Techstreet - Standards and technical books
- University Press Books, Berkeley, specializing in books from university presses
Standards
- National Standards Systems Network, one-stop shopping for SDOs and vendors
- Standards and Standardization Bodies Virtual Library
- Standards World Wide Web Resources from Acts Testing, Inc.
Standard Developing Organizations (SDOs):
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- American Water Works Association (AWWA) standards
- NSF International
- Document Center, standards and specifications — nice database, too — Belmont, California
- Information Handling Services/Global Engineering Documents, a major standards vendor, Englewood, Colorado
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
- Techstreet
- Learn How to Find Standards (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Standards Vendors:
Finding Standards:
Databases
- Biosis - Search guides for using the biological database
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, producers of Water Resources Abstracts (since 1994), Environmental Routenet, and many other databases
- Community of Science - Vendors of Ei Compendex, GeoRef, and other databases
- Congressional Information Service, publisher of Environmental Abstracts / Enviroline
- Counterpoint Publishing, producers of databases of the Code of Federal Regulations, State Environmental Regulations, and other legal sources
Most of these services require passwords and charge fees.
- Dialog Web - Use Dialog databases via the Web
- Dialog Classic
- Dialog Databases on Water and Aquatic Sciences (OneSearch category)
- Dialog Bluesheets
- Dialog Corporation Library - Source for Dialog documentation
Dialog:
- Ei (Engineering Information), publishers of Ei Compendex and Engineering Village
- GeoRef
- GeoRef Document Delivery (American Geosciences Institute [AGI])
GeoRef
The premiere geoscience database (American Geological Institute)
- IHS Environmental Services - Publishers of Enflex
- National Information Services Corp. (NISC), vendor of Web and CD-ROM databases
- Silver Platter
Subject Cataloging in Science and Technology
The following sites provide vocabulary lists and classification schemes that may be useful for those cataloging libraries on water and related subjects.
- CAB Thesaurus - Agriculture and related subjects
- CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project - Lists of environmental terms developed by the California Environmental Resources Evaluation System and the National Biological Information Infrastructure
- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (National Library of Medicine)
- NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (National Agricultural Library)
- Transportation Research Thesaurus (National Transportation Library, U.S. Dept. of Transportation)
- Agricola Subject Category Codes
- Agris Subject Categories