Esearching Rocks

Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

Understanding and navigating online databases is an essential skill for today's librarians, but staying current in this changing landscape can be a challenge. The fifth edition of this vital book ensures that you meet that challenge. Today's librarians not only need to know about existing databases and how to perform searches within them but must also be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of the fee-based and freely-available databases that are available, some of which are new to this edition, and explains their underlying information structures as well as updates to some standard databases. In addition, it covers search strategies, provides criteria for evaluating databases, and discusses how to teach others about databases. As in the previous edition, this book takes a "real world approach," covering everything from basic and advanced search tools to online subject databases. Each chapter includes a thorough discussion, recap, concrete examples, exercises, and points to consider, making this an ideal text for courses in database searching as well as a trustworthy professional resource.

Fossils

The present title Fossils has been carefully organized and clearly written for the undergraduate students, however, it would also supplement the students of postgraduate classes. It has been written in a simple language and in a straight forward manner. Our approach throughout is critical and evaluative, neither old nor new theories are taken trust but are examined rigorously and often critical, the students should be aware of what materials is sound and what untested or controversial. Those principles which survive such analysis have put together in a new and current synthesis of the state of the art . Contents: Introduction, Stratigraphy, Rocks, Fossils, Searching Fossils, Fossilisation, Geographical Time Scale, Microfossils, Trace Fossils, Origin of Chordates, Origin of the Vertebrates, Origin of Amphibians, Mesozoic Reptiles, Origin of Birds, Origin of Mammals.

The Worldwide Search for Petroleum Offshore