Information Resources for Mining

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• Engineering Village 2 (Compendex Web)
  • Online equivalent of Engineering Index, within an organized space for engineering Web resources. 1970 - present.
• IMMAGE Online
  • Information on mining, metallurgy, and geological exploration. IMMAGE Online indexes material published from 1979 to the present. IMMAGE now contains over 100,000 records, with two to three thousand references being added each year. (Same content as the IMMAGE CD - available via the UNR Dataworks - easier to use!) Five simultaneous users only!
• IMMAGE
  • Information on mining, metallurgy, and geological exploration. 95,000 records. 1979- present. Also available on CD-ROM: TN1 .I488 CD Reserve, DeLaMare Library. (UNR NetID required)
• MinAbs Online
  • Abstracts of the literature of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, petrology, environmental mineralogy and related topics. Online version of Mineralogical Abstracts. 1982 - present.
• RMMLF Digital Library
  • Proceedings of all the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation annual and special institutes and workshops from 1955 to 1997 excluding some copyrighted materials. (UNR NetID required)
• GeoRef
  • Most comprehensive bibliographic database in geology, from 1785 to present. Nearly 2 million records. (Now from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• Mechanical Engineering Abstracts
  • The world's literature in mechanical engineering, production engineering, and engineering management (1973 to present).
• Civil Engineering Database
  • Indexes publications of the American Society of Civil Engineers, including journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. Journal records from 1958- present, with abstracts back to 1970. Book records, early 1900s- present.
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
  • Interdisciplinary coverage of journal articles and documents in the environmental sciences. 1981- present.
• NTIS
  • Index to U.S. government-sponsored research and worldwide scientific, engineering, and business-related information from 1960.
• Science Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 5,700 journals, from 1965- present
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

Specialized Databases, Research Guides, and Indexes

• Mining-related Environmental Impact Statements
• MineWaste Database (Delamare Library)
• Mining Stock Certificates and Historic Mines (Delamare Library)
• Mining Company Home Pages
  • Part of the InfoMine site.
• Annotated Bibliography of Placer Gold Mining (1896 - 1966)
  • David Neufeld, Yukon & Western Arctic Historian, Parks Canada, September, 1994.
• Goldsheet Mining Directory

Course-related Information

• Mining 101: Introduction to Mining Engineering