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Remote Sensing of Terrestrial and Aquatic Environments
(EES317) Fall 2005
Goal:
To show how to use GeoRef, Science Citation Index on Web of Science, and other databases to find relevant literature.
Along the way, show how to do literature searches
In addition to the information below, see these information literacy tutorials.
NOTE: If you have questions about your project, contact Brian Simboli , x5003. Room 633 in Fairchild-Martindale Library.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MyLibrary is your own, personalized set of library resources. To get there, login to the portal, and then look for the "MyLibrary" tab. Click on the tab, and enter your login and password. You may see a set of library resources specifically about psychology; if you do not, click "MyProfile" on the left and change the default resources so that psychology ones show up. Note that a pre-selected set of resources appears on the webpage. You can add or delete resources that appear on this page. E.g., to change the journals that appear, click "edit" beside "Electronic Journals" and select or deselect journals. Available to you are lists of psychology journals and all the journals for the university. You can select and deselect whatever journals you want to appear on or disappear from your desktop.
Here are some journals that you may find useful for your research:
Print format (FM=Fairchild-Martindale)
Journals/Magazines for which we don't have subscriptions:
Also, search in ASA for American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing related materials. Search on both the full name and the acronym ASPRS.
See also this webpage of journals for suggestions.
Fairchild-Martindale Library has an entire area (on second floor south) devoted to government documents. Here is the webpage for government documents at Lehigh. Note that government documents are available both in print and electronically. ASA, Lehigh's online catalog, indexes much material, though your needs may go beyond what is indexed there. Check these resources as well. ***However, for a comprehensive review of what might be available, contact Brian Simboli at 8-5003 or by email with a description of what you need. We can then meet.***
Here are some notes about the coverage of government documents in GeoRef that were provided by the Director of Info Systems at GeoRef (Sept. 2005). (Note: GeoRef is not limited in coverage to government documents. See below for discussion about the mechanics of searching GeoRef.)
"At the national level we cover all publications of the US Geological Survey and other branches of the Department of Interior as well as other relevant publications that we can locate through NTIS. In addition, we try to monitor the publications of the Corps of Engineers, Department of Agriculture, NASA and EPA.
At the state level, we attempt to cover the state geological survey publications. Other state agencies are just about impossible to cover consistently.
At the international level, we focus our coverage on the geological surveys of countries throughout the world.
Open-File or unpublished documents issued by government agencies are covered only for US, Canadian, and state geological surveys. We make no attempt to cover open-file documents for other entities."
Open-file documents are items that government agencies want to make available to the public, but don't want to formally publish or produce and distribute. The resource is made available at certain locations/offices and is sometimes made available on-demand to anyone who will pay a reproduction charge. The US Geological Survey has many of these and over time this has become the primary means for distribution of their publications. Almost all state geological surveys have similar products. And they look very much like 'published' documents. Often hundreds of pages with maps, etc."
Getting to GeoRef
Searching GeoRef: OVERVIEW
FOCUSED SEARCHING
Anyone can throw in a few keywords and bring up search results. But with a little extra effort, you can come up with really good results. Before reading further, if you are not familiar with the basics of online searching, see this Generic Searching Guide.
THE MAGIC OF FOCUSED SEARCHING
How do I find journal articles about remote sensing?
How do I further narrow the search results?
Note: Try out the feature at 
to find other relevant terms for searching.
How do I find the full text of articles?
How do you get to the full text of the article from out of a GeoRef record?
Click on "Lehigh Links/Illiad Loan ". This will bring up the SFX interface, which will let you access the full text of an article if it is available.
If you find, using SFX, that the item is not available electronically, then off the SFX screen you can access ASA, Lehigh's online catalog, to see if the item is available in print at Lehigh. Or, if if we still don't have it, you can click on the ILLIAD (that is, interlibrary loan) option. The data is automatically put in; all you have to do is submit the request. ILLIAD requires a one-time ILLIAD 'registration' before using. (For further information about obtaining articles, see below).
1. For more information about GeoRef:
See GeoRef Information Services
See also GeoRef Subjects Covered
2. Following two statements are true of any FirstSearch database that Lehigh has:
Do not use the limit to full text feature. You may not get much of anything that is actually available in full text at Lehigh.
Items with the "library and book" icon are in our library. However, don't assume that if an item does not have that icon, that we do not have it. Check ASA.
3. GeoRef Preview Database
"The database consists of references to recent geoscience publications. Caution: This data is in process for inclusion in GeoRef. It may not yet have been indexed, been given a translated title, or been checked by a GeoRef editor when you see it."
WHAT IT IS
A library database that lets you:
1. search for literature about a given subject, 1993-forward (journal articles, some monographic series coverage)
2. start with a known paper (can be pre-1993) and find papers 1993 and later that cite it.
ACCESS
Web of Science (hereafter, WOS) is available off the library listing of databases; see information and link here. NOTE: use this tutorial (latest and greatest version). Select on-campus or off-campus depending on where you are. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted for your Lehigh login and ID.
To search WOS, click on general search. Enter your search term string. Set search limits near the bottom of the page if you want. (Again, when you are new to a field, it helps to begin by finding "review" papers that give you an overview of a field. By virtue of being "reviews", these papers can lead you to other papers.)
Now click on "search". A list of titles comes up containing articles. Scroll through these to find one that of interest to you. Click on ones that interest you to see their full WOS record.
What you see is *not* the full text of an article; it provides information *about* an article, including an abstract. How do you get to the full text of the article?
Click on "Lehigh SFX Links". This will bring up the SFX interface, which will let you access the full text of an article if it is available.
If you find, using SFX, that the item is not available electronically, then off the SFX screen you can access ASA, Lehigh's online catalog, to see if it is available in print at Lehigh. Or, if if we still don't have it, you can click on the ILLIAD (that is, interlibrary loan) option. The data is automatically put in; all you have to do is submit the request. ILLIAD requires a one-time ILLIAD 'registration' before using. (For further information about obtaining articles, see below).
Finally, supposing you already know that an author is an important one for the field you are searching, you can type in the author's name in the author search area of the general search screen. OR, if you have located a good paper or other type of document (including ones that you found using another database), you can use the cited reference search capabilities of WOS. Click on the Cited Ref Search button near the top of the page. This will allow your to locate items that cite the one you located.
OTHER LIBRARY DATABASES AND RESOURCES
(i.) ANNUAL REVIEW OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES
The review articles in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences are worth checking for bibliography they contain.
Look for links for the following:
"Search for citing articles in: ISI Web of Science" "Alert me when: new articles cite this article"
This is a way to generate citations to new articles.
(ii). MCGRAW-HILL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology provides a way to generate background information (including definitions of concepts) about your topic before you do further research.
(iii.) OTHER DATABASES
Other library databases may be relevant. Try these, using whatever subject header searching capability they provide. (Contact the science librarian for help).They may include but are not limited to:
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
INSPEC and Engineering Index (searchable through a common interface--make sure you explicitly select the database(s) you want from the drag down menu.)
In general, see the library list of databases and drag down the "List By Topic" menu in the upper left. Selecting broad subject topics will bring up the databases for those areas.
We have used bibliographic databases to find references and abstracts for documents that look interesting.
How can you find out if we have a paper, journal, book or other type of document?
(1.) After doing your online search, see if there is an SFX link for the item. If we have electronic full text of a journal article, you can link to it from that link. To see what an SFX link looks like within GeoRef, see toward the top of the GeoRef record copied above. The SFX links appear differnetly in different databases, but you should not have trouble finding them.
[Note: if you have a citation and go here , you can link to full text if we have a journal article electronically.]
(2.) Or, check ASA to see if Lehigh has the item, whether it be a journal, a book, or some other material. Here is an example for a journal look-up: select "browse", type in the title of the journal, and then click "Journal Titles".
NOTE:
(3.) You may want to see if one of the regional libraries has the item.
(4.) You may order an item through ILLIAD. Don't wait til the last moment to place ILL orders 
Use of ILLIAD requires a one-time registration. ILLIAD is also available as a menu item off SFX, for use when we don't have the electronic full text or print of an item.
NOTE: a way to order books is via PALCI. See details here. By ordering books via PALCI, you receive reports on the status of your request via email.
An additional way to find paper or books. For journals, browse the tables of contents of recent issues or archived (bound) copies in the library, or look for relevant electronic journals browseable here by title or linked on ASA. For books, check the Dewey number for a book you like, then go to the stacks and browse in the book's vicinity to see if there are any other relevant materials.