Houghton Mifflin, 1994. 1994 Science Reference Macmillan Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences . Macmillan Reference USA, 1996. Science Reference Find Books Books provide comprehensive look or an in-depth review for a specific topic. The most current earth science research is in journal articles.
Most instructors request that scholarly journals rather than popular magazines be used.
This handout demonstrates how to determine if a journal article is scholarly. General Science Abstracts indexes approximately 125 journals from the areas of astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, health, mathematics, and physics. Journals range from popular magazines such as Discover to scholarly journals such as the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America . The ASU Libraries own most of the 125 journals. This is an excellent place for undergraduate students to start researching science journal articles.