Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences
Librarian
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Getting Started
You can search for books and articles at UMass Amherst and Five Colleges libraries using Discovery Search.
Searching
When your search is complete, the results can be narrowed using the limiters on the left. You can get a book from the other four colleges by clicking on the Request Item button at the top of the book's record.
When you find a book that seems useful, click on the title to open the full record for that book. Look at the Subject Terms assigned to that book. If a subject term looks good, click that to get other titles that have been given that subject heading.
Search Worldcat for books held by other libraries in the world. Books not owned by UMass Amherst can be borrowed for free through Interlibrary Loan.
Books on the Shelves
The Libraries' catalog, Discovery Search, provides a call number and location for each physical item. The call number consists of an alphanumeric string based on the Library of Congress classification system. View an example of how to read a call number.
Materials on geology and earth systems reside primarily in the QE call number range, as class Q is science.
QE 1-996.5 Geology (i.e.)
QE1-350.62 General (including geographical divisions)
QE351-399.2 Mineralogy
QE420-499 Petrology
QE500-639.5 Dynamic and structural geology
Geography can be found primarily in the G range.
G1-922 Geography (General)
GA1-1776 Mathematical geography. Cartography
GB3-5030 Physical geography
GC1-1581 Oceanography
E-books
An e-book is an electronic or digital book that is available for reading on your computer (desktop or laptop), tablet, or mobile device.
- You can use Discovery Search to find e-books available in our collection
- You can use the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) to access books available to everyone at no cost
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