Librarian's Advice: How to Conduct an Exhaustive Literature Review in the Earth Sciences

The Earth Sciences can be a daunting field to research. Lines between disciplines often overlap or blur beyond recognition. This makes it difficult to distinguish between them. Three library faculty willing to help include: R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu (Geography) Don Richter drichter@sfasu.edu (Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology) and Bernice Wright bwright@sfasu.edu (Agriculture, Forestry).

In a guide on how to do literature reviews in the Earth Sciences, librarian Phil Stoffer, of the Western Earth Surface Processes Team, US Geological Survey provides six steps to conducting an exhaustive search in the Earth Sciences. "How to conduct an exhaustive literature review in the earth sciences" on the USGS web site.

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	R. Philip Reynolds preynolds@sfasu.edu rm. 202b 936.468.1453 Subjects - Computer Science, Military Science, Philosophy/Religion, Political Science/Geography
	Don Richter drichter@sfasu.edu rm. 202a 936.468.1714 Subjects - Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Geology, Mathematics/Statistics, Music, Physics/Astronomy

Bernice Wright bwright@sfasu.edu rm. 202j 936.468.1528 Subjects - Agriculture, Forestry, Human Sciences, Human Services, Speech/Communication