Geoscience Information

Review of geological documentation. - State-of-the-art in geoscience information-USA. - Canada: current activities and issues in geological documentation. - Geological documentation in the Federal Republic of Germany. - Geological information in France. - State-of-the-art of geological documentation in the United Kingdom. - The current Australasian earth sciences information scene. - Geoscience documentation in India. - History of geoscience information in India. - Geological documentation in Brazil. - International aspects of geological documentation. - Aspects of geological documentation. - Publication practices used by professional societies. - Indexing and abstracting: degrees of freedom. - The role of the UNISIST/ICSU-AB Reference Manual in data base processing. - Computer-assisted editing of bibliographic information. - Geological data management. - Online information retrieval present status and future implications (Abstract only). - Application of information handling to applied geology. - What information is available for the applied geologist. - International resource data international resource analyses. - International data exchange for geothermal energy power production. - Data banking in IEA coal research. - International access to the Petroleum Abstracts Information System. - An advanced hydrogeological data storage and retrieval system in use in New South Wales. - Documentation in specialized areas. - Applications availability and acquisition of earth satellite imagery for geology. - Bibliographical control of geological maps. - The link between data and documentation. - Earth science and the foreign language problem. - User viewpoints. - Geology presented in collections of papers from the published literature. - Geoscience information sources and services from theuser's viewpoint. - Information transfer to the geoscientist through the International Union of Geological Sciences. - Status of information education for geoscientists in the United States and Canada. - Some practical approaches to geoscience information problems of developing countries. Language: English