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RefWorks (for organizing your citations and citing properly)

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Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) sites
Microbial Observatories
Use the unlinked URLs beneath each description to get to the observatory web pages.

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Topic guide in Proquest Research Library, a database of current news (Proquest indexes Science and Nature.)
Use "geoengineering" as a keyword search in VERA Multi-search for interdisciplinary and engineering databases.

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Try these databases for articles on your topic. (Among MANY other journals, they all index Science and Nature.)

Compendex	Articles, conference papers, and reports in all fields of engineering. 1884 - present.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Collection	Journal & conference articles, reports, books & government publications with comprehensive coverage of environmental & pollution issues. 1981- Present.
Oceanic Abstracts	Comprehensive index to worldwide oceanography literature. 1981 - present.
Web of Science	Journal articles in high-impact science, social science, engineering, arts and humanities. 1973 - present. Major feature: Cited reference searching retrieves papers that have referenced earlier works by a specific author.

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Barton is the MIT Libraries' Catalog and contains the location of all library materials. Remember, it contains titles, authors, and subject headings for books, journal names, and conference proceedings - NOT the titles and authors of articles contained within them.

VERA is the MIT Libraries' list of electronic journals and databases you can search for journal and conference articles. Check here for journal titles if you can't find them in Barton.

If not...

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