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GeoScienceWorld

Updated 11 October, 2005


GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences.  It is built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef. It  is a nonprofit corporation formed by a group of leading geoscientific organizations for the purpose of making geoscience research and related information easily and economically available via the Internet.  GSW is an unprecedented collaboration of six leading earth science societies and one institute.

The Founding Organizations:
· American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG),
· American Geological Institute (AGI),
· Geological Society of America (GSA),
· The Geological Society of London (GSL),
· Mineralogical Society of America (MSA),
· Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), and
· Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)

Offer for GeoScienceWorld (via CSA, 11/10/05) Pricing spreadsheet from CSA.

Offer for GeoScienceWorld (via iGroup, 11/9/05)

There are 2 components to GSW –
1. The Journals
2. The GeoRef Database. Established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive bibliographic database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 80,000 references a year (85,000 in 2004). The database contains over 2.6 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. In addition, GSW provides access to GeoRef in Process, a database of bibliographic records that are currently being edited and reviewed for inclusion in GeoRef.

GeoScienceWorld Journal Titles, Journals Database Pricing & Royalties, Pricing Tiers, and GeoRef Pricing.  (11/9/05)
CEIRC institutions tier classification (11/9/05)
GSW licence (11/9/05)


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