Virtual Library

Many of the following sources are available to MIT only.

New Books at MIT

Major Library Links

    MIT Libraries, MIT Libraries News
    Lindgren Library
    Barton, the online catalog
    Your Account
    Vera, for ejournals and databases

Online Handbooks via MIT

    CRC Handbook of chemistry and physics
    Knovel
    MIT Libraries Virtual Reference Collection
    Treatise on Geochemistry
    Oxford English Dictionary

Services

    Annex Requests (for materials in storage)
    Ask Lindgren
    Alerts for journal tables of contents or articles
    GIS
    Hours
    ILB (Interlibrary Borrowing)
    RefWorks, Endnote and other bibliographic software
    Suggested Purchase

Contact Us

    Lindgren Library
    Building 54-200
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    77 Massachusetts Avenue
    Cambridge, MA 02139
    Phone: 617 253 5679
    Fax: 617 252 1621
    Web: http://libraries.mit.edu/lindgren/index.html

Databases / Indexes

Field of research	Important databases
Geology	GeoRef, Web of Knowledge, National Geologic Map Database, Society of Petroleum Engineers eLibrary(SPE)
Geophysics	GeoRef, Inspec, Web of Knowledge
Geochemistry	SciFinder Scholar, GeoRef
Planetary Science	GeoRef, Inspec, ADS
Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate	Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts (MGA), Oceanic Abstracts
Earthquake Engineering	Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Quakeline, Compendex
Science	Web of Science