Water: Collection Development, Acquisitions, and Subject Cataloging

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Collection Development, generally | Publishers | Booksellers and Document Delivery | Standards | Databases | Subject Cataloging

Collection Development, generally

• Developing a Core Water Collection, a bibliography I compiled of useful resources
• Geology Librarian's Resources
• AcqWeb, information sources for the acquisitions librarian

Water Publishers

See also Journal Publishers' Sites

• Academic Press
• American Fisheries Society
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Engineering Libraries Division (Engineering Literature Guides series)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) publications — books, journals (including current tables of contents), and the Civil Engineering Database. E-mail marketing@ny.asce.org to get on the mailing list.
• American Water Resources Association (AWRA)

• Ann Arbor Press
• Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA)
• Balkema
• Blackwell Science
• R. R. Bowker
• Bowker-Saur UK
• Bureau of National Affairs (BNA)
• California Dept. of Water Resources
• CRC/Lewis/St. Lucie - Recently acquired the books of Technomic Publishing
• Elsevier Science (Includes Pergamon)
• Freshwater Biological Association publications, UK
• Gale Research
• Geraghty and Miller's Water Information Center
• Government Institutes

• IWA (International Water Association) Publishing
• Island Press
• McGraw-Hill
• National Academies Press - Thousands of reports available in free full text
• NRC Research Press, Canada (journals and monographs)
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• National Technical Reports Library - Search NTIS publications. Registration required to view full text documents.
• Pacific Institute - "Studies in Development, Environment, and Security"
• Prentice Hall
• Solano Press, publishers of environmental law books
• Springer Verlag (including Kluwer)
• Taylor & Francis - Includes CRC Press
• Terrene Institute
• United Nations publications

• University of California Press - Many titles available in E-editions
• Water books from UC Press
• University of Kansas Press' Building the Ultimate Dam by Donald C. Jackson - on John S. Eastwood and dams in the West
• Water Resources Publications
• Wildland Hydrology
• Wiley

Web Directories of Scholarly Publishers:

• American Association of University Presses
• Geologic Book Publishers and Dealers
• Hydrology, Marine/Freshwater Science, Aquaculture Journals

  Water Encyclopedias:

  Several of these have been published in recent years.

• Encyclopedia of Hydrology and Water Resources Also available online (Kluwer, 1998)
• Encyclopedia of Water (Greenwood Press, 2003)
• The Encyclopedia of Water (Wiley, 2005)
• Encyclopedia of Water Science - Print and online (Dekker, 2003)
• UXL Encyclopedia of Water Science - Also avaliable as an E-book (Gale, Dec. 2004)
• Water: Science and Issues - Also available as an E-book (Macmillan Reference, 2003)

Booksellers and Document Delivery

• GeoRef Document Delivery (American Geosciences Institute [AGI])
• Majors Medical, Scientific, Technical, Business, and Law books and multimedia
• National Science Library, Canada (formerly CISTI)
• Natural History Book Service, Ltd., Totnes, Devon, England
• Powell's Technical Books, Portland, Oregon
• Reiter's Scientific & Professional Books, Washington, D.C.
• Techstreet - Standards and technical books
• University Press Books, Berkeley, specializing in books from university presses

Standards

• National Standards Systems Network, one-stop shopping for SDOs and vendors
• Standards and Standardization Bodies Virtual Library
• Standards World Wide Web Resources from Acts Testing, Inc.

  Standard Developing Organizations (SDOs):

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• American Water Works Association (AWWA) standards
• NSF International

Standards Vendors:

• Document Center, standards and specifications — nice database, too — Belmont, California
• Information Handling Services/Global Engineering Documents, a major standards vendor, Englewood, Colorado
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
• Techstreet

Finding Standards:

• Learn How to Find Standards (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Databases

Most of these services require passwords and charge fees.

• Biosis - Search guides for using the biological database
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, producers of Water Resources Abstracts (since 1994), Environmental Routenet, and many other databases
• Community of Science - Vendors of Ei Compendex, GeoRef, and other databases
• Congressional Information Service, publisher of Environmental Abstracts / Enviroline
• Counterpoint Publishing, producers of databases of the Code of Federal Regulations, State Environmental Regulations, and other legal sources

• Ei (Engineering Information), publishers of Ei Compendex and Engineering Village

• IHS Environmental Services - Publishers of Enflex
• National Information Services Corp. (NISC), vendor of Web and CD-ROM databases
• Silver Platter

Subject Cataloging in Science and Technology

The following sites provide vocabulary lists and classification schemes that may be useful for those cataloging libraries on water and related subjects.

Subject Headings, Thesauri:

• CAB Thesaurus - Agriculture and related subjects
• CERES/NBII Thesaurus Partnership Project - Lists of environmental terms developed by the California Environmental Resources Evaluation System and the National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) (National Library of Medicine)
• NAL Agricultural Thesaurus (National Agricultural Library)
• Transportation Research Thesaurus (National Transportation Library, U.S. Dept. of Transportation)

Classification Systems:

• Agricola Subject Category Codes
• Agris Subject Categories