Earth Sciences Library

Essential information for your Honours literature review and research project

Download the PowerPoint Presentation from the Honours Training Session.

Finding Information

There are many relevant sources of information for your literature review. In addition to searching SuperSearch or the Library catalogue for books, conferences etc., you will need to locate journal articles using online journal indexes.

The key indexes are:

GeoRef - guide: html/pdf

MGA: Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - guide: html/pdf

Web of Science - guide: html/pdf

ScienceDirect

You can also access these indexes and other sources of information via SuperSearch

Citing information

It is critical to cite all your sources of information clearly and consistently. Plagiarism is the use of another person's work without acknowledgement. See link University of Melbourne Academic Honesty and Plagiarism for more information and advice to students.

In the School of Earth Sciences we paraphrase with acknowledgement rather than presenting chunks of work in quotations. Quotes are used sparingly for succinct statements that make an impact.

Citation styles

The School of Earth Sciences uses an author date style based on the Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. See 'Author-date styles for Earth Sciences students' for guidelines on using this style.

Getting help

Classes on literature searching and EndNote are arranged for Earth Sciences Honours students and there are also generic classes offered during the year see Information Skills Classes.

For further assistance with your literature search contact:

Guido Tresoldi, ph 8344 6528

Peta Humphreys, ph 8344 8314