GEO-LEO

GEO -LEO (GEO Experts Online Library ) is the Virtual Library of Geosciences, Mining, Geography and Thematic Maps. The free internet portal used to search, detection, and the purchase of books, journals and articles, maps, websites and full texts to geo - mining- and scientific topics. To free and licensed full texts, for example in e -journals can be accessed directly. In addition, the publication of their own papers in GEO LEOe -docs is possible.

GEO -LEO is a joint project of the geo - and mining- scientific special collections libraries University Library Freiberg ( UBF ) and the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB ), by virtue of their special collections ( SSGs ) worked together successfully in the past. The project exists since 2002 and is funded by the DFG.

Offers

Metasearch

GEO -LEO simultaneously searches over 1.2 million geo - mining- and scientific literature records in library catalogs, approximately 800,000 articles and reviews in professional databases and 47,000 full-text documents from over 80 servers.

Internet sources

In GEO -LEO the approximately 3,100 geoscientific Internet sources of Geo -Guide database are integrated. The so-called Harvester, which runs on top of the Internet sources from the Geo -Guide, in addition approximately 31,000 electronic documents (HTML pages, PDF documents, etc. ) offers.

Investigation

Three access points provides GEO -LEO: "google -like " Quick Search, Advanced Search and thematic search ( browsing). In addition, there is for Mozilla / Firefox Search Plugin under a GEO -LEO Search Plugin and also the integration of a search window under GEO -LEO search window on an HTML page is possible.

Organization

GEO -LEO has the advantage of simpler organization of searches to storage and output of research results for reference management programs such as EndNote, BibTeX, Reference Manager, or simply as text. The Alert service automatically sends the latest books, articles and web sources to according to previously defined search queries by e -mail. Necessary for this is the free registration at GEO -LEO.

The publication platform GEO LEOe -docs

GEO LEOe -docs is the publication platform for geo - montane and scientific information resources. This specialist scientists to publish their results in a variety of forms and read the works of others free of charge as full texts and download. GEO LEOe -docs is the document repository, which was created for GEO -LEO. Scientists and students can also publish all the conference papers, etc., among other pre-and post-prints of peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, theses, research papers and field trip reports but. These texts are a result of free Internet access available worldwide and are thus cited more often. The exact procedure is shown in the online help of GEO LEOe -docs.