This subject guide serves as a starting point for your search for scholarly resources in the area of Earth & Planetary Sciences. Resources listed here include those accessible through our library and on the web. It enables you to access from one point various resources such as books, e-journals, e-databases, theses and dissertations, and other web-based resources.
Please remember that this is not an exhaustive list. You will find many additional resources in the library, such as Reference Books.
We welcome your suggestions to make the guide better suited to your requirements. Please write to us at libniser@niser.ac.in
Resources Available at the Central Library
- ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
- Acta Geochimica
- Acta Geodaetica et Geophysica
- Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)
- Acta Geophysica
- Acta Geotechnica
- Advances in Astronautics Science and Technology
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
- Aeolian Research
- Aerotecnica Missili & Spazio
- African Geographical Review
- AI EDAM
- Alexandria
- American Mineralogist
- Anatolia
- Annals of Glaciology
- Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
- Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Annual Review of Marine Science
- Antarctic Science
- Anthropocene Science
- Anuario
- Applied Earth Science (Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy: Section B)
- Applied Geophysics
- Arabian Journal of Geosciences
- Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
- Archaeological Prospection
- Archaeologies
- Archival Science
- Archive of Applied Mechanics
- Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences
- Astrobiology
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Astronomy Letters
- Astronomy Letters / Astronomy Reports
- Astronomy Reports
- Atmosphere-Ocean
- Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
- Basin Research
- Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
- Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum
- Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures
- Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
- Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
- CATENA
- Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Clay Minerals
- Clays and Clay Minerals
- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
- Climate Dynamics
- Computational Geosciences
- Continental Shelf Research
- Current Climate Change Reports
- Current Forestry Reports
- Current Landscape Ecology Reports
- Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
- Current Pollution Reports
- Doklady Earth Sciences
- Earth & Planetary Science Letters
- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Earth Science Informatics
- Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
- Earth-Science Reviews
- Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration
- Environment Systems and Decisions
- Environment, Development and Sustainability
- Environmental Chemistry Letters
- Environmental Data Science
- Environmental Earth Sciences
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Environmental Geology
- Environmental Modeling & Assessment
- Environmental Processes
- Eurasian Soil Science
- European Journal of Soil Science
- Exploration Geophysics
- Exposure and Health
- Frontiers of Earth Science
- Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering
- Geoarchaeology
- Geochemistry International
- Geographical Analysis
- Geographical Research
- Geographical Review
- Geography
- Geography and Natural Resources
- Geography Compass
- Geoheritage
- Geological Journal
- Geological Magazine
- Geology
- Geology of Ore Deposits
- Geology Today
- Geomagnetism and Aeronomy
- Geophysical Journal International
- Geophysical Prospecting
- Geosciences Journal
- Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research
- geotechnik
- Geotectonics
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- Global Environmental Change Part B: Environmental Hazards
- GPS Solutions
- Groundwater
- Groundwater Monitoring & Remediation
- Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Hydrological Processes
- Icarus
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
- Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
- International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
- International Geology Review
- International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
- International Journal of Astrobiology
- International Journal of Cartography
- International Journal of Climatology
- International Journal of Earth Sciences
- International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology
- International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
- International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking
- Island Arc
- Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics
- Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth
- Journal of applied meteorology and climatology
- Journal of Arid Land
- Journal of Climate
- Journal of Earth Science
- Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
- Journal of Geographical Sciences
- Journal of Geography
- Journal of Geophysical Research : Planets
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
- Journal of Geoscience Education
- Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis
- Journal of Glaciology
- Journal of Hydrometeorology
- Journal of Iberian Geology
- Journal of Metamorphic Geology
- Journal of Meteorological Research
- Journal of Mountain Science
- Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- Journal of Ocean University of China
- Journal of Oceanography
- Journal of Oceanology and Limnology
- Journal of Paleontology
- Journal of Petroleum Geology
- Journal of Quaternary Science
- Journal of Rare Earths
- Journal of Sedimentary Environments
- Journal of Seismology
- Journal of Soils and Sediments
- Journal of South American Earth Sciences
- Journal of the American Water Resources Association
- Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
- Journal of the Geological Society of India
- Journal of Volcanology and Seismology
- Journal of Water Chemistry and Technology
- KN - Journal of Cartography and Geographic Information
- Lakes & Reservoirs: Science, Policy and Management for Sustainable Use
- Land Degradation & Development
- Landslides
- Limnology and Oceanography
- Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin
- Limnology and Oceanography: Methods
- Lithology and Mineral Resources
- Maritime Studies
- Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews
- Meteoritics & Planetary Science
- Mineralogical Magazine
- Modeling Earth Systems and Environment
- Monthly Notices of Royal Astronomical Society
- Moscow University Geology Bulletin
- Nature Climate Change
- Nature Geoscience
- Near Surface Geophysics
- Netherlands Journal of Geosciences
- New Astronomy
- New Astronomy Reviews
- Ocean Science Journal
- Oceanology
- Paleobiology
- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
- Paleontological Journal
- Papers in Applied Geography
- Permafrost and Periglacial Processes
- PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science
- Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
- Planetary and Space Science
- Polar Record
- Progress in Energy
- Progress in Physical Geography
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
- Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
- Quaternary Research
- Radiocarbon
- Remote Sensing Letters
- Resource Geology
- Reviews of Geophysics
- River Research and Applications
- Rocks & Minerals
- Russian Aeronautics
- Russian Journal of Pacific Geology
- Russian Meteorology and Hydrology
- Science as Culture
- Science China Earth Sciences
- Sedimentology
- Social Change
- Soil Use and Management
- Solar System Research
- South African Geographical Journal
- Standort
- Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation
- Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties
- Survey Review
- Tectonics
- Terra Nova
- The Astrophysical Journal
- The Geographical Journal
- The Geography Teacher
- The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences
- The Photogrammetric Record
- Transactions in GIS
- Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
- Transactions of the IMF
- Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals
- Transactions of the Institute of Metal Finishing (The International Journal of Surface Engineering and Coatings)
- Water and Environment Journal
- Weather
- Weatherwise
- WIREs Climate Change
- WIREs Water
- A Geographic Perspective of Cuban Landscapes
- A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration
- Adaption of Microbial Life to Environmental Extremes
- Adaptive Atmospheric Modeling
- Adaptive Environmental Management
- Adaptive Hierarchical Isogeometric Finite Element Methods
- Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities
- Advances in Meteoroid and Meteor Science
- Allelopathy in Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
- Alpine Treelines
- Amazonian Floodplain Forests
- An Introduction to Navier'Stokes Equation and Oceanography
- Apollo 12 - On the Ocean of Storms
- Biofuels; Global Impact on Renewable Energy, Production Agriculture, and Technological Advancements (Ed.2011)
- Bio-Geo Interactions in Metal-Contaminated Soils
- Boreal Forest and Climate Change
- Buildings, Finite Geometries and Groups
- Carbon
- Carbon and Nitrogen in the Terrestrial Environment
- Carbon and Oxide Nanostructures
- Carbon Bonding and Structures
- Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems
- Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems - II
- Carbon Nanowalls
- Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems
- Changing Land Use Patterns in the Coastal Zone
- Class 3 Hydrolases: EC 3.1-3.4.21 (Ed.2009)
- Class 3 Hydrolases: EC 3.4.22-3.13 (Ed.2009)
- Climate - Vegetation
- Climate Change and Management of Cool Season Grain Legume Crops
- Climate change and sustainable development
- Climate Change Modeling Methodology
- Coastal Dunes
- Continuous Cover Forestry
- Cotton, Water, Salts and Soums
- Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics
- Dalla geometria di Euclide alla geometria dell'Universo
- Decision Support for Forest Management
- Deep-water Coral Reefs
- Designing and Conducting a Forest Inventory - case: 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland
- Dormancy and Resistance in Harsh Environments
- Dryland Ecohydrology
- Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes
- Ecotones Between Forest and Grassland
- Emigrating Beyond Earth
- Endophytes of Forest Trees
- Environment and the Formation of Galaxies: 30 years later
- Environmental and Agricultural Modelling
- Environmental and Microbial Relationships
- Environmental Effects of Afforestation in North-Western Europe
- Environmental Stress and Amelioration in Livestock Production
- Environmental Technology in the Oil Industry
- Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts
- Eutrophication of Shallow Lakes with Special Reference to Lake Taihu, China
- Extreme Conflict and Tropical Forests
- Fibonacci's De Practica Geometrie
- Field Measurements for Forest Carbon Monitoring
- Fighting Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Multiple Roles of Legumes in Integrated Soil Fertility Management
- Finite Geometric Structures and their Applications
- Foliations and Geometric Structures
- Forest Diversity and Management
- Forest Dynamics, Growth and Yield
- Forest Entomology in East Africa
- Forest Entomology in West Tropical Africa: Forests Insects of Ghana
- Forest Environments in the Mekong River Basin
- Forest Inventory
- Forest Landscape Restoration
- Forest Management and the Water Cycle
- Forest Mensuration
- Forest Road Operations in the Tropics
- Forest Strategy
- Forest Trees
- Forest-people interfaces
- Forests in Development: A Vital Balance
- Foundations of Systematics and Biogeography
- From Suns to Life: A Chronological Approach to the History of Life on Earth
- Functional Approach to Nonlinear Models of Water Flow in Soils
- Future Satellite Gravimetry and Earth Dynamics
- Geodesic and Horocyclic Trajectories
- Geometria aritmetica e algebrica
- Geometria del calcolo delle variazioni
- Geometria Differenziale
- Geometria proiettiva
- Geometria proiettivo-differenziale
- Geometric Design of Linkages
- Geometric Methods and Applications
- Geometric Numerical Integration
- Geometric Optimal Control
- Geometric Problems on Maxima and Minima
- Geometric QP Functions
- Geometries of Rhetoric
- Georges Lemaitre: Life, Science and Legacy
- Growth Dynamics of Conifer Tree Rings
- Halophiles and Hypersaline Environments
- Handbook of Marine Natural Products
- Hartree-Fock-Slater Method for Materials Science
- Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence
- Hydrodynamic Instability and Transition to Turbulence
- Hydrodynamics of Explosion
- Hydrogels
- Hydrogen Bonding- New Insights
- Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes: Mitochondria of Anaerobic Eukaryotes
- Hydrosilylation
- Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials and Their q-Analogues
- Improving Soil Fertility Recommendations in Africa using the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT)
- Infinite Groups: Geometric, Combinatorial and Dynamical Aspects
- Integrated Greenhouse Systems for Mild Climates
- Integrated Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean Region
- Integrative Wildlife Nutrition
- Introduction to Classical Geometries
- Lagoons and Coastal Wetlands in the Global Change Context: Impacts and Management Issues
- Lagrangian Transport in Geophysical Jets and Waves
- Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People
- Lake Kivu
- Lake Taihu, China
- Layered Double Hydroxides
- Lessons learned from Long-term Soil Fertility Management Experiments in Africa
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Light Pollution
- Limnology and Aquatic Birds
- Linearity, Symmetry, and Prediction in the Hydrogen Atom
- Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in Science and Management
- Long-term Limnological Research and Monitoring at Crater Lake, Oregon
- Lunar Meteoroid Impacts and How to Observe Them
- Managing Coastal and Inland Waters
- Managing Forest Carbon in a Changing Climate
- Managing the Future of Southeast Asia's Valuable Tropical Rainforests
- Managing the Prenatal Environment to Enhance Livestock Productivity
- Marine and Industrial Biofouling
- Marine Hard Bottom Communities
- Marine Natural Products
- Marine Toxins as Research Tools
- Modeling Forest Trees and Stands
- Modern Meteor Science An Interdisciplinary View
- Multi-Source National Forest Inventory
- Mycorrhizae: Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry
- Nanowelded Carbon Nanotubes
- National Forest Inventories
- Natural Fullerenes and Related Structures of Elemental Carbon
- Neutron Applications in Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
- New Perspectives on People and Forests
- New Zealand Freshwater Fishes
- Non-Euclidean Geometries
- Non-Timber Forest Products in the Global Context
- Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols
- Numerical Techniques for Global Atmospheric Models
- Ocean Ambient Noise
- Old Growth Urban Forests
- Old-Growth Forests
- Origin of Mitochondria and Hydrogenosomes
- Ostracodology - Linking Bio- and Geosciences
- Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water
- Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes
- Patterns and Processes of Speciation in Ancient Lakes
- Permafrost Soils
- Pests of Crops in Warmer Climates and Their Control
- Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia
- Physical Properties of Ceramic and Carbon Nanoscale Structures
- Phytoremediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils
- Post-Fire Management and Restoration of Southern European Forests
- Primate Biogeography
- Private or Socialistic Forestry?
- Problemi di geometria differenziale in grande
- Projective and Cayley-Klein Geometries
- Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution
- Protocols for Micropropagation of Woody Trees and Fruits
- q-Clan Geometries in Characteristic 2
- Radiation Protection at Light Water Reactors
- Random Trees
- Rare Earth Oxide Thin Films
- Recarbonization of the Biosphere
- Recent Freshwater Ostracods of the World
- Reforesting Landscapes
- Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology – Einstein’s Legacy
- Remote Sensing
- Resource and Market Projections for Forest Policy Development
- Restoration of Lakes, Streams, Floodplains, and Bogs in Europe
- Safety, Reliability and Risks Associated with Water, Oil and Gas Pipelines
- Salinity and Water Stress
- Sampling Methods, Remote Sensing and GIS Multiresource Forest Inventory
- Seaweeds and their Role in Globally Changing Environments
- Shallow Lakes in a Changing World
- Silicon Versus Carbon
- Size- and Age-Related Changes in Tree Structure and Function
- Smallholder Tree Growing for Rural Development and Environmental Services
- Soil and Culture
- Soil Engineering
- Soil Enzymology
- Soil Heavy Metals
- Solar Dynamics and Its Effects on the Heliosphere and Earth
- Solar journey: The significance of our galactic environment for the heliosphere and earth
- State of the World's Oceans
- Sun, Earth and Sky
- Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture
- Sustainable Forest Management
- Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World
- Sustainable Urban Environments
- Sustainable Use of Forest Biomass for Energy
- Sustaining Young Forest Communities
- The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966)
- The Earth's Plasmasphere: A CLUSTER and IMAGE Perspective
- The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods
- The Energetics of Mangrove Forests
- The Environment in Asia Pacific Harbours
- The Forest and the City
- The Future of the World's Forests
- The Hill-Brown Theory of the Moon’s Motion
- The Impact of Environmental Variability on Ecological Systems
- The Metal-Hydrogen System
- The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)
- The Spatial Distribution of Microbes in the Environment
- The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate
- The Vegetation of Egypt
- Thermo-Gas Dynamics of Hydrogen Combustion and Explosion
- Toward Agroforestry Design
- Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge
- Transducers and Arrays for Underwater Sound
- Transformation and sustainability in agriculture
- Transition Metal Complexes of Neutral eta1-Carbon Ligands
- Treatment of Cooling Water
- Tree and Forest Measurement
- Trees at their Upper Limit
- Trees in Patagonia
- Tribology of Diamond-Like Carbon Films
- Tropical and Sub-Tropical Reservoir Limnology in China
- Tropical Forest Seed
- Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast
- Vicuna: The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management (The)
- Water and Biomolecules
- Water and Solute Permeability of Plant Cuticles
- Water and Sustainable Agriculture
- Water and the Cell
- Water Requirements for Irrigation and the Environment
- Water Soluble Vitamins
- Wheat Production in Stressed Environments
- White Dwarfs: Cosmological and Galactic Probes
- Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources (Forest Trees)
- Wildlife Study Design
- Wood Structure and Environment
- Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life
Electronic Databases
The Central Library uses the Universal Decimal Classification system to classify books. A call number is a number used to identify and locate books in the library. It includes the Classification number, the Author Code (first three letters of the Author's name), and the book's Accession number (serial number).
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The library has a sizable collection of books and reading material on chemistry. These books are classified under the following Class Numbers:
- 550 Earth Sciences. Geological sciences
- 551 General geology. Climatology. Meteorology
- 552 Petrology. Petrography
- 553 Economic geology. Mineral Deposits
- 556 Hydrosphere. Hydrology
Note: To locate the books on Earth & Planetary Sciences, please search the Library Web OPAC page.
- Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece - Open Access
- Geoscience Letters (SpringerOpen, Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- Geosciences (MDPI, Open Access)
- Advances in Meteorology (Hindawi, Open Access)
- Seismica (Community-led Open Access Journal in Seismology)
- Frontiers in Earth Science - Open Access
- Earth System Science Data (ESSD, Open Access)
- Climate of the Past (Copernicus Open Access Journal)
- Geoscientific Model Development (Copernicus Open Access Journal)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (Earth & Planetary Sciences Collection)
- Directory of Open Access Books (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- InTechOpen - Earth & Planetary Sciences Books
- OpenStax Science Textbooks (Includes Earth Sciences)
- Springer Open Access Earth Science Books
- Open Textbook Library - Geosciences & Earth Sciences
- OER Commons - Earth Science Resources
- LibreTexts Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Bookboon - Free Geology & Earth Science eBooks
- Open Library - Earth Sciences
- Project Gutenberg - Geology & Earth Sciences Books
- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) - Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Shodhganga: Indian Theses Repository - Earth & Planetary Sciences
- World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (Includes Earth & Environmental Research)
- British Library EThOS - UK Doctoral Theses (Earth & Planetary Sciences included)
- Theses.fr - French Doctoral Theses (Earth & Planetary Sciences)
- NPTEL - Earth & Planetary Sciences Video Lectures
- National Digital Library (NDL) - Earth & Planetary Sciences Resources
- Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) - Earth & Planetary Sciences
- Khan Academy - Earth & Planetary Sciences Video Lessons
- MIT OpenCourseWare - Earth & Planetary Sciences Video Courses
- Coursera - Free Earth & Planetary Sciences Video Courses
- edX - Earth & Planetary Sciences Video Lectures
- Coursera - Earth & Planetary Sciences Courses (Audit for free)
- MIT OpenCourseWare - Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences
- edX - Earth Sciences Courses
- NPTEL - Earth Sciences Courses
- e-PG Pathshala - Earth Sciences
- eGyanKosh - Earth Sciences
- Open Textbook Library - Geology & Earth Sciences
- MIT Earth & Planetary Sciences - YouTube Lectures
- MIT OCW - Introduction to Geology (Planetary Focus)