Research Guides: Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences 13: Natural Disasters: Books

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At UCLA there are two different library catalogs to search for materials:

UC Library Search This link opens in a new window
Catalog of all materials owned or licensed by the UCLA Library and many other campus collections, including books, journals, magazines, videos, microfilm, computer files, and online resources. Note that the Catalog lists journals owned by UCLA, but not the individual articles inside them. To identify specific articles, use a database that indexes articles. As our in-house system, the UCLA Library Catalog contains up-to-the-minute status information on what's checked out and allows you to do things like renew your books or recall books checked out to other people.

When searching for books in the UCLA Library Catalog, here are a few strategies:

Do a Keyword search using terms or phrases (put whole phrases in "quotation marks").
If you have the title of a book you want, do a Title search.
If you find a useful book, click on the Subject(s) to get a list of subject headings that will lead to other books on the same topic.
Use a question mark to find all words that share a root. Searching for american? will retrieve american and americans.
If you already have a book or article on your topic, use its bibliography to find others on the same topic.