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Through an agreement with the American Geosciences Institute, NGWA is offering access to AGI's Groundwater & Soil Contamination Database for a discounted rate of $10 a year for NGWA members.

The Groundwater & Soil Contamination (GSC) database is available on a subscription basis through the AGI Web site. This database is searchable on the Web using keywords, authors, titles, or publication dates. The GSC database is produced by the same staff, and the indexing and format follow the same conventions used in production, of the GeoRef database.

The GSC database includes more than 135,422 bibliographic references to the worldwide literature on this subject. Coverage is worldwide, with emphasis on the United States. Journal articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, and dissertations are included. Also covered are all relevant reports of the U.S. Geological Survey, and reports of the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, Health and Human Services, and the Interior, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The GSC database is updated on a weekly basis.

References contain complete bibliographic information and URLs for documents published on the Web. Thorough indexing, based on the controlled vocabulary found in the GeoRef Thesaurus, is included. Specific geographic locations are listed as place names and, for principal locations, latitude and longitude coordinates are provided. Entries include ISSNs as well as information about publishers and the availability of the documents cited.

SUBJECT COVERAGE

Documents cited in the GSC database are primarily related to geology, hydrology, and the environment. In addition, documents on economics, chemistry, civil engineering, and health effects are also included. Topics covered include

Sites:
soils
groundwater
aquifers
wetlands
unsaturated zones

Geographic locations:
place names
latitude and longitude

Contaminants:
pollution
remediation
reclamation
leaching
pollutants
radioactive isotopes
heavy metals
sewage
waste disposal
organic compounds
petroleum hydrocarbons
trace metals
solute transport
radon
pesticides
herbicides

2,500 SERIALS COVERED

The top 20 serial titles, in order of number of references in the GSC database are:

Abstracts with Programs — Geological Society of America
Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union
Open-File Report — U.S. Geological Survey
Water-Resources Investigations — U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Research, American Geophysical Union
Ground Water®, National Ground Water Association
IAHS-AISH Publication, International Association of Hydrological Sciences
Environmental Science & Technology, ES & T, American Chemical Society
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, Elsevier Scientific Publishers
Journal of Environmental Quality
Water, Air and Soil Pollution
Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier Scientific Publishers
Environmental Geology (Berlin)
Bioremediation
Chemosphere (Oxford)
Contaminated Soil...International TNO/BMFT Conference on Contaminated Soil
Soil Science Society of America Journal
Ground Water Management
Water Science and Technology
AAPG Bulletin, American Association of Petroleum Geologists

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE

More than 2,500 journals, proceedings, and report series from more than 100 countries are covered in the GSC database. The countries of publication are:

Country	No. Serials
USA	950
Germany	241
International	142
United Kingdom	137
France	103
Canada	93
Netherlands	74
China	69
India	58
Japan	57
Others	616

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Yes Through an agreement with the American Geosciences Institute, NGWA is offering access to AGI's Groundwater & Soil Contamination Database for a discounted rate of $10 a year for NGWA members.

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