WARNING!
Your results from a search of GeoRef may have items listed which are conference reports. Often, conference reports are only abstracts of papers presented at conferences and are not full journal articles. We will usually reject your interlibrary loan request if that is the case, so study your search results carefully and avoid requesting conference reports.
1. Access GeoRef. Use the facet limiting features in the left-hand column to narrow your results set. For example, click on the arrow next to Subjects to see subject headings.
Then, check one or more boxes to view only those items using your chosen subject headings.
2. When searching GeoRef for articles in the subject hydrology, use the term "hydrology" as a search term limited to the "Subjects" field, combined with other appropriate keywords. See this example:
3. The GeoRef Thesaurus is useful to help you pick the correct terms that describe a process, geologic term or geographical area. This is particularly helpful if you do not know the exact spelling of a term.
Click on the menu option "Thesaurus" at the the top of the page.
Search for the term (or an approximation of the term) and ADD the term(s) to your search.
Limit your results set in GeoRef to those items that are obtainable and useful: Academic Journals, Books, Reports. Use the Source Type limiters displayed in the left-hand column:
Academic journal articles, books and reports are usually easy to get using I-Share or interlibrary loan. Conference papers only provide abstracts (summaries of papers) and so will not be useful; interlibrary loan requests for these will be rejected.