随着科学技术的不断深入和发展,科技文献资料的数量与类型也在急剧增加。每个科学工作者和技术专家都希望在数量极为庞大的文献资料中迅速、准确、比较全面地找到自己所需要的文献资料。为此,科技人员应该了解和掌握科技情报资料线索的有效手段——检索工具。掌握了检索工具,就能在较短的时间内找到大量所需要的文献资料。 本文不介绍检索工具的概念,种类和查找方法,只想简单介绍一下国外有关地球科学方面一些比较主要的检索工具和参考资料。 With the continuous deepening and development of science and technology, the quantity and type of scientific and technical literature also increase sharply. Every scientist and technical expert hopes to find the documents they need quickly, accurately and comprehensively in a very large amount of documents and materials. To this end, science and technology personnel should understand and master the effective means of scientific intelligence information clues - retrieval tools. Mastered the search tool, you can find a large number of the required documents in a short period of time. This article does not introduce the concept of search tools, types and search methods, just want to briefly introduce some of the more relevant earth sciences retrieval tools and reference materials.