International Inventory of Automated Databases in the Geosciences

Overview

Each of the 395 international database (DB) entries contains: country under whose jurisdiction the data source falls; organization that maintains the DB; address; point of contact; telephone/fax #; DB name; DB type (either numeric-factual or bibliographic); principal subjects; brief description of the geographic areas covered; center type (10 classification codes); time coverage; volume of data holdings; frequency of updating; make & model of computer used; software used (DB management system); output language; availability & accessibility to DB, etc.