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Nature Reviews Earth & Environment is an online-only journal publishing high-quality Review, Perspective, and Commentary articles across the entire spectrum of Earth and environmental sciences.

Topics are broadly separated into the following themes of weather and climate, surface processes, and solid Earth.

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The Library and Archives are located in the Abelson Building of the Carnegie Institution's Broad Branch Road campus in Washington, DC.

Books and periodicals in the earth and planetary sciences, physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and statistics are housed in the Main Library on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the Abelson Building. Current journals and special collections are shelved in the Reading Room.  Reference works (encyclopedias, handbooks, atlases, etc.), laboratory safety information, and writing guides are located in  A-208.  A separate Astronomy Library in Research Building Room 272 holds materials in stellar/galactic astronomy and exoplanet research.

The Abelson Collaboration Center (ACC), located in A-208, has advanced audiovisual equipment and may be reserved for group meetings, presentations, classroom instruction, and videoconferencing

We are open to Carnegie personnel 24 hours a day and to other researchers by appointment from 9:00 to 5:00, Monday through Friday.  Please contact us to arrange for your visit.

All borrowed library materials must be signed out. Only persons with formal Carnegie Institution affiliation (staff members, post-docs, pre-docs, interns, visiting investigators) are entitled to borrow materials.

The honor system is used; please complete a sign-out card for each item you borrow and deposit in one of the boxes provided. When returning materials, place them on the black book carts on the 2nd Floor, either next to the New Books section or next to the copier area, or the bookdrop box near the Research Building -- please do not reshelve them yourself!

Books and maps may be borrowed for extended periods, but are subject to recall at any time. Books marked "Reference Use" may not be taken out of the library, except by special arrangement. Current issues of journals do not circulate. They may be removed from the Reading Room briefly for photocopying, but then must be returned immediately. Borrowing of back volumes (bound or unbound) from the periodicals stacks is strongly discouraged; if necessary, however, these older journals may be signed out for a period of one week.

The Abelson Collaboration Center (ACC), located in A-208, has advanced audiovisual equipment and may be reserved for group meetings, presentations, classroom instruction, and videoconferencing. Seating capacity is 16-38, depending on the desired configuration.
 
The Reading Room is the original DTM library and dates to 1914, when the Broad Branch Road campus opened.  It seats 8-10 comfortably.
 
To reserve the reading room, contact the library staff. To reserve the ACC, contact the EPL Front office.
Carnegie employees may access the library’s ejournals, ebooks, and online databases offsite by connecting to the BBR campus network using VPN. Please contact your department IT manager to request VPN access and follow the instructions here: Remote Access Tools.

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