Articles & Databases: Geography
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Highly Recommended
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| Academic Search Elite | Indexes major scholarly journals and popular magazines in all academic disciplines. More Details... | 1984 to present |
| Geobase | Indexes journals and other publications in geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. More Details... | 1980 to present |
| Online Geographical Bibliography (GEOBIB) | Indexes books, journal and magazine articles, pamphlets, government documents, maps and atlases acquired by the American Geographical Society Library. | 1985 to 2005 |
| OmniFile Full Text Mega | Indexes major popular magazines and scholarly journals covering general topics, business, humanities, general science, education, and the social sciences. More Details... | 1982 to present |
Also Recommended - Human and Cultural Geography
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| America: History & Life | Index to scholarly research on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. More Details... | 1954 to present |
| Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database | Indexes articles from English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. | Usually from Vol. 1 of the indexed periodical |
| Bibliography of Asian Studies | Indexes principally western-language journal articles and book chapters on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. More Details... | 1971 to present |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies | Index to scholarly literature on Latin America covering the social sciences and humanities.More Details... | 1935 to present |
| Historical Abstracts | Index to scholarly research on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). More Details... | 1954 to present |
| Population Index | Index to research literature on demography--fertility, mortality, population growth, and migration. More Details... | 1937 to 2000 |
| POPLINE | Indexes journal articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. Includes links to online fulltext if available. | 1970 to present, with some back to 1886 |
Also Recommended - Physical and Environmental Geography
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| Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management | Major index to environmental science and technology research published in journals and other literature. Can be searched collectively as one index or as separate subfiles, e.g., Sustainablity Science Abstracts, Water Resources Abstracts and Human Population and Natural Resources Management. More Details... | 1981 to present |
| GeoRef | Indexes journal articles, maps, dissertations, conference papers and government documents on geology, geophysics, hydrology and other earth sciences. More Details... | 1693 to present for North America; 1933 to present for the rest of the world |
| US Geological Survey Publications Warehouse | Indexes USGS publications covering geology, hydrology, biology and geography, with links to fulltext if available. | 1880 to present |
| Environmental History Bibliography Database | Indexes books, articles, and dissertations on topics in the fields of forest, conservation, and environmental history. | 1633 to present |
Also Recommended - Cartography and Statistics
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| GIS Bibliography | Indexes literature on geographic information systems science and technology published in journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports. | “From the origins of GIS to the present” |
| LexisNexis Statistical Insight | Includes an index with accompanying fulltext statistical tables from federal, state and intergovernmental organizations, along with a separate index to statistics appearing in federal publications from 1973 to the present. More Details... | 1997 to present for fulltext tables; 1973 to present for index |
| Rand California | Includes an extensive collection of statewide, regional, county and city-level statistics for California along with a searchable index of publications from leading California public policy and research institutions with links to fulltext if available. More Details... | 2000 to present for statistics and 1991 to present for research reports |
| World Almanac | Reference database providing current and historical facts and statistics on a wide variety of U.S. and international subjects. More Details... | 1998 to present |
Other Databases to Consider
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| Annual Reviews | Contains critical reviews written by leading scientists in 33 disciplines within the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences. | 1932 to present |
| ArticleFirst | Indexes the table of contents of 16,000 journals in all subject areas. More Details... | 1990 to present |
| Conference Papers Index | Indexes meeting papers and poster sessions presented at major scientific conferences. More Details... | 1982 to present |
| Dissertation and Theses: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection | Indexes more than 1,000,000 dissertations and theses in the social sciences and humanities. Contains fulltext of most U.S. theses and dissertations. More Details... | 1637 to present |
| Dissertations | Index to US doctoral dissertations with selective coverage of foreign dissertations and US masters theses. More Details... | 1861 to present |
| Google Scholar | Indexes scholarly journal articles and web pages in all academic disciplines. More Details... | |
| HighWire Press Network | Includes fulltext articles from over 1,000 scholarly journals, with almost 50% being freely available and with indexing back to volume one for most journals. | Dates vary |
| JSTOR | Includes fulltext articles from scholarly journals from their first volume to a point five years before the present. More Details... | Dates vary |
| Oxford Journals | Includes fulltext articles from journals published by Oxford University Press from 1996 to the present with article indexing back to Vol. 1 of each journal. More Details... | 1996 to present |
| PapersFirst | Indexes individual papers presented at congresses, conferences, and symposia. More Details... | 1993 to present |
| Project Muse | Includes fulltext articles from over 300 scholarly humanities, arts, and social sciences journals. More Details... | Date varies by journal |
| Sage Journals Online | Includes fulltext articles from 440 online journals from social science, scientific, medical, professional, and business disciplines. More Details... | 1999 to the present |
| ScienceDirect | Includes full-text articles from Elsevier and Academic Press journals covering the physical, life, health, and social sciences. More Details... | 1997 to present |
| Social SciSearch (Social Science Citation Index) | Indexes cited literature that found in the "Literature Cited" or "Bibliography" of articles included in key social and behavioral sciences journals. Enter an older reference to find more recent papers that have cited it. (Note: direct access to SciSearch is limited to HSU faculty and graduate students; all others must search this database through a librarian. More Details... | 1972 to present |
| SpringerLink | Includes fulltext articles from 750 journals published by Springer from Vol. 1 of each journal. More Details... | Date varies |
| US Government Publications Monthly Catalog | Indexes documents issued by the legislative, executive and judicial branches of the US federal government. More Details... | 1976 to present |
| Wiley Interscience | Includes fulltext articles from 1,100 journals published by Wiley/Blackwell from volume 1 of each journal. More Details... | Date varies |
| WorldCat | Indexes books, government documents, technical reports, media, maps, sound recordings, and other monographic materials found in libraries worldwide. More Details... | 1000 B.C. to present |