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articles & more information from journals, newspapers, online reference resources

SUBJECT: Geography

Recommended starting places

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.

AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
(reference resource, e-books)
Includes articles from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, research updates, thousands of illustrations, Science News headlines, biographies, and more.

Oxford Reference Online - Dictionary of Geography
(reference resource, e-books)

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Google Scholar
(article index, e-books)
Google Scholar, currently in development, searches for scholarly materials (peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles) from sources such as academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities.

SimplyMap
SimplyMap is a mapping application that lets users develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. You must create a personal login in order to use SimplyMap.

Web of Science (ISI)
(article index)
Web of Science includes Arts & Humanities Citation Index (2004-present), Science Citation Index Expanded (2004-present), and Social Sciences Citation Index (1972-present). It offers bibliographic citations and cited references from a broad range of disciplines, and is useful as a citation analysis tool.

Windows Live Academic Search
(article index)
Windows Live Academic lets you search academic journals and content for article titles, author names article abstracts, and conference proceedings. (currently in beta version)

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