Geography Results
* Includes Peer Reviewed Content
Academic Search Complete*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Multi-disciplinary article database including full-text for more than 7,800 peer-reviewed titles.
CountryWatch
(Provider: CountryWatch)
Description: info on the world's countries.
Environment Complete*
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Over 900 journals covering environmental topics including energy, marine science, pollution, and agriculture.
Article Databases (multiple subjects)
EBSCOhost*
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Combined search of Ebsco’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
JSTOR*
(Provider: JSTOR)
Description: An archive of full-text articles from over 400 scholarly journals. JSTOR does not include the most recent few years of the journals.
ProQuest Newspapers
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: "offers full-text access to over 850 regional, national, and international newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and the Times of London."
ProQuest*
(Provider: Proquest)
Description: Combined search of Proquest’s academic, general, health, business, and vocational journal databases. Includes scholarly and peer reviewed articles as well as general interest magazines and consumer information.
Reference Databases (multiple subjects)
Biography Reference Bank
(Provider: EBSCO)
Description: Covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images. Includes biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches and obituaries.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Provider: Ebsco)
Description: Basic-level, general encyclopedia.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
(Provider: Gale)
Description: multi-subject reference guides and encyclopedias
Oxford English Dictionary
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: definitions, pronunciation, and history of the English language
Oxford Reference Online
(Provider: Oxford)
Description: contains over 125 reference works published by Oxford University Press
Free Resources on the Web
- 50states.com: States and Capitals
- All the World's Maps
- Altlapedia (Physical and political maps, plus country info)
- Color Landform Atlas of the United States
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
- Envirofacts (EPA)
- Geo.Data.Gov
- Library of Congress American Memory Map Collections
- MyTopo / Maptech MapServer
- NationalAtlas.gov
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- U.S. Census Bureau Geography Portal: Maps and Data
- United Nations Cartographic Section
- Visible Earth (NASA Earth images and animation)