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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Geography:
Indexes and Databases
This is a list of selected electronic Indexes and Databases for finding information and literature in geography. Find a complete list of Rutgers Restricted Indexes and Databases as well as step-by-step instructions on how to find a journal article at:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/indexes/findarticles.shtml
Rutgers Restricted Indexes and Databases
- GeoRef
- - GeoRef, a database established by the American Geological Institute (AGI) in 1966, is the premier
international resource for bibliographic information about geology and the geosciences. References and
selected abstracts for the North American literature cover the period 1693 to the present. Coverage for
areas outside of North America is from 1933 to the present. GeoRef includes journal articles (more than
3500 journals are indexed), books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses, as well as references to
all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey.
- Academic Search Premier (Varies by source, but generally from 1996 on)
- - Contains a wide range of scholarly journals and popular magazines covering general
reference, business, health, social sciences, humanities, education, and
general science. Full-text.
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Web of Science (1994 to present)
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An enhanced web version of the Institute for Scientific Information's
citation indexes, including the Science Citation Index, the Social
Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Includes citations and references from articles in more than 8,000
journals.
- IngentaConnect
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Rutgers IngentaConnect Gateway provides access to more than 25000
publications, many of them available full-text to Rutgers registered
users.
- Left Index
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An important source of information - political, economic, social and
cultural from the leftist and radical media available from 1982 onwards.You will find citations to research in political geography.
- LexisNexis Statistical
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Search the American Statistics Index, the Statistical Reference Index,
and the Index to International Statistics with links to full-text as
well as tables.
- Humanities and Social Sciences Data Center
- - The Humanities and Social Sciences Data Center in the Scholarly Communication Center (On the 4th floor of the Alexander Library) is a unique resource for Rutgers faculty, staff, and students.. The Data Center is a special purpose laboratory which offers a number of services for users who are interested in accessing numeric data and humanities texts.
- Numeric and GIS Data Research Guide
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This guide provides access to numeric data that is available
on the Internet or via print or CDROM collections at Alexander Library, Rutgers University.
- Print Indexes
- - Several print indexes to older literature are available in the Rutgers University Libraries. Consult IRIS for holdings and locations of these indexes.
Geographical abstracts (Annual index, C:Economic geography, D:Social and historical geography) and current geographical publications are available at Alexander, Dana, and LSM for various periods.
Indexes on the Web
- GeoCommunicator
- - GeoCommunicator is a land management and land records community based web site for the distribution of information and data from the National Integrated Land System.
- GNIS
- - The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information for almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States and its territories. The Federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and geographic coordinates. The GNIS is our Nation's official repository of domestic geographic names information.
- U.S. Gazetteer
- - This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server. You can search for places, counties or MCDs by entering the name and state abbreviation (optional), or 5-digit zip code.
- GeoSource
- - A classified directory of web resources for human geography,physical geography, planning,geoscience and environmental science
- Population Index on the Web
- - Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.
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