Geography 325: Research Methods

Ansari Map Library > online & print > 140,000 maps in the library

• www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/
• Mapping info on NV – online:   www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/reference.html
  including many sources of NV maps on the web

Nevada in Maps > online collections: www.delamare.unr.edu/Maps/digitalcollections/nvmaps/

• Topographic, geologic & mining, NV History in Maps, Historic highway maps
• Nevada historic plat maps > historic detail!
• Sanborn maps > site licensed
• NV historic plat maps >  historic detail!

Other sources

• Knowledge Center home site > www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu
  online catalog > http://innopac.library.unr.edu
• Library Digital Collections [online]:  http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/
• Special Collections Department, Main Library > original NV Sanborn maps, Historic NV materials, photographs, etc.
• Basque Library, Third floor, north entrance, Knowledge Center
• NV Bureau of Mines & Geology > mining district information
• NV State Historical Society [just north of Lawlor]
• Maps & Geomages of NV > including online contemporary maps and data
  keck.library.unr.edu/datawarehouse.html
• Additional Nevada web sites >  www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/subjects/guides/nevadawww.html
• Southern Nevada and Las Vegas - History in Maps, UNLV collection
  www.library.unlv.edu/maps/

Writing and Information guides:

• Geowriting: a guide to writing, editing, and printing in earth sciences.
  DeLaMare  Reference QE 48.85 .C63 1995
• Making sense: a student's guide to research and writing: geography & environmental sciences.
  DeLaMare  G70 .N67 2005.
• Key methods in geography    DeLaMare G70 .K49 2003
• Communicating in geography and the environmental sciences.
  UNR Knowledge Center  G70 .H35 1996
• Statistical methods for geography   Main  G70.3  .R64 2001
• Study Skills for geography students: a practical guide.
  UNR Knowledge Center  G73 .K546 1996
• Style Guides for Research Papers:
  www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/depts/reference/webref/style.html
• Dictionaries, thesauri online:
  www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/depts/reference/webref/diction.html
  Physical geography glossary of terms [online]    The Physical Environment Glossary [online]

Help?

• Linda Newman, Geoscience & Map Librarian
  2nd Floor, DeLaMare Library, Mackay Mines Bldg.