Information Resources for Geography

Best Resources for Finding Articles

• Geobase
  • Worldwide bibliographic database on geography, geology, and ecology. 900,000 records. 1980 - present.
• GeoRef
  • Most comprehensive bibliographic database in geology, from 1785 to present. Nearly 2 million records. (Now from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
• Water Resources Abstracts
  • Abstracts of journal articles, books, & other reports pertaining to water resources. 1967- present.
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
  • Interdisciplinary coverage of journal articles and documents in the environmental sciences. 1981- present.
• Science Citation Index
  • Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 5,700 journals, from 1965- present
    Save citations to EndNote Web — recorded training sessions are available.

Additional Resources for Finding Articles & Other Information

• PAIS Archive (Public Affairs Information Service Archive)
  • Index to journals, books, government documents, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and more, from 1915-1976. PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.
• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles. (To search multiple EBSCOhost databases, click the "Select Databases" tab.)
• ECO - Electronic Collections Online (Electronic Journals)
  • Indexes 5,400+ scholarly journals in a wide range of subjects. Abstracts and full-text are available for approximately 400 journals to which UNR subscribes. To limit results to these journals, check the "full-text" box. 1995- present.
• Article1st
  • Index to 12,600 + journals pertaining to science, medicine, technology, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. Now includes journal Tables of Contents (formerly in Contents1st). 1990 - present.
• PapersFirst
  • Index to conference papers contained in the British Library's collection of proceedings of symposia, conferences, and workshops. 1993 to present.
• ProceedingsFirst
  • Index to the proceedings of conferences from the collection held at the British Library. Contains tables of contents for most proceedings. 1993 - present.
• Dissertations & Theses: Full Text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
  • ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
• WorldCat
  • A catalog of library materials in all formats from libraries all over the United States and the world. Contains more than 61 million items.

Reference Sources Online

• Encyclopedia of Global Change
  • Authoritative articles investigate all types of phenomena that change life on Earth, such as tsunamis, elephant conservation, ocean pollution, mining regulation, and permafrost melt. Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

Geography Courses with Specialized Bibliographies

• Geography 318 / 618: UNR Map Collections
• Geography 325: Research Methods
• Geography 412/612: Computer Mapping
• Geography 431/631: Landforms