GEOGRAPHY

ONLINE DATABASES FOR GEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH

• Academic Search Premier      The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.
• Business Decision    U.S. demographic information plus GIS mapping for organizational planning.
• Ethnic NewsWatch   The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.
• Expanded Academic ASAP    Indexing, abstracts (summaries) or full text for articles from a large selection of scholarly & general interest publications.
• GEOBASE    Index of worldwide literature on geology, geography & ecology. 1980- .
• GeoRef    Citations to items about geology & earth sciences. 1933 - .
• ProQuest Newsstand     Full text newspapers, international coverage.

GEOGRAPHY WEBSITES

• Association of American Geographers
• Galaxy: Geography  
• Internet Resources for Geographers   
• Library of Congress: Geography and Map Reading Room  
• MapQuest (online maps and directions)
• National Geographic Society 
• TopoZone (online topo maps)  
• UST Geography Department
• Yahoo: Geography

REFERENCE BOOKS

 (O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library - Level 1)

CIA World Factbook                                 Ref. G 122  .U56a
Cities of the World                                   Ref. G 153.4  .C57
Columbia Gazetteer of the World                 Ref. G 103.5 C645b 
Countries and Their Cultures                     Ref. GN 307 .C68
CultureGrams                                         Ref. GT 150 .C85
Dictionary of Physical Geography                Ref. GB 10 .D53
Encylopedia of Environmental Science         Ref. GE 10 .E526
Merriam-Webster Geographical Dictionary     Ref. G 103.5 .W42
Minnesota Atlas and Gazetteer                   Ref. G 1425 .D4
Oxford Atlas of the World, 10th ed.          Ref. G 1021 .A7545
Rand-McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide  Ref. G 1019 .R158
Rand-McNally Road Atlas: United States, Canada, Mexico  Ref. G 1201 .P2 R35
World Geographical Encyclopedia                 Ref. G 63  .E5213 
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life     Ref. GN 355 .M67

UST GEOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT

www.stthomas.edu/geography/

LIBRARY LIAISON

Eric Kallas     epkallas@stthomas.edu

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