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Americal Meteorological Society Journal Archive

Archive of American Meteorological Society Journals. Articles before ~2004 are free. All issues of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society are free.

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Current Geographical Publications - Contents

Current Geographical Publications (CGP) has been a non-profit service to the scholarly community since it was initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society. Beginning in 2006, the format was changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals.

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ScienceDirect

Search and read over 2,200 full-text Elsevier journals in science, technology and medicine.

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Backfile coverage starts with 1997.

Scopus

The contents of the database GEOBASE are now included in Scopus.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
  
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
  
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
  
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles
  

• Browse the cited references of articles published from 1996 onwards and make connections across subject areas.


• View all the citations that your article has received from other articles covered by Scopus.


• Set up a document citation alert to receive notice of new citing articles.


• View articles that share references by using ‘Related Documents’.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles

Annual Reviews

Also access to recent full-text for Library's current subscriptions. You enter on Advanced Search page. Good source for physical geography.

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Cold Regions Bibliography Project

This database combines the Antarctic Bibliography and the Bibliography on Cold Regions Science and Technology. It is useful for biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, environmental issues related to cold regions and cold region engineering.

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GeoRef

Over 2 million scholarly references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Provides a list of titles indexed. Updated bi-monthly.

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Covers 1785 to the present (North American). 1933 to the present (entire world).

ANTH 229: Ethnography and Film

A course guide designed to lead students in their web, book, and article research. It provides many links to cultural groups discussed and studied in class and tips on scholarly evaluation and searching techniques.

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Last updated for Fall 2006

ANTH 307: Third World Development

A course guide that provides many links to reputable associations who target their efforts toward the developing world. Students will find resources to help with background information on countries, as well as statistics and official government websites.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

GEOG 123: The Developing World

A course guide geared to an assignment where students locate current newspaper articles (with very specific criteria) on a global topic concerning countries of the developing world.

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Last updated for Spring 2006

Human Development Report

Reports contain analyses of major issues, updated Human Development Indicators that compare the relative levels of human development of over 175 countries, and agendas to help transform development priorities. For information about the Human Development Report go to http://hdr.undp.org/aboutus/default.cfm

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Mexican Migration Project

Gathers social and economic information on Mexican-US migration.

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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.

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World Development Report

Provides a yearly overview of the economic, social, and environmental state of the world. Also provides detailed economic data for most countries, quality of life indicators, and other demographic and environmental information.

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Encyclopedia of Earth

”An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.”

Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia

John F. McCoy, Ed. 3rd ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 704 pp.

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Entries describe the physical geography of every nation and dependency on Earth. A World Rankings appendix includes dozens of tables ranking major features of the Earth, such as largest river by length and volume, tallest mountains by continent, and deepest oceans.

World Factbook

Provides detailed "country profiles" for most countries in the world.

NOAA Central Library U.S. Daily Weather Maps Project

Daily weather maps of North America from 1871 - 2002 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Library. Plug-in required to view maps, see site for details.

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1871 - 2002

American Memory Historical Collections

A gateway to primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.

Offers more than 5 million items (digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text) from more than 90 historical collections.

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Historical Maps Online

The Historical Maps Online project publishes electronically the images of maps charting the last 400 years of historical development in Illinois and the Northwest Territory.

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Map Collections: 1500-2002

The focus of Map Collections is Americana and Cartographic Treasures of the Library of Congress that have been converted to digital form. Organized into seven major categories: Cities and Towns, Conservation and Environment, Cultural Landscapes, Discovery and Exploration, General Maps, Military Battles and Campaigns, and Transportation and Communication.

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Maps and mapping resources

Includes links to collections of scanned and constructed images of maps, as well as a variety of interactive maps.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection

Digital images of about 5,000 maps. Includes an extensive list of Maps on Other Web Sites.

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TopoZone

Every USGS 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States.

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United Nations Atlas of the Oceans

The Atlas includes four main entry points to access information: about the oceans, uses of the oceans, issues, and geography.

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How far is it?

This service find the latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance between them (as the crow flies).
Search results include links to MapBlast driving directions.

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My Virtual Reference Desk - Geography

Useful sites and resources for geography.

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Geography and Planning Links

List of links to a large number of useful web sites and resources for geography and planning.

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United Nations Environment Programme: Maps and Graphics

”Organized as an official United Nations Environment Programme centre, the GRID-Arendal group provides public policy officials, researchers, and the curious public access to hundreds of their detailed maps via this site. As might be expected, the visual and graphic interface parts of the site are quite user-friendly, and users can view maps by themes (such as water, climate change, and biodiversity). For those looking for a random piece of information, there is the random graphic of the date offered here on the homepage. It’s a fine way to get the flavor of the site, and may also spark a new interest. One rather compelling collection is the University of the Arctic Atlas, which can be viewed in its entirety here. Using zoom features and themes that can be toggled (such as lakes, cities, protected areas), visitors can learn a great deal of information about this region of the world. As a teaching aide or as a way to bring together spatial data for research, this is a very commendable site.”

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Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

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Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

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1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

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JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

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Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

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Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

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Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles