GEO 32410: Geographic Thought & Research Methods

Journal Articles

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  • Academic Search locked database
    Academic Search Complete is a "comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Read more...
    In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc." Hide.

  • America: History and Life locked database
    Published since 1964, the database indexes and abstracts over 2000 journals covering history, social sciences, and political affairs of the United States and Canada. The index includes book review and dissertation citations.
  • GreenFile open database
    GreenFILE, a freely accessible research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond.Read more...
    Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE’s initial release will include A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles. Hide.

  • Global Issues in Context open database
    Global Issues in Context "Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.Read more...
    Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database" (Quoted from Gale's menu page). Hide.

  • America: History and Life locked database
    Published since 1964, the database indexes and abstracts over 2000 journals covering history, social sciences, and political affairs of the United States and Canada. The index includes book review and dissertation citations.
  • CountryWatch.com locked database
    Research the political, economic, and environmental trends of countries in the world from AZ This source includes maps and country overviews as well as news reports from over ten international news organizations.
  • EBSCOhost locked database
    The EBSCOhost link provides access to popular and scholarly literature.
  • Education Research Complete locked database
    "This massive file offers the world’s largest and most complete collection of full text education journals.Read more...
    It is a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing.

    Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full for more than 750 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 80 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers."Hide.

  • Education Full Text locked database
    "Education Full Text provides full text of articles from over 350 journals as far back as 1996, in addition to indexing of more than 770 periodicals dating back to 1983. Content includes in-depth coverage of special education and more than 100,000 controlled and cross-referenced names of educational tests. Subject coverage includes adult education, multicultural/ethnic education, teaching methods and much more."
  • Fedstats locked database
    Fedstats "Fedstats, which has been available to the public since 1997, provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic.Read more...
    With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more, FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information." Hide.

  • LexisNexis News open database
    This database provides full-text of more than 50 major English-language newspapers from the US and around the world Read more...
    1) , many same day of publication, plus extensive archives of Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and the Washington Post (dating back to 1977)

    2) more than 400 magazines, journals, and over 600 newsletters including: American Demographics, American Journalism Review, Business Week, The Economist, Ebony, Industry Standard, Jane's Defense Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Nation's Business, Tokyo Business Today, Variety, etc.

    3) broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and NPR, as well as political transcripts from Federal News Service and emediamillworks (formerly Federal Document Clearing House). campus news including the Chronicle of Higher Education and nearly 300 individual college/university papers

    4)Non-English language news sources, available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch, include both newspapers and magazines Hide.

  • LexisNexis Academic open database
    This database provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications Read more...
    including: national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources, U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information, Shepard's Citations for all US Supreme Court cases back to 1789, business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news Hide.

  • NewsBank open database
    Provides full-text and wire service news articles of local and regional events.Read more...
     Coverage includes business, cultural, educational, political and sports news. Newspapers covered include the Kansas City Star (1991-Present), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1988-Present), Springfield News-Leader (1999-Present), Chicago Tribune (1985-Present), Christian Science Monitor (1987-Present), Des Moines Register (1999-Present), Lost Angeles Times (1985-Present), Louisville Courier (1999-Present), Tulsa World (1989-Present), Washington Post (1977-Present), and Wichita Eagle (1984-Present).  Hide.

  • ScienceDirect Physical Sciences College Edition open database
    ScienceDirect Physical Sciences includes over 850,000 full-text articles from 610 journals.
  • Social Sciences & Humanities Index open database
    Indexes periodical literature in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, area studies, classical studies, economics, geography, history, language and literature, philosophy, political science, religion, and sociology. 
  • Social Sciences Index open database
    Indexes periodical literature in sociology, anthropology, economics, environmental science, law and political science.
  • SPORTDiscus with Full Text open database
    "SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscusRead more...
    Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing in SPORTDiscus. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature." Hide.

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