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Articles

Geobase
1980-present. Covers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.

Web of Science
Coverage: 1989-present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humantities Citation Index. Multidisciplinary coverage.
Note: WOS searches Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index simultaneously by default.

Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Coverage: 1951-present. An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. For book reviews, search title of book and REVIEW in Publication Type.

JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Over 800 core scholarly journals. Current issues are unavailable for a varying number of years (frequently 2 to 5 years).

Popline
Coverage: 1970-present. A database on reproductive health, providing citations with abstracts to materials in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

Population Index (Princeton)
Coverage: 1986-2000. Abstracts of articles about population issues. Continues Population Literature and Population Index.

Project Muse
Coverage: 1995-present. Provides access to humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from a number of scholarly publishers.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Human Geography
2006 ed. Provides cross-cultural coverage of human geography as it is understood in the contemporary world and takes into account the enormous conceptual changes that have evolved since the 1970s.

Encyclopedia of Population
2003 ed. Encompasses the large-scale changes in population studies during the last 20 years, including such topics as: rapid demographic expansion in poor countries; low fertility rates and problems of old-age support; the environmental impact of a dense population; the press for expanded reproductive rights; and more.

Encyclopedia of the Earth
Coverage: varies. An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.

Geo-data : the world geographical encyclopedia
2003 ed. Entries describe the physical geography of every nation on Earth. Physical features, climate, and vegetation are discussed in detail. Also includes physical relief maps for each entry and a World Rankings appendix with dozens of tables ranking major features of the Earth.

World Population: a reference handbook
2006 ed. A current assessment of world population and the range of economic, social, and environmental issues it raises.

Handbooks & Guides

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
(FEOW) provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth`s freshwater biodiversity. Covering virtually all freshwater habitats on Earth, this first-ever ecoregion map, together with associated species data, is a useful tool for underpinning global and regional conservation planning efforts, particularly to identify outstanding and imperiled freshwater systems; for serving as a logical framework for large-scale conservation strategies; and for providing a global-scale knowledge base for increasing freshwater biogeographic literacy.

Data/Statistics

National Trends in Population, Resources, Environment and Development 2005: Country Profiles
This publication provides a set of country profiles showing the current situation and recent trends in population, resources, environment and development indicators, based on PRED Bank database, version 4 (2005).

Population, Resources, Environment and Development: (PRED) The 2005 Revision
2005. The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat has produced the PRED database, drawing on a variety of national-level comparative data and documents dealing with aspects of population, resources, environment and development.

UNdata
UNdata is the United Nations Data Access System which provides access to current, relevant and reliable statistics. Some data goes back 60 years. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism. You can also find indicators such as Millennium Development Goals.

United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
A guide to population information on UN system web sites. POPIN strives to make international, regional and national population information, particularly information available from United Nations sources, easily available to the international community.

US Census Bureau
US Census Bureau with links to census data.

US Census Bureau International Programs Center
The International Programs Center (IPC), part of the Population Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, conducts demographic and socioeconomic studies and strengthens statistical development around the world.

World Development Indicators
Coverage: 1960-present. WDI includes more than 900 development indicators in over 80 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global.

Web Sites

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online
The TGN is a structured, world-coverage vocabulary of 1.3 million names, including vernacular and historical names, coordinates, and place types, and descriptive notes, focusing on places important for the study of art and architecture.

Intute: Science, Engineering & Technology: Geography
The Intute Geography Gateway provides free access to online scientific resources on the Internet. These resources include articles, e-journals, newsletters, reports and blogs. This search-based website brings together engineering, geography, physical sciences, mathematics, and computing.

US Geological Survey
Includes the interactive National Atlas of the United States and other useful data sources.