Guide to Geography Research           
Databases, Indexes and Abstracts

The following databases and paper indexing and abstracting publications may be used to locate articles relevant to geography in journals, magazines, conference proceedings, books, and other sources. 

Agricola 1970+ (Also accessible via the National Agricultural Library at www.nalusda.gov). 

Published by the National Agricultural Library this database is a comprehensive guide to scholarly information on all agricultural topics and related geographical information.

American Fact Finder and U.S. Census Bureau

Cab Abstracts 1984+ 

This database covers the subject of agriculture in the broadest sense including topics of interest to animal and range sciences. The database is comprised of records that are also collected into 50 printed abstract journals published by CABI INTERNATIONAL.

Current Geographical Publications. (Indexes 910.5 .C8 1974-2003; Publishers site 2001-present )
Selectively indexes the professional literature in Geography. Each issue is divided into four parts: topical, regional, selected maps, and monographs.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Provides full text access online to articles in journals in a variety of disciplines.

Dissertation Abstracts International.
This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.

EBSCO Academic Search Premier

A database that includes peer reviewed journals, Academic Search Premier provides full text access to over 4,600 periodicals some as far back as 1975. Over 8,000 journals are indexed. Full text coverage includes a wide variety of disciplines: biology, chemistry, engineering, humanities physics, psychology, religion, sociology, to name a few.

ERIC
The premier national database of educational literature from 1966 to the present.

Geographical Abstracts

    Human Geography. (Abstract 551.05 .G2883)

    Physical Geography. (Abstract 551.05 .G2884)

GEOBASE
Records covering the worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.

JSTOR

Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of more than 300 scholarly journals in many fields including population studies.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides online access to full-text and bibliographic information from newspapers, news and business magazines, newsletters, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and biographical sources.

LexisNexis Statistical

Indexes statistical data produced by the U.S. government; international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.

MarciveWeb DOCS.
Provides citations to United States government publications from July 1976 to the present.

ProQuest
This resource provides access to several different bibliographic and full-text databases covering a wide variety of disciplines and topics.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, South Dakota

Available courtesy of the South Dakota State Library.
 

Sociological Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full Text Collection

Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social, Spatial, and Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics.
 

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature includes Social Science Citation Index, 2001-present and Science Citation Index Expanded, 1992-present.

Western Waters Digital Library

Provides access to government reports, water literature, legal transcripts, water project records, photographs and more related to the Columbia, Colorado, Platte, and Rio Grande river basins.

Wiley Interscience