Databases for Geography and Planning
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Web of Science (ISI) |
Provides indexing for over 12,000 academic journals, proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions, from three databases: |
1898-present |
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| PAIS International |
Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. |
1972-present |
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| Columbia International Affairs Online |
CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings fro |
1991-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| Environment Complete |
Contains citations from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,094 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. |
1940s-present |
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| GeoRef |
GeoRef contains citations to over 22,000 titles from journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings and reports. |
1785-present |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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| ScienceDirect |
Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection (indexing for 1,300 more). |
1960s-present |
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| SimplyMap |
SimplyMap lets non-technical users quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic, business and marketing data. |
1980-present |
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| World Development Indicators |
The World Development Indicators are compiled from officially-recognized international sources providing 331 indicators, from agriculute to urban development, covering 209 countries. |
1960-present |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Columbia Gazetteer of the World |
Based upon the 1998 print edition of The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, which had 163,000 entries, this revised online edition adds some 7,000 new ones, with many revisions to existing e |
Current |
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| ICPSR |
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. |
1940-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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