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Geography & Planning

April 8, 2026 • 11:50 am

Geography & Planning – Best Bets

  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
    CIAO publishes a range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research, proceedings from conferences, journals, and policy briefs. More info
  • PAIS Index
    Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. More info
  • Scopus
    Replaces Web of Science. An abstract and citation database focused on social, physical, life, and health sciences, with over 94 million records. More info

Geography & Planning – Also Useful

  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • British Library Digital Collections
    Temporarily unavailable (see https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available). Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world. More info
  • Columbia Gazetteer of the World
    An encyclopedia of geographical places and features, with over 170,000 entries. More info
  • Credo Reference
    Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. More info
  • Empire Online
    Contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires. More info
  • Environment Complete
    Full text journal articles on agriculture, ecology, renewable energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, environmental technology, law, and policy, and more. More info
  • GeoRef
    Contains citations to over 22,000 titles from journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings and reports in the geology and earth sciences. More info
  • ICPSR
    ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • ScienceDirect
    Full text access to more than 1,200 journals from the Elsevier Science journal collection, and indexing for 1,300 more. More info
  • World Development Indicators
    Compiled from officially-recognized international sources providing 331 indicators, from agriculute to urban development, covering 209 countries. More info
  • WorldCat (FirstSearch)
    Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings. More info

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