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Geography Gateway

Geography

Books

Geography may be considered either an earth science or a social science depending on the sources. Books, reference books, audiovisual materials about geography are in the G through GC sections. Geology books are located in QE. Use topic keywords to pinpoint books in this field. Click on the links below for some related subject areas.

Physical Geography

Databases

Academic Search Complete Full text articles online. Search by topic or title of publication. Ebsco.

E-Books - Geography Full text books online.

Electronic Journal Center Full text journals online. Click on "All Search Options" under the search box, then search hold the CTRL key down and clikc on both "Earth Sciences" and "Social Sciences" for the most comprehensive results.

Engineering Village GeoBase Select only GeoBase to search for research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography. Full text articles online.

ISI Web of Science Search for citations (not full text) of scholarly articles. Click on FIND IT to look for the full text in another OhioLINK database.

LandSAT 7 OhioThis is a database of satellite images of Ohio that can be used to monitor urban growth, natural resource loss, crop health are other environmental issues.

Oxford Earth & Environmental Science Reference Full text reference books online.

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Keyword searchable or categoried by county and town. Historical fire insurance maps for Ohio cities and towns between 1867 and 1970. They show the growth and change in building materials used as towns expanded.

Geographic Websites

Google Maps (http://maps.google.com/) allows you to chose between street, terrain, satellite views and images of both national and international locations

Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) (http://www.dlese.org/dds/histogram.do?group=subject) a distributed community of educators and scientist collaborating to provide educational resources on the earth and her systems.

American Memory Map Collections (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html) the Geography and Map division of the Library of Congress digital project focusing on focusing on Americana and Cartographic treasures from the LOC collection.

Perry-Casteneda Map Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/) the University of Texas at Austin's online map collection offers access to local, international and historical maps as well as focus on areas that are currently in the news.

TerraServer-USA Web (http://terraserver-usa.com/default.aspx) large database operated by Microsoft providing access to maps and aerial photographs of the United States.

David Rumsey Map Historical Map Collection (http://www.davidrumsey.com/) digtized archival collection of cartography focusing on the Americas from the 18th and 19th centuries. However, the collection is not limited to the Americas and includes historical maps of the world as well. Searchable by type (atlas, globe, etc.), location, cartographer or year.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/) out of the California Institute of Technology, this site hosts an abundance of resources covering NASA's various planetary excursions.

Afriterra; the Cartographic Free Library (http://www.afriterra.org/) is nonprofit cartographic library that preserves and digitizes original rare maps of Africa. The online catalog is searchable by creator, keyword, date and region.

Alabama Contemporary Map Index (http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/) is a collection of contemporary national and global maps that accessible are accessible to the general public.

Map History/History of Cartography (http://www.maphistory.info/index.html) is a metasite created and maintained by Tony Campbell, retired Map Librarian from the British Library and contains links to map associations and societies, digital map collections and numerous other resources to support any level of research.

Color Landform Atlas of the United States (http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/) provides topographic and county maps as well as satellite images of the fifty states includes digitized state maps from an 1895 atlas.

Historic Cities (http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html) is a joint venture by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library, this site provides both scanned documents and maps related to historic cities in the United States, Europe and the Middle East.

The Walker Collection: Maps of Asia Minor and the Middle East, 1511-1774 (http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/maps/digital/walker.html) at the University of Melbourne has 135 digitzed maps of Asia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Balkans created by the greatest cartographers from the Renaissance period.

The Ryhiner Map Collection (http://biblio.unibe.ch/stub/ryhiner/) is a globally oriented collection of over 16,000 digitized maps, charts and plans from the 16th to the 18th century housed in the University Library Berne and maintained by Dr. Thomas Kloti.

Making Sense of Maps (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/maps/) created by David T. Stephens as an overview for using maps as historical evidence. The site not only offers a tutorial but is interactive as well and provides links to useful geographical sites.

Questions or comments, contact:
Michael Billings, Reference Librarian