Geography Research Guide
Article Databases with Geography Content
- General Science Index
- Science-specific database covering many topics including geography.
- Academic Search Premier
- Contains about 100 periodicals relating to geography.
- Ecology Abstracts
- Contains some information, especially as it relates to ecology.
Geography Web Links
- American Geographical Society Library
- Canadian Council for Geographic Education
- Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
- Spatial Resources for the Social Sciences
- EROS Data Center: Earth Resources Observation Systems
- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
- GIS Dictionary
- Geodata.Gov
- US Maps and Data
- Geo-Images Project
- Geographical Information Systems Resource List
- Geography Network
- a commercial site providing free access to geographical data.
- Geosource
- Geospatial One-Stop
- a service of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, a function of the Federal Geographic Data Committee.
- GRANIT
- New Hampshire's statewide geographic information system, courtesy of UNH.
- Hazard Maps.gov
- maps from FEMA indicating hazards, floodplains, etc.
- Historical Maps Online
- Library of Congress: Country Studies
- Map History/History of Cartography
- Mathematical Data
- For bibliographic descriptions of cartographic materials and spatial data.
- OpenGIS Consortium
- "a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services."
- Perry-Castañeda Map Collection
- from the University of Texas
- Physical Geography.net
- Portals to the World
- from the Library of Congress
- Publications of the USGS
- Resources for Geographers
- from Colorado University - Boulder
- Terra Server
- UCB Earth Sciences & map library
- United State Antartic Resource Center
- Xpeditions
- Curriculum resources from National Geographic and Marco Polo
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