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Articles | Selected Resources ]
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To locate
books at PSU on a specific topic in your field, search The
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Browsing:
Interested
in browsing areas in our collection related to your field? Some
books in your field can be found in the following call number
areas:
Search
for books on geography
in The CAT!
| Subject
Area |
Call Number
Area
to Browse |
| Geography |
G's |
| Mathematical
Geography |
GA's |
| Physical Geography |
GB's |
| Political Geography |
JC 319-323 |
Locating
Journals:
Browse the list
of over 900 journals found in the Earth and Mineral Science
Library, search the CAT
for a particular journal title, or check out a couple of the journals
recommended for your particular discipline in the list below:
| Suggested
Geography Journal Titles |
- Journal of Cultural
Geography
- Applied Geography
- Political Geography
- Journal of Historical
Geography
- Urban Geography
- The Geographical Journal
- Economic Geography
- Progress in Human Geography
- Geography
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Locating
Journal Articles:
Search for journal articles on a particular
topic in your subject area by using one of these databases:
| Title
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Subject Area
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| GEOBASE |
Geography, Geology,
Ecology |
| GeoRef |
Geosciences |
| Meteorological
& Geoastrophysical Abstracts |
Meteorology, Climatology |
| Oceanic
Abstracts |
Oceans, Aquatic
Science |
| Dissertation
Abstracts |
Dissertations |
| Water
Resources Abstracts |
Water, Environmental
Science |
| Web
of Science (Science and Social Science Citation Index) |
Journal articles
in the sciences and social sciences; Citation Searching |
| Human Population and Natural Resources Management |
demography, natural resources |
| Social Services Abstracts |
social policy, community development |
| Sociological Abstracts |
social sciences |
| Empire Online |
Original sources documenting the history of exploration, cultural contact, and colonialism from 1492-1969 |
| Fire Ecology |
Government documents, magazines, newspapers, academic journals, books and conference proceddings. |
| Online Geographical Bibliography |
Geography books, pamphlets, and articles received by the American Geographical Society Library, 1985 - date. |
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Selected
Resources:
[ Place Names
and Geographic Features | Atlases and Maps
| Interactive Maps |
Historical
Geography | Geo-Data Resources |
Additional Resources ]
Place Names and Geographic Features
- Geographic
Names Information System: Database contains information about
almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in
the United States.
- GEOnet
Names Server: Provides access to database of foreign (Non-U.S.)
geographic feature names.
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Benchmark
Data: The National Geodetic Survey maintains this database
of information on benchmarks.
- Tidal
Benchmarks: NOAA's U.S. National Ocean Service provides an
index to states and geographical areas where the Center for Operational
Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) maintains Published
Benchmark Sheets. Specific stations are listed within each area.
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Topographic Map Symbols: This U.S.G.S. publication describes
the meaning of symbols found on topographic maps.
- USGS
Topographic Maps Illustrating Physiographic Features
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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names: Contains more than one
million names and other information about places, including continents,
nations, historical places, physical features and cities. It emphasizes
places that are important for art and architecture.
- Alexandria
Digital Library Gazetteer Server: Contains data from the NIMA
Gazetteer and sets of countries, U.S. counties, U.S. topographic
map quadrangle footprints, volcanoes, and earthquake epicenters.
The GNIS data from the USGS has been partly added to the collection.
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Global Gazetteer Version 2.1
- GAZETTEERS
- A gazetteer is a dictionary of place names. By searching the
CAT, you can find a wide selection of gazetteers. General gazetteers
have a call number of G103.
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Atlases and Maps
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Interactive Maps
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Historical Geography
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Geo-data
Resources
- U.S.
GeoData: FTP access to digital cartographic data for the United
States. Data sets include: 1:250,000 DEM, 1:24,000 DEM, 1:2,000,000
DLG, 1:100,000 DLG, 1:24,000 DLG, 1:250,000 LULC, and 1:100,000
LULC.
- U.S.G.S. Earth Explorer: Provides access to various data products and imagery (e.g., Landsat, et al.) from the U.S. Geological Survey
- NOAA
Surveying & Mapping Products: The National Geophysical
Data Center provides a variety of data sets for the U.S. and the
world.
- Digital
Chart of the World: This web site will allow you to download
the boundaries and layers of different countries, in Arc/INFO
export format, from ESRI's Digital Chart of the World data set.
The entire data set is also available, on CD-ROM, at the Pennsylvania
State University's Maps Library or from ESRI.
- GLERL's
Great Lakes Bathymetry and Shoreline Data: This site contains
bathymetric maps and data for the Great Lakes
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Additional
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