Geography
This guide will assist users interested in Environment, GIS, Urban Planning, Tourism as well as Geography in general. It is recommended that users make use of other subject guides as appropriate.
Core databases
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new windowAnthroSource is a single database of newsletters, bulletins, and 11 peer-reviewed journals from the American Anthropological Association. 31 publications are represented in this searchable archive. Much of the material is full-text. Coverage varies for the past 100 years up to current journal issues.
- GeoRef This link opens in a new windowMajor index for geology and earth sciences which includes journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Coverage of North America: 1666-present, International: 1933-present. Over 100,000 new records added annually.
- GreenFILE This link opens in a new windowA multidisciplinary database of scholarly, government and general-interest titles on environmental topics. Subjects covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 295,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,600 records.
- Proquest Central This link opens in a new windowThis database provides access to scholarly journals, high value market research, country, economic, and industry reports, pre-print working papers, full text dissertations, and a vast number of newspapers, professional journals, and general interest periodicals.
- Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexes scholarly literature in the natural and social sciences. Use this to get extensive inter-disciplinary access to journal articles and also to find out which articles are being cited by other scholars . Cited references from 1970-present, records from 1788-present.
NOTE: WMU users do not have access to SciVal through Scopus
