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General Databases
Academic Search CompleteA comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
JSTORProvides full-text access to the archives of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.
ScopusProvides indexing, abstracting of and citation linking to journals in biology ,physics, chemistry, geosciences, agriculture, medicine, business, social work, and the social sciences.
Web of Knowledge/Web of ScienceIncludes Science Citation Index (1900-), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-).
Key Resources for GIS
ESRI Online GIS DictionaryDefinitions for GIS terms related to operations such as analysis, GIS modeling and web-based GIS, cartography, and Esri software.
GIS Bibliography (ESRI)This bibliography (compiled by Prof Duane Marbles and ESRI since 1992) covers the literature of geographic information systems, science, and technology. It indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, and reports from the origins of GIS to the present.
[JOURNAL] International Journal of Geographical Information SciencePublished research covers innovations in GIScience and novel applications of GIScience in natural resources, social systems and the built environment, as well as relevant developments in computer science, cartography, surveying, geography and engineering in both developed and developing countries.
[JOURNAL] Remote Sensing of EnvironmentThis interdisciplinary journal publishes on terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric sensing. The emphasis of the journal is on biophysical and quantitative approaches to remote sensing at local to global scales.
– Agriculture, forestry and range
– Biophysical-spectral models
– Ecology
– Earth and environmental science
– Geography and land information
– Geology and geoscience
– Hydrology and water resources
– Image processing and analysis
– Atmospheric science and meteorology
– Oceanography
– Sensor systems and spectral-radiometric measurements
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database, with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Historical Abstracts indexes and provides abstract summaries to sources on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered in the database.
Online version of the largest reference work published in the social and behavioral sciences. Subjects covered include: anthropology, psychology, demography, economics, education, gender studies, law, linguistics,public policy, sociology, urban planning, etc.
Comprehensive search of 19 social sciences-focused databases, including: Sociological Abstracts, PILOTS, Periodicals Index Online, PAIS International, LLBA and more.
Contains the SSRN Abstract Database with abstracts for over 518,800 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 424,700 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
World Bank database provides direct access to more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2006, where data are available.
