Geography Reseach Guide
Journals
Note: These are available to University of Texas students, faculty and staff. Search in Find a Journal to read them online.
- ACME
- Acta Geographica Slovenica
- African Geographical Review
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
- Applied Geography
- Applied GIS
- Australian Geographer
- Australian Geographic
- Australian Geographical Studies
- Bulletin of the American Geographical Society (1901-1915)
- Canadian Geographer
- Canadian Geographic
- Cartographic Journal
- Cartography and Geographic Information Science
- Children's Geographies
- Cultural Geographies
- Current Geographical Publications
- CyberGeo: European Journal of Geography
- Economic Geography
- Ecumene
- Focus on Geography [American Geographical Society]
- Gender, Place and Culture
- Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography
- Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography
- Geographical Analysis
- Geographical Bulletin
- Geographical & Environmental Modelling
- The Geographical Journal
- Geographical Research
- Geographical Review
- Geospatial Solutions
- GIS World (now Geo World)
- Global Networks
- GPS Solutions
- GPS World
- Great Lakes Geographer
- Imago Mundi
- Industrial Geographer
- International Journal of Geographical Information Science
- International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
- Journal of Cultural Geography
- Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis
- Journal of Geographical Systems
- The Journal of Geography
- Journal of Geography in Higher Education
- Journal of Historical Geography
- Journal of Latin American Geography
- Journal of Maps
- Journal of Political Ecology
- Journal of the American Geographical and Statistical Society (1859-1872)
- Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York (1872-1900)
- Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London (1831-1880)
- Journal of Transport Geography
- Journal of Transportation and Statistics
- National Geographic
- National Geographic en Espanol
- National Geographic Kids
- Nature
- Philosophy and Geography
- Photogrammetric Record
- Political Geography
- Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography (1879-1892)
- Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London (1855-1878)
- Professional Geographer
- Progress in Human Geography
- Progress in Physical Geography
- Science
- Scientific American
- Scottish Geographical Magazine
- Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
- Social and Cultural Geography
- Southeastern Geographer
- Tourism Geographies
- Transactions in GIS
- Urban Geography
- Yearbook - Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
Web Resources
- Cartographic and Spatial Data on the Internet (University of Chicago Library)
- Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing
- GeoCommunicator
- From the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Forest Service (USFS), GeoCommunicator acts as a portal to the Geography Network's resources related to land management and land records.
- Compiled by Mark MacLennan University of Iowa Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research
- Downloadable data is available for users on the the UT Austin campus .
- Internet Resources for Geographers (University of Colorado at Boulder)
- PCL Map Collection
- Texas Geographic Information Council
- Coordinates geographic information for Texas state agencies. Includes their Publications.
- This gazetteer is used to identify places to view with the Tiger Map Server and obtain census data from the 1990 Census Lookup server.
Selected Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Sites
- Dictionary of Abbreviations and acronyms in geographic information systems, cartography, and remote sensing.
By Philip Hoehn (David Rumsey Collection) and Mary Lynette Larsgaard (Map & Imagery Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara Library). Designed by John Creaser (Earth Sciences & Map Library, University of California, Berkeley). - GIS Data Depot
- The NCSU Libraries GIS pages
Includes extensive documentation on accessing and using GIS data sets. - EPA Basins
Analysis tool for use by regional, state, and local agencies in performing watershed and water-quality based studies. - ESRI
- Geographic Names Information System
- Guide to Mostly Online and Mostly Free U.S. Geospatial and Attribute Data (University of Arkansas Libraries)
- NationalAtlas.gov
- National Climatic Data Center
- SimplyMap (UT Austin users)
- TNRIS (Texas Natural Resources Information System)
The mission of TNRIS is to provide a "centralized information system incorporating all Texas natural resource data, socioeconomic data related to natural resources, and indexes related to that data that are collected by state agencies or other entities". - University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center
- U.S. Census Bureau Geographic Services and Information
Social, Demographic, and Economic Information. - USGS Earth Explorer
Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products through the U.S. Geological Survey.
Quicklinks
Subject Specialist
Paul Rascoe
PCL Reference - Documents, Maps, Electronic Info Librarian
prascoe@uts.cc.utexas.edu
(512) 495-4262
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Glossaries
Note: These are available to University of Texas students, faculty and staff
Cartographic Reference Resources (PCL Map Collection)
Dictionary of Human Geography, 2009 (UT Austin users)
Encyclopedia of Ecology & Environmental Management, 2009 (UT Austin users)
Encyclopedia of Geography, 2010 (UT Austin users)
Encyclopedia of Geography Terms, Themes, and Concepts, 2011 (UT Austin users)
Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2006
Encyclopedias Online (UT Austin users)
Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia, 2003)
Glossary of Cartographic Terms (PCL Map Collection)
