Databases and Indexes for Geography

These online sources are available to current UT students, faculty and staff. A UT EID is needed for access off campus. Also see the Complete List of Databases available through the University of Texas Libraries.

Current Geographical Publications/Online Geographical Bibliography (GEOBIB) , 1985 - present. (American Geographical Society Library)

Index of books, periodical articles, pamphlets, government documents, maps and atlases in the American Geographical Society Collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. For earlier years not in the database (1938-1984) this information is available in Current Geographical Publications .
Print holdings: G 1 A4475 V.1 1938 through V.66 2003 PCL Stacks

GEOBASE 1980 - present. (SilverPlatter)

GEOBASE indexes journals in human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies. The database provides current coverage of over 1,700 journals and archival coverage of several thousand additional titles. Most entries include a searchable abstract. In addition to core scientific and technical periodicals, GEOBASE also includes non-English language publications, books, conference proceedings and reports.

Environmental Issues and Policy Index (EBSCO)

Updated regularly. Provides abstracting and indexing information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies.

JSTOR

The JSTOR database includes the searchable full text for backfiles of many scholarly journals. Some of the geographical journals included are: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Economic Geography, Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography, Geografiska Annaler. Series B, Human Geography, Geographical Journal, Geographical Review, Imago Mundi, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. In general, the latest five years of a journal are not included in this database, but may be available in another database we subscribe to or in print. Search in the Library Catalog to locate more recent issues.

Other Databases with Geography Content:

Academic OneFile (Gale Group), 1980 - present. (Gale Group)

Full-text scholarly, trade and general-interest journals, newspapers, newswire services and magazines (arts, humanities, science, social sciences and general news).

Academic Search Complete, 1990 - present. (EBSCO)

Updated monthly. Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.

AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library) 1970-present

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Aerospace and High Technology Database

Indexes journals in remote sensing, applied research in aeronautics and space sciences.

Alt-Press Watch, Dates of coverage vary. (Softline Information)

Updated monthly. Provides full-text coverage of newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press in America. Includes a broad range of critical issues confronting contemporary society, such as ecology and the environment, grassroots organizing, labor, indigenous peoples, and public policy.

American Meteorological Society Online (AMS)

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Updated daily. Indexes 13,500+ journals (business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social sciences and technology). Some abstracts.

Business Source Premier 1990-present

Major database for business and management providing the full text of around 3,300 electronic journals with abstracts (summaries) for over 300 additional titles. Many of the top scholarly journals are available from 1965, with some going back even further. Covers a wide range of journals including over 1000 peer-reviewed titles as well as trade and weekly journals. An excellent starting point for any search for business information. Also includes full text information such as country economic reports, and detailed company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies.

CQ Researcher, October, 1991 - present (Congressional Quarterly)

Updated weekly. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles.

Dissertation Abstracts International / Proquest Dissertations and Theses, 1861 - present. (ProQuest)

Updated monthly. Contains more than 1.5 million entries representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American and European universities. All subject areas are covered. More than 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added to the database each year. Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts and citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Dissertations produced after 1997 are also available digitally through Dissertations Abstracts for download by UT Austin affiliated users.

Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment

1534 - 1850. (Alexander Street Press) Updated quarterly (until completed). Contains early accounts of exploration, discovery, travel, environment, peoples, and cultures in North America. Currently contains 1,076 authors and approximately 83,000 pages of material. When complete the product will include more than 100,000 pages of letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. Particular care has been taken to index the material so that it can be used in new ways. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700. The collection is centered on present-day Canada and the United States with some limited coverage of Mexico.

GeoRef, 1785 - present.

Updated bi-monthly. Covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present, and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. Contains references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. Includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Masters' theses and doctoral dissertations from U.S. and Canadian universities are also covered.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, 1936 - present. (Library of Congress)

Updated annually. A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.

Handbook of Texas Online, Most recent edition. (TSHA)

Updated perodically. A multidisciplinary encyclopedia of Texas history, geography, and culture sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association and the University of Texas Libraries.

Historical Abstracts, 1969 - present.

Updated three - six times a year. Contains citations and abstracts of worldwide literature (excluding the United States and Canada) from approximately 2,100 journals and since 1980, books and dissertations on political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural and intellectual history and related areas of the social sciences and humanities. Covers history dating from 1450 to the present.

Historical Newspaper Archives

This page lists historical online newspapers available to University of Texas students, faculty and staff.

National Archeological Database, Dates of coverage vary. (U.S. National Park Service)

Updated regularly. Contains approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. This "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S.

Periodicals Archive Online, 1770 - 1995. (Chadwyck-Healey)

Contains online scholarly full text journals.

Project Muse

Online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

Readers' Guide Retrospective

1890 - 1982. (Wilson) Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Covers more than 375 titles.

Updated annually. Indexes over 10 million articles in 3,142 journals. The scope is international and multi-disciplinary, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. Includes full images of 165 journals and the archive will continue to grow by this amount each year.

Sociological Abstracts, 1963 - present. (CSA)

Updated six times per year. More than 300,000 records covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.

Web of Science 1975 - present. (ISI)

Updated weekly. Provides bibliographic data, citations and abstracts of English-language authors to significant articles from the 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Includes coverage of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.