GEOGRAPHY GUIDE
Books
Need a book on geography? The following call number ranges, located on the second floor of the library, are a good place to start.
| G 1-64 | General Geography |
| G 149-180 | Travel & Tourism |
| G 200-336 | History of Discoveries, Exploration |
| G 369-922 | Special Voyages |
| G 1000-3122 | Atlases |
Databases
Databases are an effective way of researching articles. Databases allow thousands of journals to be researched within a single search. The following should get you started:
- Academic Search Complete
- Anthropological Index
- GeoBase
- General Databases
- Reference Databases
- All Databases
Internet Sites
The following internet sites have been reviewed by our staff or suggested by professors in the relating field:
- CIA World Factbook - Basic information on individual nations from Afghanizstan to Zimbabwe
- Nation Master - Excellent resource for international statistics on countries and their produce, economy, imports, exports and more.
- Odden's Bookmarks: World of Maps & Mapmaking
- Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
- Portals to the World - contain selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world
- Resources for Geographers - collection of geography resource links on the web