Sherry Larson-Rhodes, Sciences Librarian
Geography & Sustainability Studies Research
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowScholarly, multidisciplinary database containing more than 6,100 full-text journals, and indexing/abstracts for more than 10,100 journals.
- ArticleFirst This link opens in a new windowIndexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. 1990 to the present.
- GeoRef This link opens in a new windowThe primary resource for geoscience literature. Over 2 million scholarly references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers and abstracts, reports and theses.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContains almost 1,000 full-text journals spanning multiple disciplines. Some journals go to back to the mid-1800's. There is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issues and the issues available in JSTOR.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowContains more than 9 million full-text articles and 60 million citations and abstracts from 2,300 journals in the natural and social sciences, medicine, technology, and business.
Geography Data Sources
- Ciesin World Data CenterThis portal, hosted by NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), provides access to a wide range of global data, associated documentation, and visualization and analysis tools, and to the community of experts on global data.
- Cornell University Geographic Information Repository"CUGIR provides geospatial data and metadata for New York State, with special emphasis on those natural features relevant to agriculture, ecology, natural resources, and human-environment interactions."
- DIVA - GISSelect and download free geographic (GIS) data for any country in the world
- Earth Explorer (USGS)International Satellite Imagery and shaded relief with datasets available to enhance the imagery.
- Federal Geographic Data RepositoryA repository of Federal, State, and Local Maps and Data
- Geo.Data.GovU.S. Maps and Data
- GeoGratisGeospatial information from the Canadian federal government, including topographic maps and GIS data.
- Geospatial Analysis - A Comprehensive GuideA comprehensive guide to concepts and techniques in GIS and their application and/or implementation.
- Geospatial Data GatewayThe Geospatial Data Gateway (GDG) is the One Stop Source for environmental and natural resources data.
- Global Land Cover Facility"The GLCF is a center for land cover science with a focus on research using remotely sensed satellite data and products to assess land cover change for local to global systems."
- Harvard Geospatial LibraryA collection of 7,908 worldwide and regional geographic data layers, scanned historic maps and associated descriptive information that can be searched mapped and downloaded for use with your GIS software.
- Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) ToolsA resource that provides access to free downloads of various layers of National Geospatial Data.
- NASA Goddard Earth Sciences (GES) Data and Information Services Center (DISC)This resource houses NASA's "Precipitation, Hydrology, and Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics data and information," and the Goddard Space Flight Center's National and International Land Data Assimilation Systems.
- NASA Stennis LandSat DataLandSat data: circa 1990/2000.
- National Geospatial ProgramA gateway to resources that help visualize national geospatial data in map format.
- National Weather Service GIS DataGIS data with a Meteorological slant issued by the National Weather Service
- New York State GIS ClearinghouseGIS data about New York on a wide variety of subjects.
- NYS - Orthos OnlineA collection of Orthoimagery collected by and for New York State since 1990.
- NYS Data Center Geography & MappingInteractive query access to geographic boundary files, Census attribute data for various levels of statistical and political geography, and predefined thematic maps illustrating various economic and demographic characteristics of the population
- TerrainmapTerrain Modeling and Mapping Techniques using several GIS tools.
- UNEP - Geo Data PortalThe GEO Data Portal is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP.
- USDA - Web Soil Survey"Provides soil data and information [in map form] produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey."
- USGS - Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC)"A component of NASAs Earth Observing System (EOS) Data and Information System (EOSDIS). LP DAAC processes, archives, and distributes land data and products derived from the EOS sensors."
- World Wide CentralA gateway to sources of Orthoimagery from around the world.
