Geography: Find Articles
Guide for Library Research in Geography
Legal Reviews
- Legal CollectionContains full text scholarly and peer-reviewed articles covering all areas of law.
- Legal Information Reference CenterContains full text legal forms and consumer legal reference books specific to the State of Oregon Requires you to create a user account with the State Law Library. The link to this resource will now take you to the page to create an account and has the icon on the webpage to access this resource once your account is established.
- Lexis Nexis (now Nexis Uni)Includes full text sources for regional, national, and international newspapers as well as business, legal, and medical publications, and also, government documents.
Grey Literature
- arXivProvides open access to e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
- IssueLabCovers case studies, evaluations, white papers, annual reports, government reports issue briefs, and numerous other materials addressing the world's social problems that include aging, crime and safety, nonprofit and philanthropy, race and ethnicity, and transportation.
- OpenGreyCovers grey literature produced in Europe focusing on science, technology, biomedical science, economics, social science and the humanities.
- Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)Includes a database with abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. Also includes a paper collection of full-text documents.
- Web of Sciencecovers proceedings and published scholarly literature
Primary Geography Databases
- Academic Search PremierProvides selected full text, scholarly, and peer reviewed articles in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
- Environment CompleteProvides full text journals, books, and reference works that cover agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts along with urban planning.
- Agricultural & Environmental ScienceProvides citations, abstracts and full text of articles in agriculture, aquaculture, environmental, ecology, food and human nutrition, and water resources journals, conference proceedings, EPA reports, and books.
- GeoRefOffers citations and abstracts about the earth sciences including palaeontology.
- Web of ScienceMaintains citation searching for high impact research journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences and includes emerging sources citation indexing from 2005.
Related Databases
- Anthropological IndexContains articles from international anthropology and archaeology journals from the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Centre for Anthropology, British Museum.
- Anthropology PlusIndexes articles and essays on anthropology, archaeology, and related fields.
- AnthroSourceProvides full text access to selected anthropology journals from the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
- BioOneContains full text articles from bioscience research journals focused on biology and environmental science.
- Google ScholarSearches for scholarly papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles across disciplines.
- Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN)Features academic networks for many disciplines in the social sciences. Includes a database with abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers. Also includes a paper collection of full-text documents.