Research Guides
Geography: Home
Welcome to the research guide for Geography, a starting point for finding journal articles, books, data and more!
Starting Points / Top Resources
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly articles and general interest sources in all fields. - Ancestry This link opens in a new window
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Genealogical records including census, military, immigration, marriage, yearbooks, biographical dictionaries, birth records.
- Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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Core geography journal in environment, people, place and culture
- Policy Commons: Global Think Tanks This link opens in a new window
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Research from the world’s leading policy experts, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
- Progress in Human Geography
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Core journal in the field of Human Geography
- SAGE Research Methods Online (SRM) This link opens in a new window
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Articles, books, case studies, datasets, and video covering the practices of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research methodologies. See SRM Guide - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Citation index for the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Related Links & Guides
Free E-Newspaper Access
The UW Libraries offers UW students, staff, and faculty free personal accounts to the following news websites. You can find additional e-newspaper databases on our E-Newspapers page.
- The Atlantic
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- New York Times
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- Wall Street Journal
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- Financial Times
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- The Economist
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Planet.com
The UW Libraries offers UW students, staff, and faculty free personal accounts to Planet.com. Additional GIS resources can be found at our Geospatial Data Resources guide.
- Planet.com
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Autumn Quarter 2024 Geography Class Guides
Librarian
Kian Flynn
Contact:
Geography & Global Studies Librarian; International Documents
Suzzallo Library
Seattle, WA
Office Hours by appt.
Suzzallo Library
Seattle, WA
Office Hours by appt.
Other Key Resources
- Bloomsbury Food Library This link opens in a new window
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Collection of reference works & ebooks on food studies. - FIMo: Fire Insurance Maps Online This link opens in a new window
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Fire Insurance Maps, Real Estate Atlases, Plat Books, and other historical maps showing building structures, building construction details, property ownership, property uses, and other useful information - ImportGenius This link opens in a new window
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International import and export shipment records, including factory, product, arrival dates and port-of-entry details. Husky OnNet is required for off-campus access.
- International Encyclopedia of Geography
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An encyclopedia of over 1000 entries providing definitive coverage of the field, encompassing human geography, physical geography, geographic information science and systems, earth studies, and environmental science. - Oxford Bibliographies: Geography
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Scholarly, annotated listing of the most important and significant sources on geography-related topics.
- Policy Commons: North American City Reports This link opens in a new window
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Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies. - PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
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Online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the United States