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Graduate Research in Geography

Databases, data sources, and research advice for research in geography.

Multidisiplinary databases for locating geography research in journals.

OneSearch
UNI Rod Library Catalog and search engine that limits results to those materials owned by UNI.
OneSearch allows you to limit your search to articles from peer-reviewed journals or to books. Searches can be limited by title or subject.

Academic Search Elite
Be sure check the box for Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals.
Consider limiting your search to Subject, Abstract or Title.
... if you type: results AND discussion
... in the last blank of your search
... and limit this blank to "TX All Text"
... you will likely receive only "research articles.

Gale Academic OneFile
Use Advanced Search to improve your search.
Be sure check the box for Peer-Reviewed Journals.
Consider limiting your search to Subject or Abstract or Document Title (title of the article).
If you type: results AND discussion in the last blank of your search - and limit this blank to "Entire Document"
- you will likely receive only "research articles.

JSTOR
Searches can be limited to Geography journals. This is an archive containing publications in Geography dating from 1878 to 2018 and in some cases 2020

Web of Science (Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index)
The multidisciplinary database focuses on peer reviewed, high impact journals.
Searches can be limited by title or topic.
Results can be filtered for highly cited papers.(for older articles) or "Hot Papers" (highly cited recent articles).

Database Secrets

AND LiDAR AND agriculture both words must appear

OR agriculture OR farming either word may appear

* politic* finds politics, political, politician, politicians

" " "urban growth" finds this exact phrase

Last Updated: Nov 30, 2022 11:55 AM
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Topics : Sciences: Geography

Tags: data, discovery systems, geography, graduate research, interlibrary loan, peer-reviewed, physical geography