Other Electronic Resources for Geography

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Use reference works, like dictionaries and encyclopedias to find definitions of geography terms and to familiarize yourself with a field, topic, or concept.

Credo Reference

Gain access to any of a possible 3,253,507 entries, from 419 titles and 63 publishers with Credo Reference. You can search all titles at once, a subject group, or individual titles. Recommended subject searches: Geography (for human geography), Science (for physical geography) and Social Sciences (for human geography). 

Gale Virtual Reference Library

A collection of electronic reference books on all subjects, including geography, and earth and environmental sciences. Search for a topic at the Subject Guide Search, or go to Basic Search and open the categories Environment, Nation and World, and Science to find geography-related books.

E-Books

WaterNetBase

A collection of 136 electronic books on water issues, including hydrology, hydrogeology, ground water, storm water, waste water, wetlands, and more. You can browse a category of books, or search in the entire collections or selected titles.

Other Databases

Use these databases to find journal articles on all aspects of geology.

Anthropology Plus

The worlds most comprehensive, focused index of bibliographic materials from the late 19th century to today, covering the fields of anthropology, archaeology and interdisciplinary studies.

Federated Search Engine

The Libraries' federated search engine lets you search multiple electronic resources with different interfaces at the same time. Choose the SCIENCE category to search the following simultaneously: Academic Search Complete, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - all databases, JSTOR, SAGE Journals Online, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, Web of Science and Wiley Interscience.

Web of Science

This database indexes and abstracts over 10,000 high impact journals across disciplines and 120,000 conference proceedings. It is an excellent resource for all fields of Geography. Most articles are available in full-text through linking to other resources at the UNT Libraries.