Research Guides: Geography Course Handouts: MA Geography Sources

Sources by topic leading to articles, books or reports

Academic Search Complete Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database with more than 5,300 full text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.
Web of Science Provides access to high-quality research from the world's leading arts, humanities, science and social science journals. Includes a Cited Reference search. Online coverage is 1993-present. Earlier print versions are in the library.
Agricultural and Environmental Science Collection Abstracts and citations from over 6000 journals, conference proceedings, reports, books and government publications in agriculture; air quality; bacteriology; ecology; ecotourism; energy resources; environmental impact statements; hazardous waste; human population dynamics; industrial hygiene; microbiology; pollution; risk assessment; and toxicology. Coverage: 1967 to date.
SocINDEX Full Text Abstracts and links to articles in anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, social work & many others. Articles back to 1940.
GeoScienceWorld with GeoRef GeoRef contains over 3.5 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. GeoScienceWorld has over 45 full text journals, some back to the 1920s. Citations from 1785 to present; full text availability varies.
GreenFILE Provides articles on the of human impact to the environment, including global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, etc.
ScienceDirect Full text of Elsevier's journals, covering sciences, health, and social sciences since 1995 as well as indexing of other publisher's journals.

USGS: U.S. Geological Survey

Oxford Reference Online More than 2 million entries from hundreds of cross-searchable Oxford encyclopedias and other reference books, many of which are illustrated.
Gale eBooks A collection of about 900 encyclopedias and other reference books from several publishers across many disciplines that can be searched at one time.
eBook Collection from EBSCO Full-text, searchable electronic books. Books can only be read online. However, mindful of copyright laws, texts may be printed out or copied in part using browser functions.Coverage: Most books are pre-2003. Also provides access to 3,500 older, "public domain" works that may be several hundred years old.
Ebook Central (from ProQuest) More than 80,000 academic e-books in 16 subject categories (Formerly called eBrary)

CountryWatch In-depth reviews of 191 countries, including geographical, political, economic, corporate, and environmental information. Updated with wire service news.
Global Road Warrior Full-text country reports including information on society and culture, communications, travel, trade, business, money and banking, country data and maps.
JSTOR Archive of scholarly journals cover to cover. Interdisciplinary coverage of journals back to the first issue through to the last few years. Also includes over 2 million images originally from Artstor.
Project MUSE Provides the full-text electronic versions of more than 200 scholarly journals. Updated monthly.
Historical Abstracts Indexes the last 60 years of “modern history” (historical scope, post 1450 to date) and covers over 2000 scholarly journals, books, and Ph.D. dissertations . Does not cover the U.S. and Canada (use America History & Life)
Handbook of Latin American Studies Online A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars and edited by the Library of Congress. It covers the social sciences and the humanities dating back to 1936 and includes books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. It is an essential research guide for Latin Americanists.

Country and Area Studies Research Guide

Global Newsstream U.S. and international news sources. More than 2,500 news sources including newspapers, newswires, news journals, television and radio transcripts, blogs, podcasts, and digital-only websites in full-text format from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Updated daily.
Westlaw Full-text to federal and state cases, statutes, regulations and administrative codes, as well as international law, law encyclopedias, and law reviews. Business news and company legal tax filing information.
NewsBank Newsbank has 900+ news services. The majority are California news sources with national political magazines, news transcripts and blogs.
Alt-PressWatch, 1970-present Articles from independent or alternative newspapers, magazines, journals and newsletters that are not mainstream media viewpoints or perspectives. Some coverage back to 1970.
Independent Voices: Open Access Alternative Press 1950 to Date: An open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of libraries. Covers topics related to feminism, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press. Includes LA Free Press and Berkeley Barb
Los Angeles Times, 1985-present Coverage back to 1985 includes the complete text of recent articles from the Los Angeles Times. Includes not only top news stories, but also detailed information on the arts, sports, business, and popular culture. Even such items as editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor from well-known people are indexed. See also Historical Los Angeles Times for pre-1985 issues.

Places to find Images and videos.

Artstor Artstor is more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes now completely available in JSTOR. Artstor's separate interface was shut down August 1, 2024.

Politics Database A collective database on government issue (PAIS: Public Affairs Information Services), politics (WPSA: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts) and policy (Policy File Index) that covers political science since 1972.
Public Administration Abstracts Articles in areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline, like urbanism, transportation, police administration, recreation, housing, etc.
USA.Gov The U.S. government's official search engine to all federal, state, and local government information and services.

Hospitality and Tourism Complete Scholarly articles and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism domestically and internationally. Covers 1960 - current.
ScienceDirect Full text of Elsevier's journals, covering sciences, health, and social sciences since 1995 as well as indexing of other publisher's journals.
SocINDEX Full Text Abstracts and links to articles in anthropology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, social work & many others. Articles back to 1940.

Human Geography: People and the Environment by K. L. Lerner, B. W. Lerner, & S. Benson (Eds)
International Encyclopedia of Human Geography by A. Kobayashi (Ed.)

Environmental Issues Online Brings together multimedia materials around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more.
Border and Migration Studies Online Provides historical background on more than thirty border areas in the world. Collection of text, media, primary sources you can search or use themes such as border disputes, crossings, human trafficking, migration, etc.
Meet the Press A weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. Contains episodes from 1947 to 2013. There are interviews with leaders on politics, economics, foreign policy and other public affairs, with panel discussions providing opinions and analysis.
News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek)‎ Collection of leading magazines of the 20th century relating to political history, current events of the day, history, international relations, and more. Covers 1930 to date where the majority of articles are from Newsweek magazine.
Reader's Guide Retrospective, 1890-1982 Readers' Guide Retrospective contains comprehensive indexing of popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States published 1890-1982.
Revolution and Protest Online Examines the most studied and important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the early 21st century. 30+ thematic units representing a variety of time periods, regions, and topics.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984 Indexes over 1200 scholarly journals, primarily in English published from 1907 – 1984. Book reviews are included. Some general subject science material covered as well. Useful for 20th century history & politics.

Google's custom search engine limited to NGO Websites "sites which were chosen based on their consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and also collated from University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, Duke University Libraries' NGO Research Guide, and the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations"

Current Research in Geography

Nature Portfolio of Geography Research

IngentaConnect Search for articles or browse the table of contents of journals. The citations are provided but full text is only available for those titles to which are owned by CSULB. Find recommendations to like articles also.

Maps & Mapping

Maps from USGS: U.S. Geological Survey