Finding Articles
Finding Articles
Use databases to find academic articles to continue your research. Below are the most helpful databases for finding relevant articles for geography topics.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science provides indexing, full text linking, and citation tracking for articles from vetted, high quality journals in all disciplines (arts and humanities, social sciences, business and sciences), as well as author and journal metrics. Cited Reference Search includes books, artwork, and other cited works. Analyze results identifies frequent authors, funders, universities, and journals for a search or topic. Subscription excludes SMHS and Law Library Patrons.
- Current Geographical Publications This link opens in a new windowAdditions to the research catalogue of the American Geographical Society collection of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the Golda Meir Library.
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate offers an enormous collection of full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, it includes peer-reviewed full text for STEM research, as well as for the social sciences and humanities. Scholarly content covers a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
- Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowMeteorology, Climatology, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Astrophysics, Hydrology, Glaciology, Physical Oceanography and Environmental Sciences.
- WorldCatWorldwide comprehensive search on books published on a topic.
- DOE/OSTI Information Systems This link opens in a new windowFull text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) sponsored reports.
- TranStats This link opens in a new windowTranStats, The Intermodal Transportation Database - transportation statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation. Includes: searchable index; selective downloads; online data documentation; interactive analytical tools; interactive mapping.
Help with searching Geography databases
- What are the general rules for searching?Tip sheet on how to search in Engineering Village databases
Journals
Good Starting Journals for Geography
The following are links to specific academic journals which are published and peer-reviewed by experts in the field. If you want to narrow your search to a subject area or methodology, finding a journal that publishes in that area can help.
- The Geographical JournalThe Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has the highest circulation of any British academic journal in its field and publishes original research papers and review articles, which range across the entire subject of geography; they are restricted neither by area nor by topic. Post-2010 the journal has concentrated on articles relating to issues of public debate and policy-oriented agendas.
- Applied GeographyApplied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world's physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems.
- Political GeographyPolitical Geography is the flagship journal of political geography and advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political. The journal brings together leading contributions in the field and promotes interdisciplinary debates in international relations, political science, and other related fields.
- Geographical ReviewPolitical Geography is the flagship journal of political geography and advances knowledge in all aspects of the geographical and spatial dimensions of politics and the political. The journal brings together leading contributions in the field and promotes interdisciplinary debates in international relations, political science, and other related fields.