FINDING SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLES
Distinguishing Scholarly from Popular & Trade Publications
Before you start - questions to ask yourself and examples.
- GeoBASE UW restricted
Covers journals in human and physical geography, environmental studies, and international development. Articles in scholarly journals ONLY.
- Expanded Academic ASAP UW restricted
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) UW restricted
Both databases include articles from both popular and scholarly publications - so you will need to chose carefully OR click the tab to limit your search to refereed publications or scholarly journals. These databases also cover many different disciplines in the social sciences, sciences, technology, business, and humanities, so can be a good starting place for many topics.
- Web of Science UW restricted
Search by author, topic, and cited author. The cited author search and "times cited" feature allows you to begin unwinding the web of relationships among authors and ideas.
Additional Databases for Geography Concentrations:
Economic Geography
- EconLIT UW restricted
Access journal articles, books, and dissertaions on economics published since 1969.
- CAB Abstracts UW restricted
Provides access to citations and abstracts of the international agricultural literature, including plant protection, forestry engineering, animal husbandry, animal and plant breeding, genetics, veterinary medicine, nutrition, rural development, economics, and leisure and tourism. CAB Abstracts indexes articles, books, conferences, reports and other kinds of literature
Development
Studies
- Anthropology Plus UW restricted
Index to articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies.
- PAIS International UW restricted
Covers journals along with selected books and government publication of the UN and US federal agencies on the topics of public affairs and international relations.
Feminist
Geography
- Left Index UW restricted
Diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social, and culturally engaged scholarship. Topics covered include but are not limited to: the labor movement, ecology & environment, race & ethnicity, social & cultural theory, sociology, art & aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and globalization.
Health / Medical Geography
- CINAHL UW restricted
Coverage of the literature in nursing and 17 allied health disciplines from 1982-. Over 700 journals are regularly indexed.
- POPLINE UW restricted
Reproductive health database; provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.
- PubMED
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMED includes over 16 million citations to journal articles published 1950 to present in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.
Society and Environment
- Agricola UW restricted
Contains bibliographic records primarily of journal articles and book chapters acquired by the National Agricultural Library in agriculture and environmental sciences.
- GreenFILE UW restricted
Access scholarly & popular articles and government reports from the disciplines of agriculture, education, law, health and technology about the positive and negative impacts humans have on the environment.
Urban / Social / Political Geography
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals UW restricted
Indexes more than 1,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, urban planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture; covers 1934 to the present
Area Studies Databases -- These databases may cover journal articles in a variety of subject areas - politics, sociology, international relations, literature - all united by their relevance to a broad geographic region.
- Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database. UW restricted
Index to over 200 English language journals that specialize in African studies. A related database is the African Women's Bibliographic Database UW restricted
- Bibliography of Asian Studies UW restricted
Access to western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
- HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index) UW restricted
Index to articles in magazines and journals produced in and about Central & South America.
- PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas) UW restricted
Provides full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. PRISMA features Spanish, Portuguese and English language content.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies UW restricted
Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
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Index Islamicus UW restricted
A bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world.
FINDING BOOKS
- UW Libraries Catalog
Search for books, journals (but not the articles in them), videos, music, etc. that are owned by the UW or, in the case of web resources, reviewed by UW Librarians for quality.
CITATION STYLE & REFWORKS GUIDES
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Monday May 18, 2009
