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Geography 478 Urban Geography Information Resources |
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PAGE GUIDE: RESEARCH ASSISTANCE: |
Anne Zald, Geography Librarian EMail: zald@u.washington.edu Phone: 206-543-2725 Office: B060 Suzzallo Library |
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Items marked UW restricted require that you be identifiable as a UW student, faculty or staff member. Use the Off-Campus Access link at the top right of this page. |
Reference Works
Oxford Art Online UW restricted
Jump start your exploration of this aspect of your city with an overview providing names, dates, events, theories, and bibliographies that will list key books & articles.Arts & Humanities Through the Ages UW restricted
"Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music, and religion from a specific period, each volume in this five-volume set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture." Eras covered include: Baroque & Enlightenment 1600-1800; Renaissance Europe 1300-1600; Medieval Europe 814-1450; Ancient Greece & Rome 1200 BCE - 476 CE; Ancient Egypt 2675-332 BCE.Books
UW Libraries Catalog
Find books, videos, musical scores, magazines & journals (but not the articles in them) located in any of the UW's 21 libraries.Summit Catalog
Items unavailable in UW Libraries can be requested online and delivered in 3-5 business days from academic libraries in Washington & Oregon.OCLC WorldCat UW restricted
Consists of catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world.Scholarly Articles
Art Abstracts UW restricted
This database offers abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications - subjects covered include Advertising Art, Antiques, Archaeology, Architecture and Architectural History, Art History, Computers in Art, Crafts, Decorative Arts, Fashion Design, Folk Art, Graphic Arts, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Motion Pictures, Museology, Non-Western Art, Painting, Photography, Pottery, Sculpture, Television, Textiles, Video.Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals UW restricted
Indexes worldwide periodicals on architecture, archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation.Additional resources listed on the subject pages for Art and Architecture/Urban Planning.
Books
A valuable resource for researching cinema but the library world has stuck with the pre-1950s terminology Motion Pictures. Try one or more searches using these subject headings in the UW Libraries Catalog:OCLC WorldCat UW restricted
Consists of catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world.Scholarly Articles
Film Literature Index
Articles in trade/popular magazines ,e.g. Variety and The New Yorker, mixed in with scholarly journals, e.g. Film Comment and American Cinematographer. Note that this covers literature published 1976-2001.MLA International Bibliography UW restricted
Articles, dissertations, & chapters on film/cinema in addition to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.Additional resources listed on the Cinema Studies Subject Page.
Books
UW Libraries Catalog
Find books, videos, musical scores, magazines & journals (but not the articles in them) located in any of the UW's 21 libraries.Summit Catalog
Items unavailable in UW Libraries can be requested online and delivered in 3-5 business days from academic libraries in Washington & Oregon.OCLC WorldCat UW restricted
Consists of catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world.Scholarly Articles
GeoBase UW restricted
Articles in scholarly journals about human geography, physical geography, international development studies, environmental studies, and oceanography.Web of Science UW restricted
Multidisciplinary. Search by author, keywords, or by cited reference.
Additional resources listed on the Geography Subject Page.
Books
UW Libraries Catalog
Find books, videos, musical scores, magazines & journals (but not the articles in them) located in any of the UW's 21 libraries.Summit Catalog
Items unavailable in UW Libraries can be requested online and delivered in 3-5 business days from academic libraries in Washington & Oregon.OCLC WorldCat UW restricted
Consists of catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world.Scholarly Articles
America: History & Life UW restricted - American & Canadian history.
Historical Abstracts UW restricted - World history from 1450 to present - excluding North America.
Bibliography of Asian Studies UW restricted - History, political science, art, literature, languages, etc.
CBCA Reference UW restricted - Index to Canadian magazines and journals, includes history.
Swedish Historical Bibliography UW restricted - Literature on the subject of Swedish history published from 1977 and on.Additional resources, along with suggestions for locating primary sources, provided by the History Subject Page.
Find Maps in the UW Libraries Catalog
Historic Map Images
Early Washington Maps Online
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Perry-Castaneda Map Library - Historical Maps and Historical Map Sites (UTexas-Austin)
Library of Congress Map Collection 1544-2000Citation Style Guides for Maps
Reference Tools -- Citation & Writing Guides - see section on citing Maps and Geospatial Data
Grove Music Online UW restricted
Jump start your exploration of this aspect of your city with an o verview providing names, dates, events and bibliographies that will list key books & articles.Books
UW Libraries Catalog
Find books, videos, musical scores, magazines & journals (but not the articles in them) located in any of the UW's 21 libraries.Summit Catalog
Items unavailable in UW Libraries can be requested online and delivered in 3-5 business days from academic libraries in Washington & Oregon.OCLC WorldCat UW restricted
Consists of catalog records and holdings information for material owned by libraries around the world.Scholarly Articles
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature UW restricted
Find journal articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews, etc.Music Index Online UW restricted
Articles from over 640 international music periodicals.Additional resources linked to the Music Subject Page and to the Music Library website.
UW Image Bank
Links to the UW Libraries Digital Collections, additional image collections at the UW, and several externally produced image repositories. A subject listing of image resources is also available.