Geography

Geography Databases

CIA World Factbook
Concise information about countries (and other political divisions) of the world. Regularly updated.
A full-text database. Open access from anywhere.

GEOBASE
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

World Data Analyst Online
Provides detailed & ranked statistics for 200+ countries with the ability to create tables & graphs comparing many different statistics of different countries. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. More database info.
A (largely) full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

AGRICOLA
Materials relating to all aspects of agriculture, forestry, and animal science. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online
The full-text online version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Meets research needs across all academic disciplines, from arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Lexis-Nexis Universe
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Periodical Abstracts
Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Proceedings First
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

WorldCat
OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide. More database info.
Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

Journal Collections

Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a collection of more than 8,000 journals with full manual indexing, a robust backfile and coverage of a variety of academic disciplines -- from science, technology and medicine to the humanities, and includes full-text of major newspapers. Content is provided in both HTML and PDF formats. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

JSTOR
A collection of full-text scholarly journals. More database info.
A full-text database. Off-campus access with I.D. number. More access info.

How to Find a Specific Journal

Simon’s Rock Full Text Journals
A searchable database of all the journals, magazines, and newspapers available to the Simon's Rock Community, both in print and online.
Works best from on-campus. More access info.

Geography Websites

allAfrica.com
Posts over 800 stories daily in English and French and offers a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in a searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997).
Open access from anywhere.

BBC Country Profiles
Full profiles providing an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives.
Open access from anywhere.

National Atlas of the United States
All sorts of U.S. maps, many of which are interactive and/or printable. Want to find out how many orchards there were in your county in 1997? Or where the watersheds are? Or what the bedrock is made of? This site lets you create many different kinds of topical maps. Educational tool or major time-sink...or both!
Open access from anywhere.

United Nations Cartographic Section
Maps of the world, regions, and selected nations. Also maps of U.N. peacekeeping deployments.
Open access from anywhere.

Visible Earth
Provides a consistently updated, central point of access to the superset of NASA's Earth science-related images, animations, and data visualizations. Neat satellite photos.
Open access from anywhere.

World Population to 2300 (PDF)
A hefty (over 250 pages) report from the U.N. with many graphs showing population projections.
Open access from anywhere.

General Websites

Google Scholar
The ever-ambitious Google’s attempt to index “scholarly” information on the web. Not exhaustive or entirely reliable (the project is still in development), but worth a try if you’ve drawn a blank everywhere else. Note that many of the articles indexed require payment for viewing (though you can usually obtain the article citation for free). More database info.
Limited full-text. Open access from anywhere.