Geography and Earth Sciences Databases
(see also
Environment,
Marine Science,
Sciences, and
General;
for cultural geography, see Culture and Area Studies)
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
Geography -
Meteorology
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more
(more information).
- World
of Earth Science (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Geography:
(for Cultural Geography, see also: Culture & Area Studies)
- Best
of the Web: Geography (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Evaluative guide that provides in-depth information on the best websites
for geography. Covers area studies, bibliographies, cartography, current awareness services,
cybergeography, development, earth sciences, environment, geographic information systems,
journals, libraries, mailing-lists, meteorology, oceanography, organizations, population,
remote sensing, subject gateways, teaching, tourism, and urban studies.
- Geo-Data:
The World Geographical Encyclopedia (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Meteorology:
- Weather
Almanac (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents hundreds of in-depth weather records for 108 major U.S.
cities and a climatic overview of the country, including 33 U.S. weather atlas maps.
Includes a glossary, explanations, a guide to additional weather resources, safety
rules & statistics for hurricanes & tornadoes, and more.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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