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Department
of Geography and Geology
Departmental Research Guide
This research guide relays some basic information on library
and information resources pertaining to the concerns of
this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or
sites on the World Wide Web.
1.
LC Call Nos. - - - 2.
Finding Articles - - - 3.
Reference Collection - - - 4.
G & G Faculty - - - 5.
Professional Societies - - - 6.
Web Sites
1.
To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library
of Congress Subject Divisions)
Books
on subjects associated with this field are shelved under
the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT
to search for specific items in the collection, or more
narrowly-defined subjects.
Geography:
World Regional Geographies/Histories (D's,
E's & F's) ------- General Geography
(G) ------- Cartography etc. (GA) -------
Regional & Physical Geography (GB) -------
Oceanography (GC) ------- General Environmental
Sciences (GE) ------- Human Ecology (GF)
------- Population Geography/Migration (HB1951 - HB2577)
------- Economic History & Conditions (HC &
HD) ------- General & Urban Transportation
(HE131 - HE333) ------- Commercial/Economic Geography
(HF1025 - HF1027) ------- Human Settlements &
Cities (HT) ------- Geopolitics/Nationalism (JC319
- JC323) ------- City Planning/Beautifying (NA9000
- NA9428) ------- Meteorology & Climatology (QC851
- QC999) ------- Phytogeography (QK101 - QK474)
------- Soil Science (S590 - S599) ------- Natural
Resource Conservation (S900 - S972) ------- Survey
Methods (TA590 - TA597) ------- various bibliographic
subjects (Z)
Geology:
Regional & Physical Geography (GB)
------- Oceanography (GC) ------- Geophysics &
Geomagnetism (QC801 - QC849) ------- Geology (all
main subjects) (QE) ------- Mining (TN)
------- various bibliographic subjects (Z)
2. To Find Journal and Magazine
Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)
The
following services are recommended for use by first-year
students and nonmajors:
- Academic
Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier:
These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part
of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and
abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries
receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles
in full-text.
- ArticleFirst:
This all-subject FirstSearch-based database indexes
almost 13000 journals and magazines from 1992 onward,
including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries
carries in hardcopy.
- Science
(Magazine) Online (AAAS).
- Google
Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that
restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features
linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.
- Social
Sciences Index: A paper product that indexes a good
number of geography- and other social sciences-related
journals. Located in Helm Reference at AI3 .S62 (ref.per.ind.).
The
following services are recommended for use by advanced students
and researchers:
- GEOREF:
A WWW-based service which exhaustively indexes the literature
of the field of geology; now incorporated into GeoScience
World. WARNING!: This library owns only a small fraction
of the titles indexed!
- GEOBASE:
An abstracting service for literature in the fields of
geography (and ecology), 1980-. Access for graduate students
and faculty (and undergraduates by permission) through
FirstSearch.
- GeoScienceWorld:
A collection of around forty ejournals in the geosciences
field, covering 2000-.
- SpringerLink:
Access to about 1000 Springer journals with full content
back to about 1997.
- ejournal
collections by individual publisher: Cambridge
Journals Online, ScienceDirect (Elsevier),
and Wiley Interscience. Abstracting of the nearly
2000 science journals published by these companies, with
some full-text available at each site (individually).
- JSTOR:
Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete
archival collections of over 150 (and growing) core scholarly
journals up to the most recent three to five years.
- Science
(Magazine) Online (AAAS).
- Nature
(Magazine) Online.
- DOAJ
(Directory of Open Access Journals):
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled
scientific and scholarly journals" (across all subject
areas, and in multiple languages).
- Electronic
Journal Service: EJS (Ebsco): Full-text
articles, tables of content, and abstracts from journals
across all subject areas.
- ECO
(FirstSearch KYVL database): No
full-text, but provides indexing of WKU hardcopy journal
subscriptions across all subject areas.
- Google
Scholar: As described above.
- Sociological
Collection: An EBSCOhost database that covers
many subjects in the social sciences in full-text.
- Marcive
Web DOCS: A WWW-based service that indexes monographic
series by the U.S. Government, including those on geographical
and geological subjects.
- ArticleFirst:
As described above.
- Ingenta:
A free online database indexing some 28000 journals and
magazines from the 1980s onward. Offers for-pay text delivery.
- Current
Geographical Publications: A paper abstracting service
located in Reference at G1.C8x (ref.per.ind.). Ended as
a hardcopy product in 2003, but then continued online
as GEOBIB
(with electronic backfile coverage to 1985).
- Social
Sciences Index: As described above.
Special
resource: Comprehensive
List of Indexes, Abstracts, and Full-Text Services Related
to the Natural & Applied Sciences Held by University Libraries
Special resource:
TDNet
Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries'
electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well
as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles;
includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]
Special
resource:
Knovel
Online Library:
A set of technical reference books and tables of particular
interest to engineering, mathematics, physics, astronomy,
and chemistry.
3. Monographic and Other Reference
Materials in the Helm Library and Kentucky Building
The
following are recommended for use:
- International
Statistics: A list summarizing sources of statistics
for countries of the world. Also available at the Helm
Reference Desk as a hardcopy guide.
- handbooks,
dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc.: available
in Helm Reference, mainly in the G, GA,
GB, GC, GE, GF, QC801-QC999,
QE, and TD parts of the collection.
Note especially the following: The Columbia
Gazetteer G103.5 .C65x ------- Encyclopedia of
Geomorphology GB400.3 .E53 ------- Encyclopedia
of Caves & Karst Science GB601 .E535 ------- Encyclopedia
of Ocean Sciences GC9 .E57 ------- Encyclopedia
of Atmospheric Sciences QC854 .E522 ------- Significant
Tornadoes QC955.5 .U6.G733x ------- The Weather
Almanac QC983.W38 ------- Dana's New Mineralogy
QE372.D23 ------- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
QE770.J6. See the Shelf
List of Science & Technology-Related Reference Works in
the Reference Department, Helm Library.
- atlases:
available in Helm Reference.
- maps:
some available in Helm Reference; also inquire about the
collection housed in the Dept. of Geography and Geology.
- Geological
Survey Reports, almanacs, maps and works relating to Mammoth
and other caves, in the Kentucky Building.
4. Department of Geography &
Geology Faculty
Dept.
of Geography and Geology Faculty http://www.wku.edu/geoweb/info/faculty.html
5. Related Professional Societies
(for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)
6. Web Sites Recommended by Dept.
of Geography and Geology Faculty
Maps/Cartography
General/Misc. Geography
or Environment
Countries/Cities
Social Sciences
Climatology, Hydrology
etc.
Mineralogy
Geosciences: General
Subjects
Geosciences: Specific
Subjects
Maps
& Cartography
General
& Miscellaneous Geography or Environment
Countries/Cities
of the World
(Predominantly)
Social Sciences Data-Related
Meteorology,
Climatology, Hydroclimatology, Hydrology
Mineralogy
Geosciences: General (Information Gateways, Teaching Resources,
Careers, etc.)
Geosciences: Specific Subjects (Paleontology, Geomorphology,
Karst, Earthquakes, Volcanism, etc.)
University
Libraries Liaison: Charles
H. Smith (x6079 / charles.smith@wku.edu)
last updated 4/14/2008
page maintained by Charles H. Smith
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