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Geography & Geology

Department of Geography & 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. Find Articles    3. Ref Collection    4. G & G Faculty    5. Prof. Societies    6. Websites


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)

 

2a. 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 (EBSCOhost)  
      
    These two (see below) 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.
  • Masterfile Premier (EBSCOhost)
    See above.
  • 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.
  • GreenFile (EBSCOhost)
    This EBSCOhost-based database covers literature on man's impact on the environment.
  • 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.).
 

2b. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

  • GeoScienceWorld—Includes E-Journals and 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!
  • American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
    A collection of around forty ejournals centering on petroleum geology, some with deep backfiles.
  • Web of Science  
      
    A state of the art abstracting tool covering more than 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities, with links to full text as available.
  • SpringerLink Journals
    Access to about 1000 Springer journals with full content back to about 1997.
  • 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 Online (Nature Publishing)  
      
  • 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).
  • Google Scholar  
      
    As described above.
  • GreenFile (EBSCOhost)
    This EBSCOhost-based database covers literature on man's impact on the environment.
  • Sociological Collection (EBSCOhost)
    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  
      
    FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in print.
  • IngentaConnect  
      
    A free online database indexing some 28000 journals and magazines from the 1980s onward. Offers for-pay text delivery.
  • GEOBIB Online Geographical Bibliography  
      
    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).
 

Special Resources

 

3. Monographic and Other Reference Materials in the Helm Library and Kentucky Building

Handbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories, etc. are available in Helm Reference, mainly in the G, GA, GB, GC, GE, GF, QC801-QC999, QE, and TD parts of the collection. The following are recommended for use:

  • 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. 
 

4. Department of Geography & Geology Faculty

Science Librarian

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Charles Smith
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mail: University Libraries, 1906 College Heights Blvd., Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101

office: Room 102, Helm Library
phone: (270) 745-6079
fax: (270) 745-2275
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Agriculture, Architectural & Manufacturing Sciences, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geography & Geology, Mathematics & Statistical Analysis, Physics & Astronomy
 
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