Geography: Related Indexes and Databases
EconLit
1969-current. Index for over 600 journals, books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
Tips:
Enviroline
1975-current. International coverage of primary and secondary source materials. You must complete an instruction session and access this database from a Library computer. Contact a Reference Librarian at (802-443-3268) or rlibrary@middlebury.edu for assistance.
Historical Abstracts
1995-current. Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
Newspapers Guide
Newspapers can be essential sources in geographical research. The Newspapers guide directs you to newspaper resources available at Middlebury.
Population Index
1986-2000. A searchable annotated bibliography of literature on population studies worldwide published in books, journal articles and working papers.
Science.gov
Selective coverage, as far back as 1948. Science.gov is a search engine for government science information. It allows you to search the contents of web sites from the Department of Agriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, and the US Government Printing Office.
Results are authoritative and selective and may include scientific or technical data, publications, databases, documentation, or other forms of information. Results will not include sites that are merely organization home pages nor sites that require a login.
Tip:
- To limit your search to a subset of the database, click on the "Advanced Search" link
Statistics Guide
Statistics can be essential sources in geographical research. The Statistics guide directs you to statistics resources available at Middlebury.
Web of Science (Science Citation Index)
1985-current. Together, the Science Citation Index and the Social Sciences Citation Index cover several thousand scholarly journals worldwide. The Science Citation Index segment covers core science and technology research journals. Special features include cited article searching and discovery of related articles through common terms. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. (For references to articles published 1974-1989, use SciSearch via Dialog on Library computers; ask the Science Librarian for assistance.)
Tips:
- Enclose phrases in quotes " " .
- Truncate terms using an asterisk * .
- For more tips, see Web of Knowledge Help or the online Tutorial.
- Go shortcut = go/wos
