Geography - Human
University of Lethbridge Library Guide to resources related to Human Geography.
Find Articles: Recommended Human Geography Databases
Start with the following Databases & Indexes to locate scholarly articles related to Human Geography.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary resource which provides indexing to peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs, and reports. Approximately half of the publications include the full-text.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new window America: History and Lifeis the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window Access research representing Science & Technology, Social Sciences, and Humanities disciplines.
Find Articles: Related Human Geography Databases
- Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new window A collection of regional full-text content such as Canadian and international magazines, plus images from Canadian Press.
- Cities and Buildings Database This link opens in a new window The Cities and Buildings Database is a collection of digitized images of buildings and cities drawn from across time and throughout the world, available to students, researchers and educators on the web.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR provides image and full-text online access to selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Find Articles: Database Search Tips
Use databases to search for journal articles. Alternately, use the "Summon" search box on Library home page to search for articles across multiple databases.
- Help sections explain features and search strategies.
- Use limiters when entering search terms. (Hint: select "Scholarly Peer Reviewed").
- Too many results? Refer to "thesaurus" or "subject term" section in database to identify discipline-specific terminology to describe your topic.
- Too few results? Replace search terms with broader or more general terms.
- Review the citations listed in useful articles to find additional articles.
Find Articles: Finding Relevant Journal Titles
Selected Geography-related journal title categories: