Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

GeoBASE
Worldwide literature on geography, geology, and ecology.  more info

GeoRef
Materials in geology and the earth sciences.  more info

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

More Databases

Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
Provides information in the scientific and technological fields.  more info

Environment Complete
Available on ARLIS library computers 8am - 5pm Mon -Fri  more info

FindArticles.com
Contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals  more info

Fuente Academica
Collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.  more info

General Science Abstracts
General science literature from the U.S. and Europe.  more info

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, and reference publications.  more info

Military & Government Collection.
Provides full text for over 330 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.  more info

NTIS
The DARTS System is a product of the collaborative efforts of the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) and the Government Printing Office.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - Names & Places
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

Social Sciences Abstracts
Abstracts of articles on the social sciences.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
The official website of the ACSM.  more info

ARLIS: Alaska Resources and Library Information Services
The mother lode of Alaska resources information.  more info

Atlas Collections
Links to online atlases.  more info

Country Studies / Area Handbooks
From the Library of Congress.  more info

Environmental History on the Internet
Overview of Environmental History links on the web  more info

Geography
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet.  more info

globalEDGE Resource Desk
A collection of resources for international trade and business.  more info

International Affairs Resources
From the WWW Virtual Library.  more info

Map Collections
Links to Web map collections.  more info

National Geographic Xpeditions
Attractive and interactive website for map resources  more info

Political Geography
Nicely integrated site from Florida State University providing numerous pertinent links  more info

Portals to the World
Information about the nations and other areas of the world.  more info

Science.gov
Gateway to the best science information from government sources.  more info

U.S. Geological Survey
USGS homepage providing information about the Earth.  more info

World Factbook
From the CIA.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

Atlas of the world
Oxford University Press c2001.  more info

Dictionary of Alaska place names
1971 part of Geological Survey professional papers.  more info

Introduction to surveying
By James M. Anderson and Edward M. Mikhail.  more info

Rand McNally ... commercial atlas & marketing guide
Includes latest edition.  more info

Surveying
By A. Bannister, S. Raymond, and R. Baker.  more info

Surveying, theory and practice
By James M. Anderson and Edward M. Mikhail.  more info

World geographical encyclopedia
Sybil P. Parker, editor.  more info