Guides and databases: Geography: Welcome

Welcome to your Geography subject guide

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This guide has been put together by the Geography Subject Librarian and it is relevant to all students in the Department of Geography. You will find here an overview of the library resources and support available to you to help you in your studies or research.

Use the menu to find out what is available, including key information on:

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Subject Collections

Key electronic resources in your subject area include:

Border and Migration Studies Online
Border and Migration Studies Online is a collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others. Accessibility statement for Border and Migration Studies Online.
Digimap - Ordnance Survey
Access for UCL students and staff only. Users must register with their UCL username and password on first use and agree to licence conditions. Online digital mapping and data extraction facilities using Ordnance Survey data of Great Britain. Login and choose "Ordnance Survey". Please note, from Aug 2019 OS Northern Ireland data is included.
Elsevier Reference Collection in Earth Systems and Environmental Science
This reference collection contains trusted, peer-reviewed, comprehensive content from Elsevier's reference works. It contains "Featured Articles" for quick, clear overviews and subject hierarchies to put information in context. Accessibility statement for ScienceDirect.
GEOBASE
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Ovid. This database can be accessed by no more than 4 users at a time. Index of literature in the fields of physical and human geography, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, mineralogy, ecology and development studies.
GeoRef
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Ovid. Index of literature in the geosciences. See GeoRef InProcess for provisional content.
GreenFILE
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to EBSCOhost. Index of scholarly, government and general-interest publications, covering all aspects of human impact on the environment.

The International Encyclopedia of Geography : People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology
This newly published work reviews and defines the concepts, research, and techniques in geography and interrelated fields.

OECD iLibrary
Index of publications from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Formerly SourceOECD.
Royal Geographical Society Digital Archive (with Institute of British Geographers)
The RGS’s archive contains vast collections of documents, maps, photographs, expedition reports, manuscript materials and books, and span 500 years of geography, travel and exploration.
SCOPUS
See the LibrarySkills@UCL guide to Scopus. Multi-disciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources. Please use IE 8 or higher, Google Chrome or Firefox browsers.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database containing references to journal articles, conference proceedings, trade publications, book series and web resources.

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