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Library Catalogs

Framingham State College Library Catalog
Owned by FSC and 40+ area libraries, FSC online library catalog provides access to information about books and other materials.

World Cat
World Catalog indexes books and electronic resources owned by over 10,000 libraries worldwide, including Internet sites, by name and subject via FirstSearch. FirstSearch provides online access to more than 40 databases. 

Journal Resources
 

Full-Text Electronic Journal Finder
The Full Text Electronic Journal Finder helps you locate full text journals by title that are in the online periodical databases held by FSC's Whittemore Library. Use this if you know the name of a particular journal and want to see if the library has full-text access online.
 

Interdisciplinary Full Text Databases

Academic Search Premier (1965 - present)                      Off-Campus
Full text reference database. Includes about 3600 journals of which 2700 are peer reviewed journals. Current and multi-disciplinary database. (over 4500 journals are indexed)

Expanded Academic ASAP (1980 - present)                      Off-Campus
Research topics in astronomy, communications, current events, geography, humanities, history, religion, sociology and more.

JSTOR                      Off-Campus
Over 117 journals in the arts humanities and social sciences indexed in full-text PDF format.  Back issues of journals are included, but the three most recent years of a journal may not be available.  
 

Subject Indexes and Abstracts

AGRICOLA (1970 - present)                     Off-campus
Indexes publications covering everything to do with food and agriculture, including animal science, botany, chemistry, entomology, food science, forestry, geography, the life sciences, natural resources, nutrition, pest control, etc.

GEOBASE (1980 - present)                    Off-campus
Worldwide literature on geography, geology and ecology.  Includes peer-reviewed literature, with over 2000 journals indexed.  This is not a full text database.

ECO (1995 - present)                    Off-campus
A collection of scholarly journals, with some full text titles included, covering geography and the social sciences.  Contains over 4800 sources.
 

Other Recommended Links

Geography websites on Del.icio.us

Websites recommended by the Framingham State College community.

American FactFinder
Useful information and facts on US population, history, industry and business statistics from the U.S. Dept of the Census.

GESource - World Guide
Includes country guide for over 270 countries, allows for comparison of country data and demographics.

Internet Resources for Geographers
Comprehensive list of internet links, compiled and edited frequently by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Nations of the World
Information on nations and their associated jurisdictions including form of government, peoples and statistics.

Population Index

US Geological Survey - National Map

WWW Virtual Library - Geography
 

Professional Organizations and Societies

American Geographical Society

American Planning Association

Association of American Geographers

National Geographic Society

Framingham State College Geography Department

 

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Handbooks

                             
County and City Databook.  (Ref HA 202 .A36 2000)

Dictionary of Physical Geography, (Ref GB 10 D53 2000)

Europa World Yearbook, (Ref JN 1 E85 2001)

Statesman's Yearbook, (Ref JA 51 S7 2002)

Statistical Abstract of the United States. (Ref HA 202 .A386 2003)

World Factbook.  (Ref G 122 .U56a 2004)

Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. (Ref G 63 .W67 1995)
 

Atlases 

Atlas of the Arab World: Geopolitics and Society, (Ref G 1785 F3 1990)

Atlas of the Third World, (Ref G 1046 G1 K8 1983 Atlas)

DK Atlas of World History, (Ref G 1030 A875 2000)

Earth Book, (Ref G 1021 E784 1987 Atlas)

National Geographic Satellite Atlas of the World, (Ref G 1046 A43 N3 1998)

Oxford Atlas of the World, (Ref G 1021 O94 2003)

Rand McNally World Atlas of Nations, (Ref G 1021 R355 1988 Atlas)

  Source Citation

For proper citation of the sources in your paper, please refer to Cite A Source.

Created by Elizabeth Bolton, Henry Whittemore Library, Framingham State College
Comments and feedback to: ebolton@frc.mass.edu

 

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