Research Guides: GEOG 1301 / GEOG 1302 / GEOG 1303 SO: GEOG 1301 Internet Sources

Websites

Use these authoritative websites to identify problems to research and gather information.

CIA World Factbook
Maps
Demographics
Geography
Eye on Earth
Use this interactive tool to view the earth in a whole new light.
Hawaii Center for Volcanology
Learn about Hawaiian volcanoes.
Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
Learn about Volcanoes.
NASA's Eyes on Earth
Learn about climate change: read causes and effects from an authoritative source.
National Geographic Maps
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association)
Anything and everything concerned with weather and climate.
San Francisco Museum
Learn about the 1906 earthquake.
USGS - United States Geological Survey
This website will help you identify a particular problem of focus for your research.
Virtual Tourist
Outstanding source of unbiased, user-generated travel content for travelers seeking an insider's perspective. Real travel tips, reviews and photos from real people who have actually been there and done that.
World Atlas
Outstanding search tool for population, land and water information.

Databases from the Web

Searching a database is not like searching the Web. Databases are collections of scholarly articles of a specific subject. Some databases are available only through the TCC Library Webpage, but there are also some that are free and available online, like the ones below.

AgEcon
A resource to help you research the economic aspects of subjects like pollution and climate change.
Current Research Journal of Social Sciences
Current Research Journal of Social Sciences is a scholarly, open access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary and fully refereed journal focusing on theories, methods and applications in social sciences and humanities research.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Browse a number of open access journals to assist with your research.
Earth Trends
Great information on water resources, climate, population, atmosphere and more.
Journal of Maps
The Journal of Maps is an inter-disciplinary online, electronic, journal that aims to provide a forum for researchers to publish maps and spatial diagrams. Using full peer review and a reverse publishing method (where the author pays for the review process), all published maps are freely distributed to anyone wishing to view them.
Natural Hazards and Earth Sciences
An open access journal of the European Geosciences Union.

Type in the name of a country or body of water

Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. Our goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systematizations of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers to factual queries. (http://www.wolframalpha.com/about.html)

The information gathered from the Wolfram/Alpha project is similar to that found in the Global Road Warrior database or the CIA World Factbook.

Maps (outlines)

Brigham Young University Geography Department
All the maps are PDF files, so you need Acrobat Reader installed to view them. Several are quite large but the majority replicate our world regional geography course mapping requirements.
University of Texas Online Maps
Maps of various countries, regions, as well as historical maps and maps of natural disasters.

Google Earth

Download Google Earth for FREE!
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.
Google Earth Tutorial
Here you will find a LibGuide created by librarians at Duke University to assist students in using Google Earth.

Virtual Maps

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