E-Resources for Geography & GIS

Comprehensive, multidisciplinary database covering social sciences, humanities, education, physical and life sciences, and ethnic studies with access to more than 7,000 peer reviewed journals and over 75,000 videos from the Associated Press.

Alternative Press Index is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper and magazine articles from hundreds of international alternative, radical and left periodicals. Covering 1991 to the present, it provides access to emerging theories and practices of social change.

General database covering all subject areas, including business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology, and popular culture. Provides citations to more than 12,600 academic journals and magazines.

The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library contains a large collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. This database covers a variety of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

Covidence provides guided online software for streamlining evidence synthesis, such as systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and gap maps. This software works with citation managers such as Zotero and Endnote, allowing users to filter studies with machine learning or record screening and voting records per studies. Covidence also screens abstracts and full text, creates risk of bias tables, and exports results to common statistical packages. 

To sign up for this trial, email Librarian Claire Curry with your name and ou.edu email address. The OU community has unlimited access and reviews during this trial period, but user accounts must be set up manually by invitation. 

OU Libraries is trialing this resource until April 30th, 2024. Please share your feedback on this resource.

A collection of databases available on various subjects, including the American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and the social sciences. Databases include CQ Politics in America, CQ Researcher plus Archive, CQ Almanac, and CQ Magazine. Full text is available.

Provides CQ Researcher reports that explore a single hot issue in the news each week, including political, social, medical, international, educational, environmental, technological and economical issues. Full text is available.

A web-based virtual community for engineers and other technical professionals. Engineering Village includes access to EI Compendex Web database, which indexes and abstracts engineering journals, conferences, and reports. Also includes access to Knovel, Georef, and GEOBASE.

Environmental Engineering Abstracts covers world literature pertaining to technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production. More than 700 primary journals are thoroughly indexed and abstracted.

Wiley's Environmental Science and History Digital Archive focuses on critical aspects of environmental science, history, and anthropogenic change and includes unique and rare archival collections from multiple global sources. The archive includes manuscripts, images, maps, and photographs covering topics such as deforestation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, ecology, botany, biodiversity, extinction, water sources, irrigation, wetlands, and hydrology.

Determines influential individuals, institutions, papers, publications, and countries in science fields as well as emerging research areas.

This resource provides information profiles for every living language and country on earth. It includes maps of where each language is spoken as well as statistics for a given country or region and guides on language endangerment.

A part of Elsevier's Engineering Village, GeoBASE covers human and physical geography, geology, oceanography, geomechanics, ecology, nature conservation, international development, and related disciplines. Materials indexed include journals, books, conference proceedings, and reports.

A part of Elsevier's Engineering Village, GeoRef is an international database of geoscience literature of the world. Materials indexed include journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Covers the geology of North America from 1785 to the present and the geology of the rest of the world from 1933 to the present. This database includes references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey and is the electronic equivalent to Bibliography and Index of Geology.

GeoScience World is a comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geological and earth sciences. Built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals, this database is linked and inter-operable with GeoRef. Provides access to journals by over 30 earth sciences publishers and indexing for over 2,000 books.

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. Full text is available.

Covers the history of science, technology, and medicine and their influence on culture. Materials indexed include journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations. Integrates four bibliographies: the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology (technology and culture), the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

Full text access to IEEE/IEE journals, proceedings, and standards.

Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to understand and analyze Native American migration and forced resettlement throughout U.S. history, U.S. Government Indian removal policies, and subsequent actions to address Native American claims against the U.S. Government. This collection includes congressional publications, treaties, maps, and docket materials for all Indian Claims Commission cases, as well as cases that preceded and followed the existence of the commission.