BIS 314: Geography

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Getting Help
If you have any questions or need help with your research, please feel free to contact me!

Kathleen DeLaurenti, Social Sciences & Film Studies Librarian
Email:  kdelaurenti@uwb.edu
Phone: 425-352-3659
Office: LB1-310D

If you have any questions or need help with your research, please feel free to contact me! You can also ask a question at the Campus Library or connect to UW Libraries' 24/7 real-time, online reference service, Q&A Live.

 

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Books
Books --tend to cover a topic in more depth and can be written for scholarly or general audiences. 

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Reference

Reference resources such as subject encyclopedias are a good place to start for an overview of a topic, and to get background information.

Online reference sources

Print reference sources

Check for additional subject encyclopedias specific to your topic. Print reference materials are located in the Campus Library Reference area on the 1st floor of the Library. You can browse by subject in the library using the Library of Congress Classification Numbers.

  • Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues UWB/CCC Reference GE10 .E52 2000
  • Encyclopedia of the Environment UWB/CCC Reference GE10 .E53 1994
  • Encyclopedia of World Environmental History UWB/CCC Reference GF10 .E63 2004 
  • Environment A-Z UWB/CCC Reference GE10 .H67 2001
  • Ecological Stewardship UWB/CCC Reference GE300 .E365 1999 
  • Our Earth's Changing Land : an Encyclopedia of Land-use and Land-cover Change UWB/CCC Reference GF90 .O87 2006 
  • Encyclopedia of Sociology UWB/CCC Reference HM425 .E5 2000
  • Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice UWB/CCC Reference HM671 .E53 2007
  • Encyclopedia of Community UWB/CCC Reference HM756 .E53 2003
  • Encyclopedia of Environment and Society UWB/CCC Reference HM856 .E53 2007 
  • Encyclopedia of American Social Movements UWB/CCC Reference HN57 .E594 2004
  • Social Issues in America : an Encyclopedia UWB/CCC Reference HN57 .S624 2006 
  • Wiley Encyclopedia of Environmental Pollution and Cleanup UWB/CCC Reference TD173 .W55 1999 V.1-2

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News and Journal Articles

Journal articles (also called academic, scholarly, refereed, or peer-reviewed articles) are written for a scholarly audience--they give evidence for the researcher's claims (such as bibliographies of sources and research data). News articles can give you local information related to policies and legislation as well as reports on activities of activist organizations.

General Research databases: 

  • Academic Search Complete - uw/ccc restricted
    Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
  • Expanded academic ASAP - uw/ccc restricted
    Scholarly and general interest sources in business, news, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.
  • JSTOR search - uw/ccc restricted
    Full-text scholarly articles in the social sciences and other areas.
  • Project Muse - uw/ccc restricted
    Fulltext collection of social science and humanities journals .

Newspaper databases:

  • Alt-PressWatch - uw/ccc restricted
    Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press
  • Access World News - uw/ccc restricted
    Washington state, U.S., and international newspapers.
  • LEXIS-NEXIS Academic  -uw/ccc restricted
    Full-text news (newspapers, wire services, transcripts and newsletters), business literature, industry and company information, legal, biographical, and reference resources.
  • National newspapers - uw/ccc restricted
    Covers 27 major U.S. newspapers and other U.S., international, and minority interest papers. Includes some fulltext. For the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and Oregonian, search ProQuest Newspapers in the Databases & Catalogs list
  • Seattle Indy Media
    Independent Media Center established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle.
  • Washington State Newsstand - uw/ccc restricted
    Indexing and full-text from selected Washington State newspapers, including the Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Puget Sound Business Journal, Spokesman-Review (Spokane), News Tribune (Tacoma), and The Columbian (Vancouver)

Geography, Social Sciences, and Environmental Sciences databases:

  • BioOne - uw/ccc restricted
    Full texts of research journals focused on the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences
  • GeoBASE - uw/ccc restricted
    Covers human geography, physical geography, international development studies, environmental studies, and oceanography.
  • GreenFILE - uw/ccc restricted
    Access scholarly & popular articles and government reports from the disciplines of agriculture, education, law, health and technology about the positive and negative impacts humans have on the environment.
  • Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management - uw/ccc restricted
    Multidisciplinary database providing comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences.
  • PAIS International - uw/ccc restricted
    Covers social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources
  • Sociological abstracts   - uw/ccc restricted
    Citations to Sociology journal articles; also covers conference papers and dissertations.

Connect to UW restricted resources from off campus

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Research & Writing Tools

Library Subject Guides

Selected Internet Sources

Citation Help

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