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GEG 102: World Geography: Scholarly Articles (FTTP & MEP)

Scholarly Sources in Conversation

For your two major projects this semester, you'll want to do your due diligence by searching for articles that help you understand the scholarly conversation about your topic in the field of geography. Follow the steps below to explore the scholarly conversation.

Searching Specific Journals

Search these geography journals for articles related to your topic. What evidence can you find of scholarly conversations about, or closely related to, your topic?

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Geography Journals

Below is a list of some of the key geography journals and where you can search therm. Full text availability is listed in parentheses. If full text available is not listed, you can request articles from another library.

These key geography journals are covered in Academic Search Premier (ASP):

  • Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers (current issue available in print; full text in ASP with 18 month delay)
  • Antipode (full text in ASP with 12 month delay)
  • Area (full text in ASP with 12 month delay)
  • Cultural Geographies (full text current in Sage Premier)
  • Economic Geography (full text online)
  • Environment and Planning A-D (full text current in Sage Premier)
  • Geographical Analysis (full text in ASP with 12 month delay)
  • Geographical Review (full text online)
  • Geography Compass (indexed in ASP)
  • Human Ecology (full text online)
  • International Journal of Geographical Information Science (GIS) (full text in ASP with 15 month delay)
  • Journal of Cultural Geography 
  • Journal of Economic Geography (link to full text or request the article using the Find It! button in the EconLit database)
  • Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA) (full text online)
  • Political Geography
  • Progress in Human Geography (full text current in ASP)
  • Progress in Physical Geography (full text current in Sage Premier)
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (full text in ASP with 12 month delay)
  • Urban Affairs Review (full text current in Sage Premier)
  • Urban Studies (Sage Publications) (full text current in Sage Premier)

These journals are covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science):

  • Energy Research & Social Science (full text on publisher site)
  • GeoForum
  • Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions (available in print 1995-2016)
  • Urban Geography

The journal GeoJournal is available in full text via Springer

Searching Databases

See if you can learn more about the scholarly conversations on your topic by searching in one or more of these databases. Tip: Not sure how to tell if an article is written from the perspective of geography? Ask your instructor or librarian for help and/or check it against the list in the "Geography Journals" box on this page.

Follow the Thing Project

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Interdisciplinary Journals

These interdisciplinary journals may include articles written by geographers. They may be especially pertinent to your FTTP research.

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