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.
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?
Follow the Thing Project
Migration Experiences Project
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):
These journals are covered in the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science):
The journal GeoJournal is available in full text via Springer
These interdisciplinary journals may include articles written by geographers. They may be especially pertinent to your FTTP research.
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
A good place to start research on most any subject. This multi-disciplinary database indexes nearly 8,050 publications and provides full text for nearly 4,600, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed journals. Access is provided by eLibraryMN (ELM).
This search engine points toward scholarly research rather than all Web-based sources. It is stronger in the sciences than in the humanities, with social sciences somewhere in between. One interesting feature of Google Scholar is that in includes a link to sources that cite a particular item. Not all of the articles in Google Scholar are free; the library can obtain many of them for you through Interlibrary loan.
This business research database contains industry and company profiles, market research reports, and academic journals, magazine, and trade publications. Access provided by eLibraryMN (ELM).
The American Economic Association's electronic database, contains more than 1.1 million records from 1886-present.
Migration Experiences Project
A good place to start research on most any subject. This multi-disciplinary database indexes nearly 8,050 publications and provides full text for nearly 4,600, including more than 3,900 peer-reviewed journals. Access is provided by eLibraryMN (ELM).
Ethnic Diversity Source covers the culture, traditions, and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America. It provides the full text of nearly 500 journals, including almost 400 peer reviewed journals. It also provides access to the Diversity and Ethnic Studies collection of more than 5,000 ebooks.
This search engine points toward scholarly research rather than all Web-based sources. It is stronger in the sciences than in the humanities, with social sciences somewhere in between. One interesting feature of Google Scholar is that in includes a link to sources that cite a particular item. Not all of the articles in Google Scholar are free; the library can obtain many of them for you through Interlibrary loan.
Many journals from the interdisciplinary field of migration studies are included in the Academic Search Premier and Ethnic Diversity Source databases. For links to specific journals that may include useful articles for your Migration Experiences Project, see the list below.
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