Articles, Journals & E-journals - Geography - Human and Physical - Research Guides at Syracuse University Libraries

Find a Journal

All Geography, GIS and Cartography journals in print and digital format that SU subscribes to can be found using the Libraries Online Catalog's Find a Journal page.

Databases for Human Geography

These are the major Geography databases that you have access too. But don't stop there. To make your literature search complete I suggest you also search other subject specific databases that compliment your research topic. You can find them, by subject, in the Database Menu

GeoRef
Covers geology and physical geography with citations from 1669 to the present. The database includes all USGS publications, theses and dissertations from universities across North America and indexes more than 3,500 journals in 40 languages as well as new books, maps, and reports.
Sage Reference and Academic Books
Books, reference works, handbooks, in the social sciences, from Sage and CQ Press.
Scopus
An abstract and citation database covering more than 17,000 peer-reviewed, open access, and trade journals, conference proceedings, and book series in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature. Covers 386 million quality web sources and 22 million patents.

Databases for Physical Geography

Compendex
The world's largest engineering index. Includes literature related to hydrology, geomorphology, soils etc. Coverage from 1884
Dissertations & Theses (new interface)
Full text access to nearly one million dissertations published from 1997. Abstracts only for earlier dissertations and for masters theses
ProQuest Research Library
For non-scholarly coverage of topics in physical geography, this comprehensive interdisciplinary database also includes full text articles from trade journals, magazines, newspapers etc.

Browse the Databases Main Menu for more subjects.

E-Journals & Resources

OPEN ACCESS Journals in Geography
Searching "geography" with only the "Journals" box checked, will yield 563 open access journal titles that cover various sub-disciplines of Geography.
Cartographica Helvetica
Full-text & full run of this journal on cartographic history. There is a 12 month delay for the latest two issues.
Bibliographia Cartographica
Currently only available in German. English version is coming.
Cartographica
The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. An international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that publishes transformative research, education, and practice contributions to the social, political, technological, and historical aspects of cartography and geovisualization.
Literary Geographies
A peer reviewed journal that combines the topics and methods from literary studies, cultural geography, cartography, and spatial theory.

Core Geography journals

Listed in ranked order of impact are the top 20 journals in the field of Geography.

For full-text or print availability, copy and paste the title into the Libraries Journal Search page to find what databases you can find online issues as well as locating the print issues in the Library Facility.

Progress in human geography

Transactions (Institute of British Geographers)

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Economic geography

Antipode

Environment and planning. D, Society & space

Environment and planning. A

Regional studies

Geoforum

International journal of geographical information science

Political geography

Area

Geographical analysis

Landscape and urban planning

Professional geographer

Australian geographer

Journal of historical geography

Geographical journal

Singapore journal of tropical geography

Urban geography

Grey Literature

Web guide on Grey Literature
Links, information and some tutorials on what and where to find sources of grey literature from Cornell University Library
Sources of Grey Literature
Links and sources of grey literature from University of Michigan Library

Geography - Human and Physical: Articles, Journals & E-journals