Geography: Indexes, Databases, and Reference Books

The American Geographical Society's Current Geographical Publications includes the tables of contents of current geographical journals.
 

Print Sources:

• The Times Atlas of the World [G 1019.T5 Oversize Shelving]
• Goode's World Atlas [G 1021.G6 1990 Book Shelves]
• Oxford Atlas of the World [G 1021.A7545 2004 Oversize Shelving]
• Oxford Concise Atlas of the World [G 1021.C74 1996 Oversize Shelving]
• Oxford Encyclopedic World Atlas [G 1021.G417 2000 Oversize Shelving]
• Times Atlas of World History [ G 1030.T54 1978 Book Shelves]
• Rand McNally Road Atlas [G 1019.R23 2001 Oversize Shelving]
• Rand McNally Commercial Atlas & Marketing Guide [G 1019. R22 Periodical Shelves]
• Columbia Gazetteer of the World [G 103.5 .C65 1998 Book Shelves]
• Cambridge World Gazetteer: A Geographical Dictionary [G 103.5.C44 1990 Book Shelves]

The library also owns many other general and specialized atlases.

Guides to the Literature

• The Literature of Geography: A Guide to its Organisation and Use, J. Gordon Brewer [G 112.Z99B74  Book Shelves]
• Aids to Geographical Research: Bibliographies, Periodicals, Atlases, Gazetteers and Other Reference Works, John Kirtland Wright and Elizabeth T. Platt [G 112.Z99W9 1947 Book Shelves]
• Bibliographies and Reference Works for Research In Geography, Chauncey Dennison Harris [G 112.Z99H28 Book Shelves]

The following three items are issued under the auspices of the Association of American Geographers, each one essentially updating the previous edition:

• A Basic Geographical Library:A Selected and Annotated Book List for American Colleges, Martha Church, Robert E. Huke, and Wilbur Zelinsky [ G 112. Z99C48  Book Shelves]
• A Geographical Bibliography for American College Libraries, revised by Gordon R. Lewthwaite, Edward T. Price, Jr., and Harold A. Winters [G 112.Z99L49 1970 Book Shelves]
• A Geographical Bibliography for American Libraries, Chauncey D. Harris, editor-in-chief [G 112.Z99H29 1985 Book Shelves]

• U.S. Government Publications for Research and Teaching in Geography and Related Social and Natural Sciences, C.L. Vinge and A.G. Vinge [G 112.Z99V5 1967 Book Shelves]
• A Bibliography of Geographic Thought, Catherine L. Brown and James O. Wheeler [G 112. Z99B5814 1989  Book Shelves]
• The History of Modern Geography: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works, Gary S. Dunbar [G 112.Z99D86 1985  Book Shelves]

Encyclopedias

• World Geographical Encyclopedia
  v. 1. Africa
  v. 2. Americas
  v. 3. Asia
  v. 4. Europe
  v. 5. Oceania, polar regions, general geography
  [G63 .E5213 1995 Book Shelves]

• Companion Encyclopedia of Geography: The Environment and Humankind, Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, and Mike Robinson [G 116.C645 1996 Book Shelves]

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Geography
  v. 1 Earth's natural forces
  v. 2 World government
  v. 3 Nature's last stronghold
  v. 4 Plant life
  v. 5 Animal life
  v. 6 Farming and food
  v. 7 Peoples and culture
  v. 8 Resources and industry
  v. 9 Human settlement
  v. 10 Planet management
  v. 11 World economy
  [G 116.I45 1990  Book Shelves]

• Larousse Encyclopedia of World Geography [G 115.G55343  Book Shelves]

• Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia, Robert Paehlke [GE 10.C68 1995  Book Shelves]

Dictionaries

• General
• New Penguin Dictionary of Geography [G 63.C562 1990 Book Shelves]
• Webster's New Geographical Dictionary [G 103.5.W42 1988 Book Shelves]
• Longman Dictionary of Geography [G 63.C56 1985 Book Shelves]
• A Dictionary of Basic Geography [G 108.A2D5 Book Shelves]

• Specialized
• Dictionary of Human Geography [GF4 .D52 2000 Book Shelves]
• Dictionary of Concepts in Human Geography [G 4.L37 1983  Book Shelves]
• Dictionary of Ecology and the Environment [GE 10 .C65 2001 Book Shelves]