Getting Started - Geography and the Environment - Guides Directory at Oxford University

Key Resources

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

SCOPUS (includes Geobase)

Ovid SP (includes GeoRef and EconLit)

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - now available via the new ProQuest platfom

JSTOR

Manual of European Environmental Policy

Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO)

Guide: Remote Access

There are three methods of accessing subscription resources off campus:

Single Sign On. Sign on to SOLO, OxLIP+ or your University email and your browser retains the sign on. This allows you to access most e-resources as if you were on campus.
VPN (Virtual Private Network). Register with OUCS to log on to the network via VPN. Once logged on you can access all e-resources as if you were on campus.
Departmental Server. Members of some departments will be able to access e-resources by logging in to their departmental server (e.g. Economics and Politics).

For further information see the Bodleian Libraries remote access guide.

Awards for Publications

AAG Publication Award is conferred in recognition of exceptional and outstanding contributions to the discipline by publishers. The award is not necessarily given every year.

2010
Victor H. Winston and Bellwether Publishing, for his many years of service as a rare combination of scholar and publisher and in recognition of more than 50 years of sustained publisher support for the discipline through production of outstanding geography journals.

Includes "Eurasian Geography and Economics" (Oxford e-Journals), No. 1 in Area Studies in the Journal Citation Reports for 2010.

Geography LibGuide

This 'Getting Started' page gives you links to key resources and information about new publications. The tabs above lead to more in-depth information about:

Finding journal articles

E-books & online reference works

Theses & dissertations

News & analysis

Statistics

Cartography

If you wish to ask a question, recommend a resource for purchase or book a research appointment, then please contact the Subject Specialist for Geography, Sue Bird. Sue is based in the Radcliffe Science Library and runs a weekly "surgery" in the Department. Suggestions about this online guide are also very welcome!

Libraries

New Books

SAGE handbook of environmental change - edited by John A Matthews

Call Number: GE 105 SAG 2012

ISBN: 9780857023605

This 2 volume set gives an extensive survey of the interdisciplinary science of environmental change. It includes recent debates on climate change and the full range of other natural and anthropogenic changes affecting the Earth-ocean-atmosphere system in the past, present and future.

Introduction to modern climate change - Andrew Dessler

Call Number: RSL : QC 981.8.C5 DES

ISBN: 9780521173155

Publication Date: 2012

This book not only focuses on the science of modern climate change and the problem of anthropogenic climate change. It also addresses non-science issues such as the economics of and the policy options involved.

The SAGE handbook of biogeography - edited by Andrew C. Millington, Mark A. Blumler and Udo Schickhoff.

Call Number: RSL Level 2 QH84 SAG 2011

ISBN: 9781412919517

Publication Date: 2011

This is a retrospective and prospective overview of biogeography that considers the main areas of the subject. It details a global perspective by incorporating the work of different schools of biogeography and examines the interdisciplinary debates that biogeographers are, and are not, contributing to within geography.