Geography 492:
Library Research in Geography

• UW Libraries Information Gateway
• Classification systems
  • Library of Congress "G" Schedule
  • CyberDewey
  • Webrary at the Morton Grove Public Library
  • Internet Public Library organizes the online texts collections with the Dewey Decimal system
• Research, Writing, Copyright
  • Books on research and writing
  • Information / Publication Cycle
  • Copyright Information, provided by Thom Deardorff
  • Evaluation Criteria
• Tools for identifying books
  • Current Geographical Publications, monthly publication from the American Geographical Society Collection at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
    Also available: Suzzallo Reference Z 6009.A47
  • UW Libraries Catalog
  • OCLC WorldCat
• Web Search Engines
  • Find it on the Web, evaluative assessment of general and specialized web search tools from PC Magazine Online.
  • Web Search Services in 1998, by Susan Feldman, Ebsco Online (June 1998).
  • Search Engine Features Chart, from SearchEngineWatch
  • Search Engine Watch, an excellent source of information, including insights into how web pages are constructed in order to boost their "retrievability" by various engines.
  • How Search Engines Rank Web Pages, from Search Engine Watch. Why do certain sites show up at the top of your results list?
  • Searching the Internet, an excellent guide from InterNIC
• Internet Security
  • Deciphering encryption, by Dan Froomkin and Amy Branson of the Washington Post.
  • Internet Privacy Coalition
  • Encyrption Privacy and Security Resource Page
  • What is "Pretty Good Privacy"?
  • Cookie Central
• Online Cartographic Information
  • UW Maps & Cartographic Services
  • Washington State Geospatial Data Archive
  • Alexandria Digital Library, under development at UCSB
    • ADL Walk Through, using JiGi user interface under development
    • ADL Tutorial for the user interface
• Citation Style
  • Electronic Style, Li and Crane provide adaptations of both MLA and APA styles to web resources
  • Uncle Sam - Brief guide to citing govenment publications, from University of Memphis library
  • How to cite electronic, print and microfiche congressional publications provided by Congressional Universe. (This will be available only to UW affiliated users who are using their UW account).
  • "Official" APA Style Guide for the Web
• Web Publishing
  • Cyber Geography
  • Publishing on the Web
  • Anatomy of a URL
  • Domain Names
  • Country Codes
  • HTML Tutorials, Style Guide, and Clip Art Sources
• Government Publications - UW Libraries, with links to useful governmental web sites including Congressional Compass, IGO pages, and more
• Statistics
  • STAT-USA, the U.S. Dept. of Commerce's central resource for economic news and trade data. [available to UW users only]
  • FedStats, maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, FedStats provides access to the statistics produced by more than 70 federal agencies.
  • Economic and Social Data, a very selective source list

Haring, L.Lloyd, Lounsbury, John F., Frazier, John W. (1992) Introduction to Scientific Geographic Research. Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown Publishers.
Available: Odegaard Undergraduate Reserve G73 .H36 1992

Booth, Wayne C., Colomb, Gregory G., Williams, Joseph M. (1995) The craft of research. Chicago : University of Chicago Press.
Available: Undergraduate Reserve Q180.55.M4 B66 1995

• Event-initiated publication cycle
• Research initiated publication cycle

HTML Tutorials, Style Guide, and Clip Art Sources

• Web Page Workshop
• Writing HTML
• How Do They Do That With HTML?
• Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
• Clipart.com

updated 11/19/98

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