Human Geography


 Resources for Human Geography


 Human Geography definitions, facts, figures and overviews

  • Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
  • Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
  • Atlases and gazeteers

Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Encyclopedia of life sciences

Includes articles in the fields of ecology and evolution

Oxford Reference Online

Includes Concise Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus, World Encyclopedia, Dictionary of Sociology,  Dictionary of Geography

Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks

Australian encyclopaedia

919.4/51

Dictionary of human geography

909/52

Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture

994.0049915/21

Legal systems of the world: a political, social and cultural encyclopedia

REG/K/332/LEG/1

Scientific papers and presentations

501.4/10

Scientist's guide to poster presentations

808.0665/12

Writing the laboratory notebook

542/30

Worldmark encyclopedia of cultures and daily life

305.8003/4

 

To find additional reference items

  1. Search the Library Catalogue
  2. Select advanced keyword search
  3. Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**

    human geography AND dictionar**

    geograph** AND encycloped**

    census AND map**
     

  4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **

    e.g. geograph** will retrieve geography, geographic, geographical

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 Human Geography books and more

Search the Library Catalogue to find books, videos, maps, atlases, CDs

If you know the exact title

  1. Select title search
  2. Type in the exact title
  3. Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection

If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area

  1. Select advanced keyword search
  2. Type in keywords from your topic
  3. Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords

    e.g. Illawarra AND statistics

  4. To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **

    e.g. geograph** will retrieve geography, geographic, geographical

Catalogue search tips:

  • Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. Illawarra AND statistics AND demographic
    OR
    Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
  • Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
  • Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location

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 Human Geography journal articles and census data

Search a database to find journal articles, newspaper articles, book chapters, conference papers, research reports and census data

Try these first

Database

Notes

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APAFT

Multidisciplinary, Australian content. Partial fulltext

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ABS Website

Australian statistical data. Includes 2001 Census. Fulltext

N/A

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Australian Heritage Bibliography (formerly HERA)

Australia's natural and cultural environment *

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Current Contents Connect

Multidisciplinary

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Factiva

Newspapers. Includes Australian newspapers e.g. Sydney Morning Herald, Illawarra Mercury. Fulltext

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Proquest5000

Multi-disciplinary. Partial fulltext

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ScienceDirect

Multi-disciplinary. Fulltext

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Tips

Complete list of Science databases

Found a useful reference?

Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.

Database search tips:

  • Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
  • Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
  • To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords

    e.g. indigenous AND land use

  • To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords

    e.g. indigenous OR aborigine OR aboriginal

  • Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword

    e.g. aborigin* retrieves aborigine, aborigines, aboriginal

  • Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
  • Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search

Need help?More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial

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 Human Geography Internet sites

It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.

Environmental Audit Tools

Search engines

Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.

Try these first:

 Directories

Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.

WWW Virtual Library

 UOW sites

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Last reviewed: 22 September, 2008

       

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