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PLAN 714: Urban Spatial Structure: Scholarly Resources
Article Databases
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Academic Search PremierFind information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.
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GEOBASECovers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. Over 2,000 journals are fully covered, and an additional 3,000 are selectively covered. More than 2,000 books, monographs, conference proceedings, and reports are also covered.
Subjects include: cartography, hydrology, climatology, meteorology, energy, paleontology, environment, petrology, geochemistry, photogrammetry, geomorphology, sedimentology, geophysics, volcanology. (Source: vendor website.) -
Google ScholarEnables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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PAIS IndexA bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Includes full-text articles.
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ScopusScopus is a citation and abstracting database that provides comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed journal and conference literature, with links to full-text where available through the library.
It encompasses scientific, technical, medical, social science and arts and humanities disciplines.
Article searching tips
When searching the following databases, use these tips for better results:
- Use wildcard characters: If searching for economic conditions, type the word econ* with an astericks. That will return economies, economic, economist and any other word that starts with [e c o n].
- Use quotes: When searching for two words, quotes will search for the words when they're next to each other. Thomas Jefferson will return articles with Thomas Payne and Jefferson Starship. But when "Thomas Jefferson" is searched, only those articles with his name will be returned.
Books
Suggested Subject Headings
Birmingham (Ala.) -- History. | Charlotte (N.C.) -- History. | Dallas (Tex.) -- History. | Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- History | Las Vegas (Nev.) -- History. | New Orleans (La.) -- History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. | Providence (R.I.) -- History | Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History. | San Francisco (Calif.) -- History. | Seattle (Wash.) -- History | Spokane (Wash.) -- History
Alabama -- History | California -- Encyclopedias. | Illinois -- Encyclopedias. | Louisiana -- Encyclopedias | Michigan -- Encyclopedias. | Missouri -- Encyclopedias. | Nevada -- History | North Carolina -- Encyclopedias. | Rhode Island -- History | Texas -- Encyclopedias. | Virginia -- History. | Washington (state) -- History | West (U.S.) -- Encyclopedias.
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Full-Text Newspapers
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America's NewsAmerica's News is the most comprehensive U.S.newspaper resource available. It provides information on people, issues, and events in the local area or around the country. Updated daily, America's Newspapers offers tens of millions of current and archived full-text articles from newspapers nationwide in a single, fully searchable online database. It includes the complete electronic editions of 827 newspapers - with 75% of these sources not available in any other library database.
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LexisNexis Academic (Please see Nexis Uni)LexisNexis Academic has been discontinued and the content moved to Nexis Uni.
Articles + Catalog
Citing
Examples for citing census data on CD and Social Explorer data:
CensusCD 1980 in 2000 Boundaries
CensusCD 1980 in 2000 Boundaries [CD-ROM]. (2004). Brunswick, NJ: GeoLytics. Available: UNC Chapel Hill Davis Library [September XX, 200X].
CensusCD 1990 Long Form in 2000 Boundaries
CensusCD 1990 Long Form in 2000 Boundaries [CD-ROM]. (2002). Brunswick, NJ: GeoLytics. Available: UNC Chapel Hill Davis Library [September XX, 200X].
CensusDVD 2000
CensusDVD 2000 [DVD-ROM]. (2004). Brunswick, NJ: GeoLytics. Available: UNC Chapel Hill Davis Library [September XX, 200X].
Social Explorer
Social Explorer Professional. Social Explorer. (accessed September XX, 200X).
CITATION GUIDES
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How To Cite DataA library guide with information on how to cite data sets.
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Citation BuilderCreate citations in the correct format using this web form.
Reference Sources
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Ancestry in America
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This information-packed reference work pulls together thousands of comparative statistics on the ethnic composition of all cities and towns in the United States with populations over 10,000. -
Encyclopedia of American Urban History byThe two volumes of the Encyclopedia of American Urban History offer both a summary and an interpretation of the field of Urban History.
