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Cultural Geography Resources

Databases

Search the Online Catalog to FIND BOOKS. Try the Keyword search option. An example of a keyword search might be:

Japan? and religion

NOTE: The “?” will look for any word that begins with Japan, so it will also find Japan’s or Japanese.

OR try a Subject search on the country.

From the list of subjects that appear, look for subheadings like “Civilization” or “description and travel.”

Search DATABASES to FIND ARTICLES in JOURNALS.

To find the list of journals covered, look in the “Info Center”

For “scholarly journals” look for a “Y” under the PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL in the record.
Full-text coverage begins in 1994 (but not necessarily for every journal).

Many items are available in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format. This format provides a complete facsimile of the article as it originally appeared in the printed journal.

Academic Search Premier (Collegiate DISCUS)

  • Full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
  • PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

SIRS Knowledge Source
Click on “Database Features,” the white button near the top of the page. Look under the purple “SIRS Government Reporter” for “Country Profiles.”

Print Resources

REFERENCE MATERIALS located in the library.

  • Look for country information in the reference section based on the Library of Congress call numbers.
  • Other REFERENCE BOOKS:
    • Concise Atlas of World History Ref G 1030 .T56 1998
    • CultureGrams Ref GT 150 .C85
    • Cultural Atlas of Japan Folio Ref DS 821 .C62
      • Folio Reference are oversized books located at the end of the reference section. There are several good resources there.
    • Encyclopedia of World Cultures Ref GN 307 .E53
    • Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures & Daily Life Ref GN333 .W67
    • Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Ref G 63 .W67 1998

Internet Resources

  • Country Studies (from the Library of Congress) Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national securities for countries throughout the world. Note: Does not include EVERY nation. Some are somewhat out of date. We have many of the print equivalents in the library.

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