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Resources for Physical Geography

Databases

Science Collection - Updated daily, this collection includes 1.6 million articles and 200 journals. Explore the latest scientific developments in particle physics, advanced mathematics, nanotechnology, geology, and hundreds of other areas.
A to Z Maps Online Explore this database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps.
ScienceDirect - Discover ebooks and peer-reviewed journals in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities. It contains indexing, abstracts, and tables of contents for over 2,500 journals and over 35,000 ebooks.

Websites

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - NOAA is an agency that enriches life through science. Our reach goes from the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor as we work to keep citizens informed of the changing environment around them.
Geodiode - The Ultimate Resource for World Climate and Biomes.
U.S. Board on Geographic Names - View standardized geographic names information. Users can search place name information for features in the United States, and location information, including state, county, topographic map name, and coordinates. For foreign names this resource uses U.S. official standard names, English conventional names, variant names, and names in local non-Roman script.
U.S. Geological Survey - View information published by the U.S. Geological Survey. The U.S. Geological Survey is the nation's largest water, earth, and biological science and civilian mapping agency. It collects, monitors, analyzes, and provides scientific understanding of natural resource conditions, issues, and problems.
Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia - The definitive scientific resource with topics ranging across all scientific disciplines.

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Journals/Proceedings

AMS Journals Online - Access thru Scout/EBSCOhost
Eleven AMS (American Meteorological Society) journals are linked on this site, along with Meteorological Monographs. Any AMS journal volume older than two years is free and open to all, while more recent volumes may be accessed thru Scout/EBSCOhost. Meteorological Monographs may be searched thru Scout or our Catalog; if we have no holdings of given titles, use WorldCat to request thru ILL.
Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences
PNAS is one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, it continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.