Human Geography
The Library subscribes to a number of specialist databases that are of particular relevance to Human Geography including traditional academic resources such as books and journals and also primary data sources.
Journal articles and books
The best place to start searching for books or journal articles is LibrarySearch.. For more detailed research consider looking at the following resources:
- GreenFile a database including articles on all aspects of human impact on the environment
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) a general social science database
- JSTOR an archival journal collection
- Periodicals Archives Online 700 journals
General databases such as Academic Source Complete, Scopus and Web of Science are also useful places to search as well as Google Scholar.
Specialist Resources
As well as book and journal articles you also have access to resources providing more specialist subject information. The following are of particular relevance:
- Borders and Migration Studies Online information on the movement of people including issues facing refugees, state policies on borders control and conflicts and human trafficking
- Digimap a collection of online maps and data including Ordnance Survey, historical, environmental and geological
- Free Movement commentary and advice on immigration and asylum law
- Mass Observation Online documentation of everyday lives of people in Britain from 1937 to early 1970s
- Migration to New Worlds primary source material recounting personal experience of 350 years of migration