GEOG 703: Research Design in Theory and Practice

Ask

Amanda Henley
GIS Librarian
Davis Library - Reference
ahenley@email.unc.edu
962-1151

IM us

Writing & Citing 

Need advice on writing or revising your paper? Visit UNC's Writing Center. You can make appointments and read hints on writing online.

The Writing Center's Handout page offers advice about writing in various subject areas, as well as grammar and common mistakes.

Literature Reviews handout from the UNC Writing Center

Help using Refworks

Chicago Manual of Style

Style Sheet for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Microsoft OneNote Help and How-to

Interlibrary Loan

Can't find the article, book, or report you need at UNC? Request it here!


Interlibrary Loan
Campus Delivery

Books 

Search Tips |  How Do I Find Books? |  How Do I Read a Call Number?

Suggested Subject Headings

Public health -- Data processing. |  Public health -- Bangladesh. |  "Hazard mitigation--United States." |  African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century

Article Databases For All Geographers

Finding Articles: Where to Start (movie)

Geobase
Covers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. [more info]

ISI Citation Databases (Web of Science)
Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) provides access to several multidisciplinary article citation databases. [more info]

 About

How Do I Find an Article if it is not Full-Text?

Writing in Geography

See What Other Students Have Written

Dissertations & Theses @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Search Tip: To read dissertations written by UNC Chapel Hill Geography students sorted by the advisor's name, copy and paste the following search string into the search box: SU(Geography) AND AD(Emch, Michael) AND LSCHNAME({The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill}). [more info]

Dissertations & Theses
Covers work done at many other institutions. [more info]

Advice from the Experts- Take a look at these books available at UNC Libraries:

• Making sense: a student's guide to research and writing: geography and environmental sciences

• An introduction to scientific research methods in geography

• The work in the world: geographical practice and the written word (online)

• Research design and proposal writing in spatial science (online)

• How to do your dissertation in geography and related disciplines

• Authoring a PhD: how to plan, draft, write and finish a doctoral thesis or dissertation

• Communicating in geography and the environmental sciences

For Human Geographers

International Bibliogaphy of the Social Sciences
Indexes books and journals in Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. [more info]

PAIS
Index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. [more info]

PolicyFile (Public Policy Research and Analysis)
Offers access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature. [more info]

Sociological Abstracts
Covers sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. [more info]

Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) [more info]

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields. [more info]

For Physical Geographers

GeoRef
GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences, providing access to worldwide geological and geographic literature. [more info]

PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. [more info]

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
Specific subjects covered include biotechnology, water resources, water pollution, bacteriology, toxicology, population, microbiology, ecology, risk assessment, health and safety science, and natural resources. [more info]

Zoological Record
Indexes materials in all major areas of zoology. [more info]