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1. General and gateways (0 links)
2. General reference
a. Encyclopaedia's (0 links)
b. Language tools and dictionaries (1 link)
c. Conversion tools and tables (5 links)
d. Other general reference tools (2 link)
3. Subject specific reference for geography etc.
a. Glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedias (9
links)
b. Bibliographies (18 links)
c. Topographic reference, gazetteers (8 links)
d. World almanacs (4 links)
e. Acronym lists (5 links)
f. Geographical tools, geological timescale (4 links)
g. Geographical events and news services (1 link)
for statistics see GEOSOURCE
VII: Statistical agencies and resources
4. General subject guides to geo-resources, print
and
electronic (2 links)
5. Image collections (2 link)
1. General and gateways
2. General reference
a. Encyclopaedias
b. Language tools and dictionaries
c. Coversion tools and other tools and tables
A dictionary of units
Extensive list of units of measurement (SI and many other, including regionally
used and historical units) provided by Frank Tapson of the University of Exeter,
UK, 19980910
Foreign exchange rates by
US Federal Reserve
Current exhange rates and archive of daily exchange rates from 1996 onwards,
19980910
Full Universal Currency Converter
Exchange rate service with some 180 cuurencies, provided by Xenon Laboratories,
US, 19980910
Local times around the world
Local times in cities and countries around the world against universal time
(UTC), 19980910
The currency $ite
Currency converter, current rates, charts and forecasts by Olssen & Associates,
19980910
World Time Zone
Helpful simple map of actual time in world time zones, current world map of
daytime/nightime. Somewhat slow-loading. 20000908
d. Other general reference
- Guinness
World Records
- Online database of fascinating and boring record facts. It
includes an
earth and space category with all kinds of geo-relevant facts. It is
always
good to know the extremes, since eveythingl else must fall somewhere in
between. 20001027
- Xrefer
- Metareference tool that allows searching the full text of
some 40 subject
dictionaries, among which quotation dictionaries, the Penguin
dictionary
of places, a dictionary of sociology, the Bloomsbury thesaurus, the
Oxford
paperback encyclopaedia. Handy for quick general reference.
Unfortunately
there are no advanced search options (yet), so search results may be
crowded
by art and literary references. Xrefer has updated its contents with
the
2001 MacMillan Encyclopadia. 20000616, updated 20001027
3. Subject specific reference
a. Glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopaedias
Cartography
-A glossary of catographic terms
List of cartographical terms by the Perry Casteneda map collection curators
at the University of Texas, Austin, 19980910
Earth Sciences - gateway -
Global Change master directory of glossaries
Gateway to lists of acronyms and to glossaries, part of the Global Change
master Directory, a NASA initiative, 19980910
EEA Multilingual Environmental
Glossary
Multilingual glossary for environmental science and policy. It translates
hundreds of terms from 20 European languages and gives brief definitions.
By the European Environment Agency, 20040227
Environment - Terms of Environment
Glossary with hundreds of environment related terms provided by the US Environmental
Protection Agency; also includes a lsit of environment acronyms, 19980910
Environmental Economics
Glossary
By Environmental Damage Valuation, a US consultant firm, 19990507
Geographical Information
Systems - GIS Dictionary
This on-line dictionary of GIS terms Association for Geographic Information
and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography. The dictionary includes
definitions some 1,000 terms compiled from a variety of sources. The dictionary
is also supplemented by 52 diagrams, 19980910
Hydrology - Encyclopedia
of water terms
List of definitions of hydrological terms by the Texas Environmental Center,
19980908
Hydrology - WQA Glossary
of terms
List of terms provided by the US Water Quality Association, with many terms
referring to water quality, purification, treatment, general water management
etc., 19980910
Physical
Geography - Online glossary for terms of physical geography
Short definitions of hundreds of physical geography terms with cross-references,
19990212
Snow and Avalanche Glossary
Some 200 snow and avalanche terms explained, by the non-profit Cyberspace
Snow and Avalanche Center (CSAC), 19990222
b. Bibliographies
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General
- Current Geographical Publications (CGP)
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Free access to the 10 most recent issues of Current Geographical
Publications,
a general bibliography of monographs and journal articles based on the
acquisitions of the American Geographical Society library, avaibable
considerably
quicker than the print version, 20030203
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Arctic Studies - ASTIS
= SISTA
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Bibliographica database with 45,000 records on the Canadian Arctic.
Maintained
by the Arctic Institute of North America at the University of Calgary.
References are mainly to grey literature and journal articles from 1978
to present. In French and English. 20000127
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Cold
Regions Bibliography
- This project is an integral part of the Science & Technology Division
of the Library of Congress and is sponsored and financially supported by
the U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and
the Office of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its
mission is to disseminate information on Antarctica and cold regions science
and technology. It contains over 208,000 bibliographic records - many with
abstracts - and is increasing by approximately 6,000 accessions annually,
19981201
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Demography -
Population
Index
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Population Index presents an annotated bibliography of recently
published
books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on
population
topics. It provides a searchable and browsable database containing over
40,000 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population
Index
in the period 1986-1998, free access, 19980908
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Development Studies - BLDS
Bibliographic
database
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This is the web searchable version of the library catalogue and journal
articles database of the British Library for Development Studies
at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK.The database contains
records of over 116,000 documents held by the Library (5000 journal
subscriptions)
- all serial titles held, monographs acquired since 1987 and journal
articles
selectively indexed since 1990, free access 19980908
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Earth
sciences
- Georef preview
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Searchable database of new additions to the largest earth sciences
bibliographical
database. Titles are replaced during the weekend. By the American
Geological
Institute. 20020114
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Energy - Nederlandse Energie
Literatuur
(in Dutch)
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Free access to the Dutch contribution to the international ENERGY
database,
containing Dutch titles added from 1995 onwards, by the ECN, Petten ,
Netherlands,19980908
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Environmental
Studies
- Directory to the subject bibliographies in environmental ethics
- A list of several short bibliographies in environmental ethics from Harvard,
US. 19980008
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Fieldwork
in geography
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Fieldwork in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Higher
Education
Curriculum is an annotated bibliography. It is at the Geography
Discipline
Network website and currently lists some 100 post-1990 titles. By
Claire
Cottingham, Mick Healey and Phil Gravestock. 20001218
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Gender in geography
bibliography
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Gender and feminism in geography bibliography. Simple listing, aranged
alphabetically by author. Made by members of the discussion list for
Feminism
in Geography and managed by Ellen Hansen of Emporia Sate University,
KA,
USA. 20010122
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GEODOK TOPSOURCE
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Large (> 60,000 entries) bibliography of journal literature in human
and
physical geography. Holds author, title, source, topic keywords in a
fully
clickeble interface. Indexing started in 1980 and currently covers some
250 English (12%), German (80%) and French (5%) language journals and
some
others (3%), while the full jounal list shows alsmost 400 titles.
Although
the overall number is much less than that covered by the large
commercial
bibliographies, GEODOK is indispensable for German language geography,
and indeed for geography of German language countries. Unfortunately
GEODOK
has no abstracts, but then, it's free! By the library of the
Geographical
Institute of the University of Erlangen, Germany. 20010206
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Geographical Information
Systems
- ESRI Virtual Campus Library
- Searchable database of substantial percentage of GIS literature. Many
references link to full-text articles. Begun by Duane Marble, Eric
Miller, and Jim Saunders at the Ohio State University Dept. of Geography,
the bibliography is now on ESRI's online learning site. 20011101
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GEOPHOKA:
literature database GEOdesy, PHOtogrammetry and CArtography
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Bibliographical database containing nearly 40,000 records, begun in
1984,
developed by the German Bundesamt für Kartographie und
Geodäsie,
19981130
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German
Geographical Research 1992-1996
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This is the electronic version of the documentation "German
Geographical
Research 1992-1996" that was distributed among the participants of the
28th International Geographical Congress 1996 in The Hague. The aim of
the project was to document all papers in German geographical series,
in
order to create an actual survey of German geographical research,
19981130
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Human/cultural geography -
The
Anthropological Index Online
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Free access to this database of anthropological literature, being the
index
to current periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library, formerly The
Royal
Anthropological Institute, UK; years available: 1970-1994, 19980908
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Hydrology - Ground
water
online
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A database containing some 80,000 groundwater literature citations,
restricted
access, by the National Ground Water Association, Ohio, US, 19980908
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Hydrology
- Universities Water Information Network (UWIN)
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This database is a collection of international water research compiled
by the Water Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the
United
States Geological Survey (USGS). The research abstracted in this
database
covers a wide variety of topics that span the time period from 1967 to
October, 1993. This database contains over 265,000 abstracts and
citations,
19990831
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Landslide
bibliography
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Searchable bibliography of over 10,000 documents in the field of
landslide
research. By the USGS. 20001027
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Riparian
Bibliography
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Long list in 4 parts (only 4 is available at the moment) of literature
relevant to riparian research, compiled by R. Herness and maintained by
M.J. Furniss of the Interagency Watershed Analysis Center,
USDA-Forest
Service, Six Rivers National Forest. 20020114
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Transport-
Transportation
Research Information Services (TRIS Online) TOPSOURCE
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Transportation bibliography. Covers material from the 1960s to present.
In all some 400,000 bibliographic records with abstracts (yearly
addition
20,000), available without cost or registration. By the (US)
Transportation
Research Board, the (US) National Research Council, (US) National
Academies,
and the (US) Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of
Transportation.
Inevitably there is a US bias, but the sheer size makes this service
the
premier transportation literature tool available. Full text (links),
will
become available (mostly not free of cost). 20000118.
c. Topographic reference, gazetteers (worldwide)
America's Roof -
World
High Points
Provides high points for all major countries in the world an much
additional
information for US peaks, 19980910
Canada's
geographic
names
Provided by Resources Canada, this gazetteer permits querying a
databese
of 350,000 names by names or geographical coordinates and returns
names,
corodinates, basic maps, other places within a given radius, a
'how-far-is-it
service' and information on the origin of placenames. 20000131
Gazetteer
of
Australia
A compilation of over 210 000 geographic names of Australia provided
by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australia, provided
by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group, 19990909
GEOnet Names Server (GNS)
The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Imagery
and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) database of foreign geographic feature
names.
Approximately 20,000 of the database of 3.5 million features are
updated
monthly with names information approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic
Names (US BGN), 19980910
List
of independent states in the world
Listing of all 190 independent states by and according to the U.S State
department. It includes short and long names and the capital. It does
not
include some countries not formally recognised as sovereign states by
the
US: Taiwan, Serbia and Montenegro and the Palestine Authority. There is
also a link to a comparable listing of 63 dependencies and areas of
special
sovereignty. 20001020
Orbis
Latinus: Graesse's Latin placenames list of 1909
Cross-reference of Latin placenames and current names, with search facility.
20000128
The Global Gazetteer
Fully commercial gazetteer, claimed over 2.5 million entries by
producer,
19981119
List
of independent countries
List of independent countries with full name and capital provided by
the US State Department, 19980910
Thesausrus of
geographic
names (TGN)
The TGN is an automated source of hierarchically arranged geographic
data that is global in scope. The TGN comprises records for
approximately
900,000 places; these records contain information supplied by several
Getty
Center contributors. It provides vernacular, English, and historical
names,
as well as additional information about the places, such as latitude
and
longitude and hierarchical geographical position, 1990910
d. World almanacs
Background notes
General country information provided by the US State Department and
updated every 2-3 years, 19980910
CIA
World factbook 1999
General country information with information on the geography, people,
government, economy, communications, transportation, military and
international
issues. With goods reference maps. 20000606
Quid TOPSOURCE
Online version of the respectable world almanac from France. Apart
from the general subjects, there is a wealth of geo-information. Most
of
it is in the light-yellow column on the right. There are general
country
'fiches', flags, maps (click on the map to get more detail) and many,
albeit
somewhat stereotypical, photographs. What sets this site apart however
is the country data service, with the possibility to compare up to ten
countries. The geography data include many not found elsewhere: country
circumference, lenght of coastal and land frontiers, lenght of
frontiers
shared with neighbouring countries, height and name of highest point,
height
and name of lowest point, short geographical description, climate data,
disaster listing. The unique database of information at the commune
level
in France (there are 36,511 of them!) is worth mentioning as well.
20000606
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World Wide Gazeteer
Country reference and links. Holds the obvious country links such as
CIA world factbook pages, maps (Expedia, MapQuest, MapBlast,
Atlapedia),
links from BUBL, a link to the Britannica, local papers and business
links,
but also has own content: articles on world affairs and some
comparative
country graphs. There are also direct country links to books at Amazon,
and to the apporpriate categories of Yahoo, GoTo and Alta Vista. Lay
out
and navigation is clear, content mostly up-to-date. Handy for a first
country
exploration. By Chris Allen, St Martins, Guernsey. 20000704
e. Acronym and abbreviation lists
Earth Sciences -
gateway - Global Change master directory of glossaries
Gateway to lists of acronyms and to glossaries, part of the Global
Change master Directory, a NASA initiative, 19980910
Environment -
Compendium
of Environmental Acronyms (CEA)
Long list of environmental acronyms provided by the US Association
of Engineering Geologists (AEG), 19980910
Environment/geography/geology
- 'yet another acronym list'
Provides the meaning of hunders of acronmys of a.o.organisations,
projects,
concepts and companies, 1998
GIS/Cartography/Remote
Sensing - Dictionary of Abbreviations
Over 1,000 acronmys by Philip Hoehn and Mary Lynette Larsgaard, Univ.
of Berkeley, US, 19980910
Quarternary - A
dictionary
of quaternary acronyms and abbreviations
Almost 1,200 acronyms and abbreviations related to quaternary studies
provided by Alwynne B. Beaudoin of the Canadian Association of
Palynologists,
Univ. of Alberta, Canada, 20020111
f. Geographical tools
How far is it?
This service uses data from the US Census and a supplementary list
of cities around the world to find the
latitude and longitude of two places, and then calculates the distance
between them (as the crow flies); it
also provides a map showing the two places, 19980910
Geological
Time Machine
Annotated and illustrated timescale by the University of California
Museum of Paleontology. 20001219
Geological
Timescale
Timescale provided by the University of Calgary, Canada, with short
explanation and refrences, 19990222
Magnetic
Information
Retrieval program
The Magnetic Information Retrieval Program (MIRP) uses the CGRF to
calculate values of magnetic declination , or any other component of
the
magnetic field, over Canada and adjacent areas. Outside the region of
Canada,
MIRP automatically uses the International Geomagnetic Reference Field
(IGRF)
to calculate magnetic field values, with somewhat less accuracy.
Provided
by the geological Survey of Canada, 19980910
g. Geographical events and news services
Disaster Relief
The Disaster Relief website is a cooperative effort between the
American
Red Cross, CNN Interactive and IBM.
It aims to faciliate the exchange of disaster information on the
Internet,
19980910
4. General subject guides to geo-resources, print
and
electronic
Geographical
and Environmental Studies Library Resource Guides
Extensive resource guides for 25 different topics by the
Univeristy
Library, Adelaide, Australia, listing a.o. handbooks, reference books,
websites, databases. Very valuable, despite the fact that listing of
printed
material is restricted to sources available in the Adelaide University
Library, 19990325
Guide
to geographical resources
Resource guide for geography, covering print and
electronic
sources, by the Geography Library of the University of Wisconsin,
Madison,
19990222
5. Image collections (for specific topic see
categories
I and II)
Degree confluence project
Ongoing project distributing protographs of intersections of integers
of latitude and longitude. There are still thousands of pictures to be
taken. Most of the pictures come with a short description or with a
story
about hardships of the photographer in reaching the place. It has a
nice
world map of pictures already available. Anyone can contribute. The
three
pictures of intersections in the Netherlands are especially
interesting.
20010125
Geo-Images Project
A collection of collections of geographical images, mostly photographs,
freely available for use in geographical education, in total over 1,000
images; subjects are California, Morocco, Pacific Coast, the American
West,
Alaska, Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan , Suadia Arabia, Yemen and
others,
19980910
UNESCO Photobank
Searchable database of over 10,000 photographs covering the fields in which
UNESCO is active: culture, education, social development. There are howver
also some categories outside that range: industry, agriculture, environment.
Searchable by region, country, place and theme. Photographs are available
for online consultation, but not yet for reproduction. That service is envisaged
for the near future. 20000602
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