COAST ONLINE CATALOG
The library's link to over 1.25 million books, journals, documents, and microform items held in the library. Access by keyword, author, title, subject, or call number.
Guides to the Literature
A Geographical Bibliography for American Libraries. (G116 G463 1985) Chauncy D. Harris, editor. 1985. The best comprehensive geographical bibliography available covering geographical literature, 1970-1984.
A Geographical Bibliography for American College Libraries. (G73 L48 1970) Gordon R. Lewthwaite, editor. Useful bibliography for literature published between 1945-1969.
Keyguide to Information Sources in Cartography. (GA 105.3 H6 1986) A.G. Hodgkiss and A.F. Tatham, Although emphasis is on British scholarship, it contains an extensive bibliography for cartography students. Includes essays on cartography and mapping trends.
The Social Sciences: A Cross Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources. (H61 S624 1996) Nancy L. Herron, editor. 2nd ed, 1996. See pages 267-285 for a discussion and bibliography of essential references and literature in geography.
About.com's Geography Glossary Provides short definitions of key terms in geography.
Association for Geographic Information, GIS Dictionary An on-line dictionary of GIS terms is brought to you by the Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography.
Dictionary of Abbreviations and Acronyms in Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, and Remote Sensing Sponsored by UC Berkeley and created by Philip Hoehn and Mary Lynette Larsgaard. Designed by John Creaser.
Dictionary of Concepts in Physical Geography. (GB10 H82 1988). Thomas P. Huber, Robert P. Larkin, and Gary L. Peters. 1988.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Physical Geography (REF GB10 E53 1994). Andrew Goudie, editor.
Longman Dictionary of Geography: Human & Physical Geography Terms Explained. (G63 C56 1985). Audrey N. Clark, 1985.
A Modern Dictionary of Geography. (REF G63 S53 1995) 3rd edition, John Small. 1995.
Biographical Dictionary of Geography (REF G67 L37 1993). Robert P. Lash & Gary Peters.
Geographers Biobibliographical Studies. (G67 G46 vol. #) T.W. Freeman, editor. Multiple-volume encyclopedic dictionary containing biographies of geographers throughout history. Includes lengthy bibliographies.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index Contains 12 million names listed in over 2700 different biographical sources.
Altapedia Online An online geographical encyclopedia of the nations and maps. Similar to the CIA World Factbook.
CIA World Factbook Concise data on each country of the world.
Countrywatch Country political and economic information and news articles. CSULB authentication required.
Library of Congress Country Studies Area handooks with detailed information on each of the world's nations.
Fifty States.Com, States and Capitols Capsule information on each of the 50 states: population, capitol and flag.
World Geographical Encyclopedia (G63 E5213 1995) A four-volume encyclopedia of the world's nations and regions.
California's Geographic Names : a Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. David L. Durham.
Imprint. Word Dancer Press, 1998. (REF F859 .D87 1998).
California Place Names : the Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. Erwin G.Gudde. University of California Press, 1998. (REF F859 .G79 1998).
Canadian Geographical Names A place-name index to 350,000 Canadian sites.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World. (REF G103.5 C645 1998 vol. 1-3). A comprehensive world gazetteer, frequently containing lengthy descriptions of place-names.
Geographic Names Information Server Produced by the U.S. Geological Survey, it indexes over two million place names in the United States and its territories. Contains links to other internet gazetteers.
GEOnet Names Server Produced by the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), it indexes over 5.5 million place names outside of the United States.
Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. 3rd ed. (REF G103.5 .W42 1998). A standard geographical reference work providing brief descriptive entries for thousands of place-names.
GEOSOURCE: Journals By Subject A directory to over 1100 geography related journals. List produced by University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Magazines for Libraries. (REF PN4832 M23 year). Describes hundreds of journals, serials, periodicals received generally received by libraries. Describes their philosophy, editorial practices and indicated where that journal is indexed.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory (REF DESK AO2 U5 Year). A comprehensive listing of journals published worldwide. "Refereed Serials" are are noted in the title list with a bullet.
Browsing recent geography journals can be quite valuable for finding current or "hot topics" for research. You may also want to take a look at how they are described in Magazines for Libraries or Ulrich's Periodical Directory mentioned above.
The library has print and online access to hundreds of scholarly history and history related journals. First search for periodical under Journal Title in COAST. If you don't see it there, go to the Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings. You might find your history journal in one of our many full text research databases.
Academic Search Complete A large interdisciplinary index and full text database of over 1300 full text and 1800 citation only journals. Journal articles go back to the early 1990s to the present date. CSULB authentication required
Article First (CSULB authentication required). Comprehensive "citation only" database to over 12,000 different scholarly and popular journals. A good database to cover a wide range of interdisciplinary social science and science journals.
Current Geographical Publications (G 112 A5). Library has 1945 - 2002 in print. An ndex for current U.S. and English language geographical research. You can also also find it online from 1985 to date in the Online Geographical Bibliography.
Ebsco Online (CSULB authentication required). Provides electronic full text access to over 400 journals Additionally it indexes many more citation only journals. Emphasis is on scholarly publications.
Factiva Primarily a business database, but it also has full text searchable access to over 6000 newspaper and popular magazines. CSULB authentication required.
GEOBASE. Worldwide literature of physical and cultural geography, cartography, environmental science, geology and climatology. It contains nearly 1 million entries going back to 1980. 2000 scholarly journals are fully covered, it also contains several thousand citations from reports, proceedings and book chapters. CSULB authentication required.
Geographical Abstracts Human Geography and Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography. (REF G1 G3319) Elsevier. 1966 to 1980 in REF. This indexes over 900 geography journals, books, conference proceedings, and reports. See GEOBASE above for coverage after 1980.
JSTOR (CSULB authentication required). A growing archive of full text core scholarly journals. Digitizes the complete backfiles of selected journals in the areas of: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, statistics, sociology, and population/demography. Coverage: not a current file. Most current issues of the JSTOR journals are two to five years old.
Lexis Nexis Academic Provides full text searchable access to several thousand journals, newspapers, newsletters, newswires, and international publications. Coverage begins around the 1970s to the present. CSULB authentication required.
Science Direct (CSULB Authentication Required). CSULB subscribes to over 1000 full text electronic scholarly journals in this database. It contains a good number of social science and physical science journals of relevance to geographers.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective. Covers journal content from 1907-1984. After 1984 search Social Sciences Abstracts online. This index covers about 400 scholarly social science journals.
Wiley Interscience (CSULB Authentication Required). Full text access to over 300 scholarly journals. For geography, this database contains a number of earth science related journals.
Use COAST Online Catalog. Conduct keyword search using the following terms. Add a keyword after "geography" to find more specific theses. THESIS BEACH GEOGRAPHY
Dissertations and Theses CSULB Authentication Required). Doctoral dissertations and masters theses from over 1,000 North American and European universities. Coverage: 1861 to date. You can view the first 24 pages of PhD dissertations and masters theses produced after 1997 and the full text of masters theses produced by CSULB after 1997.
Located on the Second Floor Lobby of the Library, it contains approximately 30,000 maps, including USGS topographic maps at 1:24,000 of the western U.S., hundreds of roadmaps from all over the world. It also has detailed geologic maps of the U.S., topographic maps of foreign countries, aeronautical charts, nautical charts, historical maps, and map catalogs.
Use the web based Map Collection Guide to locate maps and their call numbers by geographic locations in our Map Room. You can also use a printed version of the Map Collection Guide (See green notebook) available at the reference desk or in the Map Room.
California State University's GIS Specialty Center. It contains downloadable geographic data specific to CSU's teaching mission.
University of Iowa's Center for Global & Environmental Research. Geodata Information Resources.It contains extensive internet sites for downloadable GIS data.
National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse: Search for Geographic Data. Huge US government sponsored clearinghouse for geospatial data.
About.Com's Geography Page Links to quick reference geography sites: weather, time zones, area codes, distances, maps.
GeoJob Source Many links academic and professional geospatial links.
Geosource: Web Resources For Human Geography, Physical Geography, Planning, Geoscience and Environmental Science The name pretty much describes it.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections: Maps & GIS Produced by UC Riverside, with emphasis on scholarly sites.
Internet Crossroads in the Social Sciences: Geography and the Environment Hundreds of important links to geographical/historical sites; listed in four categories: US Governmental; US Non-Governmental; International Governmental; and International Non-Governmental.
Librarians Index to the Internet: Geography A directory of quality sites evaluated by librarians. Good summaries provided.
Oddens' Bookmarks One of the largest map information web sites with over 9300 links.
California Demographics: Demographic Research Unit Homepage. Produced by California's Department of Finance, this site is designated as the single official source of demographic data for state planning and budgeting. Site includes demographic newsletters, catalog of publications, selected reports and research papers, and links to other data and resources.
Stat USA Internet This site provides access to government economic and trade statistics.
Rand California Provides socioeconomic and other "quality of life" statistics for California. CSULB authentication required.
U.S. Census Bureau Home Page Tons of links to U.S. Government statistics.
More links at CSULB's Virtual Statistics Page
Demographic Data Viewer Create maps of the United States, individual states, or counties or census tracts based on demographic data you select. You will need to pick one of three formats: a non-Java edition; a Java 2.0 edition or a Java 3.0 edition. A very interesting site.
Digital Chart of the World Server Produced by Penn State University. Create your own maps of the world and add selected features. Images downloadable.
I Map L.A. An easy to use GIS mapping site for the city of Los Angeles. You can find parcel information or can map the city for redevelopment zones, political sub-districts, paving projects, flood zones, and other types of political or economic districts.
MSN Maps and Directions (formerly MapBlast!) Create your own maps, e-mail or download them. Mostly U.S. maps. It provides driving directions and distances.
MapQuest Another 'create your own' site. Has more that 3 million mappable sites, both within the U.S. and internationally.
National Atlas of the United States Create socioeconomic maps of the United States, individual states, or counties.
Rand McNally: The Travel Site Create maps, find driving directions. Provides good detail on street maps.
SCAG (Southern California Association of Governments) Interactive Atlas. Described as "an interactive atlas to view maps prepared by Southern California Association of Governments(SCAG). The SCAG Interactive Atlas allows broad access to SCAG's many regional data files and GIS data layers organized into data categories and themes relevant to SCAG projects and programs." Log in as "Guest".
American Memory, Library of Congress Map Collections, 1500-2003 Links to hundreds of scanned maps held at the Library of Congress.
California Coastal Records Project. View coastal imagery of the California coast. Time comparisons showing coastal delopment may be studied. Also you can view public access easement maps of the coastline.
Color Landform Atlas of the United States View and print vivid "shaded relief" and landform maps of individual states.
Digital Atlas of the United States By Prof. William Bowen of California State University, Northridge. View socioeconomic maps of the U.S., California and Los Angeles area.
MapTech. View topographic maps, aerial photographs, nautical charts and aeronautical charts online.
National Geographic's Map Machine. Instantly find a wide variety of governmental and internet maps for specific locations. Very good site.
Perry Castaneda Library at University of Texas-Austin The map library has digitized hundreds of its maps and has them available for your viewing and printing. Plus you will find scores of useful geography and GIS sites.
SCAMP Southern California Aerial Mapping Project: Find Geologic Maps: "SCAMP mainly produces general-purpose geologic-maps and associated information. The information is made available in digital form, together with geologic-map plots generated from the digital data" SCAMP is a cooperative project between the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Geological Survey.
Terraserver USA Click and point map of the world will bring you detailed satellite imagery. Accesses images of North America and Europe. Up to 60 countries provided. It provides side links to topographic maps, city maps and even news links related to the area. An excellent site.
TopoZone Seamless access to more than 56,000 USGS topographic quadrangles. As TopoZone self-describes, "We've got every USGS 1:100,000, 1:25,000, and 1:24,000 scale map for the entire United States; Alaska (1:63,360)." User beware: some areas are not available, some important marginalia data, and map data are not provided.
USGS Earth Science Information Center: Ask USGS Information on governmental mapping products: how to order USGS topographic maps, geologic maps, aerial photographs.
How Far Is It? Gives worldwide mileage in "as the crow flies" lines.
Consider using MSN Maps & Directions (Formerly Map Blast), Directions, or Rand McNally: The Travel Site described above to find driving distances.
