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World Geography

This guide is designed to help students find articles about geographical topics. 

The key to searching library databases is to use "keywords" and not complete sentences. 

Start with broad topic words and let the databases suggest other good words to use. 

Databases let you search by keywords (any words) or subject words (official words used in indexing). Subject searching is usually more accurate, resulting is better results. When typing your search word(s) in the subject search box the database will make subject word suggestions.

You can search everything that the library has to offer by using the top box on the library page. Then on the left side of the screen you can limit your search by Discipline and Subject. Scroll down until you find: Geography. Check those boxes. 


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Suggested Library Databases

If you are a Nashville State student you just need your Student A number and myNSCC password to access the databases off-campus.

If you are not a NSCC student, but live in the state of Tennessee you can go to the Tennessee Electronic Library for Gale in Context and Academic Onefile databases. 

The SIRS database is not in TEL. 

Databases will also show you how to properly cite the source. Once you are at the article that you want to use look for the toolbox and the word Cite or Citation.and click or it. You should then see the different styles that you can choose from. 

Kanopy is a collection of films that NSCC subscribes to. 

There is a category to browse called Global Studies and Languages.

MERLOT is like Google for education 

This is for a geography search. MERLOT finds free open educational resources, like open textbooks and tutorials, in MERLOT, other open libraries and also in the web (Google) 

Browse a list of Geography topics where it says BROWSE TOPICS.

This database covers all subjects. It can be searched by subject or keyword. 

It is usually best to start your search with a subject search. The database may suggest other subjects or related subjects. 

Databases should be searched using keywords, not your whole research question. 

Subject search screen shot showing a geography search, with subdivisions and related subjects.

 


Article on the Ukraine-Russia conflict From the Academic OneFile database.

Maps -- In MERLOT

World map collection he Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL) Map Collection website is archived as of 2021 and no longer being updated. Links to external sites may no longer work as expected. Please visit the Texas GeoData portal and Collections portal for map files and the UTL Map Collections LibGuide for additional 

information. 


New geography books at NSCC

The power of geography: ten maps that reveal the future of the world, by Tim Marshall. (2021),

The geography of Spain: a complete synthesis. by Francisco J. Tapiador.(2020)

The Geography of Slovenia. Small but diverse. by Drago Perko; Rok Ciglic; Matija Zorn.(2020)  This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete geography of Slovenia in English. Only very few countries, even considerably larger ones, can boast the landscape diversity found in Slovenia since the Alps, the Pannonian Basin, the Dinaric Alps, and the Mediterranean meet and interweave in this small corner of Central Europe, as do Germanic, Hungarian, Slavic, and Romance cultural influences.0The book provides a systematical overview of physical and human geographical elements of Slovenia from landforms to cultural characteristics. Special attention is given to landscape diversity, to the presentation of Slovene landscape types and regions, to some particularities and interesting facts of Slovenia, and to the position of Slovenia in the World. The book also illustrates some other important geographical phenomena, processes and interactions between nature and society in nowadays Slovenia.0This volume appeals to researchers as well as students in the field of regional geography. It can also serve as a source for complete background information as well as a field guide for Slovenia.


  1. To search for books (both physical and electronic} type geography in the top box on the NSCC library homepage. 
  2. Then on the left side you can limit by Content type.
  3. Click on More and you will see a lot of different types. 
  4. Select NSCC Books for our physical collection..
  5. Remember to click on the word Apply at the top to see just the list of physical books.  
  6. You can do the same thing to see only eBooks by selecting NSCC eBooks.

By Sally Robertson, Librarian, Nashville State Community College