Geography and Tourism Research Guide

Provides full text for nearly 7,695 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. 3,834 include full text, 2,788 are peer reviewed.

Searching 3,475,985 full text articles in 923 reference books from 111 publishers on every topic.

The GeoRef database, produced by the American Geosciences Institute, is focused on comprehensive coverage of geoscience literature published worldwide. The content is indexed with geoscience terms from the GeoRef Thesaurus, and geolocation data (latitude/longitude) is also assigned, when applicable. GeoRef is the most in-depth A&I database available for geoscience literature and research. It helps researchers to address some of the most urgent environmental concerns, such as: Continuing need for natural resources including critical minerals and fossil fuels, critical shortages in clean water supplies, preparedness for natural disasters – earthquakes, tsunamis, and developing changes in climate.

Includes online access to the full-text of more than 30 peer-reviewed journals in the earth sciences and geology. All titles have backfiles to 2000 and some have complete runs back to 1911.

GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.

Covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 500,000 records from more than 500 titles, with coverage dating as far back as 1965, and includes full text for more than 200 journals.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.