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Geography: Journals & Databases

Relevant databases

A database is a searchable collection of academic literature. It generally contains journal articles but also holds reports, case studies, e-books, book chapters and images which you can use in your studies.

The following databases are just a small number of available databases.

Articles

(A multi-disciplinary citation database covering over 10,000 of the world's highest impact research journals. It consists of the three databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present), the Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present).). It also provides cited reference searching)

  • Academic Search Complete 
    (provides full text access to over 8,500 journals across a broad range of subjects)
  • GeoScienceWorld 
    (contains full texts of journals in the area of geosciences)
  • GreenFILE 
    (focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with information on a wide range of topics)
  • ScienceDirect 
    (contains full texts of more than 2,000 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences)

Newspapers

(The Irish Times from 1995 to the present)

(European Newsstream provides researchers with same day access to newspapers like The Guardian and The Times (London). The resource enables users to search current United Kingdom, Irish, and European news content from over 430 of the most influential news sources with archives dating back to the 1990s, substantial backfiles available for most newspapers and is updated daily)

Policy

  • ESRI Reports 
    (Reports of the Economic & Social Research Institute)

Research Methods

  • Sage Research Methods 
    (supports researchers in every step of a research project, from writing a research question, choosing a method, analyzing data, to writing up and publishing the findings)

Statistics

  • World Development Indicators 
    (contains development information on more than 600 indicators from over 200 countries, and 18 regional and income groups from 1960 onwards)

A full list of relevant databases for your subject area is available by clicking here.

What is?

An evaluation of professional or academic work by other experts working in the same field.

Open access is a publishing model for scholarly communication that makes research information available to readers at no cost, as opposed to the traditional subscription model in which readers have access to scholarly information by paying a subscription (usually via libraries).

Example:

MIRR is the college's Institutional Repository and is an example of what is available on open access. The repository contains research conducted by MIC lecturers and researchers.

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