Geography

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Geography

Reading Lists

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Independent Research - getting started

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How to identify different sources of information and links to useful books and ebooks.

Creating a search strategy

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Independent Research - beyond the basics

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• Developing advanced search strategies

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How to search systematically for literature. From the initial stages of understanding your vocabulary to using advanced features in databases.

• Databases

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Collections of specialist, subject specific journal literature.

• Websites and professional organisations

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• Newspapers

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• Audio visual resources

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• Learning Resources

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• Statistics

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fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Need reliable information about Africa, Asia, Latin America, Russia and Eastern Europe? Europa gives up-to-date, key facts and statistics for each country, plus very useful, background essays by country experts covering contemporary history, politics and economics. There are also background essays on international and regional organisations. The statistics are searchable and let you create comparative charts across countries.

• Eurostat 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

Access to more than a million statistics from many different sources. Useful for finding industrial, economic and consumer market statistical trends.

Additional access instructions:

For off campus access use this link

Whilst the UK data sets cover such areas as employment, and family expenditure, the international data sets from major bodies such as the IMF, OECD and World Bank are well worth exploring - often giving information down to country level (previously ESDS).

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Official statistics from the UK Government.

 

• Research Methods

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Referencing

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Guidance and support for referencing in APA7 and links to information on reference management software

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