GEOG 5801

Articles: Geography & All Topic

• Google Scholar

Google Scholar covers a wide range of topics.

Use the above link to you can make sure Google Scholar works best for you on or off campus.  In order to better use it, connect it to OSU by going to Settings > Library links (on left) and then search for Ohio State. Check the option The Ohio State University Libraries - Find It @ OSU.

Articles: Political Science

Articles: Environmental Science

• Antipodes
• Conservation Biology
• Environment and Planning - several journals under this parent title
  • New one in series - Part E - Nature and Space
• Environmental Management
• Biological Conservation
• Journal Of Environmental Management
• Environmental Conservation
• Geoforum
• Plos One
• Science
• Nature

• Conservation from chaos?
• Conservation's Dirty Secrets
• The forest for the trees
• The Yes Men Andrew Bichlbaum
• A Great-Grandmother Goes to Jail Betty Krawczyk
• The Big Burn
• Sun and Wind but No Water
• Politics, People, and Pollution
• Meet the Frackers Energy Independence or Environmental Nightmare?
• Fueling our future Fred Friendly seminar on alternative energy
• Waters of discord
• Boiling point global struggle for water
• Endangered biodiversity and economic development

BBC Country Profiles:

CIA World Factbook

United Nations Member States

The Commonwealth Member countries (mostly former British colonies)

La Francophonie Media Library (mostly former French colonies

Important Citation Advice:

• If you are not required to use a specific style, pick a style and stick to it. 
• Some resources may provide a citation for you to use - these provided citations may be in different styles, so do not copy/paste without editing to be in the style being used.
• See below for options to get guides and tools for formatting bibliographies and proper citation methods.
• Choose a Citation Manager and stick with it. The OSU Libraries has access to RefWorks and EndNote. Zotero is a popular free tool. This guide will focus on RefWorks. A Citation guide allows you to organize your multiple research projects/courses and output bibliographies, also offering option to integrate into Wordd.
• ALWAYS check the quality of any output citation against the item used (not the database you found it in or another work's bibliography). No tool is perfect and another work's bibliography may have errors. 

Choosing Citation Styles in RefWorks

When you go to output your citation (click on the symbol that looks like quotation mark), you can choose a citation style from MANY different options. For example, you can search for American Geophysical Union (AGU) and then choose that option. You can click on the star so it's among your defaults.  

The most common citation styles are APA, MLA, and Chicago.