Geography 

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Academic Search Premier
Articles from key journals in many scholarly disciplines, with some trade journals and magazines, 1975-present

Academic OneFile
A large, interdisciplinary collection of scholarly, professional and trade journal articles, 1980-present.

JSTOR
Core scholarly journals from a range of disciplines, dating from the earliest issue of each journal to a few years before present.

Online Geographical Bibliography
An index to journal articles and other scholarly literature in the field of geography, 1984 -present.

LexisNexis Academic
Massive database of US and international newspapers; case and statutory law and law reviews; business periodicals, 1980-present.

Google Scholar
A search engine (not a database) for locating scholarly material on the internet. Use within UMass’ IP range to access UMass online journal subscriptions.

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