Subject Guides: Human Geography & Planning: Articles

Evaluating Information

Use the CRAAP Test

Currency - Is it timely?

Relevance - Useful for your purposes?

Authority - Who? What is the source?

Accuracy - References to back it up?

Purpose - Why? Is there a bias?

More detailed information on the CRAAP Test

Government Information Sources

Open Government
This Canadian government data will provide up to date research, policy, and city information. You can search using various portals, including OpenData, OpenInformation, or OpenGovernement.
City of Edmonton: Open Data Catalogue
Access to datasets around Edmonton transportation, construction, tree species, and more.
City of Edmonton
This is a great place to find information about public transportation, neighborhoods, city programming, etc.
Edmonton Tower Resource Centre
Library collection accessible to students and faculty. Online collection includes Edmonton zoning bylaws from 1933 to 2016, Edmonton general plans from 1963 onward, and other useful resources.

Databases for Finding Articles

Human Geography Subject Databases

PAIS International (1915 - current)
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Covers global public policy, social issues, demography, environmental studies, general social sciences. The databasecites journal articles, both scholarly and popular, books, government documents (with an emphasis on Canada, USA and the United Nations), statistical compilations, committee reports (private and public), and directories
OECD iLibrary
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Online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. OECD publications cover economic, environmental, and social issues including trade, education, labour, social policy, health, finance, development, energy, sustainability, and science and innovation.
GreenFILE
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Devoted to the study of sustainability and the environment, and provides access to academic articles, news articles, background information, video, primary source documents and statistics

Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. GreenFILE is multidisciplinary by nature and draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology.
Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970
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The Sanborn Map Company published fire insurance maps for a century, repeatedly mapping U.S. towns and cities as they changed over time. These maps provide information such as building outline, size and shape, windows and doors, street and sidewalk widths, boundaries, and property numbers. Plans often include details on construction materials and building use, and also depict pipelines, railroads, wells, water mains, dumps, and other features.
Sociological Abstracts
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Provides access to the world's literature (from 1952 to present) in sociology and related disciplines, including social welfare, social planning, social policy and development. It covers articles from over 2,000 journals, conference papers, dissertations, book reviews and selected sociology books. It covers both the theoretical and applied aspects of sociology.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Web of Science - All Databases
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A major multidisciplinary database for the Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, as well as the Sciences. Great research metrics tool.
Scopus
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Multidisciplinary database with over 16,500 titles - especially strong in science, engineering, technology, and medicine.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for a large number of scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines, and full text for a subset of these journals.

Contains text in Afrikaans, Albanian, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Flemish, French / Français, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Iranian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian and Urdu languages.

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