Welcome!
The Geography Department at
Salisbury University offers a Master's degree in GIS and Public Administration,
four Bachelor's Degrees, four departmental Minors, and a Certificate in GIS
Fundamentals. This website is designed to help all students taking
any Geography/Geoscience course with their library-research needs.
Journals
We have a great number of
print and electronic Geography/Geoscience
journals in Blackwell Library.
Any static list will
quickly be outdated - the best way to check and
see what titles we currently have is to check
online.
Check for journals to which Blackwell
Library subscribes
(Some of these titles will be
available only in print,
some will be in print and electronic
format.)
Check for journals to which Blackwell
Library has electronic access
(Note that this link will
require you to log into Research Port,
which requires your Gull Card ID number - the
14-digit number
on the back of your Gull Card.)
Class Guides
GIS Master's
Program
Geography 199:
CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Examination of the nature, supply, distribution and use of selected natural
resources. Emphasis on practical and efficient utilization of soils, farmland,
water, forests, energy and mineral resources.
Installment #1: Biography
Basic biographical information is typically
straightforward to find. A basic Google search on your
company/organization will get you to their home page (if they have one) and from
there you can usually get a good amount of information.
Installments #2 and 3: Who?
What? Where? When? How?
Finding out background information on a
company/organization is also typically a straightforward issue. In this
day and age, when even a minor-rate celebrity can't have a cold without the
world knowing what type of cold medicine they are using, finding out at least a
basic level of information on your company/organization isn't too hard.
A basic search in our newspaper databases will typically
get you a great deal of detailed information - the bigger the
company/organization, the more information you will be able to find.
Use the following link to log into the
Research Port database server, and from there click on 'N' to search
the National Newspapers database. This database allows you to search four
national newspapers all at once - the
Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
These four newspapers should have some basic information on your
company/organization that will get your started in your background information
search.
Note: if you are physically on-campus when you do
this search, you can use a more direct link to the National Newspapers database
HERE.
Installments #4, 5,
and 6: History, Philosophy Perception, and Economy
(parts a, b, & c)
a.) In Installments 4, 5, and 6, you are
asked (among other things) to look into the underlying assumptions,
beliefs, ethics, and principles, that drive your identity.
These topics are written about in journal articles that
can be found in many business databases - and as such that is a fantastic spot
for you to look for them.
b.) You are also asked, however, to look into
media events and current events that will impact your identity. Searching
our newspaper databases once more should get you this information. Use the
following link to log into the
Research Port database server, and from there click on 'N' to search
the National Newspapers database. This database allows you to search four
national newspapers all at once - the
Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times,
the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
c.) Last, but certainly not least, you are
asked to look into policies and laws that either amplify or reduce opportunities
for your identity. Where better to search but the government-only search
engine 'Google Uncle Sam' to find
such policies and laws?
Installments #7, 8,
and 9: Growth Progress Winners & Losers
These last three installments are pretty much all about
resource policies / resource management policies.
Resource management policies are (at least to my mind) an
amalgam of all the other things that you have looked up so far - resulting from
and created by the who, the what, the assumptions, beliefs, ethics, media
events, identity reactions, policies and laws. As such, if you go into a
few key multi-disciplinary databases and try some global searches on your
identity with the keywords "resource policy" or "management policy" or "resource
management" you will hopefully find some beneficial results.
I'd recommend that you start in the
JSTOR
database - it covers about everything you can think of *and* is full text as
well.
After you've done a thorough search of JSTOR (and
e-mail me at sebrazer@salisbury.edu if you have trouble finding things in JSTOR!)
I'd recommend that you move on to some more general databases:
Academic Search Complete
MasterFILE Premier
