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Subject Guide for Geography: Online Encyclopedias

Online Encyclopedias

Below is a short list of recommended Online Encyclopedias. These can be extremely useful reference sources when consulting Geography terms and researching accurate information.

Recommended Online Encyclopedias

 

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2nd edition)
The International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.) is an encyclopaedic collection of four to eight page scholarly articles on topics in all areas of the social sciences: anthropology, archaeology, behavioural neuroscience, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience and psychology, demography, economics, education, geography, history, labour studies, law, linguistics, political science, sociology and more.  Included are biographies of hundreds of significant figures in these fields, from the 19th century to the present. Articles may be browsed by subject classification, title or subject index, or searched by keyword.

 

Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitised entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.