Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Geography 365: Geography of Latin America: Home

Geography 365

This guide is a collection of Library resources and web sites to help you with the research paper for Geography 365. It will point you to sources of information on development topics relating to the peoples and geography of Latin America.

General Resources

If you are ready to jump right in to your research, use these links to some major starting points.

Research@UWW
This discovery tool searches multiple resources simultaneously to help you find articles, books, ebooks, videos, government documents, business data and more. Covers a wide variety of subject areas, so is a great place to start your research..
-To limit to books and any non-article sources at the UW-Whitewater Libraries, change "Everything" to "Books, Media, & More-UW Whitewater."
-To limit to articles after running a search, click on "Articles" on the left side. If you want peer-reviewed articles, next click on "Peer Reviewed Journals."

Databases by Subject
Online research databases (collections) available through the UWW Libraries. Organized here by broad subject areas. To access the alphabetical list of databases, click on "Databases A-Z" on the right side of that page. Search these to find ebooks; articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers; data and other sources of information.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar primarily identifies scholarly articles and books.
-Links are provided to free open access titles.
-Links are provided to full text that is included in the libraries' databases when using a campus computer.
-When you configure your personal device to put active links to the libraries' databases, you will have this same interaction occur. Just log in with your Net ID and password access.
-Configure Google Scholar settings on the Google Scholar guide