GIS636 Advanced Research Methods

If you have a citation for an article, use Journal Finder to see whether the library has full-text access to the journal in which the article appears. Search for the title or the ISSN of the journal. 

Journal Finder lists all the journals, magazines, and newspapers that the library subscribes to and provides links to those that are online.

If we don't have the journal for the article you need you may request the article through interlibrary loan.

In an article published in March 2014, "Mapping the Literature of GIS" (College & Research Libraries), Edith Scarletto ranked journals cited in four important GIS journals—Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Cartography and Geographic Information Science, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, and Cartographic Journal—between 2008 and 2010. Journals were ranked according to the number of citations. The study identified 23 core journals and a large number of peripheral journals.

Below are listed the top 53 titles to which the SMU library does and does not provide access, along with embargo information where relevant. The numbering reflects each journal's overall ranking.

Journals to Which SMU Library Provides Access

1. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
2. Annals of the Association of American Geographers    embargo: 18 months
3. Cartography and Geographic Information Science
5. Computers Environment and Urban Systems
7. Geographic Analysis    embargo: 1 year
8. Cartographica    embargo: 6 months
9. Transactions in GIS    embargo: 1 year
10. Progress in Human Geography
11. Professional Geographer    embargo: 18 months
12. Science (have print)
14. Computers and Geosciences
15. Political Geography
17. International Journal of Remote Sensing    embargo: 18 months
18. Cartographic Journal    embargo: 1 year
19. Geoinformatica     embargo: 1 year
21. Nature     embargo: 1 year
22. Antipode     embargo: 1 year
23. Geoforum
25. Journal of Geographical Systems     embargo: 1 year
26. Journal of Hydrology
29. Remote Sensing of Environment
30. Geomorphology
31. World Development
32. Geographical Review
33. Landscape Ecology
34. Urban Studies
35. Journal of Climate
37. URISA Journal
40. Landscape and Urban Planning
42. Conservation Biology    embargo: 1 year
43. Geoderma
45. International Journal of Health Geographics
46. Area
47. Global Environmental Change
48. Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment
49. Human Ecology
50. Papers in Regional Science     embargo: 1 year
51. Monthly Weather Review
52. Social & Cultural Geography     embargo: 18 months
 

Journals to Which SMU Library Does Not Provide Access

4. Environment and Planning A
6. Programmetric Engineering and Remote Sensing
13. Environment and Planning B
16. Environment and Planning D
20. Institute of the British Geographers Transactions
24. Water Resources Research
27. Ecological Modeling
28. Economic Geography
36. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
38. Urban Geography
39. Climatic Change
41. Hydrological Processes
44. Statistics in Medicine
53. American Planning Association Journal

GeoRef Open-Access Journals/Series
GeoRef Open-Access Journals/Series provides a list of free open-access journals in the field of geosciences.

Peer Review is a process that journal editors use to ensure that the articles they publish represent the best scholarship currently available. When an article is submitted to a peer reviewed journal, the editors send it out to other scholars in the same field (the author's peers) to get their opinion on the quality of the scholarship, its relevance to the field, its appropriateness for the journal, etc. Only articles that pass the review are published in the journal.  (University of Texas Libraries)

"Research holding the torch of knowledge" (1896)
Olin Levi Warner
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