LibGuides: Geospatial Science Research Guide: Geoscience

Online Reference

CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.

Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A collection of ebooks including subject encyclopedias, handbooks and guides, and covering many subject disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and science and technology.

Harvard Map Collection
The Harvard Map Collection is one of the largest and oldest collections of cartographic materials in the United States. The site includes links to online materials.

Statistics Data

African Population Database
African censuses from 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, & 2000.
Cartographic Boundary Files, U.S. Census Bureau
Boundary files available from the Census Bureau's TIGER geographic database are designed for use in a Geographic Information System (GIS)
China Dimensions Data Collection
Hosts a variety of socioeconomic data, including Geographic Information System (GIS) databases that cover the administrative regions of China
Data Ferrett
A tool and data librarian that searches and retrieves data across federal, state, and local surveys, executes customized variable recoding, creates complex tabulations and business graphics. Current Population Survey, Survey of Income and Program Participation, American Community Survey, American Housing Survey, Small Area Income Poverty Estimates, Population Estimates, Economic Census Areawide Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics data, Centers for Disease Control data, and more.
Global Climate Research Unit Datasets
Precipitation datasets for 1900-1998, provided by the University of East Anglia.
Global Temperature Dataset
Temperature datasets for 1900-1998
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides, free of charge, aggregate census data and GIS-compatible boundary files for the United States between 1790 and 2000.
United Nations Environmental Data Explorer
This online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP.
World Bank
Recent data and statistics on country development, global poverty, health and education, and other economic and social indicators related to poverty and development. Includes global gender statistics.