Find Maps
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A to Z Maps Online This link opens in a new windowThe world's largest subscription-based database of proprietary, royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps. Included in the 4,000+ maps are: political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps. New maps are added to the collection every month.
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Digital Sanborn Maps for Massachusetts [Proquest] This link opens in a new window
More than 660,000 historical fire insurance maps drawn at a scale of 50 feet to an inch, charting the growth and development of more than 12,000 American towns and cities.
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Sanborn Maps from the Library of CongressLimited color maps available from many states.
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Massachusetts Real Estate Digitization ProjectThis digitized collection of atlases includes 167 volumes with over 6,000 maps and other illustrations. They include statewide, county and municipal atlases from throughout the commonwealth, with the majority published in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Old Maps OnlineFreely accessible website with maps from collections at Harvard, the the British Library, the Czech Republic's Moravian Library, and the National Library of Scotland, among others.
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The Kraus Map CollectionFrom the University of Texas at Austin
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Open Street MapWikimaps
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USGS Historical Topo Map ExplorerDownloadable topographic maps created between 1884 and 2006.
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Topographic MapsTopographic Maps made to order from the United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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David Rumsey Historical Map CollectionOver 90,000 historical maps digitized
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Natural EarthPublic domain map dataset
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Atlasscopea tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time
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Normal B. Leventhal Map and Education CenterDigital maps from the Boston Public Library
Online Databases
To assist in finding journal and periodical articles, as well as maps and other images. These databases may require a BSU login
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EBSCO Image Collection This link opens in a new windowIncludes over 100,000 contemporary and historical photographs, maps, and flags.
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GeoRef This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive geoscience database. Bibliographic records included on the database are from journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, and theses. Over 60,000 references are added to the GeoRef database annually.
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Nexis Uni (formerly: LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new windowFor legal information and national and international news.
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ScienceDirect College Edition This link opens in a new windowProvides access to thousands of journals relating to research and advances in science happening around the globe. Maxwell Library has access to the following collection: Health & Life Sciences Journals.
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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThe premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles for academic libraries from the world's leading journals, this comprehensive resource covers the physical and social sciences, medicine, engineering, the arts, technology, literature, and many other subjects. With millions of articles in both PDF and HTML full-text format and simultaneous, unlimited usage, researchers are able to find accurate, timely information quickly. Gale's InterLink technology intelligently connects contextually-relevant results from your library's eBook collection on GVRL within articles in a user's search results. The Topic Finder tool adds power and depth to searches, allowing students to mine their search results and develop their research focus in ways never before available.
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Academic Search Complete [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary full-text database with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Indexes and abstracts more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowA freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.
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Geography Journal listPrint and electronic journals in the field of Geography available through Maxwell Library
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HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,600 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.