Find Maps
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A to Z Maps OnlineThe 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 MassachusettsMore 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 Topographic Map ExplorerDownloadable topographic maps created between 1884 and 2006.
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Topographic MapsFree topographic quadrangle maps from National Geographic
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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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Global Issues in ContextIntegrates news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, statistics, and more in a single search; updated daily and offers 250 different country topic pages and more than 400 Issue pages. Global Issues Viewpoints contains more than 3,000 exclusive commentaries that provide background and guidance on significant topics.
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EBSCO Image CollectionIncludes over 100,000 contemporary and historical photographs, maps, and flags.
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GeoRefA 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)For legal information and national and international news.
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ScienceDirect College EditionProvides 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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Gale Academic OneFileThe 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 CompleteMulti-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 ScholarA 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