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CQ Researcher provides reports written by journalists, footnoted and fact-checked. Full-length articles include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports.
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Provides information on various social issues, including pro and con articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO) is a collection of the best Handbooks areas across many different subject areas. The Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.
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Sage Knowledge provides full-text of major reference works published by Sage Publications, including Sage Books, Sage Reference, CQ Press reference resources, and Sage Navigator social sciences literature review tool.

Reference Books

GIS&T Body of Knowledge
From the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), Body of Knowledge documents the domain of geographic information science and its associated technologies (GIS&T).
The Politics of Mapping (2022, ebook)
Maps and mapping are fundamentally political. Whether they are authoritarian, hegemonic, participatory or critical, they are most often guided by the desire to have control over space, and always involve power relations. This book takes stock of the knowledge acquired and the debates conducted in the field of critical cartography over some thirty years. The Politics of Mapping includes analyses of recent semiological, social and technological innovations in the production and use of maps and, more generally, geographical information.
International Encyclopedia of Geography (2022, ebook)
Brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on geographical topics and techniques of interest across the social sciences, humanities, science, and medicine.
Encyclopedia of GIS (2020, ebook)
Covers classic GIS topics as well as GIS-related commercial and societal applications.
Ethics, science, technology, and engineering: a global resource (2015, ebook)
Multivolume update of the Encyclopedia of Science Technology and Ethics. After connecting to the resource, use the Search Within Publication box to find chapters of interest (e.g. "Geographic Information Systems")
Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (2012, ebook)
Surveillance is both globalized in cooperative schemes, such as sharing biometric data, and localized in the daily minutiae of social life. This handbook explores the empirical, theoretical and ethical issues around surveillance and its use in daily life.
The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society (2011, ebook)
Aimed at academics, researchers, postgraduates, and GIS practitioners, this Handbook is a the basic reference for any inquiry applying GIS to societal issues.
The Handbook of Geographic Information Science (2008, ebook)
A reference guide to the field of Geographic Information Science that has chapters on participatory GIS, information sharing, personal privacy, and other topics.

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