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Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Background Information
Foundations of Geographic Information Science
Location: JPL Stacks G70.212 .F69 2003
Geoinformation : Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographic Information Systems
Location: netLibrary
Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo
Location: JPL Stacks G70.212 .G489 2004
GIS and statistical analysis with ArcView
Location: netLibrary
The GIS Book
Location: JPL Stacks G70.212 .K67 2001
Integrated Geospatial Technologies : a Guide to GPS, GIS, and Data Logging
Location: JPL Stacks G70.212 .T54 2003
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Books
Books and Materials at the UTSA Library
UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
Search UCAT to locate books, journal titles (not articles), government documents, maps and multimedia materials available at the UTSA Library.
Read the Search Tips to learn how to conduct a better search.
UCAT Basic Searches
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netLibrary (UTSA subscription)
netLibrary is a comprehensive collection of electronic books. UTSA's collection features thousands of scholarly, reference, and professional e-books from leading university, academic and professional publishers.
Books and Materials Elsewhere
Want to find books and journal holdings in other libraries?
- Check the catalogs in Books at Other Libraries
- Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Catalog
Includes approximately 500,000 bibliographic records for monographs (books), newspapers, serials, archival materials in microform and microform sets. All material is available through Interlibrary Loan. Citations Only.
- WorldCat (UTSA subscription)
Do searches on title or subject keywords.
Click "Libraries with item" link to find Texas libraries that have your item. Ask for a TexShare card at the Reference Desk to check out items from other San Antonio or Texas libraries or obtain items through Interlibrary Loan (forms at Circulation Desk or online). Citations only.
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Databases & Article Searching
- Some databases provide full-text or full-image of articles.
- Some databases provide citations or abstracts only.
If you find articles in a citation-only database, search UCAT to see if the library owns or subscribes to the journal you need.
If the UTSA Library does not subscribe to the journal you need, either in print or an online format:
GEOBASE (UTSA subscription)
Provides citations and abstracts to U.S. and international journals, books, monographs, conference proceedings and reports in the fields of geography, ecology and related disciplines. Coverage is 1980 to the present. Updated daily. Note: This resource is only available to UTSA students, staff, and faculty; your last name and UTSA ID number are required for access to this database.
GeoRef (UTSA subscription)
Selectively indexes and abstracts the geoscience literature of the world including journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports, theses and dissertations. Coverage for North America is 1785 to the present with the rest of the world is from 1933 to the present. Updated every two weeks.
Academic Search Premier (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts more than 4,000 journals with full text/image to more than 3,200. Highly multidisciplinary, this resource includes social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies. Updated frequently. List of journals. Full Text/Full Image
Ingenta (formerly Uncover)
Ingenta (UnCover) contains brief descriptive information for over 8,800,000 articles which have appeared since 1988 in multidisciplinary journals. Easy-to-use interface. Updated daily. Search by keywords. Check UCAT to see if we own the journal cited or obtain material through Interlibrary Loan. Citations Only
Web of Science (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 8,400 journals from 1989 to the present in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Print equivalents published by The Institute for Scientific Information are Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Citations Only
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Websites about GIS
ESRI
Free Website: http://www.esri.com
Website for the vendor of the popular GIS software ArcView and other GIS and mapping products.
GIS.com
Free Website: http://www.gis.com
GIS.com is a portal to GIS information on the Web and was created by ESRI, a GIS software developer.
GIS Dictionary
Free Website: http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/agidict/
Definitions for almost 1000 GIS terms.
USGS: Geographic Information Systems
Free Website: http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/
Website devoted to an explanation of GIS from the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Free GIS Viewers
Christine GIS System
Free Website: http://www.christine-gis.com/
Easy to use GIS viewer and less than 1 MB in size.
ESRI ArcExplorer
Free Website: http://www.esri.com/arcexplorer
GIS data viewer developed by ESRI. This freely available software offers an easy way to perform a variety of basic GIS functions, including display, query, and data retrieval applications. It can be used on its own with local data sets or as a client to Internet data and map servers. There are two versions available: Java and Web-based.
SAGA GIS
Free Website: http://www.saga-gis.uni-goettingen.de/html/index.php
System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) is a hybrid GIS software with a GUI (Graphical User Interface).
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Data Sources
ESRI: Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data
Free Website: http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/
Census 2000 TIGER/Line Data in shapefile format. Users can choose multiple data layers for a single county or a single data layer for multiple counties and analyze them using GIS software such as ArcGIS and ArcExplorer-Java Edition.
ESRI: Geography Network
Free Website: http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/downloadable.html
Access to several popular geographic data sets that may be downloaded for immediate use with your GIS software. Preview these data sets online and then download selected areas in a ready-to-use GIS format. Some are free, while others require purchase.
Geospatial One-Stop
Free Website: http://gos2.geodata.gov/wps/portal/gos
Federal, state, and local geographic data.
GIS Data Depot
Free Website: http://data.geocomm.com/
Numerous data holdings are available for free download, otherwise, data can be downloaded via a "Premium" option.
Nationalatlas.gov
Free Website: http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
U.S. map layers available for free download in Shapefile format and in the Topological Vector Profile of the Spatial Data Transfer Standard.
Texas State Data Center
Free Website: http://txsdc.utsa.edu/txdata/shapefiles/
Texas Census 2000 shapefiles from the Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
Texas Natural Resources Information System
Free Website: http://www.tnris.state.tx.us/
Digital geospatial data of Texas, including Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles (DOQs) for the entire state of Texas.
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Associations
Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA)
Free Website: http://www.gita.org/
Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA)
Free Website: http://www.urisa.org/
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Listservs
Directions Magazine
Free Website: http://www.directionsmag.com/
Website devoted to GIS news and resources. Click "Resources" and then "GIS Discussion" to see a pull-down menu of listservs, with posts, such as ArcGIS and ESRI-L.
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