GIS Bibliography
ESRI's free online GIS bibliography provides a great information resource about GIS technology and geographic science and research. Comprising of more than 75,000 works, the bibliography is one of the world's largest online repositories for information about geographic information science (GIScience) and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology.
The ESRI GIS Bibliography serves as an excellent resource for scholars, scientists, geographers, cartographers, and professionals in a wide range of industries who want to learn about one or more aspects of GIS technology or geographic information science in their fields, Gould says. The bibliography references more than 1,000 sources -mostly journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and books. Though mainly abstracts, the bibliography also includes some PDFs of articles, conference proceedings, book chapters, and theses with more than 2,000 entries added each month. A vast array of fields and industries where the work involves geospatial technology and GIScience are covered including marine sciences, health, the environment, defence, land-use planning, surveying, petroleum, and forestry.
The ESRI GIS Bibliography is easy to search using either the basic or advanced search engines. The advanced search includes boxes for fields such as title, author, keywords, and abstract along with the type of material being sought and the year range. Under the search feature is an area where readers can browse for books, conference proceedings, reports, journals, magazines, and other materials. Key magazines and journals are listed for convenience, with search results available for downloaded by the user.