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Quick Start - Maps and Data

The resources listed below will get you started in finding GIS and spatial data.

PolicyMap
An interactive map viewer allows you to look at data that is focused on various issues around policy, including data on demographics, income and spending, housing, lending, quality of life, economy, education, health, and more.
American FactFinder
Interactive database that provides quick access to Census statistics about population, housing, industry, and business.
Social Explorer
Allows users to visually display demographic data in theU.S. from 1790 through the present at a variety of geographic levels, createreports, maps and animations that can be downloaded.

SimplyAnalytics
This database from Geographic Research, Inc. enables non-technical users to quickly create thematic maps, reports, ring studies and location analyses using extensive demographic, social, business and marketing data from many sources including the US Census, Experian Simmons and more. Access to the database is limited to 10 users.

The resources listed below will get you started in finding GIS and spatial related literature.

Wiley Online Library
An interdisciplinary collection that features collections in Earth and Environmental sciences as well as Architecture and Planning. This database also provides access to "Transactions in GIS" a key journal for spatial and GIS research
Web of Science
Interdisciplinary collection of journal articles, conference proceedings, and books. Collection of seven online database: Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, Current Chemical Reactions, and Book Citation Index. Coverage is 1900-present.
JSTOR
A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.

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