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Geographic Information Systems/Science

This is a library resource guide for GIS. There are several departments on campus which use GIS. They include but are not limited to Geography, Earth Sciences, Environmental Studies, History, Biological Sciences and Economics.
  • The Basics of GIS
  • Getting started with GIS
  • Selected book titles for GIS
  • ArcGIS software
  • Open source software
  • GIS manuals
  • Computer programming with GIS
  • Articles & journals
  • ArcGIS for Office
  • GIS for the Mac
  • Case studies in GIS
  • Archaeology & GIS
  • Census & GIS
  • ENVS & GIS
  • History & GIS
  • Urban applications
  • Spatial analysis & modelling
  • Public health
  • Internet resources for GIS
  • GIS Education Blog
  • ArcGIS Online
  • Web mapping This link opens in a new window
  • Digital mapping
  • GIS data
  • Google Earth & Maps
  • Geovisualization
  • Managing citations
  • Scholarly communication This link opens in a new window

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Searching the Library's online catalog

  • historical geographic information systems
  • GIS and history
    This is a subject, keyword search where 'GIS' appears anywhere and 'history' is in the subject heading.
  • history research AND GIS
    This is a subject, keyword search where 'GIS' appears anywhere and 'history research' is in the subject heading.
  • historiography methodology
  • geographic information systems
  • spatial data infrastructures

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover artHistorical GIS: technologies, methodologies and scholarship by Ian N. Gregory; Paul S. Ell
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G70.212 .G75 2007
    ISBN: 9780521671705
    Historical GIS is an emerging field that uses Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to research the geographies of the past. Ian Gregory and Paul Ell's study comprehensively defines this field, exploring all aspects of using GIS in historical research. A GIS is a form of database in which every item of data is linked to a spatial location. ...
  • Cover artPast time, past place: GIS for history by Anne Kelly Knowles, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.212 .P38 2002 c.2
    ISBN: 9781589480322
    Encompassing a broad range of history -- from the Greek and Roman eras to the Salem witch trials and the Dust Bowl of the early 20th century, leading scholars from the United States, Canada, and Great Britain analyze history with the tools of GIS. Through the use of modern GIS technology the past is revealed in new ways, in re-creating Civil War battlefields, by bringing ancient landscapes back to life, and in re-examining long-held assumptions about historical events. Combining a deep appreciation of the strengths of traditional history with the technology of GIS, this book provides a new perspective for historical researchers and GIS experts.
  • Cover artResearch methods for history by Simon Gunn; Lucy Faire, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry D 16 .R37 2012
    ISBN: 9780748642045
    The first guide to the sources, techniques and concepts needed for effective historical research. While historians have become increasingly sensitive to social and cultural theory since the 1980s, the actual methods by which research is carried out in History have been largely taken for granted. ...
  • Cover artToward spatial humanities: historical GIS and spatial history by Ian N. Gregory; Alistair Geddes, eds.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780253011862
    The application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to issues in history is among the most exciting developments in both digital and spatial humanities. Describing a wide variety of applications, the essays in this volume highlight the methodological and substantive implications of a spatial approach to history. ...
  • Cover artWater histories and spatial archaeology: ancient Yemen and the American West by Michael J. Harrower
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry S 616 .Y4 H37 2016
    ISBN: 9781107134652
    This book offers a new interpretation of the spatial-political-environmental dynamics of water and irrigation in long-term histories of arid regions. It compares ancient Southwest Arabia (3500 BC to AD 600) with the American West (2000 BC to AD 1950) in global context to illustrate similarities and differences among environmental, cultural, political, and religious dynamics of water.

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artHistorical GIS research in Canada by Jennifer Bonnell; Marcel Fortin, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.217 .H57 H57 2014
    ISBN: 9781552387085
    Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct bearing for the study of contemporary environmental issues and realities. ...
  • Cover artHistory and GIS: epistemologies, considerations and reflections by Alexander von Lünen; Charles Travis, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.217 .H57 H58 2013
    ISBN: 9789400750081
    Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - either as "standard" GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) - have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography. ...
  • Cover artMapping space, sense, and movement in Florence: historical GIS and the early modern city by Nicholas Terpstra; Colin Rose, eds.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry DG 737.4 .M37 2016
    ISBN: 9781138184893
    Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to enable researchers and students to uncover the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city. ..
  • A place in history: a guide to using GIS in historical research by Ian N. Gregory
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    This guide is intended for historians who want to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS). It describes how to create GIS databases and how to use GIS to perform historical research.
  • Cover artPlacing history: how maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical scholarship by Anne Kelly Knowles, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry G 70.212 .P55 2008
    ISBN: 9781589480131
    In the last decade, historical GIS has emerged as a promising new methodology for studying the past. Historical GIS is the use of geographic information systems software and allied geospatial methods for historical research and teaching. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship offers case studies and essays on key issues involving historical GIS, highlighting the unprecedented range of tools to visualize historical information in a geographical context. ...

Internet resource(s)

  • Geographically Integrated History
    • Link
    This is a site dedicated to helping historians and historical social scientists learn and use GIS in their research. The site includes a training manual and data.
  • Programming Historian
    • Link
    The Programming Historian offers user-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials to help humanists learn a variety of digital tools. Two of the tools listed are Python and QGIS.
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