From Taylor & Francis, one of the big publishers of fulltext journal in geography, we have the following titles available in this subjects:
Built Environment
Development Studies
Environment
GeographyPlanning and Urban Development
In anthropology and archaeology the following titles are available.
To get hold of the actual online content, articles, you should look to your right and click on the link [...]

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As earlier mentioned in previous postings we now have Project Muse and Sage Premier, almost 800 journals in full-text, some subjects are better represented than others, but it’s a nice addition to our previous collection of journals.
Project Muse divided into the subjects that I am occupied with:
Sage Premier:
Anthropology & Archaeology
Geography & Environmental Science

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One of Norway’s best known social anthropologist, Jan Brøgger,died last year.He not only made a name for himself through his books and popular lectures, but also with his sharp pen as an columnist in the biggest norwegian newspapers. I have conducted a search through the ATEKST (retriever) database and searched for articles written by Jan [...]

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Today I have added a very nice collection of interviews, several of them filmed by Alan MacFarlane, he has taught at the Department of Social Anthropology Cambridge University for over thirty-three years.
Background to the collection:
The interviews were started by Jack Goody in 1982. He arranged for the filming of seminars by Audrey Richards, Meyer Fortes [...]

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Today I would like to recommend one of the most astonishing and beautiful photographic documentations of Africa I have ever seen: “Vanishing Africa”, along with the book you get at 28 minute long DVD. The italian photographer Gianni Giansanti take us along on a journey to several remote located ethnic groups in Ethiopia. His camera [...]

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The 6th of March 2007 Ghana will celebrate its 50th birthday as independent country.It was the first black African country to obtain independence from colonial rule.In our library at Dragvoll,NTNU,Trondheim we have made a small display case with books and bookcovers from our own collections to show some of the literature available about Ghana.

I have [...]

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Why not listen to some african music while working?
I am now listening to Radio Yabiladi (128 kps is not bad),100 % moroccan music, live radio. The link you could find in the pull down menu “African studies resources on the www…”, just pick Mick’s Radio World and click Go.
Enjoy!

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BBC radio has a lot of interesting topics in their Open University series, here is one of them….Professor Doreen Massey, a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, Open University – Is The World Really Shrinking?BBC3, Open University, transcript in PDF or Mp3 (audio)

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Sage publications are now searchable through their online journals catalogue

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A YouTube video:
What do you know about geospatial data? (Straßenumfrage zum Thema Geodaten)
Have added several new links under the pulldown menu “Geography blogs/podcasts”.

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