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From Off Campus

Most Library online resources can be accessed from off campus by current UD faculty, staff, and students. When using links on these pages, you may be prompted for your UDelNetID and password. If you encounter problems accessing Library databases, e-journals, or e-books, use the UD proxy login page.

Recommendation for Purchase

The Library welcomes suggestions for books, journals, videos and other material. Please use the Recommendation for Purchase form to send your suggestions.

Research in Geography

This guide provides access to resources on a variety of topics related to Geography: climatology; land surface processes; human, cultural, and environmental geography; geographic education; and geographic methods, such as GIS and data analysis. It is intended to help you use the University of Delaware Library and its services, find a book, locate a journal or article, select and use the appropriate databases, and find useful sites on the Internet. The tabs across the top of the page will help you navigate the guide.

Problems Saving ScienceDirect (Elsevier) PDFs

There is a known compatibility issue with Elsevier’s ScienceDirect and Adobe Reader X that prohibits easily saving PDF files. The workaround is to right-click on the PDF link and select the Save As option:

Internet Explorer – Save Target As
Firefox – Save Link As

If you use Chrome as your browser, this problem does not occur. That's because Chrome (Google) has a built-in PDF viewer enabled by default (http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1060734). It does not use the Adobe reader unless you tell it to when the PDF is opening. Once the PDF is opened in Chrome's PDF viewer, you can click on the Save icon and everything works properly

More information can be found on Elsevier's website.

Tornadoes & Hurricanes

Tornadoes

Tornado Project Online

Contains listings of all tornadoes to hit all U.S. counties from 1950-1990. Also contains other interesting tornado information, including summaries of fatal events, photos, and safety tips.

Tornadoes (NOAA)

Includes fast facts, FAQs, long-term averages by state, Fujita tornado intensity scale, significant weather events, predicting, etc.