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GESource World Guide
GESource/Consortium of Academic Libraries in Manchester; Resource Discovery Network
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URL: http://www.gesource.ac.uk/worldguide/
Last visited July 2004
Keyword Geography
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120410566007
Launched in March 2004, the GESource World Guide provides access to a wealth of information on over 270 countries and territories. GESource, the parent site of World Guide, is the geography and environment hub of the Resource Discovery Network, a site that brings together resources in various subject categories that are selected, indexed and described by specialists from over seventy educational and research organisations in the UK (including Oxford and Cambridge universities and the British Library).
The primary arrangement of information in the World Guide is by country. The individual entries can be accessed through a drop-down menu listing all of the countries and territories by name or by keyword search (simple searches only, no Boolean or phrase search capability). Each entry is divided into six main sections:...