Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

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Title

Publication

[Hoboken, New Jersey] : John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Physical Description

1 online resource

Extent

Began 2020?

Local Notes

Primary remote access for Yale University authorized users is through EZproxy; resource may also be accessed through Yale's Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Access is available to the Yale community.

Notes

Content primarily in English; search interface and added text offered in multiple languages.

Access and use

Access restricted by licensing agreement.

Summary

This database offers the digitized archives of the Royal Geographical Society covering the British Empire from approximately 1478-1953. The collection covers the history of geography, environmental history, exploration, colonization and decolonization, anthropology, law, climate science, gender studies, cartography, and environmental history. The content contains a range of primary sources, including manuscripts, correspondence, reports, conference papers, proceedings, maps, charts, atlases, photographs, surveys, data, and ephemera presented as digital images, with searchable text and metadata, on a platform which allows for visual and textual analyses and is cross-searchable with archives from other societies in the Wiley Digital Archives.

Variant and related titles

Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers)

Wiley Digital Archives. Royal Geographical Society

Royal Geographical Society archives

Wiley Digital Archives. RGS

RGS archives

Also known as: Royal Geographical Society archive

Also known as: RGS archive

Institute of British Geographers archive

Institute of British Geographers archives

Format

Databases / Data Sets / Online