Scholarly Journals

The Journal of Terrestrial Observation
The Journal of Terrestrial Observation is a new peer-reviewed journal that is published simultaneously online and as a hardcopy quarterly. Its mission is “to examine the multi-disciplinary theories, models, technologies, and applications associated with earth observation in the broadest sense…. »
Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Categories: Satellite & Aerial, Scholarly Journals
Annotated Bibliography on the History of Cartography
I’ve been spending some time reading through Matthew Edney’s annotated bibliography of scholarly literature on the history of cartography; a new revision went online at the Coordinates web site last week. The list is bigger than some of my comprehensive… »
Posted on Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 10:10 PM
Categories: Books, History of Cartography, Scholarly Journals
Cartographic Perspectives Blog
Cartographic Perspectives, the peer-reviewed journal of the North American Cartographic Information Society, now (as of yesterday) has a blog. Writes John Krygier in the blog’s first (and so far only) entry: “I plan to post abstracts and summaries of… »
Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 at 4:13 PM
Categories: Blogs, Scholarly Journals
Journals Roundup
The winter 2006 issue of Documents to the People, the official publication of the Government Documents Round Table of the American Library Association, is a special issue on map librarianship. It’s available for download as a PDF file (3 MB)…. »
Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 at 7:27 PM
Categories: Libraries, Scholarly Journals
Revue de la BNF’s Cartography Issue
The most recent issue of the Revue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France concerns cartography; most of the articles appear to be about early modern maps, though there’s one about the Internet as well. The table of contents, introduction… »
Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2006 at 2:14 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Scholarly Journals
Cartographic Perspectives: Maps and Art
What is map art? While I’ve posted a few entries on the subject of maps and art, it’s not something I’ve really stopped to think about. An artist’s work or installation incorporates maps. Good enough for me: post it. But… »
Posted on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 at 11:32 AM
Categories: Art, Scholarly Journals
e_Perimetron
e_Perimetron is a new quarterly web journal, the focus of which is the application of geospatial technologies to old maps. The first issue, for example, has articles that transform old maps to conform to known coordinates, assign projections to portolans,… »
Posted on Thursday, June 1, 2006 at 8:11 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, GIS, Georeferencing, Scholarly Journals
Critical Cartographies
The latest issue of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Cartographers is a special issue on “Critical Cartographies.” The essays examine the political aspects of cartography, in particular, the implications of passing the power to make maps from an expert… »
Posted on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 1:52 PM
Categories: Scholarly Journals
Journal of Maps Transport Issue
The Journal of Maps has announced plans for a special issue on transport, scheduled for the fall. The call for papers (PDF) explains the scope and submission guidelines…. »
Posted on Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 4:20 PM
Categories: Scholarly Journals
Journal of Maps Issue Two; BGRG Conference
Issue two of the Journal of Maps (see previous entry) is now online, as is a call for papers for their upcoming poster session at GESS 2006— the conference of the British Geomorphologic Research Group — in June…. »
Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 9:59 AM
Categories: Conferences, Scholarly Journals
A Roundup: Society, Journal, Blog, Podcast
A few quick links for the Map Site Directory: Via MapHist, I’ve learned about the British Cartographic Society and its journal, The Cartographic Journal. ArcDeveloper is a new blog that should be of interest to ESRI GIS developers. Via Spatially… »
Posted on Sunday, December 18, 2005 at 5:09 PM
Categories: Blogs, Cartography, GIS, Groups & Societies, Podcasts & Audio, Scholarly Journals
Coordinates Now in DOAJ
According to a post on MapHist by the journal’s editor, Coordinates, the journal of the ALA’s Map and Geography Round Table, is now indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (about which I posted on MetaFilter a couple of… »
Posted on Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 11:51 AM
Categories: Scholarly Journals
Swiss Journal and Conference on the History of Cartography
Thomas Klöti passes on links to the home pages of the Swiss-based Cartographica Helvetica, a German-language journal about the history of cartography, and the forthcoming International Conference on the History of Cartography, which takes place in Berne in July 2007…. »
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 10:58 AM
Categories: Antique Maps, Conferences, History of Cartography, Scholarly Journals
Coordinates
Coordinates is the journal of the Map and Geography Round Table of the American Library Association. It’s an online journal; articles are published irregularly rather than on an issue-by-issue basis, and, even better, it’s freely available, in HTML and PDF… »
Posted on Monday, August 29, 2005 at 6:20 PM
Categories: Antique Maps, Scholarly Journals
Journal of Maps
Richard writes to draw our attention to a new online scholarly journal, the Journal of Maps, which launched last year and had their first issue this month. From their about page: The Journal of Maps is a new inter-disciplinary online,… »
Posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 10:52 AM
Categories: Cartography, GIS, Scholarly Journals

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