The National Geographic Society has just made available a database index to their collection of publications, including the main magazine, various children editions, books and tv/video offerings.  The search interface offers basic and advanced search options, limiting to date ranges, and several sorting options.  The database covers the complete publication output of the society back to 1888.  This kind of extensive coverage, to my knowledge, is not available through any other aggregating service, let alone FREE!

This index contains records describing each NGS magazine article, book, map, video, and more. For full-text you can visit your local library or purchase available products and publications at 1-800-NGS-LINE.

National Geographic Society Publications Database

Enjoy!

Bioko–An Island Ark  

Bioko Island is just off the west coast of Equitorial Guinea, Africa.  In January 2008, our own Dr. Gail Hearn and, undergraduate student, Abigail Dominy of Drexel’s Bioscience department and others went to Bioko Island to document primates and turtles.  Tagging along were several photographers and writer, Virginia Morell, from the National Geographic.                                                                            

Dr. Gail Hearn

The story and images of the expedition are now published in the August issue of the National Geographic Magazine (finally!)

 Abby and the hyrax

Orphaned baby western tree hyrax

To check out the video, photo gallery, and article text a little early go to: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/08/bioko-primates/morell-text