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GUIDE TO CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND NEGOTIATION

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Kemper, R. E. & Kemper, D. R.(1994). Negotiation literature: A bibliographic essay, citations, and sources. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press (Z7164 .S66 K45 1994).

Porter, J.N. (1982). Conflict and conflict resolution: A historical bibliography. New york: Garland (HM136 .P7 1982)

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Bercovitch, J. & Fretter, J. (2004). Regional guide to international conflict and management from 1945 to 2003. Washington, DC: CQ Press. (REFERENCE XD842 . B464 2004)

Burgess, H., & Burgess, G. M. (1997). Encyclopedia of conflict resolution. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. (RESERVES HM 136.B783 1997)

Gelfand, M. J. & Brett, J. M. (Eds.). (2004). The handbook of negotiation and culture. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. (REFERENCE XBF637 .N4 H365 2004)

Jessup, J. E. (1998). An encyclopedic dictionary of conflict and conflict resolution, 1945-1996. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. (REFERENCE XD842 .J47 1998)

Kurtz, L. (Ed.-in-Chief). (1999). Encyclopedia of violence, peace & conflict (Vols. 1 -3). San Diego, CA: Academic Press. (RESERVES HM886.E53 1999)

Yarn, D. H. (Ed.). (1999). Dictionary of conflict resolution. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. (RESERVES KF 9085.A68D53 1999)

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Langsdale Library has the following key journals in Conflict Resolution in print or online:

Conflict resolution quarterly KF9084 .A15 M45
Group decision and negotiation HD30.23 G77 & online from 1999
International Journal of conflict management online from 1997-2005
Journal of conflict resolution JX1901 .J6 & online from 1986
Mediation quarterly (former title of Conflict resolution quarterly) KF9084.A15 M45
Peace and conflict online from 1995 (most recent year not available)
Negotiation journal HD42 .N44
Studies in conflict and terrorism online from 1992 (most recent year not available)

Use the following databases and indexes to search for articles on conflict management topics in a variety of settings and arenas.

ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-tex
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Academic Search Premier  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Provides full-text for over 3,400 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education, sciences, and more. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Need help? Read the Academic Search Premier Visual Guide.

America: History and Life [on campus] [help]
Coverage: 1964 - present.
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. 

Combined retrospective index to journals in political science (1978). Washington, DC: Carrollton Press. (XJA 1.C18) INDEX SHELVES

Criminal Justice Abstracts [on-campus]
Coverage:  1968 - present. Criminal Justice Abstracts indexes the major journals, books and governmental reports in the areas of criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, corrections, police, offenders, juvenile delinquency, courts, victims, and sentencing.

Criminal Justice Periodicals[on campus]
1981 to the present: Full-text coverage for 45 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers, and complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection [on-campus]
Includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

Historical Abstracts [on campus]
1954 to the present: Information on articles, books, and dissertations about non-U.S. and non-Canadian history from 1450 to the present. Covers more than 2000 journals in 50 languages. Includes links to full text of selected journal articles.

JSTOR [on-campus]
Electronic archive of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of journals with full-text of all articles published prior to the most current five years.

Lexis-Nexis Academic [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals.  Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional [on-campus]
Coverage: varies. Find congressional publications, legislative histories (1970-present), and track bills. Contains the US Code, voting records, full-text of congressional documents and the Congressional Record, plus the Federal Register (1980 - present) and the CFR.

Military & Government Collection [on-campus]
Coverage: various dates. Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 titles.

Public Affairs Index [on-campus] [help]
Covers all aspects of national and global contemporary public policy issues.

PsycINFO  [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1887 – present. Indexes 1,300 Psychology journals from nearly 50 countries. Also includes abstracts for dissertations, books and book chapters. Same coverage as PsycLit.

Soc Index with full text (Ebsco) [on-campus]
This index features more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 620 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 500 "priority" coverage journals as well as over 1,390 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources is included.

Find books

Burton, J. W. (1996). Conflict resolution: Its language and processes. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. (HM136 .B786 1996)

Tidwell, A. C. (1998). Conflict resolved? A critical assessment of conflict resolution. New York: Pinter. (HM136 .T53 1998)

Catalog USMAI [help]
Books, journals, government documents and other materials in the University System of Maryland, including UB.

Using the library catalog you may wish to search using the following Library of Congress Subject Headings (search catalog using "subject beginning with" or "subject words")

conflict international disputes
conflict management mediation
interpersonal conflict  


or you may wish to search by keywords on more specifically-focused topics in conflict management.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts from Proquest) [on-campus]
Coverage 1861 – present. Indexes U.S., Canadian, British, and other European dissertations and theses; dissertations abstracted since 1980, theses abstracted since 1988. A 24 page preview of dissertations published since 1997 is available. The full text of dissertations may be obtained by clicking the free download button.

NetLibrary [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. A collection of E-texts covering specifically chosen by Maryland Academic Libraries. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).

WorldCat [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies. International database of collections (including books, journals , dissertations, documents, and other materials) held by libraries worldwide. Maryland libraries that own copies of the items display at the top of the list of libraries so you can easily determine if local libraries own the material needed. Records of any type of material cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 12th century.

Find websites

Conflict Research Consortium. (1997).Working Papers. Retrieved June 30, 2009 from: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/workpap.htm.

Conflict Research Consortium. (1997). Core Literature Abstracts. RetrievedJune 30, 2009 from: http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/abstract.htm.

Conflict Resolution Information Source. (2004). CR Info version IV: The Conflict Resolution Information Source. Retrieved June 30, 2009 from:
http://www.crinfo.org/.

Mediate.com (2006). Conflict Resolution Organizations. Retrieved June 30, 2009 from: http://www.mediate.com/organizations/.

United States Institute of Peace. (2006). Retrieved June 30, 209 from:http://www.usip.org/.

Plous, S. (2006). Social psychology links by subtopic: Violence, conflict, negotiation, and peace. RetrievedJune 30, 2009 from Social Psychology Network website: http://socialpsychology.org/social.htm#conflict

 

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