PUAD 626
Information Resources Management
Lucy Holman
Fall 2009
Individual course index / fa09/puad626_holman.htm
Introduction | Books| Technology or Public Administration Databases | Other databases | Book catalogs | Suggested Websites | Other helpful information
Introduction:
This guide will help you find information relevant to information technology in public administration.
For questions, e-mail us at langref@ubalt.edu or phone us at (410) 837-4274.
You can also contact the librarian for this course, Thomas Arendall at tarendall-salvetti@ubalt.edu or (410) 837-4275.
Bessette, J. M. (Ed.). (1998) Encyclopedia of American government (Vols. 1-4). Pasadena, CA: Salem. (Reference, 1st floor: JK 9 .E52 1998)
Martin, D. W. (1989). The guide to the foundations of public administration. New York: Marcel Dekker (Reference, 1st floor: JF 1341 .M27 1989)
Rabin, J ., Hildreth, W. B., & Miller, G. J. (1998). Handbook of public administration (2nd ed.). New York: Marcel Dekker.
Online: http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=127Shafritz, J.M. (ed.). (1998). International encyclopedia of public policy and administration. Boulder: Westview Press. (Reference, 1st floor: H97 .I574 1998)
Technology or Public Administration Databases:
Use these databases to find journal articles about public administration or technology. For more databases, see Electronic Databases. Having trouble getting in from off campus? Get your library barcode number.
ACM Digital Library [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1985-present
Collection of citations and full text from the Association for Computing Machinery journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings.ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.Business Source Premier [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Varies– present. Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL). Includes company profiles, many of which contain SWOT analyses.Google U.S. Government. (2006). http://www.google.com/ig/usgov
Not a library database, but a subset of Google which searches only federal, state, and local government websites. It's a good place to find research and technical reports from government agencies.Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com
Search Google for more scholarly work. To access Langsdale Library's electronic journal subscriptions in Google Scholar, click on "Scholar Preferences" and put "University of Baltimore" in the "Library Links" box.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.Science.gov. (2002). http://www.science.gov/
Not a library database, exactly, but a specialized search engine which searches 50 million pages from U.S. government science websites. It's a good place to find research and technical reports from government agencies.
Not sure if a journal is scholarly/peer reviewed? Look up the name of the journal in:
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (Bowker) [on campus]
Bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on journals, magazines and newspapers published throughout the world.
Other databases:
These databases do not focus specifically on public administration or technology, but they may contain useful journal articles.
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.Baltimore Sun [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: Sept 16, 1990 - present. Full text of Baltimore Sun.CINAHL [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1982 – present. Indexes/abstracts nursing and allied health literature.ERIC (EBSCO) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 - present. Indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE) and Resources in Education (RIE). Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).Health Source Plus (nursing edition) [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1990 - present. Searchable full-text for nearly 580 journals and abstracts and indexing for over 615 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications. Now includes Clinical Reference Systems. Funded by the Maryland Digital Library (MDL).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.Medline [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1966 – present. Indexes/abstracts more than 3,200 journals from the biomedical field.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.
Book catalogs:
Use these to locate books, videos, and government documents. They may contain lists of articles on your topic, or be otherwise useful.
UB Catalog [new interface!]
New interface to search for books at Langsdale Library, the University System of Maryland, and worldwide. It's based off of Worldcat, the collected catalogs of over 10,000 libraries.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.
Suggested websites:
These may provide useful information or agencies or organizations who may be sources of information.
American Society for Public Administration. (2000). http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index.cfm
Institute for Public Policy Research. (2004). http://www.ippr.org.uk/
Langsdale's Public Administration Research Links. http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/research_aids/web_resources/public_admin.htm
National Telecommunications & Information Administration. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
Science Accelerator. (2006). http://www.scienceaccelerator.gov/
University of Pennsylvania. (2003). Annenburg Public Policy Center. http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/
Voice of the Shuttle: Politics & Government
http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2726WorldWideScience.org. (2007). http://worldwidescience.org/
Annotated Bibliographies
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/AnnotatedBibliography.html
Describes how to write annotated bibliographies. It provides good examples of entries in an annotated bibliography.Annotated Bibliographies
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbib.html
Guide from the Purdue University describing how to write annotated bibliographies. The examples are particularly good.Citing Sources, APA Style (long version). http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/apastyle.htm
How to Prepare an Annotated Bibliography
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm
Describes how to write annotated bibliographies. It gives a good overview of the process.Using Researchport (for journal articles). http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/ResearchPortVisualGuide.pdf
Electronic Course Reserves. http://webreserves.ubalt.edu/eres/courseindex.aspx
Obtain or Renew your Library Account. https://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/lib_reg_form.cfm
Interlibrary Loan (ILL). http://illiad.ubalt.edu/BAL/
For more information email langref@ubalt.edu, call 410-837-4274 or Chat with a Librarian at http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/info_services/contact.htm.
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