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Library Collections and Services
The UCONN Libraries Catalog:
HOMER
Use Library of Congress subject headings when doing subject searches in HOMER. Public Policy subject
headings.
Document Delivery and Interlibrary
Loan Service
Available only to members of the UConn community.
Research
Guides and Electronic
Resources
Library Online
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Library Databases
Access databases from off campus with VPN.
ABI/Inform contains abstracts of articles from approximately 2500 international journals covering business and management and related functional areas.
Academic Search Premier a multidisciplinary magazine & journal database that provides the full text of over 4,500 journals and magazines, and indexes a total of more than 8,000 titles in all disciplines.
Business & Company Resource Center brings together a wide variety of global business information, enabling users to efficiently research business case studies, competitive intelligence, and career and investment opportunities.
EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics and includes regional and
urban economics.
Hein Online legal journal collection
contains nearly 600 journals in a searchable electronic format, including 117 international legal journals in the English language.
InfoTrac includes nearly 3,000 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes
-- a total of more than 6,000 titles in all with 20 years of backfile
coverage.
Issues
@ Controversies@ Facts.com provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective
information on current topics, combining objective analysis and clear
explanations of opposing points of view.
JSTOR provides digitized backfiles of core scholarly journals in academic fields, beginning with the first issue up to a moving wall of 2- to 5-years.
LexisNexis
Academic provides access to the full text of thousands of publications,
including national and international newspapers.
PAIS
International from Public Affairs Information Service, is an important
index to political, economic, and social issues in current debate.
Science Direct information service for the interdisciplinary research needs of academic, corporate and educational institutions, offering comprehensive coverage of literature across all fields of science.
Social Sciences Citation Index provides author, keyword, and citation
searching in social science journals.
Sociological
Abstracts provides access to the latest worldwide findings in theoretical
and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.
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Electronic Journals and Citations
Electronic Journal Locator (eCompass) The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to over 10,000 journals, online and in full text, through various databases and commercial online journal providers. eCompass can be used to determine if a title is available through one or more of the Libraries' electronic resources, and to connect to the database or online journal directly.
ABI/INFORM a full text resource for the Hartford Courant (from 1992).
Citation Guides
Berkeley Planning Journal
Brookings-Wharton Papers on
Urban Affairs (full text)
Cityscape: A
Journal of Policy Development and Research strives to share HUD-funded
and other research on housing and urban policy issues with scholars, government
officials, and others involved in setting policy and determining the direction
of future research.
Planning Commissioners Journal
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Key Web Sites
Polling
Public Opinion Suryeys, UConn research guide
About Polling (Public Agenda)
offers information on the field of opinion research gathered from a variety of sources and commentators.
iPOLL is the most comprehensive, up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion available today. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily.
Polling Organizations (Yale University Library)
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research an archive, preserving the data from polls conducted by many leading survey research organizations for the use of researchers, students, and journalists.
Hartford, Connecticut
City of Hartford official municipal
site, providing extensive information on the city, its government, services,
education...
HartfordInfo a project of the
Hartford Public Library and the Hartford Community Information Center:
information and data from a wide variety of sources.
Connecticut
Connecticut History Online
The CHO website currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs,
drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways,
including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date.
Connecticut Municipality
Web Sites
Connecticut State
Data Center is a cooperative program between the states and the Census
Bureau that was created in 1978 to make data available locally to the
public through a network of state agencies, universities, libraries, and
regional and local governments.
Connecticut State Library
State of Connecticut Website
United States
Federal resources at UCONN
Cyburbia: the urban planning
portal contains a selective directory of Internet resources relevant to planning and urbanism.
Congressional Budget Office
Demography & Population Studies from the World-Wide Web Virtual Library
FedStats The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
General Accounting Office (GAO), commonly called the investigative arm of Congress or the congressional watchdog, is independent and nonpartisan. It studies how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.
Library of Congress
American Memory Project provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words,
sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience.
National Election Studies: survey data since 1948 on the American electorate. Resources on American
political behavior, including tables and basic frequencies.
Sprawl City a website
about Consumption Growth and Population Growth, with U.S. Bureau of Census
data.
United States Bureau of the Census
United States Department of Health and Human
Services
United States Department of Labor
United States State
and Metropolitan Data Book
United States Statistical
Abstract
Windows on Urban Poverty,
University of Texas at Dallas
World
International pages UConn Guide
Dismal Scientist economic indicators, forecasts, analysis, and data for the world in real-time.
NationMaster is a resource
for finding out any number of current details about just about any country
in the world.
WebEc is a classification effort to improve the availability of free information in economics on the WWW.
World Bank is a development bank that provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance, and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty.
Maps
UConn MAGIC (Map and Geographical Information Center)
Geography-The National Map by the
US Geographical Survey provides public access to high-quality, geospatial
data and information.
National
Geographic Map Machine
Perry-Castañeda
Library Map Collection, University of Texas Library. Links to current
and historical maps from all areas of the world, as well as links to other
map-related sites.
Additional Sites of Interest
Data on the Net, University of California, San Diego, lists 361 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use.
University of Michigan Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
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Associations and Research Institutions
American Evaluation Association is an international professional association of evaluators devoted to the application and exploration of program evaluation, personnel evaluation, technology, and many other forms of evaluation.
American Society for Public Administration advances the art, science, teaching, and practice of public and non-profit administration.
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management: APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.
Brookings Institution is an independent, nonpartisan organization devoted to research, analysis, and public education with an emphasis on economics, foreign policy, governance, and metropolitan policy.
Institute of Public Administration:
(IPA) is a private, nonprofit organization concerned with building capacity for effective government.
International City/County Management Association: ICMA is the professional and educational organization for chief appointed managers, administrators, and assistants in cities, towns, counties, and regional entities throughout the world.
Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., a nonpartisan firm, conducts policy research and surveys in healthcare, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, and early childhood.
National Academy of Public Administration:
an independent, non-partisan organization chartered by Congress to assist federal, state, and local governments in improving their effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development brings together countries sharing the principles of the market economy, pluralist democracy and respect for human rights.
Policy Action Network focuses on issues such as foreign policy and national security, education, civil
liberties, jobs and the economy, retirement security and more. Our site
emphasizes engaging citizens in activism, but also provides easy access to everything from columnists to public documents.
Urban Institute investigates and
analyzes
US social and economic problems and issues, including the New Federalism, welfare and welfare-to-work, and Medicare.
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University of Connecticut Departments
Department of Public Policy
Urban and Community Studies
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