Urban Planning & Public Policy: Find Articles - Using Databases

A lot of full-text (PDF, Web-based, or plain text with no images).

AccessAsia is a free online specialized search engine that focuses on experts in the field of contemporary Asian affairs, including economics, health, politics, foreign policy, energy, security, and trade. These experts' specializations range from Japan to Afghanistan and Russia to Australia.

Covers environmental science issues and has 19 subsections included on different intensities of agriculture (Agricola), ecology, risk, sustainability, pollution, water and related themes from both a science and policy perspective.

Available in English, Spanish & Portuguese. Ameli, Open Knowledge for Latin America and the Global South (AmeliCA) is an initiative launched by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Latin American Council of Social Sciences ( CLACSO ), the Network of Scientific Journals of Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (REDALYC), the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico (UAEM), the University of Antioquia (UdeA) and the National University of La Plata (UNLP). This is a new configuration of strategies in response to the international, regional, national and institutional context, which seeks a collaborative, sustainable, protected and non-commercial Open Access solution for Latin America and the Global South.

British and European influences predominate this database in the Applied Sciences.

Provides a searchable database used to locate source material on the subjects of architecture, urban design, historic preservation, and urban planning history.

Marketing content that projects 5 yrs out from date of report how product & industry is likely to perform with market shares. Wide range of topics. Global coverage.

The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) has the largest collection of economic and social development materials in Europe and over half of it originates from developing countries. But until now, much of the BLDS physical collection has only been available to visitors to the library or users of its Document Delivery service. BLDS is hoping that its newly-launched Digital Library will help redress the situation by making developing country research more accessible and visible online

Indexes the business/economics literature and includes strong fulltext options.

This database chronicles contemporary public policy by providing daily briefs, research studies, working papers, documents, data and other information to educate users about issues.

Covers well the ICT landscape

The practice, theory and history of design, crafts, architecture and advertising with an emphasis on visual literacy and more recently on environmental sensitivity.

This database is the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) links to disaster medicine and public health open access resources.
Resources include grey literature, guidelines, reports, proceedings, trainings, fact sheets, etc., for a professional audience.

NLM selects resources from over 1,400 non-commercial publishing sources, which This database supplements disaster-related resources from PubMed (biomedical journal literature) and MedlinePlus (health information for the public).

Abstracts journal articles, books, dissertations, and working papers in economics. New records added monthly. Produced by American Economic Association.

The aim is to share the best in development policy, practice and research. Browse more than 26,000 summarised documents from over 7,500 development organisations - all available free to download. Share your work with over 80,000 development practitioners. Prepared by the Institute for Development Studies in Great Britain.

Marketing Reports from numerous industries including healthcare, IT, aerospace & defense, Chemicals, materials, energy & power, electronics, automotive & transportation, etc. Use pull-down menus across the top to identify what you seek and then choose report or presentation.

This new database contains the famous Gartner Hypecycles and a myriad of other data associated with IT issues, emerging technologies and industry trends.

1785-present (North America); 1933-present (worldwide)
Indexes publications in geology, seismology, marine geology, geophysics, geochemistry (weak coverage), geological maps, hydrology, archaeology, etc.

A public health database emphasizing international health issues. Consists of the Global health current file (1973 to present) and the Global health archive (1908 to 1973), which also includes records from the British Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases up to 1983. 80% of the database coverage is from journal articles, but it also covers books, conference proceedings, bulletins, reports and theses.

The world’s largest discovery service and database of reports, papers, and other resources published by over 8,000 NGOs, think tanks, IGOs and research centers from across the world. Subject coverage is comprehensive: architecture, agriculture, business, climate, development, education, employment, energy, environment, finance, health, law, libraries, migration, inequality, investment, governance, industry, pensions, poverty, science, technology, trade, social issues, urban areas and more. It includes a Directory of over 21,000 organizations involved in public and social policy. Users can upload their own reports and links to resources, make lists and stay up-to-date by following searches, organizations and topics.

Environmental Sciences about sustainability, renewables and creating green policies and lifestyles.

Major A&I service for the International Operations Research journal literature. No UC eLinks, thus looking up sources of journal titles in Library Search is required. UCI has majority of indexed titles.

Contains easily searchable free full-text access to thousands of case studies, evaluation, white papers and issue briefs addressing some of the world's most pressing social problems that share the collective intelligence of the social sector. Covers public policy and knowledge mobilization.

This journal publishes refereed articles from respected scholars and planners. It also provides listings, abstracts, and research notes on a wide range of timely city and regional planning issues.

77,000 images from museums, archives, and libraries increasing access to California’s cultural collections (University of California and non UC). MOAC is also available via Calisphere: http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html

National Technical Information Service provides full descriptive summaries of more than 2.2 million documents and other materials NTIS has received from U.S. Government agencies since 1964.

The PAIS archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS annual cumulated bulletin volumes 1 62 published 1915 1976.

Public Affairs/Administration with a full Archive at http://uclibs.org/PID/113582

Covers CA focused socio-political topics; Agriculture, Budget & Appropriations, Campaigns, Cybersecurity, Defense, Education, eHealth, Employment & Immigration, Energy, Financial Services, Health Care, Tax, Technology, Trade, Transportation.

A bibliographic reproductive health database POPLINE offers citations with abstracts are available for books and book chapters, technical reports, journal articles, laws, bills, and court decisions, papers presented at conferences, and more.

Index to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses submitted to the UMI Dissertations database from all participating institutions in North America with a growing collection of foreign content. Free fulltext access to all content from 1997. Others can be requested via ILL.

Launched in 2002, Redalyc serves as a portal to more than 15,000 full text articles published in over 700 journals that come from 15 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. New titles and older content are added monthly. Subject coverage includes topics in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and the natural sciences. Redalyc can be searched by keyword, subject, author, country of publication or journal title. Articles are primarily in Spanish. Redalyc adheres to an Open Access policy and its material is released under a Creative Commons license, with free downloads of the PDF files.The Redalyc project is a bibliographic database and a digital library of Open Access journals, supported by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México with the help of numerous other higher education institutions and information systems.

Recently, increasing scientific attention has centered on the identification and alleviation of risk in today’s world. Risk Abstracts provides a comprehensive source for interdisciplinary perspectives in this evolving field.

Major database that is intensive in STEM coverage including medicine but also growing in Social & Behavior Sciences. Offers metrics about author, article, and journal; also includes more book chapters.

An online compendium that provides a searchable index of abstracts relating to water resources and water management.

Abstracts journal articles, monographs, dissertations, conference proceedings, and other research covering sociology, social work, and related social sciences. Also includes selected web resources.

SSRN provides access to the research publications of the social sciences by discipline, promoting interdisciplinary connections. Fulltext content, often considered grey literature containing briefing documents

All about sustainable practices in different sectors.

Invited speakers addressing topics of the day, especially about new roles of technology, entertainment and design but covers a lot of science and medicine as they promote technology and design in particular.

Major database covering all facets of transportation - after searching, you will have to consult UC Library Search. Remember that the database has 3 coverage periods. Only one concurrent user at a time.

Conduct a search for what you need using the search box on the upper right side. Not all the papers are available online and free. Please contact jgelfand@uci.edu if you have questions.

TRID is a newly integrated database that combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to over 900,000 records of transportation research worldwide.

The University of California's Digital Library (CDL), in partnership with nine California institutions, has been awarded a competitive grant to catalog thirty-three collections documenting a range of important issues- including irrigation, mining, forestry, agriculture, industry, land use, activism, and research- in the state's environmental history.

A SAGE Full-Text Collection including the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles.

The most focused indexing & abstracting source of journal and related literature in urban planning and urban studies. Contains links to increasing volume of fulltext content.

Most comprehensive coverage of academic research in water sciences. Selectively included in the ESPM database, but encourages more thorough searching and review in this database.

Encompasses the Science Citation Index (1900+), Social Science Index (1956+), and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+). Provides author, keyword, and cited reference searching to more than 1700 leading social science journals.

For 20 years, California Planning & Development Report has been regarded as the authoritative periodical on planning and development issues - required reading for planners, land-use lawyers, developers, environmentalists, citizen activists, and others interested and involved in the process of planning and development in California. Since 1986, CP&DR has been a unique institution - a monthly newsletter that serves the California planning and development community by providing comprehensive and up-to-date information in an impartial way using the highest journalistic standards.

Almost all of CP&DR's editorial material is prepared by professional journalists with special knowledge in planning and development. CP&DR is the only independent publication in the nation covering planning and development issues in a single state.

Short articles about trends and solutions to problems about transportation, smart cities, cybersecurity, and hosts of other issues.

This journal publishes refereed articles from respected scholars and planners. It also provides listings, abstracts, and research notes on a wide range of timely city and regional planning issues.

Call number: NA 9000 A45
Full-text articles available from 1988-present.

The peer-reviewed journal explores the relationship between design and the creation of neighborhoods, parks, streets, workplaces, infrastructure, and other spaces that support communities.

Elsevier Scientific Publishers and Academic Press. Full text access to over 900 scientific, medical and technical journals published by Elsevier Scientific Publishers.

Springer Verlag Publishers. Abstracts and full text of over 200 journals in the sciences. Full text coverage: 1997 to the present.

Published semi-annually, SSPP is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides a platform for the dissenmination of new practices and for dialogue emerging out of the field of sustainability.

Offers full-text access to journals in a wide range of disciplines of social sciences, STEM fields and related subjects, representing the publishers now incorporated into T&F, such as Carfax which included a large number of critical titles to different aspects of urban & regional planning.

JournalTOCs is for all researchers and is the largest, free collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs): 31,604 journals including 13,563 selected Open Access journals and 11,855 Hybrid journals, from 3140 publishers.
JournalTOCs alerts you when new issues of your Followed journals are published.

This free database provides TofC for >1500 law reviews and legal journal titles, including many environmental law publications.

Includes Energywire, Climatewire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, E&E News PM, Reports that update daily with news content.

This service is intended to provide accurate, authoritative and current information in the area of foreign law research. One can search by country or jurisdiction and by broad subject headings such as environmental protection, etc.

Most comprehensive coverage of law review literature - from volume 1 to last full year of coverage. Searchable and fulltext coverage.

The Index to Foreign legal periodicals is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide. Also analyzed are the contents of legal essays, festschrifts, melanges, and congress reports. Covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Restricted to one simultaneous user.

This database has selective fulltext coverage from 1995 and indexes and contains books as well as legal periodicals.

This database is increasingly fulltext and includes law reviews, trade publications including the Los Angeles Daily Journal and other journals & resources that reflect International Agencies such as United Nations conferences and content.

A fulltext database containing Legal content for US/Federal jurisdictions and State Law. Includes caselaw, codes & statutes, law review articles. Click on the "Legal" tab and then make sure you set the time frame you want searched just below the search strategy box. Also provides access to fulltext newspapers.

A fulltext searchable legal database containing caselaw, regulatory and statutory law for US Federal and individual states and law review coverage.

Langson Bound Journals - K 3581.2 Y43

American Planning Association offers full-text access to planning articles from U.S. newspapers and periodicals.

White papers and reports commissioned by the Center for Digital Government

Index to doctoral dissertations and masters' theses submitted to the UMI Dissertations database from all participating institutions in North America with a growing collection of foreign content in 80+ countries.

Provides access to the following Daily Environment Report, Environment Reporter, Environment & Safety Library, International Environment Daily, International Environment Reporter, and State Environment Daily.

Tools for building resource collections and seeking information on Foreign, International & Comparative Law

A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports that are already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.

The institute supports research in the biological, engineering, social and health sciences fields, with a focus on sustainable development.

Social Explorer provides easy-to-use tools for visual exploration of demographic information, from census and economic data to election and religion data, and more. With these interactive online tools, users can visually explore change over time and understand the patterns behind the raw numbers.

Frank Kreith, University of Colorado

New (2011) title from NOW Publishers. Strategic Behavior and the Environment provides a platform for various disciplines that jointly contribute to our understanding of strategic behavior in design and implementation of environmental policy.