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Urban and Regional Planning Subject Guide

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Find Articles and Journals

 

ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM Global is the premier business and management database providing extensive coverage of North America and the world. Find research on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. This ProQuest database indexes about 1,520 journals and includes article full-text for more than 780, many with graphics (full-text available to UH Manoa campus users only). Includes information on 60,000+ companies.
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Academic Search Premier
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals.

 

ArchiText Construction Index Online
ArchiText Construction Index Online is an index to articles in more than 50 architectectural and construction trade journals organized by keywords and by MasterFormat subject headings. An abstract is provided for each article indexed in the most recent year's database.

 

Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Arts and Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. Coverage from 1980 to present.

 

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is "the nation's most comprehensive listing of journal articles on architecture." It provides citations to articles on the history and practice of architecture, historic preservation, interior design and city planning.

 

CAB Abstracts
CAB Abstracts (1973 to present), produced by CABI Publishing, covers the significant research and development literature in the applied life sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Additionally, CAB Abstracts includes molecular biology, genetics, biotechnology, breeding, taxonomy, physiology and other aspects of pure science relating to organisms of agricultural, veterinary or environmental importance. This database offers abstracts and indexing for journals, serial publications, conference proceedings, books, theses, annual reports, patents & standards and dates back to 1973. Coverage is international in scope.
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Civil Engineering Database
Civil Engineering Database from the American Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE) provides bibliographic access to all ASCE journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newsletters published since 1975.

 

Digital Sanborn Maps, 1867-1970 - Hawaii
Digital access to fire insurance maps from various areas in Hawaii. Users have the ability to easily manipulate the maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and layer maps from different years.

 

EconLit
EconLit, published by the American Economic Association, provides bibliographic coverage of a wide range of economics-related literature. An expanded version of the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) indexes of journals, books, and dissertations, EconLit covers both economic theory and application.

 

FirstGov
FirstGov.gov, the official U.S. gateway to all government information.

 

GeoBase
GEOBASE is a unique multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts for human and physical geography, ecology, geology, oceanography, geomechanics and development studies. The database provides current coverage of over 1,700 journals and archival coverage of several thousand additional titles. GEOBASE contains over a million records from 1980, with 72,000 records added annually. Each GEOBASE record contains full bibliographic citation, indexing terms and codes and 99.5% of records contain abstracts.
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Hawaii Pacific Journal Index
Hawaii Pacific Journal Index is a Voyager Online Catalog Citation index to nearly 100 journals published in or about Hawaii and covering all subjects. A listing of titles indexed in HPJI is available.

 

Ingenta
Multidisciplinary index to journal articles. The ingenta Library Gateway is a searchable database of more than 11 million citations from over 20,000 journals. The Gateway is a powerful, easy to use service offered by your institution as a means of expanding your access to current, scholarly research.

 

National Trade Data Bank via STAT-USA
STAT-USA is a service run by the US Department of Commerce for the US business, economic and trade community, providing access to Global Business Opportunities & the National Trade Data Bank.

GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. GLOBUS also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency, the United Nations, and the Commerce Business Daily leads.

The NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports and other programs. The International Trade Library is a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as keyword searchable by country or product.

 

Pacific Business News
Citations and abstracts of articles from Hawaii's business weekly Pacific Business News.

 

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
PAIS International is an index to the world's public and social policy literature in the fields of business, economics, local and federal government, political science, international relations, finance, and other social sciences. It has references and in some cases abstracts of articles from over 3,660 journal titles, books, gray literature, internet material, conference proceedings, government and ngo documents and statistical publications.

 

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect from Elsevier is an internet resource for scientific, technical and medical information. Using Science Direct you can access over 1,800 peer reviewed academic journals, search over 30 million abstracts from scientific articles and link out to articles from over 80 other publishers.

 

Social Sciences Citation Index
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Online coverage from 1980 to present.

 

Sociological Abstracts
 Sociological Abstracts is an index with abstracts to the literature of sociology from 2,700 journals and other serials, books, dissertations, and conference papers published worldwide. Coverage is from 1963 and includes all facets of sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology and urban studies. Over 2,500 new records are added monthly. Access is through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.

 

 

Find Dissertations and Books

 

Hawaii Voyager Library Catalog
Use the online catalog to find books, journals, dissertations, videos, more.

 

Dissertations and Theses
Dissertations & Theses (PQD&T) includes bibliographic citations for the doctoral and master's work of authors from more than 1,000 graduate schools and universities dating back to 1861. More than 750,000 dissertations and theses from 1997 on have been digitized and are available for PDF download.

 

New Books at UHM Library
Interface for identifying new books. Can be limited by keyword and date range.

 

 

Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias and Guides

 

The following is a selection of frequently used library resources for Urban and Regional Planning research. If you need assistance with these resources, please visit the Central Information Services reference counter.

 

UHM Library Periodicals in Urban & Regional Planning
Dictionaries & Glossaries
Indexes
Directories

 

DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES

 

The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thought on Cities and Urban Life
Hamilton HT111 .C576 1984

The Commissioner's Dictionary of Housing and Community Development Terminology
Hamilton HD7293 .D856 1985

International Planning Glossaries 5 vols 1978-1986.
Population. Hamilton HB849.2 .P66 1976
Housing. Hamilton HD7287.5 .H67 1975
Transportation. Hamilton HE141 .T735 1977
Land Resources. Hamilton HD107.7 .L63 1984
Planning and Development. Hamilton Main Reference HT391 .L64 1986

The New Illustrated Book of Development Definitions
Hamilton HT167 .M683 1993

Encyclopedia of Community Planning and Environmental Management
Hamilton HD108.6 .S38 1984

The Urban Politics Dictionary
Hamilton Main Reference J548 .S65 1990

Urban Public Transportation Glossary
Hamilton HE141 .U74 1989

Dictionary of Development: Third World Economy, Environment, Society
Hamilton Main Reference HC59.7 .D513 1990


INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS


General Literature


American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)
Hamilton Z1035.1 .A55 (Current 10 years in Hamilton Main Reference collection)

Bibliographic Index: A Cumulative Bibliography of Bibliographies
Hamilton Main Reference Z1002 .B595 (Cancelled after 1995)

Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Hamilton Z7163 .C77 (Current year only)

Government Reports Announcements and Index
Government Documents C 51.9/3:

PAIS International - Public Affairs Information Service
Online

Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Hamilton Main Reference AI3 .R48

Social Sciences Citation Index
CD ROM 142 Hamilton Main Reference

Social Sciences Index Hamilton Main Reference Z7163 .S62

Sociological Abstracts
Online

MARCHIVE GPO CAT/PAC
Government Documents CD ROM


PLANNING, HOUSING, AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


Current Geographical Publications
Hamilton Main Reference Z6009 .A47

Ekistic Index of Periodicals: Selected articles from Periodicals on Human Settlement
Hamilton Main Reference H151 .E55

Geographical Abstracts: Human Geography
Hamilton Main Reference GF1 .G46

Index to Current Urban Documents
Hamilton Z7164 .L8 I5

Journal of Planning Literature
Hamilton Z5942 .J68



PUBLIC ADMINSTRATION AND POLICY


ABC Pol Sci: A Bibliography of Contents: Political Science and Government
Hamilton Main ReferenceJA1 .A3

Sage Public Administration Abstracts
Hamilton Main Reference JA1 .S27

 

SOCIAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY

 

Human Resources Abstracts: An International Information Source
Hamilton HC110 .P6 P68

 

PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION

 

Applied Science and Technology Index
Science Reference Z7913 .A7

Engineering Index
Science Reference Z5851.E62

Current Literature in Traffic and Transportation
Hamilton Main Reference Z7164 .T8 C8

 

URBAN DESIGN AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

 

Art Index
Online

 

STATISTICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS

 

American Statistics Index (ASI)
Government Documents GPZ 1.3:

Index to International Statistics
Government Documents (Ask librarian)

Statistical Reference Index
Hamilton Main Reference Z7554.U5 S79

 

DIRECTORIES

 

Guide to Graduate Education in Urban and Regional Planning
Hamilton Main Reference (College Guides) HT165.52 .G85 1991

Municipal Year Book
Hamilton JS342 .A2 I 52
(Current Volume in Reference)

 

 

Selected Internet Resources

 

Internet Resources for Urban and Regional Planning

 

Selected Journals for Urban and Regional Planning

 

The following is a selective list of periodicals for which UHM Library has a current subscription. You also may search the library catalog by title to find a specific periodical or by subject to find periodicals on a topic.

 



Administrative science quarterly HD28.A25
The American economic review HB1.A5
The American journal of sociology HM1.A7
The American political science review JA1.A6
American sociological review HM1.A75
Annals of the Association of American Geographers G3.A8
Econometrica HB1.E2
Economic development and cultural change HC10.C453
Economic geography HF1021.E25
Economic journal HC440.5.A1 E14
Environment and planning HT390.E57
Harvard business review HF5001.H261
International journal of urban and regional research HT101.I57
International labor review GOVDOCS ILO In8
International regional science review HT390.I58 (Cancelled after 1995)
Journal of the American Planning Association NA9000.A45
The Journal of developing areas HC59.A1 J68
Journal of development economics HC59.7.J68
Journal of economic literature HB1.J6
The Journal of political economy HB1.J7
Journal of regional science H62.J6
Land economics: a journal of planning, housing & public utilities HB1.L229
National tax journal HJ2240.N32
Papers in regional science HN1.R44 (Cancelled after 1995)
Policy sciences H1.P7 (Cancelled after 1993)
Public administration review JK1.P85
The Public interest JA1.P83
The Quarterly journal of economics HB1.Q3
Regional science and urban economics HT390.R43
Regional studies HT395.G5 R4
The Review of economics and statistics HA1.R35
The Review of radical political economics HC101.R43
Science Q1.S35 n.a.
Scientific American T1.S5
Social forces HN51.S5
Southern economic journal HC107.A13 A67
Urban affairs review HT101.U67
Urban studies HT101.U7
World development HC59.7.W67

 

 

About the Urban and Regional Planning collection

 

The urban and regional planning collection contains approximately 29,000 books and many periodicals and other serials supporting interests in urban and regional planning, as well as thousands of other books and journals in related fields. The United States, Asia and the Pacific are emphasized. The Asia Collection and the Hawaiian/Pacific Collection also have a significant amount of material on the sociology of those geographic areas. Government Documents Collection also has much information gathered and published by federal government.

 

Library Collection Policy Statement for Urban & Regional Planning

 


Note:
The book count was calculated by analyzing the Library of Congress subject headings assigned to each book (July 2000). Library of Congress Classification Numbers for URP are HC79, HD108.6, HE331-HE380, HT165.5-HT169.5, HT39

 

Last modified: Thursday May 21, 2007

 

 


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