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This website is designed to give you information on a number
of resources to use for any public administration topics. Below
is a condensed summary of useful databases, as well as
more detailed pages on finding background information, articles,
and books.
Summary of Useful Resources | Detailed Discussions | Questions? Summary of Most Useful Resources
For books, use:
To find some recent, full text articles, use:
- ABI-INFORM -- comprehensive business/administration database covering around 2,000 periodicals of which around 800 are full text, covering 1971 to the present
- Business Source Elite -- full text articles from over 3,000 business/administration magazines, newspapers, and journals, with citations from another 800 titles
For a more comprehensive search for journal articles, try:
- PAIS
International - Public Affairs Information Service -- indexes
articles from around 1,600 periodicals, and thousands of
government reports a year from an international perspective
back to 1972
- Public Administration Abstracts [INDEX JA 1 .S27 1974-pres] -- print index specifically for public administration (and sorry, but it doesn't exist as an online database)
- Social Sciences Citation Index -- indexes and analyzes citations for relevant scholarly journals from 1,725 journals cover to cover, and another 3,300 journals selectively back to 1987; can sort results by number of times cited
- Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts -- indexes articles from
over 1,200 journals, as well as books, book chapters, and
dissertations on all political science subjects back to
1975
To locate a particular journal or magazine, use:
- Journals @ UIS -- tool for locating any periodical we have access to, either online or in print.
To request an article that we don't have, use:
To see the Public Administration Master's Projects/Theses or Dissertations, use:
Detailed Discussions
- Core Public Administration Journals offers a list of the main journals we have online and/or in print.
- Find Articles offers a discussion
of the different kinds of article databases UIS has, how
to choose a database, how to phrase searches, and locating the entire articles.
- Find Books has information on how to search our book catalog, and how to find books that UIS doesn't own.
- Find Government Information is a portal to finding information disseminated by state, federal, and international governments.
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