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Public Administration, Non-Profit Management, and Urban Planning

The purpose of this research guide is to list for the students of public administration, non-profit management, and urban planning a brief selection of library resources primarily available in the Business & Social Science/ Documents Center, located on the 6th floor of Bobst Library. This list is not intended to be exhaustive or comprehensive, but should provide students with a good starting point at which to begin their research. Students are advised to consult other Bobst Library research guides, including Political Science (RG17), U.S. Government Documents (RG23), New York State & City Documents (RG23a), and United Nations Documents (RG24) for additional information in related areas. Since public administration and non-profit management touch upon a variety of policy areas and topics, it may be useful to refer to other more specialized resources beyond the area of political science or even social science. See the other subject guides for additional resources in specific policy areas. Another good starting point for finding public policy and administration material on the Internet, as well as more specialized guides, is the Wagner Virtual Library.

 

Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information

Gretchen Gano
New York University Bobst Library
Business and Government Documents Center, 6th Floor

70 Washington Square So., office 617
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2662
E-mail: gretchen.gano@nyu.edu

 


Research Guides and Handbooks

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Indexes and Databases

  • ABI/Inform

    Searches ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade & Industry, ABI/Inform Dateline; Periodical abstracts; Newspaper abstracts; and New York Times. Most articles are available in full text. ABI/Inform provides citations and abstracts to articles from business and trade journals published in English. Covers business topics in general, particularly advertising, banking, finance, insurance, international trade, management, marketing, and real estate. Can be searched by author, title, subject or keyword(s). Updated every two months.[see more …]

  • CQ Press Political reference suite of online editions

    Integrates many of CQ Press's reference titles and handbooks on government and politics, including Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.[see more …]

  • Ciao

    Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available.[see more …]

  • Congressional universe

    Provides daily updated information, including full-text of bills starting in 1989, public laws starting in 1988, committee reports starting in 1990, House and Senate documents starting in 1995, Congressional Record starting in 1985, Federal Register starting in 1980, National Journal starting in 1977 and other government information.[see more …]

  • EconLit

    Comprehensive indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature (over 300 major economic journals and collected volumes) compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes. Over 90% of the articles are in English or include English summaries. Topics include economic theory and history, monetary theory and financial institutions; labor economics; international, regional, urban economics; and other related subjects.[see more …]

  • Global newsbank

    News articles covering politics, economics, culture, business and more around the world from translated broadcasts, new agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines and government documents.[see more …]

  • Government periodicals universe

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  • LEXIS-NEXIS academic universe

    A version of the LEXIS-NEXIS database specially tailored for universities and colleges. Nearly 5,000 publications on the service span news, financial, medical, and legal information. The vast majority of the titles on LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe are available in full text, with a limited number available in abstract form. The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K's, 10-Q's, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research.[see more …]

  • Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)

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  • PublicADMINISTRATIONnetBASE

    Provides access to handbooks and reference books published by CRC Press on public administration.[see more …]

  • Social sciences citation index

    "An international multidiscplinary index to the literature of the social, behavioral and related sciences."[see more …]

  • The National Arts Policy Database

    The National Arts Policy Database is a tool that enables users to access current information on a multitude of topics related to arts policy. Records in the database are classified into four types: research abstracts, news articles, project profiles, and sample documents. The database is updated weekly and contains over 8,200 records—providing arts policy researchers, advocates, and administrators with comprehensive information on arts policy and practice.[see more …]

  • Welcome to the Wagner Virtual Library

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Statistical Resources

  • American FactFinder

    American FactFinder is a new data access and dissemination system that provides useful facts and information about your community, your economy, and your society. The system will find and retrieve the information you need from some of the Census Bureau's largest data sets.[see more …]

  • American statistics index. Cumulative index

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  • Bureau of Economic Analysis

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  • CIS statistical universe

    Statistical Universe is the most comprehensive source for federal statistics. It provides detailed abstracts, indexing, and locator information for all statistical reports of general research value issued by the federal government since the early 1960's. It also indexes the publications of state and private agencies, and the statistical publications of such IGO's (Intergovernmental Organizations) as the IMF, UN, OECD, World Bank and more. There are direct links to all key statistical data available on federal agency World Wide Web sites as well as direct links to hundreds of reports stored within the Universe service itself.[see more …]

  • Fedstats

    Provides access to statistics and information produced by more than 70 U.S. government agencies. Features include a searchable subject index, keyword searching of agency web sites linked to Fedstats, "fast facts" linkage to frequently requested tables from the Statistical abstract, as well as direct links to agency contacts, news releases, and other navigational and organizational aids.[see more …]

  • Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present

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  • Index to international statistics : IIS

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