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Encyclopedias & Guides
American Community Organizations: a Historical Dictionary,
edited by Patricia Mooney Melvin. 1986. Location: Green Library
Information Center, HN90.C6 A69 1986.
America’s Top Rated Cities, a Statistical Handbook,
edited by Rhoda Garoogian, 1996. Location: Green Library Information
Center, HT123.A669 1996 v. 1-5.
America’s Top Rated Smaller Cities, a Statistical Handbook,
edited by Rhoda Garoogian. 1994-1995. Location: Green Library Information
Center, HT123.A6693 1994-1995.
Encyclopedia
of Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, The Newberry
Library, and Northwestern Library.
Encyclopedia of Housing, edited by Willem Van Vliet.
1998. Location: Jackson Library Reference, HD7287.E53 1998.
Encyclopedia of Urban America: the Cities and the Suburbs,
edited by Larry Neal Shumsky. 1998. Location: Green Library Information
Center, HT123.E5 1998 v. 1-2.
Gale City and Metro Rankings Reporter, biennial. Location:
Green Library, Information Center, HT123 .G25.
Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture, edited by
M. Thomas Inge and Dennis Hall. 2002. Location: Art Library and
Green Library Information Center, E169.1 G7555 2002 v.1-4.
Handbook of Urban Studies, edited by Ronan Paddison.
2001. Location: Green Library Social Sciences Reference Center,
HT109.H36 2001.
Information Sources in Urban and Regional Planning: a Directory
and guide to Reference Materials by Edward Duensing. 1994.
Location: Green Library, Z5942.D87 1994.
International Co-operation for Habitat and Urban Development:
Directory of Non-governmental Organisations in OECD Countries.
1997. Location: Jackson Library Reference, HT65.I55 1997.
Urban Land Institute Sourcebook, Urban Land Institute.
1994. Location: Jackson Library, HD103.U333 1994.
Articles & Abstracts
Alternative
Press Index, 1991 — present. Indexes journals covering
cultural, economic, political and social change. Provides extensive
coverage of urban development.
Alt-PressWatch provides
fulltext of "a collection of newspapers, magazines and journals
of the alternative and independent press."
America: History and
Life, 1964 — present. Includes abstracts of articles,
dissertations, and book reviews of the U.S. and Canada from pre-history
to the present.
ArtAbstracts,
1984 — present. Includes abstracts of articles on architecture,
design, urban planning. Includes an international perspective.
Avery
Index to Architectural Periodicals, second revised edition,
supplements and continuation, 1977. Includes abstracts in the fields
of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning and housing.
Journal of Planning Literature, 1986 — 1992. Principle
finding aid for planning literature. Location: Engineering Library,
shelved by title.
Sage
Urban Studies Abstracts, 1973 — present. Includes
abstracts of articles on housing, social policy, urban planning
and development. Location: Green Library Information Center, HT101.S2
V.31, and on the Internet.
Sage
Full-text Collection — Sociology. Provides full-text
access to over 125 journals published by Sage Publications.
Social Sciences Module from ProQuest, 1971 — present.
Indexes over 400 social sciences journals with good coverage of
urban development and culture. Extensive full-text.
Sociological
Abstracts, 1952 — present. World-wide coverage of
articles in sociology and related disciplines.
Government Information
& Policy
Index to Current
Urban Documents, 1972 — present. Indexes reports, including
budgets, plans, and surveys, from large cities and counties. Location:
Indexes in Green Library Information Center, Z1224.AI53 and on the
Internet. (See Socrates
record.)
LexisNexis Congressional,
1789 — present. Provides full-text access to U.S. government
legislative and regulatory materials, reports, and public policy.
LexisNexis State
Capitol. Provides access to government information and policy
including state bills and statutes, constitutions, and regulations.
Also provides information from journals and other news.
PAIS International
(Public Affairs Information Service), 1972 — present. Indexes
social and public policy literature.
PolicyFile. Indexes research
reports from public policy think tanks, university research programs,
research organizations and publishers.
News Sources
Ethnic News Watch,
1960 — present. Covers ethnic, minority, and native press
and provides full-text coverage of news, culture, and history.
LexisNexis Academic.
Provides full-text access to news sources including local, U.S.
and international.
Statistical Sources
The following titles provide statistical snapshots of American
cities including data on population, housing, and economic development:
America’s Top Rated Cities, a Statistical Handbook,
by Rhoda Gargoogian, v. 1-5. 1996. Location: Green Library Information
Center, HT123. A669 1996.
America’s Top Rated Smaller Cities, a Statistical Handbook,
by Rhoda Garoogian. 1994. Location: Green Library Information Center,
HT123. A6693 1994.
Gale City and Metro Rankings Reporter, 1994. Location:
Latest edition: Green Library Information Center, HT123 .G25.
County and
City Databook. Contains U.S. government (Census Bureau) data
on counties and cities.
State and
Metropolitan Area Databook, 1979 — present . Contains
U.S. government (Census Bureau) data on state and MSA (Metropolitan
Statistical Area) levels.
LexisNexis Statistical.
Provides federal, state and local government, and international
government statistics. Coverage includes population, economic, social,
and governmental statistics. Use the “Search Abstracts”
search form.
RAND California.
Provides access to California economic and public policy issues
and statistics.
Maps
Book of the World, 1995. Provides satellite photographs
and maps of the world including city centers of many international
and U.S. cities. Location: Earth Sciences Library Reference, G1021
.K3842 1995.
Street Atlas USA, 1999, CD-ROM. Contains street-level
maps of the United States. Provides access to more than twelve million
street segments and over one million lakes, ponds, rivers, parks,
and railroads. Identifies elevation lines and block numbers of streets.
Users can print and export maps, search by name, block range, town,
zip code, and telephone area code and exchange. Location: Earth
Sciences Library, Reference, G1201 .P2 S77 1999.
Services
Interlibrary
Services. Books and articles not available at Stanford may be
borrowed for Stanford faculty and students from other libraries.
It is important first to determine that Stanford does not own the
needed materials.
Social Science Data and Software
(SSDS). Provides consulting support for data analysis, and for
spatial analysis, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Subject
Specialists Directory. Subject specialists are available for
research consultation. They provide research assistance and facilitate
access to materials. Your first stop for research help should be
the Information
Center.
ShinJoung Yeo, Coordinator for Reference Services
Cecil H. Green Library, Stanford University Libraries
shyeo@stanford.edu
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