Library Spaces: Information about places in the library for individuals or groups to study or prepare for presentations
Specialized
books such as the following titles can provide background information on your
topic or help you with definitions of words you hear in class but do not understand.
Online dictionaries in Geography
Online dictionaries in Economics
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H41 .I58
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Neil Smelzer and Paul B. Baltes, ed., 2001
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G63 .S50
Dictionary of Geography.
Malcolm Skinner, David Redfern, and Geoff Farmer, ed., 1999
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G63 .C56
Longman Dictionary of Geography.
Audrey N. Clark, 1985.
A
Dictionary of Geography .
Susan Mayhew, 2004
Also in print. Location: ref. G63 .M39
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HB61 .B33
Dictionary of Economics.
Graham Bannock, R.E. Baxter, and Evan Davis,
1998
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GF4 .D52
Dictionary of Human Geography, 4th ed.
R.J. Johnston et al., 2000.
Databases are subject and author indexes to journals, magazines and newspapers. The titles listed below are just a sample of the over 200 databases accessible through the University Libraries. You should check several databases for your topic because transportation and planning journals may be found in a wide variety of sources.
For more choices than those listed below, go to the University Libraries home page, then click on Databases. Click on the starting letter of the database or click on a department name.
Tips:
-When researching your topic, remember to try a variety of subject headings
for the same concept. For example, to find information on mass transit you
may have to use the term rapid transit or public transportation.
-Don't use the checkoff box that a given database may provide to limit to full text only. Just because that particular database doesn't provide the full text of the article doesn't mean it isn't available elsewhere. Also, we can obtain virtually any article you need through Interlibrary Loan.
-Click here for tips on using the search
connectors AND, OR, and NOT in your search strategy.
-If AND and OR are used in the same search, the terms connected by OR must
be in parentheses ( ).
REMEMBER: To get to the full text of the journal article you must go through the Library's web pages. We have paid for access to the journals. You cannot go to the publisher's page to get an article.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
--General database of over 8,000 popular and scholarly English-language journals
in many different disciplines dating from 1980
--A few journals dealing with transportation planning are indexed here including Mass Transit, Transportation Science, and Urban Transport News. Titles such as The Annals of the Association of American Geographers. and Economic Geography are also included
--About 50 percent of this database is full text.
EBSCO
Databases
--Full text articles are provided for hundreds of the publications indexed
in the EBSCO databases
--On the first page where multiple databases are displayed, check the box for searching both Business Source Premier and Academic Search Premier. Between them they will give you extensive coverage of many aspects of business, economics, and transportation
--Journals
indexed by these two EBSCO databases include Transportation Quarterly,
Transporation Science, Transport Reviews, Transportation Planning and Technology,
Journal of Urban Affairs and Journal of Urban Design
--Dates of coverage: 1984-present.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic
--Full text articles from over 7500 journals, magazines, transcripts of radio
and television news broadcasts, newspapers, editorials, newsletters, and other
sources
--Covers news, business, law, medicine, government, and other types of information
--Especially good for short articles on current issues and for newspaper articles on issues and programs relevant to a particular geographic area
--Dates of coverage vary by publication.
To find articles on North Carolina,
--Click on Sources (beige tab)
--Click on the folder News
--Scroll down to North Carolina News Sources (it's on the second page) and check the box
--Click the red Continue
--Enter your search terms
--In the box by Specify
Date select a time period from the pull-down menu
--Click on the red Search box
--To see a few lines from the full text, change View List to
View Expanded List
--To see the full text of the article, click on the article title
--Note that the print, email, download, and export icons are
towards the top right of the page
The "Legal" section includes legal news, law review articles, state and federal case law, state and federal statutory law (e.g. General Statutes of North Carolina), and federal regulations (from government agencies).
***National
Transportation Library
--This is not a database owned by the University Libraries but one provided
by the federal Department of Transportation. The National Transportation Library's
(NTL) mission is to increase timely access to the information that supports
transportation policy, research, operations, and technology transfer activities.
The NTL was established in 1998 through the Transportation Equity Act for
the 21st Century and serves as a repository of materials from public, academic
and private organizations.
--In
the left column enter your search in the NTL Integrated Search box.
e.g. journey to work and north carolina
--Citations will be for books, articles, documents and so on.
--Check The University Libraries'
online catalog for books and documents and Journal Finder for articles. In
some cases links are provided to the document. Some items, especially conference
papers, are not usually available.
Web
of Science
--Indexes more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science
journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data,
full-length author abstracts, and cited references
--Many of the major transportation planning journals are indexed in this database although the full text is not available here
--Especially important is the citation part of the database which contains the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms. A cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find more recent works that cite it
--Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more
--
Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation
Index.
--Dates of coverage: 1956 to date.
Science
Direct
--This heavily full text database focuses more on the natural sciences
and in particular medicine but provides full text articles from five journals
relevant to transportation planning: Transport Policy, Transportation
Research, Landscape and Urban Planning, Cities, and Journal of Transport
Geography.
--Dates of coverage: 1995 to the present
Public
Affairs Information Service (PAIS)
--Provides citations and abstracts on global public policy and social issues,
especially concerning agriculture, economics, defense, international relations,
and the environment
--Covers periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, publications from all levels of government, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries and in many languages
--Links to web resources and publisher websites
--This database has two parts: PAIS Archive (1937-1976) and PAIS International (1976 to the present).
Greensboro
News & Record, New
York Times, and Wall Street Journal
--These newspaper databases would be particularly useful for local, state
or national coverage of economic issues.
--Dates of coverage for the News & Record: Some full text from
1988 to 1994. Full text from 1995 to present
--Dates of coverage for the New York Times: 1851 to the present
--Dates of coverage for the Wall Street Journal: 1889 to the present
--Provides the full text of around 50 U.S. regional and local business newspapers and 13 U.S. business newswires
--Good
means of reading about transportation projects from the viewpoint of the business
community
--Dates of coverage: last 30 days for the newswires; mid 1990's for most of
the newspapers.
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association . 6th edn. Copies at the Reference Desk and Reserve Desk BF76.7 .P83 2010
Examples:
Text
of an electronic journal article retrieved via a DOI number:
Smith, W.C. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor performance.
Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(4), 443-449.
doi:10.1037/002-9432.76.4.482
Electronic article without a DOI number, use the URL:
VandenBos,
G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection
of resources by psychology undergraduates. Journal of Bibliographic
Research, 5 , 117-123. Retrieved from http://www.envplan.com/epa/fulltext/a40/a38255.pdf
Article from a print or microfilm journal:
VandenBos, G., Knapp, S., & Doe, J. (2001). Role of reference elements in the selection of resources by psychology
undergraduates. Journal of Bibliographic Research,
5(2), 117-123.
Links to additional examples for APA, MLA, Turabian Style
North Carolina Department of Transportation
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Loan
Borrowing Materials from UNCG or other
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Photocopying
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