Subject and Course Guides: Urban Planning and Public Affairs: Finding Articles

Finding Articles

ABI/INFORM Global
ABI/INFORM is an extensive business research database with full-text articles from business journals, business and trade magazines and newspapers.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934 - current)
The Avery Index treats the subjects of archaeology, city planning, interior design, historic preservation, and architecture.
The Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is an online index to over 1,000 periodicals on the subjects of archaeology, city planning, interior design, historic preservation, and architecture.
Google Scholar
Benefit: Familiar, flexible search engine
Drawback: Haphazard journal coverage
Note: Use this link to get to full text through UIC Library.
PAIS Index (1914 - current) - see also: Public Affairs Information Service International
Political, social, and public policy issues, especially any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation.
This database is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues, especially any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.

TRID from the Transportation Research Board
TRID is an integrated database that combines the records from TRB’s Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the OECD’s Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) Database. TRID provides access to more than one million records of transportation research worldwide.

SAGE Premier Full Text
Platform for journals in journals in communications studies, criminology, education, nursing, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies & planning, and more.
SAGE publishes journals in communications studies, criminology, education, nursing, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies & planning, and more.
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary coverage of over 10,000 journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as published proceedings for over 12,000 conferences per year, and over 50,000 scholarly books. Allows searching for articles in the database that have cited a particular work, as well as perform other analytics.

RefWorks
RefWorks is an online bibliography management service that allows you to capture citations, store them, and use them while writing papers.

Learn more about RefWorks
This guide compares other citation managers and provides start-up tips.
Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.