Geography 456/656: Land Use Planning

Journal Literature

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
  • Indexes 7,800+ scholarly journals, with full text for 4,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
• Article1st
  • Index to 12,600 + journals pertaining to science, medicine, technology, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture. Now includes journal Tables of Contents (formerly in Contents1st). 1990 - present.
• Geobase
  • Worldwide bibliographic database on geography, geology, and ecology. 900,000 records. 1980 - present.
• AGRICOLA (FirstSearch)
  • Index to agricultural and plant science journals, USDA documents, and state extension service publications primarily from North America. 1970- present.
• Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
  • Interdisciplinary coverage of journal articles and documents in the environmental sciences. 1981- present.
• Arts & Humanities Search
  • A citation index covering more than 8,000 titles from the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Includes the ability to search particular authors' works to find out who is citing them. 1980 to present.
• PAIS Archive (Public Affairs Information Service Archive)
  • Index to journals, books, government documents, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and more, from 1915-1976. PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.
• Arts & Humanities Search
  • A citation index covering more than 8,000 titles from the world's leading arts and humanities journals. Includes the ability to search particular authors' works to find out who is citing them. 1980 to present.

Other Online Library Resources

• PolicyFile
  • Abstracts of public policy research from think tanks, university research organizations, and publishers. Many links to full text documents and related Web sites. Contributors include the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, RAND Corporation, and many others.
• Associations Unlimited
  • Directory of more than 154,000 detailed listings for international, national, state, and regional organizations. IRS information for more than 300,000 nonprofit organizations.
• CQ Library
  • Full text of two of Congressional Quarterly's premier print publications, CQ Weekly (from 1983) and CQ Researcher (from November 1991).

Selected Demographic Information

• Bureau of the Census
  • Population of U.S. states, counties, places by ethnicity, income, age, gender, etc.
• Regional Economic Information System (REIS)
  • Statistic for county, metropolitan area, BEA Economic Area, and State metropolitan/ nonmetropolitan.
• County Business Patterns
  • This series is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas.
• Statistical Universe
  • Abstracts and index to U.S. federal & state government publications, and to privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources from 1972.

Government Publications

• Land Use Planning (BLM)
  • The purpose of this Manual is to provide further guidance to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) personnel on the requirements of Sec. 201 and 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), the BLM’s Planning Regulations (43 CFR 1600), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
• BLM Proposed Rule, Federal Register
  • United States Department of Labor directory of Occupations.
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
  • Homes and Communities.
• Future Land Use Policy: Charting the Regulatory Process
  • Many federal agencies must reduce their real property holdings by "excessing" properties no longer needed for their missions and turning the land to other productive uses.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • United States Department of Labor directory of Occupations.
• Law Reviews (Lexis/Nexis)
  • Index to many US law review journals -- excellent source for legal assessment of land use laws.
• LexisNexis Congressional
  • Index to U.S. Congressional publications; text of bills, laws, regulations, Congressional testimony and publications; legislative histories; members and committees of Congress. 1789 - present
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
  • Index to U.S. Government information resources providing policy & background information on U.S. foreign relations, health, and much more from June, 1976.