Research Guides: SURP 812 Qualitative Methods in Planning : Articles

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Omni
Search across the library catalogue and many of our electronic resources, from one search box.
Omni contains everything found in the traditional Lbrary Catalogue, plus millions of full-text
articles available from the Library.

Major Journals

Boolean Search Operators

AND, OR, NOT

e.g. If you type Canada AND election, you will find documents that contain both keywords.

Quotation marks "____"

e.g. If you type "human rights" in quotation marks, you will find documents that contain this phrase.

Truncation *

e.g. If you type Canad*, you will find documents that contain the words Canada, Canadian, canadienne...

Wildcard ?

e.g. If you type wom?n, you will find documents that contain the words woman and/or women.

***Operators may vary from database to database: consult specific database help pages for more information.

Most databases ignore certain common words -- articles, conjunctions and prepositions -- such as the, a, of, for, but...***

Key Indexes

GEOBASE
A comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary database for the fields of physical and human geography, including geology, ecology, geomechanics, mineralogy, oceanography, environmental issues and Third World studies...
Journals of Planning Literature
Covers city and regional planning, environment, economics, housing internationally. Since 1996, has included CPL Bibliographies.
TRID
National Transportation Library of the Department of Transportation, U.S. provides access to federal, state, local, and association publications and to the IRRD database for additional coverage of international transportation.
Urban Planning @ ProQuest
A pre-selected group of 3 databases can be searched simultaneously from this starting point: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, IBSS, and PAIS.

Multidisciplinary Social Sciences Indexes

Social Sciences @ ProQuest
A pre-selected group of 23 citation, abstract, and full-text databases covering literature published in the social sciences. Each database can be searched separately but they also can be searched as a group, from this starting point.
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Social science and interdisciplinary research with international coverage. Publication coverage: 1951- Present
Web of Science Core Collection
Includes demography, cultural, economic, historical and human geography, planning and environmental studies and industrial relations.

Broad Multidisciplinary Indexes

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary index (with abstracts) to more than 10,900 publications including peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports. Publication coverage: 1865 - present
Google Scholar
Use the Google search engine to locate articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles published on the "open" web. Searching Google Scholar through a Queen's NetID Login enables the Get It @ Queen's service (which links citations in Google Scholar to the full text of articles contained in Queen's subscriptions as well as to the library catalogue).
Scholars Portal Journals
A digital repository of over 30 million scholarly articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline

Architecture & Design Indexes

Architectural Index for Ontario Canadian
A database of architectural information and citations to periodical articles and books about buildings in Toronto and the rest of Ontario.
Art Abstracts
Coverage includes city planning, design, landscape architecture and architecture.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Covers all aspects of architecture and design, including history and practice of architecture, landscape architecture, city planning, and historic preservation.

Public Health & Urban Planning Indexes

CINAHL
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Index to English-language journals in nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, consumer health and other allied health fields.
PubMed Central Canada
A digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature.
Health & Medicine @ ProQuest
A pre-selected group of databases covering literature published in health & medicine. Each database can be searched separately but they also can be searched as a group, from this starting point.

Other Useful Subject-Oriented Indexes

Environment Complete
International coverage of articles and books about environmental issues.

America: History and Life Canadian resource

Access limit

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Publication coverage: 1954 - present

An essential index for American and Canadian history topics, including government, current affairs, and urban history.

CBCA @ Proquest Canadian resource

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Publication coverage: Varies with publication

Indexes Canadian popular and academic journals as well as business and special interest journals.

Compendex

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Publication coverage: 1884 - present (updated weekly)

Land use, environmental impact, transportation, public policy, mathematical modelling and simulation, economic and social effects. A primary database for engineering. Interdisciplinary and international.

PAIS

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Publication coverage: 1915 - present

Public Affairs Information Service International covers political, social, public policy and urban planning issues.

Population Index (1986-2000)

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Demographic and population literature, it presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials.

Population Index (1937-1999)

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ProQuest One Business

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Business database containing the full text of thousands of sources, including essential scholarly journals, trade magazines, newspapers, company and industry reports, ebooks, videos and more.

Sociological Abstracts

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Publication coverage: 1952 - present

Covers social planning policy and development, public policy, demography, environmental interactions, urban sociology, and community development.