Public Administration
FIND BOOKS
URSUS, available on Mariner, is the University of Maine System ’s shared online book catalog.
FIND ARTICLES
PAIS [Mariner] Public policy issues.
Academic Search Premier [Mariner] Full-text articles and index to scholarly and popular periodicals.
JSTOR [Mariner] Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social sciences. Historical collection covering complete run of each journal from its inception to generally 2-5 years ago.
Project Muse [Mariner] Complete articles from scholarly journals in humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences.
New York Times Historical [Mariner] America’s newspaper of record. Exact reproductions of entire issues of The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 up to the last two to three years. For current coverage, use LexisNexis Academic, ProQuest Newspapers, or the New York Times link.
New York Times [Mariner] Index to and full text coverage from 1999 to the present.
LexisNexis Academic [Mariner] Complete articles and indexing to many US and international newspapers.
ProQuest Newspapers [Mariner] Like LexisNexis Academic: full-text articles and indexing to US and international newspapers.
New York Times Index 1952-2002 [Index Tables] NYT is available full-text online 1851+.
New York Times Article Archive [Mariner] Indexing for The New York Times from 1851 to the present.
Social Sciences Index [Index tables]
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature [Index tables]
GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE
Public Administration: A Bibliographic Guide to the Literature [Ref Z 7164 .A2 M29]
Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources [Ref Z 7161 .S648]
DIRECTORIES
Washington Information Directory [Ref F 192.3 W33]
United States Government Manual [Ref JK 421 .A3 or http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html]
United States Government Internet Manual [Ref ZA 5075 G68]
CSG State Directories:
Elective Officials [Ref JK 2403 .S74]
Legislative Leadership, Committees & Staff [Ref JK 2403 .S74]
Administrative Officials [Ref JK 2403 .S74]
GENERAL REFERENCE SOURCES
Almanac of American Politics [Ref JK 1012 .A44]
Government Agencies [Ref JK 421 G65]
Book of the States [Ref JK 2403 B6]
Municipal Year Book [Ref JS 342 A2152]
Facts & Figures on Government Finance [Ref HJ 257 .T25]
Sourcebook to Public Record Information [Ref JK 468 .P76 S693]
Oxford Reference Online [Mariner] Online reference sources including Oxford Guide to the United States Government and Handbook of the World.
Government on the Net [Ref ZA 4226 .E93]
DICTIONARIES
Public Administration Dictionary [Ref JA 61 .C47]
Facts on File Dictionary of Public Administration [Ref JA 61 .S54]
Dictionary of Public Policy and Administration [Ref H 97 .S483]
Dictionary of Administration and Management [Ref HD 30.15 .B3]
State and Local Government Political Dictionary [Ref JK 2408 .E44]
Oxford Reference Online [Mariner] Online dictionaries including Dictionary of Political Biography and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics.
STATISTICS
Statistical Abstract of the United States [Ref HA 202 .A3 or http://www.census.gov/statab/www/]
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book [Ref HA 202 S84]
County and City Data Book [Ref HA 202 A36]
Maine: 2000 Summary Population & Housing Characteristics [Ref HA 411.5 2000]
1990 Census: Summary Social, Economic, and Housing Characteristics. Maine [Ref HA 411.5 1990 S63 1992]
Selected Social Characteristics: 1990 (Corrected) Maine [Ref HA 411.5 1990 suppl.]
Census of Governments http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/govern.html
Federal, State, and Local Governments http://www.census.gov/govs/www/index.html
State of the Cities http://socds.huduser.org/
U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.go v
American FactFinder http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
WEB SOURCES
See Katz Library Internet Resources for a list of Web directories @ http://www.uma.edu/libraries.html.
Stateline.org http://www.stateline.org/index.do
National City Government Resource Center http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1389/
State and Local Government on the Net http://www.piperinfo.com/index.cfm
National Governors Association http://www.nga.org/
Assessing the New Federalism State Database http://newfederalism.urban.org/nfdb/index.htm
PA Online http://bss.sfsu.edu/~mpa/paonline/paonline.htm
Maine State Government http://www.state.me.us/government/index.html
Maine Municipal Association http://www.memun.org/
U.S. Code available on LexisNexis Academic and @ http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/cong013.html.
Federal Web Locator http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/ One stop gateway to federal Web sites.
GPO Access http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/index.html
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities http://www.cbpp.org/
National Priorities Project http://www.nationalpriorities.org/