REC 500 Research Methods

Community Resources & Development

Research Sources

Community resources and development encompasses a wide range of broad subject areas. There is business and non-profit business, recreation, public administration, travel, tourism, planning and development and the environment, to name a few of the topics that can be part of every research project in this field. The major difficulty for most is knowing where to look for information on a specific area of the field. Below is a list of resources available at ASU Libraries. Many of the resources are available electronically, but not everything.

Article Indexes

Business & Non-profit ABI/Inform (1971+) Barron's (1986+) print ed: (1975-1980, 1981+) Business & Company Resource Center (1980+) Business Periocials Index print ed: ( 1920-1957, 1958-2004) Business NewsBank (1993+) Business Reference Suite Business & Industry Database (1994+) Business & Management Practices (1995+) EconLit (1969+) leisuretourism.com (1974+) LexisNexis Academic (See tip for Business Articles) NewsBank Full-Text Newspapers (1977+) SBRnet: Sports Business Research Network (1993+) Wall Street Journal Editions: Asian Wall Street Journal (1986+) Wall Street Journal (1986+) print ed: (1955+) Wall Street Journal Europe (1986+) Wall Street Transcript (1997+) print ed: (1971-1997)	Environment & Ecology (nature) AGRICOLA (1970+) Agricultural & Environmental Biotechnology Abstracts (1993+) Biological & Agricultural Index (1983+) print ed: (1916-1964, 1964-1998) BIOSIS Previews (1969+) print ed. (1926-2000) DOE Information Bridge (1995+) Ecology Abstracts (1982+) print ed: (1975-1979, 1980-1999) Environmental Issues & Policy Index (1991+) GeoBase (1990+) print ed: (1972-1985, 1986-1988, Human: 1989-1999 & Physical: 1989-1999) GeoRef Abstracts & Serials (1785+) Left Index (1982+) leisuretourism.com (1974+) Pollution Abstracts (1981+) print ed: (1970-1999) Toxicology Abstracts (1981+) Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide (1935+)
General & Mulitdisciplinary Academic Search Elite (1990+) Applied Science & Technology Abstracts (1983+) print ed: (1920-1957, 1958-1983) Biological & Agricultural Index (1983+) print ed: (1916-1964, 1964-1998) General Science Full Text (1984+) print ed: (1979-1985) Government Periodicals Index (U.S. Government) (1993+) Humanites Full Text (1984+) print ed: (1907-1955, 1955-1965, 1965-1974, 1974-1999) LexisNexis Academic Social Sciences Full Text (1983+) print ed: (1907-1955, 1955-1965, 1965-1974, 1974+)	Public Administration & Issues Environmental Issues & Policy Index (1991+) Global Views & Voices Humanites Full Text (1984+) print ed: (1907-1955, 1955-1965, 1965-1974, 1974-1999) Left Index (1982+) LexisNexis Congressional (1789+) LexisNexis State Capital PAIS International (1972+) print ed: (1915-1967, 1968-1985, 1985-1990, 1991-1999) Social Sciences Full Text (1983+) print ed: (1907-1955, 1955-1965, 1965-1974, 1974+)
Recreation & Sports leisuretourism.com (1974+) Medline (1966+) print ed: (1927-1956, 1941-1959, 1960+) Physical Education Index PsycINFO (1887+) SBRnet: Sports Business Research Network (1993+) Sport Discus (1975+) Web of Science (citation indexes) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975+) Science Citation Index (1955+) Social Science Citation Index (1973+)	Region Specific Index Islamicus (Middle East) (1906+) Universal Database of Social Sciences & Humanities (Russia) Travel & Tourism ABI/Inform (1971+) Current Literature in Traffic & Transportation print ed: (1962-2001) leisuretourism.com (1974+) Transportation Research Circular (1995+) TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Services) (1960s+)
Travelogues & Travel History America: History and Life (1954+) Historical Abstracts (1954+) Internet History Sourcebooks Project Internet Primary Source Sites Relating to History Periodicals Contents Index (1700-1995) Periodicals Contents Index - PCI Full Text (selected titles) (1700-1995) Primary Sources in History: A Guide to Microform Collections at Arizona State University Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1824-1900) Urban Planning & Development Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934+) EconLit (1969+) Environmental Issues & Policy Index (1991+) Index to Current Urban Documents World Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology Abstracts print ed: (1959+)	Wildlife (plants & animals) AGRICOLA (1970+) Animal Behavior Abstracts (1982+) print ed: (1974+) Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (1971+) Biological & Agricultural Index (1983+) print ed: (1916-1964, 1964-1998) BIOSIS Previews (1969+) print ed. (1926-2000) Entomology Abstracts (1981+) Fish and Fisheries Worldwide (1966+) Microbiology Abstracts (1982+) print ed: (1966-1999) Prokaryotes: a Handbook on the Biology of Bacteria Toxicology Abstracts (1981+) Virology and AIDS Abstracts (1982+) Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide (1935+) Zoological Record (1978+) print ed: (1864-1999)