FINDING LITERATURE AND DATA

A bibliographic guide to philosophy, theory, discourses, ethics, skills and collaborative praxis
Compiled by Keith Pezzoli, A Work in Progress
The Critical Research guide does not adhere to a tighthly ordered ideological framework or litmus test of preordained sustainability criteria. Rather it offers a board contour map of substantive theory, along side literature delving into philosophical, ethical and technical aspects of the sustainable development challenge. The guide is designed to help students locate useful work as they embark on an original research project of their own. Not all of the publications listed here address sustainability, or city-regions, in a direct fashion. Some of it, for instance, has a strictly methodological focus. The intent is to provide a kind of "ecology of knowledge" by virtue of bringing together fragmented niches of work under one roof (or should I say "table"--of contents).

Journals and on-line sources: Many of the articles listed in the guide under the heading "journals and on-line sources" can be found on the Internet using one of several databases. The Sage publication database has many planning journals and journal articles. Other databases include ScienceDirect , International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences , Google Scholar , among others (see below). Many of these databases can only be accessed (for free viewing and downloading of articles) by way of UCSD's server. This means that it can only be accessed from computers on the UCSD network, including dial-in accounts provided by ACS Office of Network Operations. For instructions about this (i.e., getting access to UCSD subscribed databases using a proxy server) click here.

OTHER USEFUL GUIDES

The Urban Studies and Planning librarian for UCSD created a useful research guide at:. http://sshl.ucsd.edu/guides/UrbanStudies.html

Among other headings, this site provides leads that will help you, "Get an Overview of Your Topic" (Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Other Sources for Background Information). Plus it lists many useful San Diego Urban Studies & Planning Websites.Also see the library's sites called:
Social Science Data Center
UCSD Sage Urban Studies Guide

James Jacobs Blog (Urban Studies and Environmental Bibliographer)

Other sites you should find useful inlcude:

Google's new "Google Scholar"
Google Scholar is a free service that helps users search scholarly literature such as peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. But users beware, this is not a magic bullet. See the comments/cautions at: Google Scholar vs. Real Scholarship

Google's urban and regional planning directory (most popular sites)

Regional Workbench Consortium Web site:
http://www.regionalworkbench.org/ including "Areas of Concentration"

Ask an expert at UCSD
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/experts/experts.asp