Library Collections and Services

The UCONN Libraries Catalog: HOMER

Useful subject headings include:

Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service
Available only to members of the UConn community.
Research Guides and Electronic Resources
Library Online Tutorial

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Library Databases

Academic Search Premier a multidisciplinary magazine & journal database that provides the full text of over 4,500 journals and magazines, and indexes a total of more than 8,000 titles in all disciplines.
America: History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States.
EconLit is the fundamental research tool in economics and includes regional and urban economics.
InfoTrac includes nearly 3,000 full-text titles; five newspaper indexes -- a total of more than 6,000 titles in all with 20 years of backfile coverage.
Issues @ Controversies@ Facts.com provides up-to-date, in-depth and objective information on current topics, combining objective analysis and clear explanations of opposing points of view.
LexisNexis Academic provides access to the full text of thousands of publications, including national and international newspapers.
PAIS International from Public Affairs Information Service, is an important index to political, economic, and social issues in current debate.
Social Sciences Citation Index provides author, keyword, and citation searching in social science journals.
Sociological Abstracts provides access to the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.


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Electronic Journals and Citations

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Key Web Sites

Hartford, Connecticut
City of Hartford official municipal site, providing extensive information on the city, its government, services, education...
Hartford, Connecticut Bibliography: a list of book and articles studying various aspects of Hartford.
HartfordInfo a project of the Hartford Public Library and the Hartford Community Information Center: information and data from a wide variety of sources.
Hartford Studies Project of Trinity College encourages students and faculty to explore Hartford’s history and present experience of issues such as race, immigration, culture, labor, and local politics.
Hispanic Health Council
Hog River Journal Hartford and the region's magazine of history, culture, and the arts.

Connecticut
Connecticut Historical Society
Connecticut History Online The CHO website currently contains about 14,000 images of photographs, drawings and prints which may be searched or browsed in a variety of ways, including by keyword, subject, creator, title and date.
Connecticut Municipality Web Sites
Connecticut State Data Center is a cooperative program between the states and the Census Bureau that was created in 1978 to make data available locally to the public through a network of state agencies, universities, libraries, and regional and local governments.
Connecticut State Library
State of Connecticut Website

United States
Cyburbia: the urban planning portal
Demography & Population Studies from the World-Wide Web Virtual Library
Library of Congress American Memory Project
Sprawl City a website about Consumption Growth and Population Growth, with U.S. Bureau of Census data.
United States Bureau of the Census and Federal resources at UCONN
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Labor
United States State and Metropolitan Data Book
United States Statistical Abstract
Windows on Urban Poverty, University of Texas at Dallas

World
International pages
NationMaster is a resource for finding out any number of current details about just about any country in the world.

Maps
Geography-The National Map by the US Geographical Survey provides public access to high-quality, geospatial data and information.
National Geographic Map Machine
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas Library. Links to current and historical maps from all areas of the world, as well as links to other map-related sites.
UConn MAGIC (Map and Geographical Information Center)

Other sites of interest
Urban and Regional Planners as a Career

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Associations and Research Institutions

American Planning Association
American Public Health Assiciation
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Regional Studies Association
Urban Affairs Association: the international professional organization for urban scholars and researchers
Urban Institute: a nonpartisan social policy and research organization
Urban Land Institute: The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide responsible leadership in the use of land in order to enhance the total environment.

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University of Connecticut Departments

Department of Geography
Urban and Community Studies

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