Research Guides: Urban Planning &amp; Development: Journal Articles & More

Find Journal Articles

As you know, Urban Planning & Real Estate Development program is by it's nature interdisciplinary. This means there's not one database or journal that will have everything you need and that you will likely need to search multiple databases to do a complete literature review on your area of research. While this may sounds tedious, try to think of it as an information treasure hunt!

SLUth - Search Plus This link opens in a new window
You can use this "mega" database to search JSTOR, America: History & Life, GreenFile, Public Affairs index, Web of Science & more! The interdisciplinary nature of this resource works well for many UPD topics.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
1972 - Present. Indexes over 1,600 journals in economic, political, and social issues, public administration, law, business, urban affairs and political science.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
1995 - Present. Includes Social Sciences, Science and Arts & Humanities Citation Indexes. Including citation searching.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
1823-present. Indexes over 16,500 titles in every subject area. Science has the strongest representation, but is also strong in the social sciences. Strong added analysis tools.
Google Scholar @ SLU This link opens in a new window
Searches resources such as abstracts, journal articles, and reprints from many publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and other sources in a wide variety of disciplines. Good for looking up citations, very current research & interdisciplinary topics.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
1975 - present. Indexes journal in political sciences and related fields including, public policy & administration, economic & environmental policy, politics and society and more.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
1980-present. Focus on Social Work, but includes articles related to urban planning, especially related to social justice and social services issues such as poverty, housing, city services, etc.

Major News Sources

St. Louis Business Journal This link opens in a new window
1996-present. Check out the latest company and industry news along with people in the news for the St. Louis area using the American City Business Journals site.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides access to full-text of local, national, and international news sources including St. Louis Post Dispatch and New York Times.
Washington Post (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
1987-present. Search just the Washington Post in ProQuest.
Wall Street Journal Digital Subscription This link opens in a new window
The SLU Libraries provide WSJ memberships to all SLU students, faculty, and staff. Readers have complete and personalized digital access to The Wall Street Journal and the WSJ app.
New York Times Digital Subscription This link opens in a new window
851-present. Use this link to register for a SLU NYT online account using your @slu.edu email address. Accounts provide SLU students, faculty, and staff with subscriber access to NYTimes.com or the NYT app. Student subscriptions are valid through the graduation date entered at sign-up. For more information about registration, renewal, and available content see our NYT guide.

Dissertations & Theses

Looking at dissertations in your area of study can help by giving concrete, real world examples of a literature review. Finding a dissertation on a topic similar or related to yours also means you suddenly have a long list of relevant journal articles citations to jump start your research.

Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
This databases includes the full text of dissertations & masters theses from universities across North America back to 1996 and indexing and previews for dissertations back to 1743. A great place to look for comprehensive literature reviews on specific topics.

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