Antony E. Simpson, Anthony Simpson

Information-Finding and the Research Process

A Guide to Sources and Methods for Public Administration and the Policy Sciences

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This guide to information-finding sources and techniques is attuned to the needs of researchers in all the social and behavioral sciences with a particular focus on public administration and related fields. This guide is unique in its analyses of how to design the research process in an evolving manner using approaches that reflect combinations of models, methods, and data sources. This guide is also comprehensive in its coverage of a broad spectrum of the important primary and secondary source materials in all their current forms. Students and researchers in the policy sciences, especially at the graduate level, will find this research and reference guide an essential one. Simpson's broadly conceived guide covers sources and methods of approach to doing social science research. The book opens with an analysis of information-finding and public administration as a special and disparate series of fields for study. Subsequent chapters discuss research strategies and designs and offer annotative bibliographies evaluating the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, examining guides to the literature, the conventional library catalog, journal literature, indexing and abstracting services, computer searches, separately published bibliographies, public statistics, machine-readable data files, government documents, sources of methodology and research instruments, other sources of information, archives and other primary sources, and annual reviews. This topical and logically developed set of chapters makes the guide easy to use, and a general subject index makes this reference most accessible.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 1993
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9780313252518
• ISBN-10: 0313252513
• Artikelnr.: 25557377

Autorenporträt

Anthony E. Simpson

Inhaltsangabe

Information-Finding and Public Administration as a Field of Study The
Research Problem ANMD Search Strategy Overviews of Theory and Current
Developments Overviews of Theory in Applied Contexts; Annual Reviews;
Guides to the Literature The Conventional Library Catalog and Sources of
Current Books The Computerized Library Book Catalog The Journal Literature
Indexing and Abstracting Services Searching the Literature by Computer
Separately Published Bibliographies Published Statistics Machine-Readable
Data Files Government Documents Sources of Methodology & Research
Instruments Other Sources of Information Archives & Other Primary Sources
Appendices Index