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History 191D, Sem. 6:
U.S. Science Policy Since WW II
Instructor: Professor Les Koepplin
Librarians: Stephanie Sterling Brasley, Information Literacy Instruction
Coordinator & Kris Kasianovitz, Librarian for State & Local Government Information & NGOs
Introduction | Government Agencies-Federal |
Government Agencies - State | Government Information Portals for Science & Technology | Bibliographies & Guides | Finding Books and Government Documents | Finding Articles | Science Policy | Laws |
Regulations |
Research & Development |
Statistics | Citing Sources
Introduction
This guide is designed to aid your research for primary and secondary sources related to the study of science and technology since World War II. It can be used as a jumping off point, as you engage in researching your individual topic. Both print and online resources are listed, as well as those owned by UCLA and beyond campus borders.
Access to Materials at UCLA: If you are conducting research off-campus and need access to restricted materials, such as article databases and other electronic resources, take a few minutes to set up your computer for the proxy server. For quick instructions on this, go to: http://www.bol.ucla.edu/services/proxy/
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Agency Approach to Locating Government Information
(Chuck Malone, Western Illinois University Library)
U.S. Government Manual
The official handbook of the Federal Government; provides background information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, and boards, commissions, and committees. Use the manual to find out more about the agencies listed below.
Congressional Committees & Agencies
Independent Agencies
Executive Agencies
State & Local Governments
Web site that will help you locate state government agencies websites.
California Government
Tip: Use the California State Agency Index to find agencies that are related to your topic.
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Government Information Portals for Science & Technology
- Catalog of U.S. Government Science and Technology Resources
A government catalog that provides the scientist, engineer, and technologist with easy, one-stop access to key U.S. Government resources.
- GrayLit Network A Science Portal of Technical Reports
Provides a full-text search across the gray literature of multiple government agencies within a science portal of technical reports. It taps into the search engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user to find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency.
- USA.gov, Science and Technology
- Science.gov
The gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
- USA.gov
Official information and sevices from the U.S. government.
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Bibliographies & Guides
- Bibliography of Studies and Reports on Science Policy and Related Topics, 1945-1985: report. Prepared for the Task Force on Science Policy, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1987.
Holdings:
- UCLA Law Library Stacks, Call # Y4. Sci2: 99/HH
- Request copy from SRLF
- CIS Microfiche Collection, 87 CIS H7029 (CIS Fiche is located in the MGI Reading Room, A-level of YRL).
- A Selected, annotated bibliography of articles, books, documents, periodicals, and reference guides. Prepared for the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives by the Science Policy Research and Foreign Affairs Divisions, Legislative Reference Service, Library of Congress. [Compiled by Genevieve Johanna Knezo, research associate, Science Policy Research Division]. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1970.
Request copy from SRLF
- Corsi, Pietro, ed. (1983). Information Sources in the History of Science and Medicine. Boston : Butterworth Scientific.
Holdings:
- YRL Call # R131 .I53 1983
- Request copy from SRLF
- Science Policy and Research Funding During the Cold War
Bibliography from the Cold War Connection.
- Science and Technology Policy Bibliography, SRB 92-09, Special Reference Briefs, 1992.
"Based on a comprehensive overview of the current literature, this Special Reference Brief (SRB) reflects the various views on U.S. science and technology policy and how it affects the innovation process--from basic research to commercialization." Extensive bibliography of the literature of the mid-80s to early 90s. Includes literature on the science and technology policies of 14 foreign countries.
- Subject Guide on Science Advice and the Presidency (Compiled by Tess Gibson)
Excellent annotated bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
- "Bibliography Relevant to DOE R&D Policy, Congressional Mandates, R&D Results, and Evaluations", IN Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It? Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy Research 1978 to 2000. Washington, D.C., National Research Council, 2001.
- Government Sources in Science and Technology, List of Sources on the Web (compliled by Kathleen Amen, St. Mary’s University)
- GPO Browse Topics: Scientific Research
Webliography of Federal Government Web Portals, Agencies, and Databases that focus on Scientific Research
- GPO Access Resources by Topic: Science &Technology
A listing of government information that pertains to the broad subject area of Science & Technology.
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Finding Books and Government Documents
Library Catalog Research Tip: Many of the materials have a location of SRLF in the Library Catalog; see Requesting Items from the SRLF Online for instructions.
MELVYL catalog: This catalog provides information on materials owned by all UC libraries.
Especially useful for locating California government documents.
WordCat via Firstsearch
GPO Montly Catalog
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.), 1976 - current.
Google U.S. Government Search
Provides government specific news content from both government agencies and press outlets. Searches across U.S. federal, state, and local government sites with domains such as .gov, .mil and others.
Google Book Search
Access to full-text public domain books and numerous government documents.
SourceOECD Science & Information Technology
Find books, reports and statistical publications on science and technology issues from foreign countries.
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Finding Articles
America History & Life (UC Only)
Indexes and abstracts over 2000 journal articles on the history, social life and customs of the people of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This extensive database also covers books, chapters in books, media reviews, and dissertations from 1964-present.
Business Source Premier (UC Only)
Provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. It includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.
EconLit (UC Only)
EconLit is the fundamental tool in economics, providing bibliographic citations, with selected abstracts, to the international literature on economics since 1969. EconLit covers a broad range of document types published world-wide, including journal articles, books, and dissertations, as well as articles in collective works, such as conference proceedings and collected essay volumes.
Education Full Text
Indexes articles on education from more than 650 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere since June 1983. Covers a number of periodicals not handled by ERIC and includes more articles from each periodical that it indexes than ERIC does. Also indexes book reviews. The complete text of articles as far back as 1996 is available for more than 200 of the journals.
Directions: Check the box next to 'Education Full Text' before searching.ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) – via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Covers 1966-present. Indexes articles, reports, dissertations, etc. in all areas of education, including adult, urban, rural, science, mathematics, vocational, elementary, early childhood, handicapped, gifted, and higher education.
Factiva (UC Only)
Access (mostly full text) to nearly 9,000 business and general news sources, including U.S. and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, Web sites, photographs, and trade and industry publications. Also, company profiles and company-to-company/company-to-industry financial comparisons, stock price data, and stock charting.
Google Scholar
Searches specifically for scholarly literature including books, peer-reviewed articles, theses, preprints, and technical reports. Links to the full-text of articles from open access (available without a subscription) journals and preprint repositories.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (UC Only)
Contains citations from journal articles, conference proceedings, books, book reviews, and dissertations in the history of science, the history of technology, and allied historical fields in a variety of languages. Covers 1976 - present. Incorporates the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science, the Current Bibliography in the History of Technology, the Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza, and the Welcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine. 1975- .
International ERIC
Index to non-U.S. writing about education, especially useful for information about developing countries. Consists of Australian Education Index(1978 to present) covering journal articles, conference papers, and reports by Australian authors or about Australian education published in overseas sources and British Education Index (1976 to present) covering significant journal literature. Master's and doctoral theses written for degrees at British, Irish and Australian universities are also described.
LexisNexis Academic (UC Only)
Full-text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information. "News" section indexes and provides access to a large collection of U.S. and international newspapers, newsletters, wire service reports, transcripts of television and radio news broadcasts, and student newspapers. Includes foreign language newspapers, and full-text coverage of the New York Times from June 1, 1980 to the present. Also useful for finding full text of current performing arts and media industry news in major newspapers. (NOTE: Database is unavailable every Saturday night/Sunday morning, 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., Pacific time.)
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe – Business (UC Only)
Includes detailed financial data about companies, annual and quarterly reports, news and directories.
New York Times – Current (UC Only)
The New York Times Current (1995-) offers fulltext coverage of national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions and presidential press conference...
New York Times – Historical (UC Only)
The New York Times historical (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
PAIS Archive (UC Only)
Provides international coverage of citations to articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy, political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics, from 1937-1976.
PAIS International (UC Only)
Provides international coverage (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy, political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics, from 1972 to the present.
ISI Web of Science (UC Only)
Through the Web of Science, users can access the three ISI Citation Databases: Science Citation Index Expanded (1945- with full-text author abstracts for many items from 1991-); Social Sciences Citation Index (1956- with full-text author abstracts for many items from 1992- ; Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975- with full-text author abstracts 2001-); . Cited reference searching, unique to ISI, lets you search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (UC Only)
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international literature in political science, international relations, law, and public policy. Built on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000.
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Science Policy
Use the following Subject Headings to search for Science Policy materials in the Library Catalog,
WordCat via Firstsearch, and
GPO Montly Catalog:
Science and State United States History
Science and State United States History 20th Century
Technology and State United States History
Technology and State United States History 20th Century
Research Government Policy United States
Research Government Policy United States History
- UCLA Library: Congress/Federal Legislation
- LexisNexis Congressional
Contains fully researched CIS legislative histories with full text of bills, debates, reports, and testimony. (Restricted to UC)
- CQ Electronic Library (CQEL)
A major reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs, includes primary sources. (Restricted to UCLA)
- National Academies of Science panel report: "Science and technology in the national interest: Ensring the best presidential and advisory committee science and technology appointments". (2005). In CQ Press (Ed.), Historic documents of 2004. Washington: CQ Press. Retrieved January 5, 2006, from CQ Electronic Library, CQ Public Affairs Collection, http://library.cqpress.com/cqpac/hsdc04p-249-11122451. Document ID: hsdc04p-249-11110-722451.
- Triplett, W. (2004, August 20). Science and politics. The CQ Researcher, 14, 661-684. Retrieved January 5, 2006, from http://library.cqpress.com/cqpac/cqresrre2004082000. Document ID: cqresrre2004082000.
- National Journal's Group Policy Central (Restricted to UCLA)
The comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community, includes full text access to the National Journal and Almanac of American Politics.
- United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. Science: The Endless Frontier. Washington, U.S.Government Printing Office, 1945.
Pivotal report on a program for post-war scientific research by Vannevar Bush, the director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.
Holdings:
- Biomed Library, Call # Q127.U6 B963s 1945 (1960 and 1990 editions available)
- Request copy from SRLF
- National Science Policy Study
Hearings, roundtables, guiding documents, and background information culminating in Unlocking Our Future: Toward a New National Science Policy. A Report to Congress by the House Committee on Science. September 24, 1998. Print holdings available:
- Law Library Call # Y 4.SCI 2:105-B
- YRL Call # Q127.U6 U55 1998
- CIS Microfiche Collection, 99 CIS H 7024 (CIS Microfiche is located in the MGI Reading Room, A-level of YRL).
- Policy and Research Issues at the National Academies
With links to the full-text of National Academic Press publications.
- Office of Science & Technology Policy Executive Office of the President
- Jacobs, Katherine. (2002). Connecting Science, Policy, and Decision Making, A Handbook for Researchers and Science Agencies
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Laws
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Regulations
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Research & Development
Use the following Subject Headings to search for Research & Development materials in the Library Catalog,
WorldCat via Firstsearch, and
GPO Montly Catalog:
Federal aid to research United States
Research United States
Research Economic Aspects United States
Research and Development Contracts United States
Research and Development Contracts Government United States
Research and Development Partnership United States
Technological Innovations Government Policy United States
Technological Innovations United States
Technology Transfer Government Policy United States
Technology Transfer United States
- Federal R&D Summaries
Descriptions, Awards, Summaries of Federally Funded Research
- Research and Development in Industry 1976-1997: Expenditure and Researchers, Scientists and Engineers
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Industry, Services & Trade , pp.1-149
- House Committee on Science
Science Committee is responsible for overseeing research and development programs at NASA, DOE, EPA, NSF,FAA, NOAA, NIST, FEMA, U.S. Fire Administration, and U.S. Geological Survey.
- President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Assessing U.S. R&D Investment. October 16, 2002.
- National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. What is the State Government Role in the R&D Enterprise? NSF 99-348, John E. Jankowski (Arlington, VA 1999).
- Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government.
Science, Technology, and the States in America's Third Century. New York, Carnegie Commission, 1992.
Print Holding: YRL Call # Q127.U6 S3276 1992.
- Government/Industry/Academic Relationships for Technology Development: A Workshop Report National Academies Press
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Statistics
Statistics and Data
Includes a guide to Finding Statistics as well as access to major statistical sources.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Primary annual compilation of U.S. statistics. Section 16 covers Science and Technology, which contains Research & Development expenditures
LexisNexis Statistical
Search Base Tables will get you to statistical tables from statistical abstracts or other major statistical reports, including the Federal Budget.
Search Abstracts will get you to a wide variety of governmental and non-governmental reports that contain statistics.
TIP:
Use “Search Subject” to find terms related to "research and development" or "Science and technology".
FedStats.gov
"The gateway to statistics from over 100 Federal Agencies."
WebCASPAR
Integrated Sciences and Engineering Resources Data System (NSF)
WebCASPAR provides easy access to a large body of statistical data
resources for Science & Engineering at U.S. academic Institutions.
Emphasizes S&E, but its data resources also provide information on
non-S&E fields and higher education in general.
National Science Foundation, Statistics
Budget of the United States Government
TIP: use the "Browse" feature to find budget information related to a particular government agency. For an explanation of the budget,use the Citizen's Guide to the Budget which includes a glossary to budget terms.
Consolidated Federal Funds Report, by State & County (1993 - current)
Bureau of the Census Report that covers Federal expenditures or obligations for grants, salaries and wages, procurement contracts, direct payments for individuals, other direct payments, direct loans, guaranteed or insured loans, and insurance. TIP: use the "On-Line Query" System to get reports by geography and specific agency
The Dynamics of Technology-Based Economic Development: State Science and Technology Indicators.Washington, D.C., Office of Technology Policy, 2000.
U.S. Corporate R&D Investment 1994-1999 With Advance Estimates for 2000. Washington, D.C., Office of Technology Policy, October 15, 2001.
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Citing Sources
Citing Internet Sources
Guides for citing sources, including government documents. Includes links
to the Chicago citation style for citing sources in history.
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Adapted from website by Natalie Borisovets, Rutgers University Library,
John Cotton Dana Library. January 24, 2006
Government Sources: Kris Kasianovitz, Librarian for State & Local Government Information & NGOs
Article Databases: Stephanie Brasley, Information Literacy Instruction Coordinator
Business Sources: Michael Oppenheim, Collection Development, Reference, Instructional Services Librarian, Rosenfeld Management Library
Last Updated: January 23, 2007 |
