Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library: Urban & Regional Planning: Articles & Databases

Resources for census & government information

Find links to local, state, and federal government sites on the Government Information research guide: https://library.sjsu.edu/govpubs

Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Social Explorer is a web-based mapping and data visualization tool that allows you to explore 500,000+ data indicators and over 220 years of data for the United States including all Decennial Censuses, American Community Surveys and many other datasets. The interface lets users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze and understand markets, voting, poverty, aging populations, ethnicity and race, spending patterns, health indicators, crime, environment, education, and more.

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ABI/INFORM This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Journals and Books This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses This link opens in a new window
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Web of Science (and ESI & JCR) This link opens in a new window
Scopus This link opens in a new window
This abstract and citation database covers thousands of scholarly journals, books, and conference proceedings. Covering a broad range of disciplines, Scopus enables one to track, analyze, and visualize research. Output data at the institutional and author levels are available. Authors will find h-index, Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP), and citation counts helpful in demonstrating the impact of their work.

New York Times Online This link opens in a new window
Access and personalize the New York Times website with your SJSU email address. Here are instructions to create your NYTimes account. Once you have created your account, use it to sign into the NY Times website from anywhere. Includes interactives, video, and audio, plus digital images of the newspaper back to 1851.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Historical Newspapers The San Francisco Chronicle This link opens in a new window
ProQuest News and Newspapers This link opens in a new window
U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window