Information Center
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

In support of ongoing research projects, the Young School information center provides to the college faculty and researcher some 1,500 volumes, with 45 current subscriptions to newsletters, working papers, journals, yearbooks and directories in economics and fiscal policy. Many items are gifts from faculty. In the past year about 1,500 publications were circulated to faculty and graduate research assistants, with about 10 percent of the items kept in-house. The information center's role is to collect and distribute relevant literature and electronic sources, and to work with university libraries to help interpret the ever changing information products to faculty and their research assistants. Gardner Neely manages the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Library/Information Center.

The information center's catalog of resources, InMagic DBTextworks, now provides about 2,500 records of subscriptions, government documents, books, CDs and data sets to AYSPS researchers. This catalog is accessible from any faculty office in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, with journal holdings and CDs listed on the website.

This year, new data and literature CDs and datasets added include the following:

• World Bank Africa Database 2000, OECD Revenue Statistics , IMF International Financial Statistics and Global Development Finance, replacing World Debt Tables from the World Bank.
• Michie's Georgia Law on Disc, Georgia County Guide
• Corporate Tax 2000 a Worldwide Summary / PriceWaterhouseCoopers
• State Tax OneDisc/ Tax Analysts
• County Business Patterns CD 1997 University of Georgia
• Statistical Abstract of the United States 1999
• Maptitude: Geographic Information System
• SAS OnlineDoc, Version 8
• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979; 1979-1998; Work History
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Review
• Guatemala Fiscal Administration Reform Project Technical Memoranda Series 1989 -1994 for Ministerio de Finanzas Publicas Guatemala, C.A

For the Russia project, the information center provided such resources as the IRS Manual, BNA Tax Management, Foreign Tax Law and EconLit from the American Economic Association.

Domestic data sources acquired include a new campus-wide access to STAT-USA through the Pullen Library, new CDs from the U.S. Census: County and City Databook, Counties USA, and a statistics CD from the ICMA.

Plans are in place to use WebCT to present orientation to economics and social science literature sources available at the information center and the university libraries.

The full text revolution has unleashed an avalanche of online sources with electronic journals from the Pullen Library. Abstracts and full text from such titles as Journal of Applied Econometrics, and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, are now downloadable for those that register from an on-campus computer. The University library provides Emerald Online Journals, from the UK, providing such titles as Journal of Economic Studies and other journals in management and business.

The Information Center has coordinated with the Pullen Library liason in policy studies, LaLoria Konata, to gain access to relevant literature via selected web subscriptions. PolicyFile, a web-based abstracting service, covers a wide range of public policy research that draws it's content from policy think tanks, university research programs, and research organizations. Electronic journals are available from faculty offices and student computer labs. Among these is Jstore for back issues from differing publishers. For example, the publishers, Oxford University Press, Wiley InterScience, and the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers, are now available campus-wide. Web of Science, from ISI's Social Science Citation Index, allows users to track the citing process of academic papers. From Oxford University Press, users can print out articles from such periodicals as Journal of African Economies, Economic Inquiry, Oxford Economic Papers, and the Journal of International Economic Law.

Now on Galileo from the University System of Georgia, users have access to highly specialized academic literature through ABI Inform, from Bell & Howell's interface, ProQuest, which allows users to email articles found through search engines. This year Lexis-Nexus has made facile the hard-to-get country reports on Uganda or Sri Lanka, as well as current news summaries through Galileo.

Rather than attempting to store all the ever-growing professional literature, the Information Center is moving toward posting website links or other locations where source materials can be found. The newly updated website features international tax literature links, pertinent publishers, suppliers and data centers. Pullen library upgraded from OLLI, the old telnet catalog, to a web product called GIL to post their catalog. GIL allows users to renew books online, to search by format, to indicate the status of a checked-out book or stored journal; and to send emails with citations.