Research Support
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Research Support gives assistance and support to faculty and students in their research needs in literature and data searching. Gardner Neely manages the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies Research Support office.

Located on the Ground Floor of the AYSPS building, Research Support has a spacious area to help provide enhanced research services to graduate students and faculty. In the past year, over 1,200 publications and conference announcements were circulated to faculty and graduate research assistants, with many of the items kept for reference.

Research Support collects, catalogs and makes available relevant literature and electronic resources. Support staff work with the college faculty and their research assistants to help them access and interpret the ever-changing information databases. The unit provides access to web sites, journals and data sets in such areas as public finance, economics, nonprofit studies, domestic and international policy studies, with an emphasis on taxation and revenue issues.

Faculty serving on the advisory committee in 2005 were Carolyn Bourdeaux, Gregory Streib, Neven Valev, and Robert Eger.

Nonprofit Studies Program

Neely worked with new Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program Dennis Young and associated faculty to locate and provide nonprofit literature resources for the center. The new material will aid the Nonprofit Studies Program's research activities, including topics on managing and funding nonprofit agencies and organizations. A display of some journals and activities is being developed for the Research Support area, including the Aspen Idea, Nonprofit Times, and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

Hank Thomassen Collection

Hundreds of economics and history books were given to the Andrew Young School by the family of Georgia Economist Dr. Hank Thomassen, as a memorial to the long-serving economist to the governor. The gift enhanced Research Support's shelves with important titles on econometrics, forecasting, and policy issues for both students and faculty to enjoy.

Research Support Office Resources

The office maintains an online catalog of resources, which lists subscriptions, government documents, books, CDs and data sets available for use by AYS researchers. The catalog is accessible through the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies web site, with journal holdings and data sets listed. In 2005, new titles, data CDs, and print annuals were added, including the following:

• The Municipal Yearbook, from ICMA
• Iowa Electronic Markets Inter-Disciplinary Educational Alliance Tutorial CD-ROM
• World Bank World Development Indicators
• The Handbook of Public Affairs
• IMF International Financial Statistics
• IMF Historical Government Finance Statistics: 1972-1989
• IMF Government Finance Statistics
• Global Development Finance from the World Bank
• European Tax Handbook of International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation
• The Georgia County Guide CD from the University of Georgia
• Georgia Population Projections 2015 CD
• Budget of the United States Government
• OECD Revenue Statistics
• Facts and Figures on Government Finance
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Business Statistics of the United States
• Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics
• Journal of Economic Literature CD
• The American Economic Review CD
• Yearbook of Labour Statistics 2004, 63rd issue - CD-ROM

Some of the gift journals received this year are past issues of Industrial Labor Relations Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Growth and Change (Urban & Regional Policy), International Journal of Public Administration, Journal of Public Affairs Education, Public Organization Review, and State & Local Government Review of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at University of Georgia.

Online sources from the University System of Georgia's Galileo service and Georgia State University's funded research databases provide access to e-journals through the University Library's web site. Abstracts and full text from such titles as Journal of Public Economics and Journal of Policy Analysis and Management are downloadable for those that register from an on-campus computer.

Research Support coordinated with LaLoria Konata, the University Library liaison in policy studies, to gain access to relevant literature via selected Web subscriptions. JSTOR allows access to back issues from many publishers. Web of Science, from ISI's Social Science Citation Index, allows users to track the citation process of academic papers.

EndNote, from ISI, is the bibliographic citation manager required for all dissertations. Assistance and guides are provided as requested for this citation tracking tool.

Research Support's web site features frequently used international tax literature links, pertinent publishers, suppliers and data centers, and links to the university library's menu. The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research polling data (iPOLL) is maintained in the Roper Center’s database, a very comprehensive, up-to-date source for nationwide U.S. public opinion.

Research Support continued to build its collection of faculty publications, and it also coordinated gifts to assist overseas scholars in developing nations.