Because the field of Emergency Services Management is so new, diverse and inter-disciplinary, I employ a number of techniques to make ‘keeping up’ in the field manageable.* One of them is setting up “Journal Alerts” in databases for the journals that I know are most relevant to the field. This is an easy way to get the titles and abstracts delivered to my email inbox or RSS reader every time a new issue is published.
The journals that I try to read in this field are:
–International Journal of Emergency Management
–Journal of Emergency Management
–Natural Hazards Review
–Futures Research Quarterly
–Disaster Prevention and Management
–International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters
–Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning
–Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
Over the course of the next few Thursdays, I’ll be reviewing these journals, and giving instructions for signing up for alerts for each. If you know of a journal the library should subscribe to in this field, let me know!
(*) If you think you have it bad with this subject, imagine how much reading I have to do to stay current in all the fields I support (ESM/Disaster Science, HRM, Information Systems, Liberal Arts, and Teacher Licensure) and my very own Library & Information Science field…