Version 8.0 of the e-Gov Reference Library (EGRL) has been published and now contains 5,050 references of predominantly English language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of electronic government and electronic governance. The number of qualifying references in the library has increased by 376, or 8 percent, over version 7.5 (December 15, 2011).
The e-Gov Reference Library has developed into an indispensable tool for e-Gov scholars. In particular, reviewing paper submissions was reported to now heavily rely on this reference library. Packaged in a 10 MB zip file, bibTeX, EndNote, and Zotero versions along with PDF, text, and rtf versions are available.
Dear Jochen
Why didn´t you reveal this great librery at the doctoral consortium at EGOV! I am currently in the phase of planning my litirature review proces regarding value from eGovernment and I am looking forward to using the 5000 papers, that you have collected, thanks very much, a great contribution.
Have you written a paper documenting, that the library is exhaustive?
Best regards
Jesper
By the way – the field length for registring e-mail address (30 char) was to small to meet my requirements. Maybe you will consider expanding the field…
Jesper, hi, thank you for your comments. We have expanded the input field length for email addresses by 50 percent hoping that this will do it.
As indicated in my earlier email to you, I mentioned the EGRL at least twice during the colloquium, although maybe not prominently enough otherwise you would have picked it up. Also, are you subscriber to the EGOV LIST? Every half year update notices about the EGRL are sent to this listserv so that the community receives the latest link to the updated EGRL.
Yes, I have published two manuscripts with bibliometric analyses of the EGRL (see references below). An update to these two analyses is in the making.
Scholl, H. J. (2010). Electronic Government: A study Domain Past Its Infancy. In H. J. Scholl (Ed.), E-Government: Information, Technology, and Transformation (Vol. 17, pp. 11-32). Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
Scholl, H. J. (2009). Profiling the EG Research Community and its Core. In M. A. Wimmer, H. J. Scholl, M. Janssen & R. Traunmüller (Eds.), Electronic Government: 8th International Conference (EGOV 2009) (Vol. 5693, pp. 1-12). Berlin: Springer Verlag.