Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) Version 17.0 Released

Now Listing 15,731 references of Peer-reviewed Research Articles in the English Language

Version 17.0 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) has been published as of July 10, 2021. The library now contains 15,731 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy.

This marks an 8.3% increase in references from version 16.5 (December of 2020) and a 16.3% increase from version 16.0 (June of 2020). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government- related publishing adding another 4-digit number (2,199) of new peer-reviewed academic references within the past 12 months.

The DGRL has become an indispensable tool for Digital Government scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions are reported to rely heavily on this reference library. Packaged in a 28.7 MB zip file, bibTeX, RIS, and Endnote (package) versions are available. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Next scheduled update: 12/15/2021.

Thank you for your interest and cooperation.

Please also note: The DGRL is provided on basis of self- service. Do not request any support.

No curator can do her work alone. Under the curator and editorship of Hans Jochen Scholl, the DGRL has been maintained and expanded over the years with the help of teams led by Jan Boyd and Galen Guffy and graduate student team members Colin Anderson, Emily Cunningham, Erika Deal, Gary Gao, Kreg Hasegawa, Jackie Holmes, Julia Hon, Christine Lee, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, Hannah Robinson, Richard Robohm, Kelle Rose, Stephanie Rossi, Christopher Setzer, and Daniel Wilson.

Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2021). The Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). Versions 16.5—17.0. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/

The DGRL can be downloaded following this link: http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/

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Inaugural “Fellow of the Digital Government Society”

In the Information School’s Weekly “Research Shout Outs and News: June 11, 2021,” it was communicated:

Along with one other inaugural recipient (Dr. Gil-Garcia), today at the 22nd Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2021) the award of “Fellow of the Digital Government Society,” which honors exceptional and groundbreaking contributions to the study domain of Digital Government, was conferred to Hans Jochen Scholl. The Digital Government Society, of which Jochen was a founding member in 2005, and for which he served as the Third President (2009-2010), is an association of hundreds of scholars worldwide. In his acceptance speech Jochen urged his colleagues to focus their research during times of increasingly challenged democracies worldwide more frequently on “problematic outcomes” of digital government, which he characterized as Type A (desirable, but not successful) and Type B (not desirable, but successful). He maintained that “some of the technically best, yet most invasive, most suppressive, and albeit most ‘successful’ digital government systems are not committed to democracy in any shape or form but rather support and foster autocracy and dictatorships.” Such “successes” in Digital Government Jochen characterized as extremely undesirable and highly problematic. His remarks were met with great applause from the dg.o 2021 audience.

Watch the acceptance speech here.

Two New Edited Books

Volumes 36 and 37 of the Springer Series “Public Administration and Information Technology” (PAIT) are out covering the topics of “Blockchain and the Public Sector” and “Smart Cities and Smart Governance.” I would like to thank my co-editors Christopher Reddick and Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar as well as Elsa Estevez and Theresa Pardo for working with me on these timely topics.

More information can be obtained for the Blockchain book here and the Smart City book here.

DIRL Version 3.5 Released

Version 3.5 is another semi-annual update of this reference library. It has been published as of April 6, 2021, some three weeks later than originally scheduled (March 15) due to additional maintenance efforts. The library now contains 3,510 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of disaster information and information technologies and their uses in the context of disasters (see inclusion criteria). This represents an increase over the previous version of 150 references, or 4.5%.

The DIRL is intended to become an indispensable tool for Disaster Information and Technology-interested scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions may want to rely on this reference library.

Packaged in a zip file, bibTeX, RIS as well as an Endnote package (enlp) versions are available for downloading. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Thank you for your interest and cooperation.

Please also note: The DIRL is provided on basis of self-service. Do not request any support.

Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) Version 16.5 Released

Now Listing 14,527 references of Peer-reviewed Research Articles in the English Language

Version 16.5 of the Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL) has been published as of December 15, 2020. The library now contains 14,527 references of predominantly English-language, peer-reviewed work in the study domains of digital government, digital governance, and digital democracy.

This marks a 7.4% increase in references from version 16.0 (June of 2020) and a 15.5% increase from version 15.5 (December of 2019). This past publication period has yet been another good one for Digital Government-related publishing adding another 4-digit number (1,981) of new peer-reviewed academic references within the past 12 months.

The DGRL has become an indispensable tool for Digital Government scholars. In particular, reviewers of paper submissions are reported to rely heavily on this reference library. Packaged in a 16.7 MB zip file, bibTeX, RIS, and Endnote (package) versions are available. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or bibTeX files. Please get back to us in case of any errors or omissions. Next scheduled update: 06/15/2021.

Thank you for your interest and cooperation.

Please also note: The DGRL is provided on basis of self-service. Do not request any support. cooperation.

No curator can do her work alone. Under the curator and editorship of Hans Jochen Scholl, the DGRL has been maintained and expanded over the years with the help of teams led by Jan Boyd and Galen Guffy and graduate student team members Colin Anderson, Emily Cunningham, Erika Deal, Gary Gao, Kreg Hasegawa, Jackie Holmes, Julia Hon, Christine Lee, Andrew Mckenna-Foster, Jessie Novotny, Marie Peeples, Hannah Robinson, Richard Robohm, Kelle Rose, Stephanie Rossi, Christopher Setzer, and Daniel Wilson.

Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2020). The Digital Government Reference Library (DGRL). Versions 16.0—16.5. Retrieved from http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/

The DGRL can be downloaded following this link: 

http://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/dgrl/

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