The University of Alabama in Huntsville is on the forefront of the emerging study of space science management. Students train to hold managerial positions in government or commercial space programs. See below for search techniques and some selected electronic books for this discipline.
Suggested Search Terms to use in Primo Pathfinder:
Look for databases in the sciences along with business databases to find information on this topic. Databases like ScienceDirect and NASA websites provide information on management techniques. You will also find recent peer reviewed articles in ScienceDirect about management in the private sector. In ScienceDirect, try the search: space science management NOT NASA and then limit to Research articles.
The library subscribes to specific space science journals in ScienceDirect. Try searching within these journals:
See below for a list of databases you can search directly or select one of the electronic books listed here.
Contains over 550,000 citations with abstracts to articles appearing in 1,000 international periodicals covering business and management as well as related functional areas including trends, corporate strategies and tactics, and competitive and product information.
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. This database also includes Country Monitor, Industry Yearbook Reports, country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Wall Street Words, and detailed company & industry profiles from Datamonitor. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. Some reports are available on microfiche in the library.
Provides access to the full text of more than 1,800 Elsevier electronic journals in chemistry and chemical engineering; clinical medicine; computer science; earth and planetary sciences; economics, business, and management science; engineering, energy, and technology; environmental science and technology; life sciences; materials science; mathematics; physics and astronomy; and social science; as well as indexing and abstracting for electronic journals from other publishers.
Scientific information from government agencies; includes technical reports, journal citations, databases, Federal web sites, fact sheets.