Research Guides

Project Management

Books about PM

While most up-to-date information will be found in journal articles, you may want to examine some book titles:

• Safari Tech Books Online BU:
  To search for a technical book available to you, select - MY BOOKSHELF - in the Search tool bar before typing in your keywords. You'll locate some books about PM and more sections of books about PM.
  
• NetLibrary BU -
  Search for "project management" in the search box and select "Full Text" in the drop down menu. You'll find some general titles about project management and some software guides.
  
• BU Library Catalog
  Books within the BU libraries. Most are at the Science and Engineering Library and at Pardee Management Library. The book catalog will show the location of the book.
  

Project Management Associations

• American Project Management Forum (free membership)
  Online Forum, Links, White Papers, some articles
  
• ASAPM American Society for the Advancement of Project Management
  (free contents, some limitations for non- subscibers)
  asapMag, Mag archives, Book Reviews, Standards section
  
• PMForum  very useful, free
  PMForum, PM World Today, Featured Papers, Case Studies, Directory of Expert Resources, Forum Discussion, Practices Directory, Library (some downloads)
  
• Project Management Institute (PMI)
  (free contents, some limitations for non- subscibers)
  
  • PMI's Specific Interest Group: Students of Project Management (SoPM)
    
• Association for Project Management (APM)
  (free contents, some limitations for non- subscibers) See - Resources:Downloads
  

To locate more international and US Associations see:
Associations Unlimited BU

PM Glossaries/Dictionaries

• APM Glossary of Management Terms (UK)

• PM Dictionary from Project Auditors

• Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  
  

Project Management Journals

• Baseline (PM with an IT focus) BU 8/1/2002
  
• Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering     
  
• Chief Project Officer: Resource for Managing Portfolio's of Projects
  
• Project Management Journal BU 1997-
  
• International Journal of Project Management BU 2/28/1995-
  
• PM Net Work  BU 7/1/2003-
  
• PM Engineer BU 2001-
  
• PM World Today Newsletter (free email subscription)

Project  Management Certification

• PMI Certification Program
• PMP Certification Group - Forum (free with registration).
• Free PMP Exam Demo- 200 question (free with registration)

Find Articles in Business and Management journals by subject

See also "Find Business Articles and Data" to select databases;
those listed below are among those listed.

• Factiva BU Works best with Firefox.
  Search to locate full text articles in trade journals, newspapers, newswires and web sites.

• ABI/Inform Global BU
  Search to locate full text journal articles in trade or scholarly business journals. 
  Keywords like:
  case studies and project management
  project managment and information technology
  project management and systems development...
  Also contains scholarly journals like the MIT Sloan Managment Review and the daily Wall Street Journal Asia, Wall Street Journal Europe and
  Wall Street Journal US. BU

• Business Source Complete BU (Browser: IE) 
  Search to locate full text journal articles in trade or scholarly business journals.
  Keywords like:
  case studies and project management
  project managment and information technology
  project management and systems development
  project management and software
  project management and scheduling...
  Also contains scholarly journals like the Harvard Business Review and Project Management Journal.

• Wilson Web Business Full Text BU
  Indexes fewer journal but is simple to use and contains some text articles.
  Keywords like:
  project management and risk .

• General Business File BU largely trade journals
  

• LexisNexis Academic BU
  Search "Project Management" in General Search. You will retrieve news, newswires and trade publications; you may limit search to type of publication. List appears at left under "Result Groups."

• Conference Board Research Online Collection BU
  Best Practice Reports on many related management topics like Environmental Health and Safety Management, Productivity, Performance Measurement etc.

Find Articles in  Scientific and Computing journals by subject

See also other engineering databases, available through the Science and Engineering Library.

• Applied Science and Technology Full Text BU
  Search for journal articles focusing on technical issues in all industries.
  Some full text. 
  Subjects like:
  Project management 
  Construction project management
  Scheduling (Management)
  Software project management

• Compendex (Engineering Index) BU
  Search for engineering journals articles, conference papers and technical reports. Some full text. 
  Subjects like:
  Project management
  Engineering -- Project Management
  Lean project management
  Software project management
  Intelligent project management system
  
  
• Computer Science Index BU
  Search for articles from scholarly and technical computer science journals.
  Some full text. 
  Subjects like:
  Project management
  Project management - Software
  Software engineering
  Cost control
  
  
• IEEE Xplore BU
  Search IEEE journals in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. Includes full text access to (123) IEEE journals from 1998+
  Subjects like:
  project management
  project engineering
  software project management
  software engineering project management
  real-time project management information systems

Public Company Financials

• Mergent Online (BU Online) BU
• EDGAR - www.sec.gov

PM @ Boston University

• BU Global -Graduate Diploma and Certificate Programs at BU Global
  Graduate Certificate in Project Management
  
  
• BU Metropolitan College- Computer Science Department
  Computer Information Systems Online
  
  
• BU Online - Master of Science in Management
  Specialization in Project Management
  
  
• Project Management in Practice
  2006 Project Risk and Cost Management Conference
  
  
• Project Communications Management
  2007 Project Management in Practice Conference
  May 20-22nd, 2007 Boston University Photonics Center
  
  
  

PM Blogs & Social Networks

• eProject eLounge - Project Management User Community
       Blogs
  
  
• 4PM (For Project Managers)
  4PM's blog: Project Management Tools, Techniques & Best Practices
  Dick Billows PMP
  
  
• ITToolbox's Project Management
  ITToolbox's Project Management-Related Blogs
  
  
• Project Management Blog
  Keith Casey and Duane Gran