The December 2015 version of the e-Gov Reference Library (EGRL) has been made available by the University of Washington’s Information School. The academic reference list of peer-reviewed works has been expanded by 662 new studies, bringing the total to 7,899, with the oldest article dating from 1981.

The number of references in this update, version 11,5, has increased by 346, or 4.6%, over version 11.0, published in July, and by 9.4 % over version 10.5, published last January.

“The EGRL has developed into an indispensable tool for e-Gov scholars”, writes Hans Jochen Scholl, Professor at iSchool, in his blog. “In particular, preparing and reviewing paper submissions was reported to heavily rely on this reference library.”

The reference is a 18 MB zip file, which contains the reference list in Bibtex, RIS and EndNote formats. Registration is required for downloading the file.

More information:

E-Government Reference Library
Hans Jochen Scholl’s blog post