Selected Resources for: Quality Management

Subject Librarian: Van Houlson E-Mail: houls001@tc.umn.edu Subject Description:Resources on quality management, quality control, process improvement, six sigma, and literature on optimization in production management and organizations.

Abstracts and Indexes

Business Source Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. Business Source Premier database includes both scholarly journals and periodicals for practitioners. Locate full-text coverage to more than 2,800 journals in business, economics, political science and public administration. Coverage dates vary by title. Selected Datamonitor company reports and EIU country documents are also available. Results can be downloaded or emailed. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Web of Science (ISI) Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 11,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Titles of the print equivalent are: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index. Coverage runs from 1975 to the present. Basic truncation symbol is the asterisk: *. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Body of Knowledge in Quality Index from the Juran Center at the Carlson School of Management. Search for scholarly and professional literature found in journals, magazines, books, and other publications covering all aspect of quality and performance improvement. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Catalogs and Bibliographies

Juran Library Collection Collections from the personal library of Dr Joseph Juran. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

MNCAT - Books on Quality Management [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

MNCAT Classic Search MNCAT, the libraries' catalog, to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. Subject keywords include SIX SIGMA, QUALITY CONTROL, TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT, and QUALITY ASSURANCE. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

WorldCat This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

General Reference Sources

ISO 14001 Worldwide Certified Company Directory Global directory of companies and organizations that have certified environmental managment practices using criteria from the International Organization for Standardization. Includes profiles of accredited certification bodies and a market report of ISO 14001 certification. Published quarterly, this CDROM directory is available at the Business Reference collection in Wilson Library. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

ISO 9000 Worldwide Certified Company Directory Global directory of companies and organizations certified as having quality managment practices using criteria issued by the International Organization for Standardization. Includes profiles of accredited certification bodies and a market report of ISO 9000 certification. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Baldrige Award Winning Quality Annual publication that outlines the criteria used for Macolm Baldrige National Quality Award program to assess organizations for leadership, strategic planning, customer service, data analysis, human resources, process management, and business results. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Books by J.M. Juran in the University of Minnesota Library Catalog [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Insights to Performance Excellence Annual publication that provides an inside look at some of the criteria and winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Certified Quality Engineer [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Juran?s Quality Handbook Online version is available through the Knovel Library digital collection of engineering books. Search by title. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Quality Essentials : A Reference Guide from A to Z [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

Annual Quality Congress Proceedings Proceedings from the annual conference of the American Society For Quality. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Journal for Quality and Participation [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Journal of Organizational Excellence [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Journal of Quality Technology [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Quality Assurance [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Quality Engineering Co-published by the American Quality Society for professionals interested in quality improvement across all engineering and management fields. Features accomplishments that focus on comprehensive quality science applications, quality control, quality assurance management, related physical technology, associated statistical tools, standards information, and more. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Quality Management Journal [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Quality [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Societies, Agencies, and Organizations

American Society for Quality [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

Minnesota Council for Quality [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!]

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