Disaster Information Reference Library

The Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL) aims to be an indispensable, open-access tool in the field of disaster information and technology. Walter Seböck, Thomas Lampoltshammer and Jochen Scholl act as co-chief editors, while Andrea Chapman is responsible for curation, and Lörinc Thurnay provides technical assistance.

Citation: Scholl, H. J. (2024). The Disaster Information Reference Library (DIRL). Versions 7.0—6.5. Retrieved from http://XXX  

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Version 7.0 is the most recent update of this reference library. It was published as a semi-annual update on November 25, 2024. The library now contains 5,435 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. This represents an increase over the previous version of 293 references, or 5.7%.

BibTeX, RIS, and Endnote (package) versions are available as a zip file. Mendeley or Zotero versions can easily be created by importing from RIS or BibTeX files. Please contact us at dirl@donua-uni.ac.at in case of any errors or omissions. With the next version (7.5) slated for release on April 15, 2025, this version (7.0) is the first in the transition from the current host (the University of Washington) to its future host, the Center for E-Governance at the University for Continued Education at Krems, Austria (aka as Donau University Krems/DUK). 

The purpose of the DIRL is to improve the quality of academic research in disaster information and technology by identifying and capturing a wide range of relevant peer-reviewed, publications in the English language, produced by authors worldwide. The goal is to provide authors and reviewers in the multi-disciplinary study domain of Disaster Information Research access to the body of current academic knowledge, provide keyword searches to inform research better and provide accuracy and reliability in citations. In doing so, the DIRL aims to improve the use of this knowledge relative to Disaster Information Research and have a formative effect on the domain moving forward.  

Launched in 2017 to create and maintain a comprehensive reference library dedicated to academic disaster information and technology literature, the DIRL was hosted by the University of Washington until September 2024, when it was handed over to the Center for E-Governance at the University for Continuing Education Krems.   

If you believe a reference is missing from the DIRL, we encourage you to check that it meets all the required criteria for inclusion. If it does, please send an email with the reference information to dirl@donua-uni.ac.at. Your contribution will help us maintain the completeness and accuracy of the DIRL. 

Release History  

Criteria for inclusion in the DGRL 

At a minimum, a paper or article must: 

• Have passed an academic peer review process, 

• Be published in the proceedings of an academic conference or in an academic journal, 

• Be published in English (or, if published in another language, an English-language translation must be publicly available), 

• Be at least seven pages (or equivalently, 3,700 words) in length (including references) for a non-technical article, 

• Be at least four pages (2,250 words) in length (including references) for a technical article. 

Search Terms 

We search the Library of Congress, LISTA, Web of Science, and Google Scholar with the following search terms*. 

*Also Spelling and acronym variations 

Core Conferences 

• Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) 

• Information Polity (IP) 

• International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) 

• International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA) 

• Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP) 

• ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV) 

• The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) 

• Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) 

• Electronic Government, an International Journal (EGaIJ) 

• Electronic Journal of Electronic Government (EJEG) 

Core Conferences 

• HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Digital Government Track) 

• IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart (International Federation for Information Processing WG 8.5) 

• dg.o (Digital Government Society) 

• ICEGOV (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance) 

Criteria for inclusion in the DGRL 

At a minimum, a paper or article must: 

• Have passed an academic peer review process, 

• Be published in the proceedings of an academic conference or in an academic journal, 

• Be published in English (or, if published in another language, an English-language translation must be publicly available), 

• Be at least seven pages (or equivalently, 3,700 words) in length (including references) for a non-technical article, 

• Be at least four pages (2,250 words) in length (including references) for a technical article. 

Search Terms 

We search the Library of Congress, LISTA, Web of Science, and Google Scholar with the following search terms*. 

*Also Spelling and acronym variations 

Core Conferences 

• Government Information Quarterly (GIQ) 

• Information Polity (IP) 

• International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR) 

• International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (IJPADA) 

• Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP) 

• ACM Digital Government: Research and Practice (DGOV) 

• The eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government (JeDEM) 

• Journal of Information Technology & Politics (JITP) 

• Electronic Government, an International Journal (EGaIJ) 

• Electronic Journal of Electronic Government (EJEG) 

Core Conferences 

• HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Digital Government Track) 

• IFIP EGOV-CeDEM-ePart (International Federation for Information Processing WG 8.5) 

• dg.o (Digital Government Society) 

• ICEGOV (International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance)