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Spring
2008 - R. Buchele
reference
contact: Sika Berger x2963
or David Podboy x2913
Background
| Books|
Articles
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Statistics
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Citing
Sources
| Moodle
BACKGROUND
INFORMATION & BASIC STATISTICS
| Resources
in Neilson & Online |
Call
Number or Link |
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Articles with references to academic sources, including topics such
as Inequality: Gender, Income, Political, Racial,
Wealth; and Poverty: Indices, Urban |
Online
for Smith community |
Historical Statistics of the United States
Covers population, work & welfare, the economy, and government.
Data may be downloaded and custom tables created. Essays address the
quantitative history of each subject, with advice on data reliability
and references to secondary literature. |
Online
for Smith community
ref
HA 202 H57 20006
(v.1 - Population) |
The
Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics
(3 volumes; articles on concepts, charts, graphs, etc.) |
ref
HA 29 S2363 2007 |
Ask
about topic-specific sources such as these:
Handbook of US Labor Statistics (ref
HD 8051 A63 2007)
Encyclopedia
of World Poverty (ref
HV 12 .E54 2006 )
Handbook
of Aging & the Social Sciences
(ref
HQ 1061 H336 2006)
Economic globalisation: social conflicts, labour and environmental
issues (Science
Library)
Encyclopedia of International Development
(ref HD 82 .E547 2005 )
Women and Equality in the Workplace(ref HD 6095 .G48
2003 )
CQ Electronic Library (online) |
Neilson
Reference Room
Need
Help? Ask a Librarian! |
BOOKS:
The
Five College Library System & WorldCat
Use
keyword searching to search a phrase or combine terms (using and, or),
or search with Subject Headings begins with, for instance:
Poverty
Income distribution - United States - Statistics
United States - Economic conditions - Statistics
Household surveys - United States
Economic assistance
Poor, services for
Housing - United States
Homeowners - United States - Economic conditions
Ethnic neighborhoods
Community development
Planned communities
Hispanic Americans - Public opinion
Puerto Ricans - United States - Social conditions
Immigrants-- United States - Social conditions
Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects
United States - Ethnic relations
Immigrants - United States - Public opinion
Minorities - United States - Economic conditions
United States - Emigration and immigration
Environmental policy - Costs
Economic development - Environmental aspects
Environmental economics
Social responsibility of business
Environmental degradation - Economic aspects
Social capital
Environmental protection - Economic aspects
Envrionmental responsibility
Environmental ethics
Conservation of natural resources
Natural resources - Valuation
Public schools - New York (State) - New York
Educational equalization - United States
Discrimination in education
Urban schools - United States
Education - Elementary
Education - United States - Finance |
Poor
- United States - Public opinion
Welfare state - Public opinion
Economic assistance, Domestic
Social classes - United States
Social mobility
Social status - Psychological aspects
Social values - United States
Middle class
Elite (social sciences)
Family - Economic aspects
Consumption (Economics)
Social perception
Attitude (Psychology)
Wealth
Working class men - United States - Attitudes
Economics - Moral and ethical aspects
Economics – Philosophy
Economics - Psychological aspects
Economics - Sociological aspects
Consumer behavior
Alien labor, Jordanian - Foreign countries
Jordan -- Emigration and immigration.
United States - Foreign economic relations - Jordan
Labor laws and legislation, International
Globalization - Economic aspects
Middle East – Economic integration
Immigrants – Employment
Free trade - Middle East
Free trade – Jordan
Chief executive officers- Salaries, etc.
Executives - Salaries, etc.
Compensation management |
JOURNAL
ARTICLES
| Major
Online Databases: Use SC Links to connect with full text or the catalog |
| Social
Sciences Abstracts (1983 to present, index of
core journals -- most at Smith or online) |
| EconLIT
with full text (1969 to present, index to economics
journals, chapters in books, etc.)
|
| PAIS
International: Public Affairs Information Service (1937
to present, articles, reports, etc.) |
| America:
History & Life (1954 to present, articles,
chapters; allows limit by decade researched) |
| International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951 to present,
articles) |
| Education
Abstracts (1984 to present; journal articles) |
Use the libraries' Journal
Locator to see if a periodical is available in full text online or
shelved by call number on the second floor of Neilson Library. Use the
SC Links buttons from the databases above, or search by journal title.
ADDITIONAL
SOURCES FOR STATISTICAL DATA
Internet
Sites
Center
for Immigration Studies http://www.cis.org/
EconData.net
Data Collections http://www.econdata.net/content_datacollect.html
FEDSTATS:
Principal Statistical Agencies http://www.fedstats.gov/agencies/agencies.html
Institute
for Research on Poverty, by category: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/links/category.htm
KIDS
COUNT Data Center (Annie E. Casey Foundation)
http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/
National
Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/
National
Institute on Aging (NIA) Centers on the Demography of Aging
http://agingcenters.org/
National
Bureau of Economic Research : data sources
http://www.nber.org/cgi-bin/get_bars.pl?bar=data
National
Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (Urban Institute)
http://www2.urban.org/nnip/index.htm
Penn
State Population Research Institute – data sources
http://cairo.pop.psu.edu/allen/LinksByCat.cfm?SubjectID=5
Penn
World Table http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php
Population
Reference Bureau http://www.prb.org/Home.aspx
United
Nations Economic & Social Development website http://www.un.org/esa/
U.S.
Census Bureau – Data Tools http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, http://aspe.hhs.gov/_/index.cfm
Gateway to Data and Statistics: http://hhs-stat.net/
CITING
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
There
are some guides to creating citations to electronic sources right on the
Web.
See
the libraries Style
Manuals & Citation Guides page for links and help with RefWorks.
Citing
Sources: Documentation Guidelines for citing sources and avoiding plagiarism
(Duke University Library) Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style,
MLA, and APA.
MOODLE:
ECO363
Use
your Student ID number to login to Moodle to access course documents and
communication tools: ECO363
HELP!
Use
Ask a Librarian to send
a question at any time by email and many hours through IM/chat reference,
or contact Reference Librarians David
Podboy, dpodboy@email.smith.edu,
or Sika Berger: sberger@email.smith.edu
Please
provide us with feedback
on the library instruction session. Thanks!
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