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LIS622, Social Science Information Waldhart Spring 2002 SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION RESOURCES--GENERAL
Included here are social science information resources (primary, secondary and tertiary) that are of interest to a broad range of social scientists and others. Links to kyvl will take you to the kyvl homepage, click
on Catalogs & Databases, then click on Select a Single Catalog
or Database, then click on the desired database.
Annual Reviews
Note: To locate more specific information resources of
this type you might search (either by title or within selected subject)
Ulrich’s
International Periodical Directory (Young Ready Reference, Z/6941/U5)
for annual reviews, advances, current trends, progress, or developments
in the specific subject(s) of interest (e.g., education, sociology, business,
etc.).
Biographical Sources
Biography and Genealogy Master Index. (1980-) Available at Young Ready Reference, Z/5305/U5 Biography Index. (7/1984 - ). Coverage includes English-language periodicals and more than 1,800 books added each year. Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy access Biography Reference Bank. Available through Wilson Web . Full-text of articles from over 100 volumes of biographical reference books. Proxy access Dictionary of American Biography. Available in Young Reference & Information Services (ask at desk). Young Ready Reference, E176 .D563. Note: See also the more specialized biographical information
resources of the specific social sciences areas or disciplines.
Book ReviewsBook Review Digest. (1983 - ). Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy Access and available at Young Reference Rotunda, Z/1219/C96.Book Review Index. (1965-). Available at Young Reference Rotunda, Z/1035/A1/B6. Books in Print with Reviews. Available through FirstSearch. Proxy Access Note: Book reviews are also indexed in many general and
specialized databases.
Conference Papers or Proceedings
World Meetings. social & behavioral sciences, human services
& management.
Papers1st. (1993 - ). OCLC’s index to individual conference papers (2.4 million) presented world-wide. It is a major research aid covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop, and meeting added to the British Library Document Supply Centre’s proceedings collection. Available from FirstSearch's 100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. Also available from KyVL (Proxy access for either) Proceedings. (1993 - ). Citations to 75,000+ conferences
(e.g.,congresses, symposia, conferences, exposition, workshops and meetings
received at The British Library Document Supply Centre’s proceedings collection.
Available from FirstSearch's
100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. Also available from KyVL
(Proxy access
for either)
Current Awareness ResourcesContentsFirst (OCLC). This database contains the table of contents pages and holdings information for 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities and popular culture. http://www.kyvl.orgCurrent Contents. Current Contents Search is available in the Latest Weekly Update and 1999-present from WebSPIRS. Includes the Social and Behavioral Sciences edition. Proxy Access or passwords off-campus Current Contents: Behavioral, Social and Educational Sciences. (1971-) Education Library, Z/7161/C87. ingenta Library Gateway.(formerly UK UnCover). Citations from
over 24,000 journals, many of them back to 1988. You can also consult the
tables of contents for each issue of those journals. Fulltime faculty,
staff, and graduate and professional students on the Lexington Campus and
at the Medical Center can order articles from journals not owned by the
Libraries (up to a limit of $30 per article). Detailed
access information and other UnCover services are available.
Dictionaries and Word Lists
Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Edited by Craig Calhoun. Oxford University Press, 2001. Young Reference, No call number available A New Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Aldine, 1979. Young Reference Stacks, HM/17/M56/1979. Library of Congress Subject Headings. Annual. Young
Ready Reference Stacks.
Digital Books and Journals
‘Electronic Collections Online (ECO). (1995 - ) Database updated daily. Indexing for 3,000 journals subscribed to by the University of Kentucky (more than 350,000 records) covering a broad range of subjects. Includes all of the original content and images of articles; Includes bibliographic information for all journals; Lets you view abstracts and full-text articles from journals to which your library or institution subscribes. Available on FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy Access. Fulltext Electronic Journals Database. We are in the process of building a title-by-title database of the fulltext journals available in electronic form. The primary purpose of the database is to give you access to specific, known titles you are seeking; searches of the tables of content are often available at the aggregator site, and bibliographic searching is available at some aggregator sites ingenta. This journal aggregator is a guide to the table of contents and full-text for journals from a variety of publishers. Select the DIRECT link on the right of the main page to access the search screen. Proxy Access JSTOR. Journal backfile digitizing and storage project with access to available backfiles through this web link. Searchable journal backfile collection. Fulltext. Proxy access netLibrary. Full-text electronic books. Set up an individual account (Note: must be on-campus to set up an account) for on- and off-campus access. Links to individual books in netLibrary available through InfoKat Project Muse. from Johns Hopkins University Press, provides
access to the fulltext of academic press scholarly journals in the humanities,
social sciences, and mathematics. You may either read individual journals
or conduct searches across journals. The number of issues available electronically
varies. Accessible from campus machines or off-campus for UK faculty, students
and staff by following these proxy
server access instructions. http://muse.jhu.edu/muse.html
Dissertations
Dissertation Abstracts. (1861- ). Lists dissertations
from 500 schools since 1861. Available from FirstSearch's
100-096-895 account. Proxy
Access. (Dissertations unavailable via Interlibrary Loan may be purchased
from UMI.)
Encyclopedias
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 17 volumes, David L. Sills, editor, 1968, Young Reference Stacks, H/40/A2/I5. The Social Science Encyclopedia. 2nd edition, 1996. Young
Reference Stacks, H/41/S63/1996.
Government Information Resources
Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909. Young Ready Reference, Z1223 .A11 1962 CIS Index. (1970 - ) Indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative Histories. Available on Congressional Universe. Help SheetProxy Access Congressional Masterfile. (1789-1970) Not currently being
updated.
Congressional Universe--Lexis/Nexis. Congressional indexes since 1789 and selected fulltext, (1980-). http://www.uky.edu/Subject/us-governmentall.html - conref Congress.org. information includes current photograph, room, phone, and fax numbers, key staff, committee assignments, and district office addresses for each member. http://www.congress.org/ Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, and other documents. Full text with historical notes, from the U.S. House of Representatives Educational Resources. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/usconst.htm Federal Government Agencies Directory. LSU Libraries directory of federal agencies, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html GovBot. Database of government web sites. http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/ciirdemo/Govbot/ GovSpot. Internet site providing linked access to wide variety of local, state, federal and international government information resources on the Internet http://www.govspot.com/. GPO Access. service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to information products produced by the Federal Government including access to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/index.html Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. (1895-) Young Reference Rotunda GP 3.8/. Also available from 1976 to date via FirstSearch's 100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. Available on CD-ROM in Young Reference & Information Services; depository items are listed in the libraries' online catalog. Since 1994, also available via the web from the Government Printing Office NTIS. National Technical Information Service guide to U.S. government-sponsored research and development projects. NTIS Catalog (1990 - ) Available through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (1964 - ); off-campus access via the proxy server. NTIS Electronic Catalog. Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States.
Thomas. Legislative Information on the Internet. Homepage of the U.S. Congress, from Library of Congress. Contains congressional bill information and Congressional Record text and index, for 103rd and 104th Congresses. Also, pointers to e-mail your Representative or Senator. http://thomas.loc.gov/ U. S. Census Bureau. Homepage of the U. S. Census Bureau providing access to 2000 census data, http://www.census.gov/ U. S. Department of Justice. http://www.usdoj.gov/ U. S. House of Representatives. http://www.carr.org/election/house_of_rep.htm U. S. Patent and Trademark Office. http://www.uspto.gov/ U. S. Senate. http://www.senate.gov/ U. S. Supreme Court. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/ United States Government Manual. Annual. Available from GPO Access at http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara001.html. Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
Yahoo!—Government. http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/
Guides to Information Resources
Booklist (Including Reference Books Bulletin). (1996-). American Library Association. Young Periodicals, Z/1035/A1/B65. Gale Directory of Databases. 2 volumes (2001). Available at Young Ready Reference, Z/699.22/G350. Social Science Reference Sources: A practical guide. Tze-chung Li. New York, Greenwood Press, 1990. Young Ready Reference, Z/7161/A1/L5/1990. The Social Sciences: A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources. 2nd edition, Edited by Nancy L. Herron and Cynthia Faries. Englewood, Colorado, Libraries Unlimited, 1996. Young Ready Reference Z/7161/.S648/1996. Walford’s Guide to Reference Material Volume 2, Social and Historical Sciences, etc., 7th edition, 1996. Young Ready Reference, Z/1035.1/W33/1996/v. 2. (the 8th edition, 2001, has been received but has not yet been given a call number). Note: See also guides to information resources that are
listed with more specialized social sciences subjects.
Indexes, Abstracts, Online Databases
Article1st. (1990 - ). Articles found in the table of contents of 12,500+ journals covering science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Available from FirstSearch's 100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. Also available from KyVL (Proxy access for either). InfoTrac. Citations & Selected Fulltext Periodical Articles available through this web Connection. Includes Expanded Academic ASAP & Business and Company ASAP.Expanded Academic ASAP Help Sheet Proxy access Periodical Abstracts. (1987-) Provides access to 3.3 million records from 2,040 periodical titles published since 1987. Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy Access. Periodical Contents Index (PCI). Index to the contents
of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from
their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed. PCI Web currently
indexes nearly nine and a half million articles in 2,388 journals (as of
August, 1999). Every year, it adds records for more than one million more
articles. It will grow to encompass 3,500 journals and fifteen million
individual articles. From Chadwyck-Healey. Accessible from campus computers
and off-campus via the proxy
server.
Poole's Plus. Major indices to 19th century American and British periodicals, newspapers, books, and government documents. Proxy access. PopLine. Citations with abstracts to worldwide literature in the fields of population, family planning, and related health issues. Available from the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. No access restrictions. http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/index.stm Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection. (1990-) Available through EBSCOhost. Nearly 470 fulltext journals. Date of coverage varies from title to title. Proxy Access Public Adminstration Abstracts. (1996-). Sage Publication available in Academic Search Premier in EBSCOhost Web. (To print EBSCOhost "Full Text Image" articles, you will need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader and follow these instructions.) Use the Journal Search button at top of page to search for Sage Public Administration Abstracts. Proxy Access Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International. Citations to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories. Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. (Proxy access). Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. (1900-) Young Reference Rotunda A/13/R47-R48. Readers' Guide Abstracts. (1983 - ) Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy Access SIRS Researcher. (2/1983 - ) Contains records for articles selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Available from FirstSearch's100-096-895 account. Proxy access. Social Sciences Index. (1988 - ) Index to social sciences information in domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications since 1974. 1988 to date is available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy access. Social Sciences Citation Index. (1984 - ). Available through Web of Science. Restricted to five simultaneous users. Proxy Access Journal Lists UnionLists of Periodicals Database (OCLC). Holdings for journal issues among OCLC member libraries. Available from FirstSearch's 100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. Also available from KyVL (Proxy access for either). Web of Science. (1984 - ) Science Citation Index Expanded, Art & Humanities Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index are available on Web of Science; restricted to five simultaneous users. Proxy Access Journal Lists Access is for a maximum of five (5) simultaneous users. WorldCat. Records and holding information of 40 million
plus items cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Available from FirstSearch's
100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. (Proxy
access) [Quick Help Guides: Word;
PDF].
Internet Web Sites
Infomine. Is a unique Web resource featuring well organized
access to important university level research and educational tools on
the Internet. A virtual library, INFOMINE is notable for its collection
of annotated and indexed links.
NetFirst. Bibliographic citations including abstracts, subject headings, and classification codes to Internet accessible resources including World Wide Web pages and Listservs. NetFirst records are searchable through WorldCat. Available from FirstSearch's 100-205-545 and 100-205-006 accounts. Also available from KyVL (Proxy access for either). Research Resources for the Social Sciences. Selected internet resources in the social sciences. http://www.socsciresearch.com/ Scout Report Archives. The Scout Report Archives represent a searchable and browseable collection of carefully selected and cataloged Internet sites, mailing lists and other online resources in the social sciences. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/archives/ SearchPower.com. Provides direct links to over 2,000 of the Internet’s most popular and specialty search engines. http://www.searchpower.com Social Science Information Gateway. The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) is a freely available Internet service which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for students, academics, researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the United Kingdom Resource Discovery Network. http://www.sosig.ac.uk/ UK WWW Resources. Access to subject-related information
resources on the Internet that is maintained by the University Libraries.
Newspapers
Local History Index, Lexington, Ky., 1787-1987. Microfilm copy of Lexington Public Library's card-based index to stories from the local newspapers. At the Young Library Periodical desk on Microfilm B/89-5. You may also access an online version of the index at the Lexington Public Library Web Site. Newspaper Abstracts. (1989 - ). Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy Access. Newspaper Source. Selected full-text articles from 159 U.S. and international newspapers. Available through EBSCOhost Web. Proxy Access New York Times Index. (Young Reference Rotunda AI21 .N45.) The
main index begins coverage in 1913, but we also have the prior series for
1851-1912. There is also an "in-house" index for 1851-58, 1860, 1863-June
1905 on microfilm S/90-15. 1863-1905 indexing available via Poole's
Plus. See also Personal name index to "The New York times index"
(Young Reference Rotunda Z5301 .F28) -- is an index to the index! And the
New
York times obituaries index (Young Reference Rotunda CT213 .N47).
Public Opinion Polls
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. (In Academic
universe go to "Reference," search "Polls and surveys")
Statistical Information
FactSearch. Guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents. Available from FirstSearch's 100-096-895 account. Proxy access FedStats. Access to statistical information produced by more than 70 federal agencies. http://www.fedstats.gov/ County and City Data Books. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/ Guide to State Statistical Abstracts. (1999-). http://www.census.gov/statab/www.stateabs.html. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
The University of Kentucky subscribes to ICPSR, making a large number of data sets available to UK faculty, students and staff. The catalog of available files can be viewed in the Young Reference & Information Services, in the Social Sciences Teaching and Research Statistics (SSTARS) Center, located in room 103 of McVey Hall, or on the ICPSR Home Page. If we have already acquired a given data set, you will find it on this list. If you need to request data not yet downloaded to a campus machine, contact Lorinda Wang in the SSTARS Center. ICPSR now provides direct access to the ICPSR data holdings for all students, faculty, and staff at the University of Kentucky. With ICPSR Direct, anyone using a campus computer or the proxy server may download data from ICPSR without going through a local campus representative. When you have identified a data set you wish to download, click on downloads to access the authorized download page. You can still work with SSTARS for access to data, ordering of code books, or help with the manipulation of the data sets, as before. STAT-USA. Access to Department of Commerce trade business, trade, and economic resources. Available through this weblink. Proxy Access. The service includes the National Trade Data Bank. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Annual. Available back to 1878, Young Government Documents stacks C 3.134: latest year in Young Ready Reference or http://www.census.gov/prod/www.statistical-abstract-us.html. Statistical Reference Indexes: A Selective Guide to American Statistical Publications from Sources other than U.S. Government. (1980-). Young Ready Reference Stacks, Z/7554/U5/S790. Statistical Resources on the Web. http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html Statistical Universe. Comprehensive indexing and abstracts
to statistical information published by the U.S. federal and state governments,
international intergovernmental organizations, and American private organizations.
Available through Academic
Universe. Proxy
Access
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