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Demography
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Subject Specific Databases
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POPLINE (http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html)
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Billed as "the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE provides citations with abstracts for over 275,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field." Maintained by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development.
- Access: http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html (http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html)
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Sociological Abstracts [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=socioabs&adv=1) VPN
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Sociological Abstracts Database is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
- Coverage: 1963-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=socioabs&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=socioabs&adv=1) VPN
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PAIS International Database [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais&adv=1) VPN
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Indexes all types of materials in the area of public affairs. Topics include agriculture, banking, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, law, legislation, political science, social sciences, and statistics.
- Coverage: 1972-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais&adv=1) VPN
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PAIS International Database [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais&adv=1) VPN
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Indexes all types of materials in the area of public affairs. Topics include agriculture, banking, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, law, legislation, political science, social sciences, and statistics.
- Coverage: 1972-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=pais&adv=1) VPN
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=polisci&adv=1) VPN
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Covers international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration policy
- Coverage: 1975-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=polisci&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=polisci&adv=1) VPN
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United States Bureau of the Census (http://www.census.gov/)
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This U.S. Census Bureau site is the entry point to the 2000 Census data as well as more current American Community survey data, economic statistics, and geographic and map products. It includes links to the "American FactFinder and to "Quick Facts" summary profiles for places, counties, and states.
- Coverage: Links to the Decennial Supplementary Surveys, the 1990 census, and selected historical data from 1790-1990.
- Access: http://www.census.gov/ (http://www.census.gov/)
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Human Population & Natural Resource Management [via CSA Illumina] (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=humanpop-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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Explores human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals and material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature.
- Coverage: 1995-present
- Access: http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=humanpop-set-c&adv=1 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&db=humanpop-set-c&adv=1) VPN
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Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/) VPN
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The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion.
Producer: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Access: Search Roper's Remote iPoll Databank, Search Roper's Remote Online Catalog of Studies
The data collections provided by the IGA Library & Data Archive are licensed for campus access. In some cases, access is restricted to UC Davis faculty, staff, and students with valid university computing accounts (UC Davis user id / Kerberos password). In other cases, access is restricted to the campus network. Data are made available with the understanding that they are to be used for not-for-profit academic research only and are not to be copied or otherwise made available to any third party. All data used for research should be given an appropriate citation in any resulting published work.
- Access: http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/) VPN
General Databases
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General Databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
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This is a list of the best general databases in the Humanities and Social Sciences. It includes abstracting and indexing services, FullText Databases and Electronic Journal Libraries which are of interest to the variety of fields in the the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35 (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/?heading=35)
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Social Science Citation Index [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) VPN
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The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) is a multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It is particularly suited to trace citations to authors and articles across publications.
It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
- Coverage: 1956-present
- Access: http://isiknowledge.com/wos (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) VPN
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Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources
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Internet Resources in Demography [ via UC Davis Library ] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-internet.php)
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This page gathers links to important resources available on the Internet for the study of Demography.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-internet.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-internet.php)
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Demography Print Resources Guide [via UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-print.php)
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List of important print resources for researching demography in Shields Library.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-print.php (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-print.php)
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Polls and Surveys Subject Guide [UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/index.php?heading=140)
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The Polls and Surveys Subject Guide provides links to databases indexing public opinion polls.
- Access: http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/index.php?heading=140 (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/index.php?heading=140)
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
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International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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This 26 volume encyclopedia for the social and behavioral sciences contains lengthy articles on a wide array of social and behavioral science topics including, economics, sociology, & psychology. It contains biographical information, bibliographies, and a comprehensive subject index. It is available in print.
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- Location: Shields Library, Hum/SS Ref. H41 I58 2001
- Access: Library Use Only
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Handbooks & Tables
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American Factfinder (http://factfinder.census.gov/)
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American Factfinder is the Census Bureau's data access point. It provides tools to look up, view and deliver data, reports, tables, maps and fact sheets on United States population, economy and industry statistics. Large and small scale geographies, eg., states, counties, places, census tracts and blocks can be searched. Data sets are from the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Annual Population Estimates, Economic Census, and annual economic surveys. All data sets and statistics may be freely downloaded or viewed online.
- Coverage: Data sets are current and include 2000 Census and some 1990 Census data and American Community Survey data.
- Location: Contact Government Information Specialists: Marcia Meister, mlmeister@ucdavis.edu or Juri Stratford, jtstratford@ucdavis.edu, in Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services for assistance with census data.
- Access: http://factfinder.census.gov/ (http://factfinder.census.gov/)
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STAT-USA/Internet (http://stat-usa.gov)
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U.S. Department of Commerce site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative economic, trade, and marketing information from the Federal government. STAT-USA provides current statistics, data, and recent economic indicators as well as full-text guides to doing business in foreign countries.
- Location: STAT-USA access is by password only. Inquire at Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services, or contact Marcia Meister, mlmeister@ucdavis.edu, or Juri Stratford, jtstratford@ucdavis.edu
- Access: http://stat-usa.gov (http://stat-usa.gov)
Library Use Only - More Information:
- For more information on STAT-USA, see site for limited amount of free information; for full access see U.S. Government Information Librarian, Marcia Meister, mlmeister@ucdavis.edu http://www.stat-usa.gov/
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ICPSR Social Science Data Holdings (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/search-advanced.html) VPN
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR acquires, preserves, and distributes original research data. This site links to training and curricular material, and a database which provides access to publications based on ICPSR data holdings (see More Info.)
- Access: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/search-advanced.html (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/access/search-advanced.html) VPN
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NHGIS National Historical Geographic Information System (http://www.nhgis.org/) NEW
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The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) is a historical GIS project to create and freely disseminate a database incorporating all available aggregate census information for the United States between 1790 and 2000. The project has created one of the largest collections in the world of statistical census information, much of which was not previously available to the research community because of legacy data formats and differences between metadata formats. In addition, NHGIS has created cartographic boundary files compatible with every census, and over 50 million lines of metadata describing the collection. The statistical and geographic data are disseminated free of charge through a sophisticated online data access system.
- Access: http://www.nhgis.org/ (http://www.nhgis.org/)
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) (http://www.ipums.org/) NEW
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The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series consists of microdata samples from United States (IPUMS-USA) and international (IPUMS-International) census records. The records are converted into a consistent format and made available to researchers through a web-based data dissemination system.
- Access: http://www.ipums.org/ (http://www.ipums.org/)
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Immigration Statistics - Data and Statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/data)
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Statistical data from the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, profiles on legal permanent residents, and on naturalized citizens, mapping information available in pdf as well as downloadable data formats. Statistics include numbers of immigratants, status, country of origin, etc. Data available from 2004, with archived information from the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics back to 1996.
- Access: http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/data (http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/data)
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Population Reference Bureau PBR (http://www.prb.org/)
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The Population Reference Bureau website provides global population handbooks, serials, and reference publications, as well as data analysis tools for understanding and communicating population and health trends.
- Coverage: Contemporary
- Access: http://www.prb.org/ (http://www.prb.org/)
