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Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences — Social Sciences
Demography

Librarian Subject Specialist

Juri Stratford
jtstratford@ucdavis.edu — (530) 752‑9783 — Humanities, Social Sciences, and Government Information Services (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/)

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Subject Specific Databases

Human Population & Natural Resource Management [via CSA Illumina] [Database cancelled]
Database cancelled.
Related:
  • Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/humanpop-set-c.php)
  • Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
United States Bureau of the Census (http://www.census.gov/)
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.
Related:
POPLINE (http://www.popline.org/)
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 POPLINE provides citations with abstracts for over 275,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field."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.
Date: 1970-present
Sociological Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/socabs/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
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
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PAIS International Database [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/pais?accountid=14505) [Restricted] VPN
Indexes all types of materials in the area of public affairs and public policy - journal articles, books and book chapters, reports, government documents. Topics include agriculture, banking, demographics, education, environment, finance, government, health, law, legislation, political science, social sciences, and statistics. Note that PAIS was formerly a CSA database and transitioned to a new interface via Proquest in August, 2012.
Coverage: 1972-present
Related:
  • New Proquest Platform -- User Guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
    Generic 12-page guide explaining the major ProQuest changes with the new August 2012 interface.
  • PAIS International [via CSA] (http://search.proquest.com/pais/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
    PAIS transitioned to the new Proquest interface during the first week in August, 2012.
  • Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/pais-set-c.php)
  • Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts [via Proquest] (http://search.proquest.com/wpsa/advanced) [Restricted] VPN
Covers international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration policy
Coverage: 1975-present
Related:
  • New Proquest platform user guide (http://www.proquest.com/assets/downloads/products/userguide_np.pdf)PDF
    Generic 12-page guide explaining the major ProQuest changes with the new August 2012 interface.
  • Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/polsci-set-c.php)
  • Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/) [Restricted] VPN

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.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete [via EBSCO] (http://uclibs.org/PID/126936) [Restricted] VPN
The multi-disciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) provides full-text access to more than 5,500 periodicals, including over 4,600 peer-reviewed journals, and indexing and abstracts for an additional 9,500 journals and 10,000 publications, including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information in many areas of academic study including, but not limited to: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology and many other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format.
Coverage: 1887-present
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Social Science Citation Index [via Web of Knowledge] (http://isiknowledge.com/wos) [Restricted] VPN

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
Related:
  • Online tutorial (http://www.isinet.com/tutorials/webofscience5/)
    For help in using the Web of Knowledge Citation indexes.

Guides to Electronic, Print, and Other Resources

Internet Resources in Demography [ via UC Davis Library ] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-internet.php)
This page gathers links to important resources available on the Internet for the study of Demography.
Demography Print Resources Guide [via UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hss/demography/demography-print.php)
List of important print resources for researching demography in Shields Library.
Polls and Surveys Subject Guide [UC Davis] (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/research/subjects/index.php?heading=140)
The Polls and Surveys Subject Guide provides links to databases indexing public opinion polls.

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
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.
Date: 2001
Location: Shields Library, Hum/SS Ref. H41 I58 2001
Related:

Handbooks & Tables

Population Reference Bureau PBR (http://www.prb.org/)
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
ICPSR Social Science Data Holdings (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp) [Restricted] VPN
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.)
Related:
Immigration Statistics - Data and Statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/data)
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.
Related:
American Factfinder (http://factfinder2.census.gov/)
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.
Related:
  • Tools and Reference Shelf (http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_pageId=gn8_refshelf&_submenuId=tools_2)
    links to user guides, Census publications, Map resources, and other statistics resources.
  • 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.
  • Social Explorer (http://www.socialexplorer.com/)
    Social Explorer reports include a wide variety of historical and modern data from the U.S. Census, the American Community Survey, the American Religious Bodies (ASARB), and InfoGroup for latest religion data (2009). This tool allows users to create reports and download data in convenient formats quickly and easily. Use interactive maps or view and create reports or download Census and other data. Social Explorer provides a more user-friendly interface for working with Census demographic data.
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) (http://www.ipums.org/)
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.
NHGIS National Historical Geographic Information System (http://www.nhgis.org/)
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.