• Sociological Abstracts [via CSA Illumina] This interface will be retired August 1, 2012 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=socioabs&adv=1)
  

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.

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

• PsycINFO Lib Guide [ProQuest] (http://proquest.libguides.com/psycinfo)
  
• PsycINFO [via CSA Illumina] This interface will be retired August 1, 2012 (http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=davis&access=davis856&cat=psycinfo&adv=1)
  

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/ssa-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/llba-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  

• More information on the scope and content of LGBT Life (http://www.ebscohost.com/thisTopic.php?marketID=1&topicID=76)
  

• Communication Abstracts
  HUM & SOC SCI REF P87 C58
  Print edition of Communication Abstracts.
  

• Access via previous software version OvidSP (http://ovidsp.ovid.com/ovidweb.cgi?T=JS&PAGE=main&D=econ) VPN
  

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a world wide collaborative of leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. It is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by reviewing and publishing submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world. The Networks encourage readers to communicate directly with other subscribers concerning their own and other's research. The SSRN eLibrary contains information about working and accepted papers in the fields of financial economics, accounting research, legal scholarship, economic research and management research. The Economics Research Network publishes quality research in economics currently covering 44 subject areas.

• Fact Sheet (http://md1.csa.com/factsheets/eric-set-c.php)
  
• Help (http://www.csa.com/help/index.html)
  
• Visit the ERIC Web site from the U.S. Dept. of Education. (http://www.eric.ed.gov)
  ERIC is also available for to the General public for free. Search the ERIC database and access free full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-present).
  

SPORTDiscus is the world's leading database in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine. SportDiscus has over 1.7 million qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites that focus on different areas involving sport, including: sport sciences, engineering, psychology, administration, sociology, history, coaching, training, physical education, physical fitness, health and recreation.

As of July 2012+: Unlimited users access.

• PubMed Tutorial & more (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html)
  
• Alerts/Automatic Updating Service (Saving & Managing Searches) (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK53592/)
  
• NLM Searching PubMed with Mesh tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/meshtri.pdf)PDF
  
• NLM PubMed Basics tri-fold handout (http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/pmtri.pdf)PDF
  
• PubMed Training Manual [NLM] (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/manuals/pm_workbook.pdf)PDF
  Extensive 148-page training manual from day-long PubMed training class. Updated April 2011.
  
• Tutorials, Guides & Instructional Resources (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/resources/guides/instguides.php#pubmed)
  Lots of information from UCDavis' Health Science Libraries
  
• For help from a Shields BioAg librarian send email to: bioagquestions@lib.ucdavis.edu
  
• Human medicine, veterinary medicine, and health-related questions (http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/hsl/)
  Carlson Health Sciences Library (530)752-7042, hslref@lib.ucdavis.edu / Blaisdell Medical Library (916)734-3529, mclref@lib.ucdavis.edu
  

• See also supplementary database Regional Business News. (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=bwh)
  
• Ebsco includes a special Business Searching Interface. (http://web.ebscohost.com/bsi/search?vid=1&hid=103&sid=eaa1c2091-ea4e-4b0b-bfa9-3a90112c30f9%40sessionmgr103)
  

• About J Stor (http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/)
  Visit this page to learn about the holdings of JSTOR journals. See Harvest Library Catalog for UC Davis access to recent and current materials.
  

• Mirror site. (http://muse.uq.edu.au)
  

• Highwire Search and Retrieve. (http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/accessreport)
  Browse the titles of UC Davis journal subscriptions available.
  

Search interface to the fulltext of journals published by Sage, and subscribed to by the University Library, UC Davis. Contains over 400 titles. Particularly strong in the social sciences, (including cultural studies and management) material sciences, and health sciences. Database can be subdivided by subject "collection". Coverage varies by title.

• Help page (http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/wasm.help.html)
  
• See also the related discussion forum, "The Second Wave" and Beyond (http://scholar.alexanderstreet.com/display/WASM)
  

The Berg Fashion Library is an online portal with comprehensive coverage of dress and fashion around the world. It provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated image, book and journal content. Berg Fashion Library includes the full text of the 10 volume Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and other Berg fashion monographs, images from the Victoria & Albert Museum fashion collection, article links to the journals Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and Textile. Note: access is for 1 simultaneous user; if the site is busy, please try it again.

• The table of contents and abstracts for the articles in this work are available online. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/0080430767)
  

• Encyclopedia of American Studies, 4 volume print version, Groiler
  Humanities and Social Sciences Reference E169.1 E625 2001
  

• Database of publications based on ICPSR data holdings. (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/citations/index.jsp)
  
• Social Science Data Service (http://www.ssds.ucdavis.edu/)
  More information on ICPSR and other social science data are available from the SSDS.
  
• The Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/MDRC/)
  provides data resources that can be used in the analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States.
  

• See also American Factfinder. (http://factfinder2.census.gov/)
  

NOTE: Stat-USA.gov was discontinued by the U.S. Department of commerce as of September 30, 2010. Much of the U.S. and international economic and trade data formerly in Stat-USA can be found in the agency .gov sites.

USATradeonline will continue.

• Print edition of Harris Poll is located in Shields Library Humanities/Social Sciences Reference HN90.P8 H31 (1990-present)
  

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.

• Previous years from INS archived at DHS archived publications site. (http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/publications/archive.shtm)
  

The General Social Survey contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have remain unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings. It has tracked the opinions of Americans over the last four decades. The 1972-2006 GSS has 5,084 variables, time-trends for 1,643 variables, and 269 trends having 20+ data points. The GSS is part of the National Data Program for the Sciences at the University of Chicago.

• GSS user guide (PDF file) (http://publicdata.norc.org:41000/gssbeta/Users_Guide/GSS_NESSTAR_Guide.pdf)PDF
  

The Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), based in Montreal, is an independent research and media group which publishes news articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of globalization and anti-globalization issues, focussing on social, economic, strategic and environmental processes by writers, scholars, journalists and activists. Their data bank includes a classification by author, and by country for articles published after 2004. Previously published material is also searchable by keyword. Also of interest is an archive of audio-video material. Contains English and French material, as well as Spanish and Portuguese translations.

• CRG also produces the French Language site, Mondialisation. (http://www.mondialisation.ca/)
  

Learn how to choose and use both online subject indexes and Web resources as well as traditional print indexes and references for both quantitative and qualitative work in the social sciences and the humanities.

Mon Apr 18 11:00am-12:00pm Library Instruction Lab