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Fall 2009 -
Professor Strandh
Questions? Please contact Sara Swanson (704.894.2157)
Finding Books
Use library catalogs to find books, videos, government documents, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Davidson College Library Catalog contains information about materials owned by Davidson. WorldCat lists materials held in libraries around the world. If Davidson does not have a copy of what you need, use Interlibrary Loan to request it.
When searching for books and other materials in a catalog, try searching by keyword, author, or title. You may also search by Library of Congress subject headings. To locate appropriate subject headings, do a keyword search and then browse records. Helpful subject headings include:
- Unemployment
- Economics - Sociological aspects
- Employment (Economic theory)
- Structural unemployment
- Unemployed
- Underemployment
- Unemployment and crime
- Unemployment – Political aspects
- Unemployment – Psychological aspects
- Unemployment – Regional disparities
- Unemployment – Social aspects
- Unemployment – Social aspects – United States
For a list of helpful reference materials held by the Davidson College Library, click here.
Finding Journals and Articles
To find journals owned by the library, go to the Library Catalog, do a subject keyword search for your topic and limit your search by format to newspapers and periodicals. Clicking on the Periodicals link in the red bar on the library catalog search page will also allow you to browse journals by subject category.
Use the Library’s online indexes and databases to find articles from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. Depending on your research interest, you may wish to search in general databases or discipline-specific ones. Here are some suggested databases:
Starting Points
- Academic Search Premier
(1975 to present) Indexes popular and scholarly articles in a broad range of subject areas; also includes citations to book reviews and citations to articles several national newspapers.
- OmniFile Full Text Mega
(1982 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 scholarly and popular periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; also includes the full text of selected articles from over 1,650 of these periodicals.
Sociology Databases
- Social Services Abstracts
(1980 to present) Covers the fields of social work and human services, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes citations and abstracts for articles in over 1,400 periodicals; also indexes dissertations and book reviews.
- Sociological Abstracts
(1963 to present) Provides indexing and abstracting for articles in 1,500 journals and serial publications in the field of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Also provides coverage of reviews, monographs, and conference reports in these areas.
- Web of Knowledge and Social Sciences Citation Index
(c. 1900 to present) A multidisciplinary resource that provides citations to articles in over 10,000 journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) provides citation searching for articles in the social sciences from 1956-present. To view the SSCI, enter Web of Knowledge and go to Web of Science. In the current limits area, limit only to SSCI.
Economics Databases
- EconLIT
(1969 to present ) Provides bibliographic citations and selected abstracts to journal articles from 326 journals; also indexes doctoral dissertations, books, and conference proceedings. Areas covered include economic theory and history, monetary theory and financial institutions, labor economics, and international, regional, and urban economics.
Other Databases
- Annual Reviews
(1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes the Annual Review of Sociology.
- Contemporary Women's Issues
(1992 to present) Provides full text articles from over 130 periodicals, as well as texts of newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides on a whide range of gender-related issues.
- JSTOR
A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
- LexisNexis Academic
(c. 1980 to present) Provides the full text of articles from local, national, and international newspapers, magazines, and trade journals as well as newswires, business information, patents, legal documents, and transcripts of radio and television broadcasts.
- Project Muse
(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
- Social Sciences Abstracts Full Text & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of anthropology, communication, corrections, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and related subjects. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
(Volumes for the years 1995 to present) Provides the full text of this important title, which includes economic and social statistics on the United States. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States is particularly useful as a guide to statistical data generated and published by U.S. Government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Use the index to locate relevant data in each volume.
Finding the Full-Text Copy of an Article
If you’ve found a citation in an online index or database:
Many of our indexes and databases contain full-text copies of the articles they index. Look first for a link to the full-text (either in HTML or PDF).
If the database does not contain a link to the full-text, look for the gray Search for Article button in the online citation. This button will lead you to the Davidson Library Catalog, which will display the holdings for the journal. Using your citation information, check to see if the library owns the appropriate journal and volume number. If it does not, you can request it from Interlibrary Loan.
If you found the citation somewhere else:
Go to the Davidson Library Catalog. Look for the red periodicals button on the right side of the page. Click on that button and enter the first few words of the journal title in the search box. Then, do a Title beginning with search. The library’s holdings for the journal will appear on the page. Using your citation information, check to see if the library owns (in print or electronic form) the volume you need. If the library does not own it, you can request the article from Interlibrary Loan.
Reference Resources
To find reference resources held in the Davidson College Library, enter the appropriate keywords in the library catalog and limit Material Type to Reference Resources. You may also try the Reference Universe database to see which reference works contain information on your topic.
Sociology
- Credo Reference: Social Sciences Resources
Contains the full text of a dozen reference books, including The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology and Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences.
- Dictionary of the Social Sciences. Ed. Craig Calhoun. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.
Reference R 300.3 D554
- Encyclopedia of Sociology. Ed. Edgar F. Borgatta. 2nd ed. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference 2000.
Reference R 301.03 E561 2000
- International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. Eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski. London: Routledge, 2006.
Reference R 306.3 I61
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. David L. Sills. 2nd ed. 17 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Economics
- Credo Reference: Business & Economics Resources
Contains the full text of over twenty reference works covering a variety of business and economics topics. Includes Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms, Collins Dictionary of Economics, The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance, and more.
- Encyclopedia of the Global Economy: A Guide for Students and Researchers. David E. O’Connor. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
Reference R 330.03 O18e
- Gale Virtual Reference Library: Economics Resources
Contains the fully-searchable text of the Datapedia of the United States: American History in Numbers, Encyclopedia of American Industries, Encyclopedia of World Poverty, and other electronic, Economics-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection.
- Guide to Economic Indicators. Normal Frumkin. 4th ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
- Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data. Ed. Eva E. Jacobs. 9th ed. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press, 2006.
- International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology. Eds. Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski. London: Routledge, 2006.
Reference R 306.3 I61
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Ed. Joel Mokyr. 5 vols. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Reference R 330.3 O98
Social, Cultural, and Historical Information
- The African American Almanac. Ed. Brigham Narins. 10th ed. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008.
- The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice. Mark S. Davis. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.
Reference R 364 D263c
- Countries and their Cultures. Eds. Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2001.
Reference R 306 C855
- The Encyclopedia of Career Change and Work Issues. Ed. Lawrence K. Jones. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1992.
Reference R 650.1 E56
- Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Eds. Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. Ed. Joshua Dressler. 2nd ed. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2002.
Reference R 364.1 E56
- Encyclopedia of Ethics. Eds. Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker. 2nd ed. 3 vols. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Reference R 170.3 E56 2001
- Encyclopedia of European Social History: From 1350 to 2000. Ed. Peter N. Stearns. 6 vols. New York: Scribner, 2001.
Reference R 306.094 E56
- Encyclopedia of Homelessness. Ed. David Levinson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004.
Reference R 362.5 E561
- Encyclopedia of Mental Health. Ed. Howard S. Friedman. 3 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.
Reference R 616.89 E56
- Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Ed. John Hartwell Moore. 3 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference 2008.
- Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender: Culture, Society, History. Ed. Fedwa Malti-Douglas. 4 vols. Detroit: Macmillan Reference, 2007.
- Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender. Ed. Judith Worell. 2 vols. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2001.
Reference R 305.4 E56
- Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Eds. John Merriman and Jay Winters. 4 vols. Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006.
- International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family. Ed. James J. Ponzetti, Jr. 2nd ed. 4 vols. Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2003.
- Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge. Eds. Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. 4 vols. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Reference R 305.4 R869
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations. Ed. Timothy L. Gall. 11th ed. 6 vols. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004.
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