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Stephen Woods
Title: Social Sciences Librarian Specializing in Data and Government Information


Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sjw31@psu.edu

Social Sciences Library

 

Articles and Databases

Note: [Penn State Libraries] indicates a Libraries' resource available to researchers with a Penn State Access Account:

  • Annual Reviews [Penn State Libraries]
    Annual Reviews is a collection of comprehensive critical reviews of the written by leading scientists in the fields, and are heavily cited and highly ranked in terms of impact factors. Coverage is back to 1996, and is updated yearly.

  • Criminal Justice Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
    Provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) [Penn State Libraries]
    Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. Coverage: The time period covered is from the early 1970s to the present.

  • PsycInfo [Penn State Libraries]
    Primary database for international literature in psychology and related disciplines. It is published by the American Psychological Association and provides coverage from 1840 to the present.

  • Sociological Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
    Seminal index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope. Coverage: 1963 to the present.

 

Additional Databases

  • Social Sciences Citation Index [Penn State Libraries]
    The Index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author or publication. The Index can also be used to find related articles (articles that have at least one reference in common).

  • ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) [Penn State Libraries]
    Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies.

Reference Resources

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