Demography

Reference Resources | Core Databases | Additional Databases | Current Periodicals

Reference Resources

Demography : Analysis and Synthesis

Encyclopedia of Population
Also available online via the Gale Virtual Reference Library to researchers with a Penn State Access Account.

Encyclopedia of Global Population and Demographics

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Available to researchers with a Penn State Access Account.

Core databases

Annual Reviews
See the series Public Health and Sociology.
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.

Sociological Abstracts
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.

PsychInfo
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.

Additional Databases

Social Sciences Citation Index
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)
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.

Sociometrics Social Science Electronic Data Library (SSEDL)
Consists of eight topically focused data archives. Germane to age research is the Data Archive of Social Research on Aging (DASRA), assembled with the support of a grant from the National Institute on Aging. DASRA contains three large national surveys that deal with nearly all components of the aging process.

Current Periodicals

American Sociological Review
Publishes original works of interest to the sociology discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations. Published by the American Sociological Association

Demography
Published by the Population Association of America, Demography is a multidisciplinary journal that is international in scope. Disciplines include the social sciences, public health, statistics, geography, history, and business.

Journal of Rural Studies
Publishes research articles relating to such rural issues as society, demography, housing, employment, transport, services, land-use, recreation, agriculture and conservation. The focus is on those areas encompassing extensive land-use, with small-scale and diffuse settlement patterns and communities linked into the surrounding landscape and milieux. Particular emphasis will be given to aspects of planning policy and management. The journal is international and interdisciplinary in scope and content.

Sociological Methodology
Published on behalf of the American Sociological Association, this annual journal is "a compendium of new and sometimes controversial advances in social science methodology".