Library News for Political Science

New Resources from the Library

·         PressDisplay:  Full-color, full-page collection of today's newspapers from around the world; a rolling file of the most current 60 days for most papers. 3 concurrent users; please sign out when finished.

·         Roper Center: public opinion polling data 1935 – present; the Weidenbaum Center has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.

·         Bibliography of British and Irish History:  an authoritative guide to what has been written about British and Irish history from the Roman period to the present day.

 

 

New ebooks, added to the catalog, but not to the Databases pages in the website, to Find it!, or announced on What’s New (usually!); subject librarians will or have added them to their Research Guides, as appropriate:

 

·         The group effect : social cohesion and health outcomes

·         Why cooperate?: the incentive to supply global public goods

·         Citizenship : a very short introduction

·         Behind the development banks : Washington politics, world poverty, and the wealth of nations

Roper Center Polling Data!

New Resource: Roper Center Polling Data

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. The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.

• This membership includes on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using RoperExpress. Search the catalog of data set holdings.
• Membership also offers access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. (free registration required)

These combined services permit you to locate questions and topline results in iPOLL and then download the documentation and datafiles for the studies. Please see these user responsibilities.

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. The Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy has subscribed to a one-year membership (through November 14, 2010) for all of Washington University.

• This membership includes on demand access to the full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses on archived surveys using RoperExpress. Search the catalog of data set holdings.
• Membership also offers access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. (free registration required)

These combined services permit you to locate questions and topline results in iPOLL and then download the documentation and datafiles for the studies. Please see these user responsibilities.

Updates for China Data Online (database)

The Library subscribes to this database.  Please let me know if you need more information.
Meanwhile:

We are pleased to inform you of the following updates of the China Data Online service:

 

1.      The yearbook database has been updated with about 300 additional statistical yearbooks, including China 2009 Statistical Yearbook and some other national, provincial and city statistical yearbooks

2.      There is a new dynamic map service (Statistics on Map II) for statistical data, which offers dynamic maps, report, charts and living animation.

3.      The China Spatial Data Reports and Maps (DemographicsNowChina), which offer spatial intelligence for demographic and business Census data retrieval and analysis.

New Content in Women and Social Movements in the U.S.

The September release of Women and Social Movements in the United States: Scholar's Edition is now live. The collection now includes 92 document projects/archives with more than 3,600 documents.

 

Two new projects/archives are:

 

"How Did the Canadian Women's Liberation Movement Emerge from the Sixties Student Movements? The Case of Simon Fraser University " by Roberta Lexier

 

"The Women's Pages of The Western Producer, 1925-1939: Violet McNaughton and Interwar Feminism in Canada" by Margaret Hobbs and Susan Wurtel

 

There are also an additional 150,000 pages of full-text documents, including a selection of 8,000 pages of publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000.

 

Also included is the final release of the Commissions on the Status of Women.  This

New Database: Slavery and Anti-Slavery

The Libraries have purchased Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive, Part I, a new Gale database that has been requested by a number of faculty.  A full-text database, it '...includes documents from the United States and Europe, as well as other parts of the world. In addition to newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era, Slavery and Anti-Slavery contains documents from several archives originally available only on microfilm. This first iteration, Debates over Slavery and Abolition, contains over 1.5 million cross-searchable pages, 7,247 books, 80 serials, more than fifteen manuscript collections, & court records...' (from database homepage)

JSTOR Update

Faceted Searching to be Added to JSTOR

JSTOR will introduce a new "faceted search" feature in early July. The faceted search will offer a number of different options to expand and refine search results. Faceted searching and search results will allow you to easily visualize how the returned articles are distributed among categories, or “facets." For instance, with faceted search you can see how many of your results are in each discipline, how many are book reviews or full-length articles, and how many articles contain images, among other options. You'll be able to modify your search results by choosing specific facets, and all search results pages will now incorporate the facets sidebar to make modifications easier.

Several webinars have been scheduled to provide overviews of the new search functionality. If you’re interested in seeing a preview of the new functionality, we encourage you to sign up for one of the sessions this week. Screenshots of the new functionality have also been posted on JSTOR's Facebook page, in the photo album "New Faceted Search Interface."

In order to register for a webinar, please follow the link below.

JSTOR's New Faceted Search
Thu, Jul 16, 2009 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
(16:00-16:30 GMT, 11-11:30 AM CDT, 10-10:30 AM MDT, 9-9:30 AM PDT)
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/952029465

New E-Encylopedias from Sage

• Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods: Provides 'detailed (although not exhaustive) information about each of the many methods that survey methodologists and survey statisticians deploy in order to conduct reliable and valid surveys.' (from Introduction to ebook on the site)

• Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods: 'Researchers and practitioners at all levels, and across disciplines, will benefit from this encyclopedia, as it defines and explains core concepts, describes the techniques involved in the implementation of qualitative methods, and presents an overview of qualitative approaches to research.' (from Introduction to ebook on the site)

New or Changed E-Resources

·         Hein Online contains many legal resources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, and U.S. Statutes at Large; scroll list of 'Subscribed Libraries' in the left-hand column once connected. Campus-wide access is due to subscription by the WU Law Library.

 

·         NCES DataLab: Statistics compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics, which is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

 

Ebooks from Greenwood or ABC-Clio:

·         Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales

·         Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

·         Rich and Poor in America

·         Treaties with American Indians

·         Encyclopedia of Witchcraft

WBIS Online

·         WBIS Online – also called World Biographical Information System Online.  It ‘is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing short biographical information on 5.49 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present.' (from database homepage) Note that the WU Libraries subscribe only to the index, not to the full-text articles.

Papers of Thomas Jefferson

·         The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition have just been released; this is part of the Rotunda collection, including the papers of George Washington, John Adams, Dolley Madison, and other collections, which we purchased last fall.