Sociology 226A DEMOGRAPHIC ANALISYS: Library Instruction

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Sociology  226A     DEMOGRAPHIC
ANALISYSLibrary Instruction

• for
• Prof. Wang Feng
• BY
• Pauline D. Manaka
• Research Librarian for Sociology

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SESSION GOALS

• CREATE ONGOING RELATIONSHIPS Subject Librarians
  -gtThe UC Libraries Resources Beyond
• INTRODUCE CORE DASA RESOURCES
• a. Begin Literature Review
• b. Learn How to Find Data Resources
• c. Learn how to cite manage bibliographic
  information
• DETERMINE WAYS TO ALWAYS GET LIBRARY HELP

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Meet Your Subject Librarian Gateway to UCI
Libraries Beyond!

• Begin with the UCI Library website -
  http//www.lib.uci.edu
• My ANTPAC, http//antpac.lib.uci.edu
• MELVYL Catalog, http//melvyl.cdlib.org
• Introduce WorldCat

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CORE RESOURCES FOR DASA

• Find Books
• Learn to locate "key" Journal Literature
• Review "Selected" Reference Resources print and
  electronic
• Data Variety of sources _at_ UCI and Access
• Citations Managing Bibliographies

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SAMPLE ANTPAC SEARCHES Getting to know the DASA
Book Resources

• ANTPAC
• Provides quick, efficient and up-to-date access
  to materials in all of the UC Irvine Libraries.
• DASA Subject areas according to LCSH
• About Government Information http//www.lib.uci.e
  du/libraries/collections/govinfo/gimain.html
• http//www.library.yale.edu/govdocs/subject.ht
  ml

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Quick Searches for the class

• Log on to My ANTPAC exercise
• Author/ Title Searches In ANTPAC
• Call Number Searches in ANTPAC
• SAVE, EMAIL Searches in ANTPAC
• ABOUT Call Numbers, Locations, etc.

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Access/Collections _at_ UCI Libraries

• The Loan Desk Reserves
• Loan Periods Fines
• Videos, etc.
• Theses Dissertations
• Checkout Reference, Journals unique materials
• Suggest new resources- books, journals, etc.

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MELVYL OCLC Worldcat Catalogs Practice
searches

• REQUEST
• Interlibrary Loan in action
• Locate items in other Libraries UC Libraries
  Beyond
• Share observations
• UC-eLinks
• http//www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/citation_link
  er.html

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More on...LITERATURE REVIEW

• The UCI Libraries Homepage
• Subject Guides
• Reference Materials
• Encyclopedias,
• Dictionaries,
• Handbooks,
• Guides.

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How to find Journal Articles

• Core Journal Articles Databases
• Population Index
• Annual Reviews
• Web of Science
• JSTOR Population Studies
• Project Muse
• Economics Subject Guide

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Finding Statistical Information/Data

• STATISTICS LOCAL / INTERNATIONAL
• Subject Guides -Government
• Core Resources
• American Fact Finder
• FedStats
• Census
• World Development Indicators

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Finding Unique Data Sources

• UCI Data Archives
• ICPSR
• Free Data Sources
• Recommended Reading
• Burton, D. (2000). Research Training for Social
  Scientists.. London Sage Publications.
• Please Read Chapter 11 on "Using Literature to
  support research

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SAMPLE REFERENCE SOURCES

• DICTIONARIES ? TO CLARIFY CONCEPTS

ENCYCLOPEDIAS ? FOR BACKGROUND IDEAL
REFERENCES
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REFERENCE SAMPLES CONTINUED....

• Handbooks-gt in-depth special topics

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REFWORKS Citation Research Management

• by
• Susan Jones
• Reference Librarian
• Langson Library

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Please attend Library workshopshttp//www.lib.uci
.edu/services/workshops/schedule.html