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PA 803: Advanced Research Design
Course Instructor: David Garson
Librarian: Jack McGeachy
Finding Periodical Articles in the Library
It takes time for information to find its way into books. If you are doing
research on a topic that is happening how, you will probably want to begin
your search with indexes to periodical literature.
Think of a recent news event: first reports of it appeared on TV, radio
and the Internet, then in the daily newspaper, and next in weekly news
magazines. Over time more lengthy articles on the event will appear in more
scholarly journals, and next books on the topic might be published.
If a topic is a very current one, you may have trouble finding it covered
in a periodical index. It takes time for articles to be printed, and an
additional length of time for periodical indexes to be compiled and
distributed. Databases like Ingenta, that quickly make periodicals'
tables of content available electronically, are an attempt to shorten the time
delay between the appearance of an article in a periodical and the coverage of
that article in periodical indexing databases.
For recent years many journal articles are available electronically, either
through links in the records contained in these indexes, or within collections
of electronic resources to which the library subscribes. When using these
indexes, you really have two goals in mind: 1) you want to locate good
articles on your topic, and 2) having found references to good articles, you
next want to locate their complete texts.
First locate articles you want to read, and then determine where you need
to go to find their texts. The articles will be in a variety of locations -
on the web, in paper in our book stacks, in a microformat, or available only
in another library. The records in these indexes offer clues that help you
locate articles, and you'll be following different paths to get your hands on the
articles you need.
- Academic Search
Full-Text Premier
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
- Academic Search Elite provides full text for over 1,530 academic, social
sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.
In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for
nearly 2,720 journals. Over 1,700 journals are peer reviewed. Full text is
available from 1990, and indexing and abstract backfiles begin with 1984.
- SAGE Public Administration Abstracts
- Satellite Facility, JA1 .S27, v. 1-22,
1974-1995
- D.H. Hill Reference, JA1 .S27, v. 23- , 1996
to present (6th floor, Reference stacks)
- Coverage is international and includes books, articles selected from 120
journals, government documents, pamphlets, and research reports.
- Abstracts are grouped in broad subject categories.
- Quarterly; each issues contains about 250 abstracts.
- PAIS
International, 1972 to present
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
- The PAIS International database is a bibliographic index to the literature
of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal
articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee
reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and
private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all
over the world are indexed. Updated quarterly.
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Web of Science
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
- Collectively, these databases index more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals
cover-to-cover, providing users with complete bibliographic data, full-length
author abstracts, and cited references. Three indexes are currently available:
Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation
Index,
and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
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Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government
Publications, 1976 to present
- Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895
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- D. H. Hill Ref. GP 3.6: (Docs
Bibliography)
- This is the primary bibliography of publications printed by U.S.
government agencies. It is available in an electronic database, 1976 to the
present; but earlier volumes are available only in paper.
More information about federal government publications is given in the Federal Documents section.
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Dissertations &
Theses (Dissertation Abstracts), 1981 to present
Dissertation Abstracts, 1861 to
1980
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
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Microfilm Abstracts, v. 1-10, 1938-1950.
- Satellite Facility LB 7.M5
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Dissertation Abstracts, v. 11-26, 1951-1966.
- Satellite Facility LB 7.M5
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Dissertation Abstracts International; section A, Humanities & Social
Sciences, v. 27-56, 1966-Sept. 1996.
- Satellite Facility LB 7.M51
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Dissertation Abstracts International; section B, Sciences &
Engineering, v. 27-56, 1966-Sept. 1996.
- Satellite Facility LB 7.M52
- Compilation of author-prepared abstracts for doctoral dissertations
submitted to University Microfilms International (UMI) for publication in
microfilm.
- Extensive coverage of many recent U.S. and foreign dissertations.
- Arranged by classed topic, with keyword and author indexes.
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CIAO: Columbia International Affairs
Online
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(http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/eresources/public-administration.html)
- (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and
research in international affairs.
- It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 to present that
includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional
papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings
from conferences.
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NCJRS
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(http://www.ncjrs.gov/abstractdb/search.asp)
- The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications,
including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research
reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. A related database
contains PDF files in the NCJRS Virtual Library.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts, 1968 to present
- Satellite Facility, HV6001 .C76, 1968-1996
- D.H. Hill Reference, HV6001 .C76, 1997 to
present (Ready Reference, Reserve Room)
- Criminal Justice Abstracts contains hundreds of in-depth
abstracts
of current books, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations
published worldwide. It covers selectively over 500 journals published
in several different languages. Updated quarterly.
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CCH
Human Resources Research Network
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
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(http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/eresources/databases.html#C)
- Contains health and human resources standards, guides, and regulations
from Commerce Clearing House.
- Includes materials from both federal and state governments.
- Provides a wide variety of coverage in the areas of Human Resources
Management, Pension and Benefits, Safety and Health, Payroll, Labor and
Employment Law, Workers' Compensation, Unemployment Insurance/Social Security.
- Sociological Abstracts, 1963 to date
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID).
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Sociological Abstracts, v. 1 - 1952/53-2004
- D. H. Hill Tower HM1 .S58
- CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international
literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral
sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to
book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides
abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of
journal articles.
- Sociological Abstracts is available in a suite of databases from
the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts firm. Its interface and page navigation
could be improved. Scroll down the list of CSA databases, check the box beside
Sociological Abstracts, then click "Continue to Search" at the bottom
of the page.
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PsycInfo, 1967 to present
- NCSU's Information System, or NCSU Libraries World
Wide Web (with a Unity ID).
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Psychological Abstracts, v. 1 - 84, 1927 to 1997
- D.H. Hill BF1. P65
- Psychological Abstracts cumulative indexes, v. 1 - 84,
1927 to 1997
- D.H. Hill Folio BF1. P65
- PsycInfo is an American Psychological Association database
covering
worldwide literature in psychology and related disciplines, such as
psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, education, linguistics, and pharmacology.
It includes dissertations, journal articles, and technical reports and book
chapters. Its print equivalent, Psychological abstracts, provides
coverage back to 1927.
- LexisNexis Academic
- NCSU's Information System; restricted use via remote
access.
- Use the next three links to access different search screens within this
product. This resource is good to search for news sources, legal material, and
business topics.
- After you have opened any of these LexisNexis Academic screens, you may
click "Start" in the upper right corner to bring you to the product's opening
page. From there you can navigate to a wide number of resources.
- News, All (English, Full
Text)
- Get today's news, or glance back through more than 20 years of news
articles.
- Using the dropdown "Select Sources" box, you may limit searches to certain
individual newspapers or to news sources from various parts of the world.
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US & Canadian Law Reviews,
Combined
- You may use the dropdown box to select United Kingdom legal journals, or
to select legal journals categorized by broad subject.
- Company
Profiles
- Want to find news about a company? With a company profile search, you can
find out the latest information about a specific company such as Microsoft,
Time Warner, or General Motors.
- Look at the category breakdown of search results at the left margin of a
results page. There you will see the subcategory, "Newswires & Press
Releases". Of interest also will be "Company Directories & Profiles," which
includes profiles from Disclosure, Hoover's, and Standard & Poor's.
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Ingenta
- NCSU's Information System, NCSU Library's World Wide
Web (with a Unity ID)
- This is a Table of Contents database that offers free searching and
browsing of more than 25,000 publications. Full-text articles are available to
users who subscribe to the ingenta service. Check local library
holdings and consider ILL as an alternative to purchasing articles you
identify here.
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