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Literature searching and library catalogs

Tips on searching for journal articles, books, reports, and statistics. Mouse over links for descriptions. PRI affiliates can contact the PRI Library for individual assistance.

Literature searching tips: Handout from Literature Searching workshop. Includes choosing a database, locating full text, constructing your search, and search operators.
Off-Campus Users: How to access University Libraries databases from off-campus.

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Bibliographic databases: Access UN Index to United Nations documents and publications from 1966 to date. Paper and microform copies of documents are available in the Social Sciences Library, 2nd floor Paterno Library. Selected documents are available in the PRI Library.; AfricaBib Available free online. Provides access to the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database and the African Women’s Database.; AGRICOLA Agriculture and related subjects, including rural sociology and agricultural economics.; Annual Review of Population Law Available free online. Full text of back issues of the Annual Review of Population Law, as well as topical pages on subjects in Population Law.; Anthropology Plus Combines Harvard University’s Anthropological Literature and the UK Royal Anthropological Institute’s Anthropological Index.; Criminal Justice Abstracts; Current Index to Statistics Indexes publications in mathematical statistics.; Dissertations and Theses; EconLit; ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) The subscription version of this free Department of Education database provides advanced search capabilities and links to full text.; Google Scholar Available free online. Select Scholar preferences to connect Google Scholar to Penn State’s Libraries.; Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Journal rankings from ISI.; JSTOR Archive of full-text scholarly journals.; LexisNexis Academic News, business, legal, and reference information.; LILACS Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences - available free online.; Medline Available free online through PubMed. Indexes biomedical literature.; National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Available free online.; POPLINE Available free online. Indexes international reproductive health literature.; Population Index Available free online. Abstracts in the demography literature covering the period from 1986-2000. This database is no longer being updated.; ProQuest Indexes scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers, with many full-text articles. Subject areas include general research journals, business and trade, education, psychology, and nursing.; PsycINFO Not just for psychologists, this database indexes a wide range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences and medicine.; PubMed Central The National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.; Social Sciences Citation Index Indexes journal articles as well as citations, allowing searchers to see which papers have cited a paper and how many times a paper or author has been cited.; Sociological Abstracts; Web of Science (ISI) Indexes journal articles as well as citations, allowing searchers to see which papers have cited a paper and how many times a paper or author has been cited.

Statistical databases: Historical Statistics of the United States; LexisNexis Statistical Indexes statistics and data contained in federal government agency publications. Duplicates the American Statistics Index (ASI).; Social Science Statistics and Data From Penn State’s Social Sciences Library; SourceOECD The OECD's Online Library of Statistical Databases, Books and Periodicals; UNData From the United Nations Statistics Division.

Library catalogs: Core Journals in Demography and Population Studies; Find Books Digitized collections and books at other libraries.; PRI Library Journals and Newsletters; PRI Library/Data Archive Catalog Catalog of books, journal titles, CD- and DVD-ROMs, and online resources in PRI's collections; The CAT Search the Penn State University Libraries collections.; WorldCat Search the collections of libraries around the world.

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