New for Sociology and Anthropology

World Bank.
Available online.   Printed copy on order.
This latest annual edition focuses on youth, aged 12 to 24, emphasizing five "phases" -- learning, starting to work, developing a healthful lifestyle, beginning a family, and exercising citizenship.
Scan down the opening page to access individual chapters, including the final one, "Selected Indicators," an annual compilation which is an invaluable source of social and economic data on the world's countries. (Leyburn Library also will receive a more comprehensive form of these indicators in CD-ROM and printed forms.)

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Intelligence Research, Ltd.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
News and analysis on contemporary Latin America, published since 1967. The database, which appears to be updated on Tuesdays, is pretty simple to navigate and use. The one possible stumbling block might be the fact that our account allows only one W& user at a time to be logged in to the database -- other logins will be blocked. To avoid this becoming a problem, please remember to log out when you have finished a session.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several places in the library Web site, such as here.

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Cambridge University Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Published in 2006 as a five-volume set, HSUS is a database of over 37,000 data series (statistical categories) from U.S. and Colonial history. The database also contains extensive essays on the measurements of U.S. history. Data are available as published tables, spreadsheet files (Excel), PDF documents, and custom graphs or charts. This is the first update -- and major expansion -- of a two-volume set published by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1976.
The search and display functions of this database take a while to get used to, so if you have any questions, please let me know.
Links will be maintained in several location in our Web site, including here.

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This is a reminder that Leyburn Library maintains a subscription to the online Oxford English Dictionary, almost certainly the most important modern English-language dictionary.

Unlike the set-in-stone printed OED, the online form is updated several times a year and Oxford University Press always releases lists of new (newly-acceptable) words and new meanings. The latest additions include, among others:
bling
Lollywood
bada-bing
drive-by
offshoring
liposculpture

If you should want to check on any of these, or other terms, here is our link to the Oxford English Dictionary.
You might notice that the opening screen includes a link to New Words.

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The Washington and Lee University Library subscribes to JSTOR, a digital archive of about 800 important scholarly journals. Our access page is here.

JSTOR recently added a number of new titles to its database, including the following ones:

American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Vols. 1 – 59, 1941-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.

California Law Review
Vols. 1 – 90, 1912-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: California Law Review, Inc.

Environmental Health Perspectives
Vols. 1 – 114 (Issue 3), 1972-2006
Moving Wall: none
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Law and Philosophy
Vols. 1 – 21, 1982-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media

Luso-Brazillian Review
Vols. 1 – 40, 1964-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Review of Religious Research
Vols. 1 – 45 (Issue 2), 1959-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Religious Research Association, Inc.

Social Scientist
Vols. 1 – 30, 1972-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Social Scientist

The "moving wall" refers to the range of most recent issues/volumes which are not available.
In addition to the above changes, JSTOR has announced a reduction in the "moving wall" for these two important social science journals:

Annals of the American Academy of Political an Social Science
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science

International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd.

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ABC-Clio.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This 2004 volume "examines the characters and deities, rituals, sacred locations and objects, concepts, and stories that define and distinguish mythological cultures of various indigenous peoples."
Links will be maintained in Annie and on several library Web pages, including this one.

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Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available . (W&L subscription)
The e-book version of this 2005 volume provides detailed examinations of over fifty important concepts in archaeological method and theory, such as environmental archaeology and feminist archaeology.
Links will be maintained in Annie and on this library Web page.

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Career Education Institutes.
Available online.
Online access to internship opportunities through over 2,500 organizations, divided into a dozen or more topical guides, such as Women's Rights, Community and Social Service Agencies, and Human Rights.
Links are maintained on several library Web site pages, including here.

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