New for Sociology and Anthropology

New Strategist / NetLibrary
Available online.
The e-book form of the fifth edition (2006) of this statistical compilation is organized into ten chapters -- Education, Health, Housing, Income, Labor Force, Living Arrangements, Population, Spending, Time Use, and Wealth.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.

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Congressional Quarterly.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Authoritative coverage of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and Presidency from the administration of Harry S. Truman through the first term of President George W. Bush, including review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term, organized by policy area.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.

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Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Over 500 signed articles examining the idea of the city from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, including fields such as politics, sociology, history, urban design, cultural studies, and psychology. Published 2005.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.

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Greenwood Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Searchable and browseable database of thousands of entries from encyclopedias and other reference books, monographs, collections of interviews, collections of primary source documents, audio clips, images, and Web sites. Coverage includes history, social issues, politics, legal and constitutional issues, media, literature, and more.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.

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University of Chicago.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Complete and up-to-date contents of the 15th edition.
Links will be maintained in Annie and via this library Web page.

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Association of College and Research Libraries.
Available online.
Compilation of sites is particularly useful for identifying free-of-charge Internet sites containing general public opinion polls.
Please note that Leyburn Library subscribes to several commercial online services which provide access to a wide range of polling data, accessible to W&L users from this Web page.

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The W&L University Library is planning to take advantage of an offer from Blackwell Publishing to expand our access to their scholarly journals collection from the current 103 titles to 759 titles.

As part of this deal, which would take effect 1 January 2007, we agree to convert our current Blackwell subscriptions from print to online access only.
As with other online journals, all these titles would be available online to W&L students and faculty anywhere in the world through the W&L computing network.

You can see a list of the new online journals and a list of the current subscriptions which are to be converted to online-only by clicking on the Continue reading...link, below.
Please let me know if you have any objection to this change.

Another advantage: All online Blackwell journals are able to provide tables of contents of new issues by e-mail or RSS. This notification, which includes online access to the complete articles, usually is provided well before a printed issue would be available.
If you are interested in setting up this service, you can contact me (Dick Grefe).

The full list of 759 Blackwell journals, sorted by subject, is HERE.
Here are the additions which might seem to be the most relevant to Sociology and Anthropology folks:
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
CHILDREN & SOCIETY
GENDER, WORK AND ORGANIZATION
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JAPANESE SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE
JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY
JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE
JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
SIGNIFICANCE
SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION
SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
SOCIOLOGIA RURALIS
SOCIOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY
SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY
STATISTICA NEERLANDICA
STUDIES IN FAMILY PLANNING
WORLD ECONOMY

Current Blackwell journals   (These current print subscriptions would become online-only.)
I have highlighted the titles in which I think the Sociology and Anthropology Department might have the most interest. A bit of guess-work here...

AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
ANALYSIS
ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
Annual bulletin of historical literature
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY
BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW
BIOETHICS
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
BASIN RESEARCH
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Communication theory
CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
CRITICAL QUARTERLY
Current directions in psychological science
DECISION SCIENCES
Decision sciences journal of innovative ed.
Developing world bioethics
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
ECONOMICA
THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL
THE ECONOMIC RECORD
THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION
ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
ECOLOGY LETTERS
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL (received by the Law Library)
FAMILY BUSINESS REVIEW
FAMILY COURT REVIEW (received by the Law Library)
FINANCIAL MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
HISTORY
HISTORY AND THEORY
Human communication research
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JAPANESE SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
International studies review
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE AND ETHICS
JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION (received by the Law Library)
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE
THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
JOURNAL OF SUPREME COURT HISTORY (received by the Law Library)
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS
KYKLOS: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
LAW & POLICY
LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW
LEGAL STUDIES (received by the Law Library)
LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY (received by the Law Library)
THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
Molecular ecology notes
MIDDLE EAST POLICY
MIND & LANGUAGE
THE MILBANK QUARTERLY
THE MODERN LAW REVIEW (received by the Law Library)
MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL
MODERN THEOLOGY
Music Analysis
THE MUSLIM WORLD
NEGOTIATION JOURNAL (received by the Law Library)
NEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS
OIKOS
OPEC REVIEW (received by the Law Library)
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PLANT CELL & ENVIRONMENT
PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY
PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Psychological science in the public interest
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN QUARTERLY
REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIROMENTAL LAW (received by the Law Library)
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Review of policy research
RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW
THE RUSSIAN REVIEW
SEDIMENTOLOGY
SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY
SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
THE SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY
THE YALE REVIEW

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Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies.
Available online.
“Between 1985 and 2006, there have been more than 220 women suicide bombers, representing nearly 15 percent of the overall number of actual suicide bombers around the world and those intercepted in the final stages before the attack.” A series of reports in this document examines the possible role of egalitarian motivations.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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World Health Organization.
Available online.
Analysis of data from ten countries, including a few from which data was previously unavailable, uncovering "forms and patterns of this violence across different countries and cultures, documenting the consequences of violence for women's health."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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In addition to the previously-announced Historical Statistics of the United States, Leyburn Library recently has purchased online access to three statistical compilations in "electronic book" form:

• Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946 to 1964


• The Millennials: Americans Born 1977 to 1994


• Social Change in America: The Historical Handbook, 2006

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Thomson Gale.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This is a new article database for the college and university market, providing broad coverage of most academic disciplines, including social sciences, business and economics, arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences, etc. It includes articles from over 9,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, of which nearly 7,000 are academic journals, and most are available in full-text formats.
This new database probably makes obsolete the same publisher's Expanded Academic ASAP, at least for W&L researchers.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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