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Sage.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Published in 2008, this two-volume set includes about 500 signed entries which cover "the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies," providing "a cross-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set, published in 2008, contains about 600 signed entries covering "major facets of survey research methodology, from selecting the sample design and the sampling frame, designing and pretesting the questionnaire, data collection, and data coding, to the thorny issues surrounding diminishing response rates, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent and other ethical issues, data weighting, and data analyses."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation / American Anthropological Association.
Available online.
Released at the AAA's annual meeting, "results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.