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| R 301.0973 En | Encyclopedia of American Social History This set takes a broad view of history, emphasizing groups and places rather than individual events or people. It is history from the bottom up, or the history of everyday life. It includes such things as: Nativism, Anti-Catholicism, and anti-Semitism, transients, migrants, and the homeless, immigration, labor throughout U.S. history, rural life, city life, village and town life, ethnic and racial subcultures, such as: Scandinavians, Dutch, Germans, Iberian peoples, French, Irish Catholics, Central and Eastern Europeans, The Jews, Southern Europeans, Latin Americans, Asian Americans and Middle Eastern peoples. |
| R 070.442 Ed4c | CQ Researcher Published by Congressional Quarterly, this weekly magazine contains research done by CQ staff on many different topics. |
| R 317.3 Un3s | Statistical Abstract of the United States Published by the United States Bureau of the Census, this annual has been published since 1878. It calls itself "the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States." It gathers the statistical information from many different statistical publications, both government and private. |
| R 310 K96i4 | The Illustrated Book of World Rankings This book ranks over 190 nations of the world in over 300 key areas, including: geography and climate, vital statistics, population dynamics and the family, race and religion, politics and international relations, number of refugees, military power, economy, finance and banking, trade, agriculture, industry and mining, energy, labor, transportation and communications, environment, consumption, housing, health and food, education, crime and law enforcement, media, and culture. |
| R 973.04 H26 | Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups When published in 1980, this was the first work of its kind in existence. It contains information on over 100 ethnic groups in the United States. |
| R 973.0495 R 25 | Reference Library of the Asian American This book discusses peoples who have come to america from twenty Asian nationalities and ethnic groups. The first volume gives an overview of each group. Then volume 2 discusses immigration history of Asians, population and growth distribution, civil rights, refugees of Southeast Asia, voting rights, Asians in the U.S. Military, family, languages education. Volume 3 continues with entrepreneur ship, religion, literature, theater, media, sports and athletics, martial arts, and historic landmarks of Asian America. |
| R 348.7303 W52w | West's Encyclopedia of American Law This is an encyclopedia that deals with the terms and concepts of U.S. Law. It also covers people and events that have shaped the U.S. legal system. |
| R 348.7323 Un3c | United States Code This is where all the general and permanent laws are that have been passed by the United States Congress. It has been codified into fifty topic areas, or titles. |
| 808.5 R25r | The Reference Shelf The Reference shelf contains reprints of magazine or journal articles, excerpts out of books, or speeches on current issues. Six issues are published each year on different topics. There are several issues that deal with immigration:
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| Contemporary World Issues Excellent for gaining the grasp of a topic.Each book in the Series covers a different topic. Each topic covered in the Series has the following: an overview section, which has a discussion of the main question being asked or arguments raised about the topic, then a chronology section, biographical sketches of important people in the topic, facts and statistics section, documents and reports, laws and regulation pertaining to the topic, and a directory of agencies and organizations associated with the topic. The ones concerning immigration are:
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| Opposing Viewpoints This series by Green haven Press presents differing views of a topic each topic covered. There are over a hundred in the series, such as:
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| AE 2.106 | Code of Federal Regulations The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the rules and regulations that are issued by Federal Regulatory agencies. The Code is divided into 50 subject areas, or titles. These titles usually bear the name of the issuing agency. The title in the Code that pertains to immigration is title 8, called Aliens and Nationality. |
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| J 21.2 In 6/14 | An Immigrant Nation: United States Regulation of
Immigration, 1798-1991 A summary if the history of immigration in the United States. |
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| J 21.11:20 | Administrative Decisions Under Immigration and Nationality Laws of
the United States This contains decisions made by the Board of Immigration Appeals. |
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U.S. Federal Citizenship Texts
These documents are "designed especially for persons seeking to become
citizens of the United States of America. The texts are useful to help a person to
prepare for the naturalization examination. The texts are:
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Unlike books, the contents of journals are not available in the SE library catalog. So where are they located? They are located in magazine and journal indexes. Magazine and journal indexes assign a subject to each article in each journal indexed in the magazine and journal index. Until the 1990's most magazine and journal indexes were in paper, now they are almost all on the Internet. Some of these journal indexes on the Internet index popular magazines, other scholarly, while others are devoted to one subject area, NO Journal Index indexes every journal that is published, so they are selective.
Step One: Look in a Periodical Index
A periodical index is a publication that indexes the content of periodicals. There are many different periodical indexes, some general and some subject specific. One thing needs to be made clear: There is not any periodical index that indexes every single periodical being published today. So each index is selective in what periodicals it indexes. Periodical indexes tend to index the most important or most popular or most respected or well known periodicals.
PAPER PERIODICAL INDEXES
For many years periodical indexes were published in paper, like a book. They would usually come out every few months with an update, and then come out at the end of the year with an annual cumulation. Paper periodical indexes are cumbersome to use and take some take to look at every year, but they can contain information on many valuable articles written sometimes years ago, and paper indexes are valuable places to search for topics in music, drama, art, literature and history.
| Basement | International Index An index to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities. The index begins in 1907 and ends in 1964. |
| basement | Social Sciences and Humanities Index
An index to articles appearing in several hundred magazines and journals. Coverage begins in 1965 and continues to 1974. |
| Basement | Humanities Index |
| Basement | Social Sciences Index |
| Basement | Art Index |
| Basement | Poole's Index to Periodical Literature A guide to periodical literature published in 1802-1906.This is a hard index to use, so see a reference librarian. |
| Basement | Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature A general subject index to about 200 popular magazines. We have this index from 1915 to the present. |
| Basement | New York Times Index Index to the New York Times, a major national newspaper. The library has the New York Times from 1851 to the present on microfilm. The index is subject arranged. Paper indexes begin in 1929, and from 1851 to 1928 they are on microfiche. There is an online Index to the New York Times available at: http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nytimes/advancedsearch.html |
ONLINE PERIODICAL INDEXES
In the 1980's many Paper Periodical Indexes became digitized and now most periodical indexes are online on the Internet. In this form they can still be called indexes, but they are usually referred to as DATABASES.Why use online databases?
There is a disadvantage to online databases for those who are researching topics in history or literature
Some Online Databases that the SE Library Has
| FirstSearch | Article First
This database contains citations to articles that
appear in journals in science, technology, social science, business and humanities,
and popular culture. With over 15,000 journals indexed, this is one of the largest
journal databases in the SE Library's collection. It covers from 1990 to
the present, |
| EBSCOHost | Academic Search Premier
The SE Library has subscribed to a new database called Academic Search Premier. This database has been designed specifically for academic institutions and EBSCOHost claims that, it is “the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.” Indeed, it is larger that the database that it is replacing, Academic Search Elite. It contains full text for nearly 4,550 journals and magazines, whereas Elite has only 2050. It has indexing and abstracting for more than 8,200 titles. It contains full text for many journals back to the 1990’s and for one hundred journals there is full text back to 1975. |
| EBSCOhost, and FirstSearch | ERIC ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, is a very large education database that has been around since 1966. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education until 2003, and since has been in limbo. So the database is current as of the end of 2003. IT contains over 1 million records in two types: (1) ERIC Documents, which are classroom guides, results of research not published, dissertations, manuals, results or research, and (2) Journal articles from almost 1000 journals. A new contractor for ERIC, called CSC, is currently putting 2004-2005 materials into the ERIC database. About 107,000 of the ERIC Documents from 1993-2004 are available full-text online. There is another online version at the Department of Education website, at: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ For more information on ERIC, go to the following website: http://www.se.edu/lib/eric.htm |
| EBSCOhost | Professional Development Collection Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 full text journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world. |
| EBSCOhost | PsychInfo PsychInfo contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the late 1800's includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 35 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year. |
| EBSCOhost | PsycARTICLES "PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Examples of titles offered in PsycARTICLES include: American Psychologist, Behavioral Neuroscience, Canadian Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychotherapy: Theory/Research/Practice/Training, etc. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present." |
| EBSCOhost | Communication and Mass Media Complete "Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth in the communication and mass media fields." |
| FirstSearch | H.W. Wilson Select Full Text
Covers 1,600 periodicals from 1994 to the present. Contains records from: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, and Business Abstracts and other Wilson databases. It is updated weekly. An important feature of this database is that all articles are full text. |
| EBSCOhost | MasterFILE Premier Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,050 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost |
| EBSCOhost | MAS Ultra School Edition Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database provides full text nearly 600 popular general interest and current events publications with information dating back as far as 1975 for key magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 500 full text pamphlets, 268 full text reference books, 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost. |
| EBSCOhost | Middle Search Plus Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 150 popular, magazines for middle and Junior high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,606 biographies, 88,463 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost |
| EBSCOhost | Primary Search Primary Search provides full text for more than 60 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost. |
| FirstSearch | MLA Bibliography
This database is compiled by the Modern Language Association, and is one of the top indexes of literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. It contains over 1.3 million citations to over 6,500 periodicals and other publications. It covers from 1963 to the present, and is updated 9 times a year. |
| ABI-Inform | ABI-Inform
This is a large business database, and indexes over 3000 journals, magazines and newspapers. |
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index | Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
This is a database containing journals from criminal justice. |
1. Where the Databases are located
These databases are all to be found on the SE Library's Electronic Resources Page at: http://www.se.edu/lib/electres.htm
2. What EBSCOHost and FirstSearch are
The word EBSCOhost or FirstSearch to the right of the database name in the table above indicates the name of the database vendor where you can find these databases. If you look at the list of links on the ELectronic Resources page, you will see the
links organized by the type of database that they are. You will find EBSCOhost and FirstSearch under the listing of databases called Periodical Databases. When you go down the list, you will see
at least two links for both EBSCOhost and FirstSearch. The first link is for those that are on the SE campus. Click on that link, and you will be taken to the list of databases under EBSCOhost or FirstSearch.
The second link is the off campus link. This link is necessary to use if you are off of the SE Campus. This link takes you to a page where you will be asked to type in a userid or authorization number, and a password.
The userid or authorization number and password to gain access to EBSCOhost and FirstSearch is available at the SE Library Reference Desk, and also is on the proxy server.
Step Four: Check to see if the the SE Library has the journal in paper
Step Five: Use InterLibrary Loan to obtain the article from another college library that has the journal that you want
1. Obtain an Interlibrary loan form from the circulation desk or go to an online InterLibrary Loan form at:
http://www.se.edu/lib/illjournalreq.htm for a journal article and http://www.se.edu/lib/illbookreq.htm
for Interlibrary loaning a book.
2. Fill out the form, take note that those fields of the form that have an asterisk in front of them are required fields that are needed to send the information via e-mail.
Click submit after filling out the form.
3. The process of receiving something from InterLibrary loan takes about 4 days to two weeks, so if InterLibrary Loans are needed,
| Basement | Refugees This magazine is published by the Public Information Section of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It contains articles on refugee problems in different parts of the world. |
| Floor 2A | INS Communique This is a publication of the INS whose purpose is "to inform employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service about official and unofficial activities . Also available on the Internet at: http://www.ins.usdoj.gov |
Fifteen thousand (15,000) federal employees and contractors working in approximately 250 Headquarters and field offices around the world comprise the USCIS The INS is the main agency of the Federal Government created to handle immigration to the United States. On the INS website you can find INS forms, laws and regulations of Immigration and Naturalization, information and directions necessary for U.S. citizenship, and immigration statistics."