Globalization:  A Research Guide to Resources in the Princeton University Library
 
General  Sources 1.  International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
2.  Social Sciences Citation Index
3.  PAIS

1. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, subscription database.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is compiled in the library of the London School of Economics & Political Science.   It is based on an  international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals) and covers a broad range of the Social Sciences, especially useful in research into politics and governance,  in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology     About 30 percent of the records are for materials  languages other than English, and more than 100 countries and 70 languages are covered.  This database provides citations of journals, books, book reviews, and chapters when multiple authors have worked on a book. 
Note that the abstract of articles must be requested on the search screen by clicking on the FULL RECORD button.  Once articles are found to be of interest, it is necessary to click on the SFX button or search by hand in the Online Catalog to find where the material can be found at Princeton.  In some cases, it will be necessary to go to the book stacks in Firestone, or for materials not held here, to request the wanted materials through Princeton's Interlibrary Loan service. 

Search Examples (counts taken in August 2003): 

  • (Globalization - 12672  or globalisation - 1364) anywhere produced 12,944 records
  • Globalization and (labor or labour) found 1021 records
  • Globaliation and Ethic* anywhere produced 237 records ( * replaces any additional characters, to retrieve ethics, ethical and so on.)

2. Social Sciences Citation Index , subscription database.
The Social Sciences Citation Index is an index with sweeping coverage of the scholarly journal literature and some few books in the social sciences  It is a multidisciplinary database where half of the entries from 1991 forward include abstracts.  It has great strength as an author and title index, and for tracing the use of key books and journals in later scholarly research . 

SSCI indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected relevant items from an additional 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.  Some 2,800 new articles and 50,000 new cited references are added each week..   SSCI and its companion publications Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index will be found bundled under the umbrella title Web of Science on the library homepage as will as under its own title. 

The great strength of the Social Sciences Citation Index is that it indexes an extremely broad range of articles and books, especially useful in the fstudy of Globalization.  Footnotes and bibliographical references are also given for all of them so relationships among publications can be more easily traced forward in time.  Please be mindful that the titles of journal articles in the cited footnotes and bibliographies are NOT given anywhere in the database or the paper form.  Also, authors given names are entered as initials only, and are not consistent for any individual person.  That is, one article or book may be referenced by the last name only, another by the same author may have one initial, while a third may be entered with two or even three initials.  To be more complete, each possible form must be checked. 

Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, economics, history, industrial relations, information science, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science , psychiatry, psychology, public health , social issues , social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. 

This is not a full text database; use the SFX button to see if Princeton owns an item.

Search Examples (counts taken in August 2003): 

  • Globalization in subject produced 5808 hits
  • Globalization and children in subject produced 54 hits
  • Globalization in subject and Princeton in author address gave 23 hits

3. PAIS, subscription database. 
PAIS, the Public Affairs Information Service,  is an essential and highly selective index in the study of public policy and governance and indeed in all the social sciences, covering the broadest range of materials and social issues.  It is based on social science holdings of New York Public Library.  It includes journal articles, books, reports, government documents, working papers, an unusually broad range of materials. Although not as many hits will be found here on any given subject as in many other indexes, ones found here are almost always important ones, key to solid coverage of topics in Politics.  Database begins in 1981 to date, and paper in 1915.

This is not a full text database; use the SFX button to see if Princeton owns an item.


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Page last updated  4 August 2003 in the Social Science Reference Center of Princeton University Library.