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With 1,030 annotated citations arranged by discipline, this carefully structured guide offers researchers fast and easy access to some of the best and most commonly used resources.
This book has 1,030 annotated citations arranged by discipline into 12 chapters-general social sciences, political science, economics, business, history, law and legal issues, anthropology, sociology, education, psychology, geography, and communication. The sections on electronic resources in each chapter have been greatly expanded, and there are more area studies sources, providing users with an introduction to new technologies and formats related to the research of social sciences. Prepared by practicing librarians, this carefully structured guide offers researchers fast and easy access to some of the best and most commonly used resources in the social science literature. It also serves as well as a teaching text for students wanting a clear, straightforward approach to learning about the most popular and important reference sources in the social sciences.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
This is a collection of bibliographic essays written or updated by 12 subject specialist librarians, all but two of whom are at Penn State University. After an opening chapter for general social science sources, each chapter treats one of the traditional social science disciplines: political science, economics, business, history, law, anthropology, sociology, education, psychology, geography, and communication. The subtitle, A Cross-Disciplinary Guide to Selected Sources, implies special attention to newer cross-or interdisciplinary fields, such as women's studies, gender studies, and queer (or lesbian-gay) studies, but these areas are completely ignored--they don't even make the subject index. Areas studies, by now well-established cross-disciplinary social science areas, do receive limited attention (six pages, according to the subject index). Each chapter opens with an essay about the nature of the discipline and its information sources. The various sections devoted to types of sources begin with brief overviews. Unfortunately, source citations do not include an indication of extent (pagination or number of volumes), but they are followed by descriptive annotations and means of electronic access if that is available. The volume concludes with indexes for authors (both personal and corporate), titles, and subjects. The subject index is largely a rearrangement of the table of contents. Any reference guide reaching its third edition is well on its way to becoming an established tool for librarians, scholars, and students. This useful tool is recommended for academic and large public libraries.
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Like the first two (1989, 1996), this edition is designed to serve both practicing librarians and students who want a textbook about "the most used and the most important reference sources in the social sciences, both print and electronic." More than 1,500 sources are listed or helpfully described, often with comparative or critical comments, in 12 chapters: general social sciences, political science, economics, business, history, law and justice, anthropology, sociology, education, psychology, geography, communication. Each discipline is introduced with an essay on its nature and the use of its sources. Most of the contributing authors, as well as Herron, are librarians at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Title and subject indexes conclude the volume. The work should be helpful to reference librarians and very useful for library school students, but not to a more general audience. A useful but not essential purchase for most academic libraries E. I. Farber emeritus, Earlham College