Library Resources
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Jenny Castel | jcastel@jwu.edu
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To find articles, dissertations, and theses on social science topics go to...
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
- A great place to start for most topics
- Mostly full-text articles from scholarly peer-reviewed journals, trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers
- If full-text is not available, click link to Check for Full Text (Providence) to connect to Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request form
- Proquest Dissertations & Theses This link opens in a new window
- Dissertations and Theses published internationally since 1997
- TO LIMIT YOUR SEARCH TO JWU DISSERTATIONS: In the "School name/code" search box, either enter Johnson & Wales or select it from the "Look up schools" drop-down menu
To find bite-sized statistics (along with downloadable charts and graphs) go to...
- Statista This link opens in a new window
- Statistics, reports, and visual data for a range of topics, countries, industries, trending topics, and more
- NOTE: Click through any security warnings & pop-up blockers that may appear
- Expert tools options are unavailable
For tables of US Census data through a library database...
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States This link opens in a new window
- The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States
- Fun fact: First published in 1878!
For US Census and American Communities Survey Data...
1. Watch this video to help you understand how to navigate and access the Census and ACS survey data on the US Census website
2. Go to data.census.gov and begin your search for tables of demographic data going back many years.
For US. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission statistics on discrimination visit the EEOC
Visit the US Bureau of Labor for more statistics
List of Public Data Sources
- GSS Data Explorer | NORC at the University of Chicago\n
- Harvard Dataverse
- IPUMS
- Data USA
- ICPSR: Find Data
- Sources And Methodological Information | Recession Trends
- Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program
- National Longitudinal Surveys Home Page
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
- American FactFinder
- NSFG - National Survey of Family Growth Homepage
- Data Spark RI
- About the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study | Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study
- The Association of Religion Data Archives | Quality Data on Religion
- GitHub - awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets: A topic-centric list of HQ open datasets
- Statsweb (Stanford): Data Sources
- CoolDatasets.com
- Datasets/Raw Data - Health Statistics & Data - Library Guides at UC Berkeley
- Google: Dataset Search
Did you know you can access short "how to" videos and courses about SPSS and analyzing quantitative data?
Use Linkedin Learning (link below)
1. Add the topic you'd like to search in the search box on the database home page
2. Choose which video/course you'd like from the results list. You can watch the entire video or only as much as you need to understand the topic.
- LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
- Enhance your skills in business, technology, and creativity with expert-led video tutorials
- Create custom playlists and assign to students or colleagues
- How to use LinkedIn Learning
Example of a strong literature review:
Jabbar, H., Sun, W.-L., Lemke, M. A., & Germain, E. (2018). Gender, Markets, and Inequality: A Framework. Educational Policy, 32(6), 755–796. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.jwupvdz.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eoah&AN=46156574&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Public Data Sources
SPSS Tutorials
- LinkedInlearning (Search SPSS)
- Detailed SPSS Tutorials (Kent State)
- Video (3 Min): SPSS Output and Visualization
- Video (4 Min): SPSS Data Sources (IBM)
- Video (4 Min): Data Preparation
How to Read a Scholarly/Academic Article
Often, the contents of an academic article cannot be grasped by a single reading.
You have to engage with it several times, but in different ways.
