• Annual Review of Sociology. 1975 to date.
  Ref HM 1 .A6. Electronic versions of index 1984 to date, and full-text 1996 to the present at the Annual Review site.
  

Each annual volume has bibliographic essays on ten to twenty broad topics in sociology. The contributors are experts in their fields and they provide excellent surveys of current literature. Wherever an author and a date, e.g., "Elder (1973)," appears in an article, it refers to an item fully cited in the bibliography at the end of the article.

• Annual Review of Anthropology. 1959 to date.
  Ref GN 1 .A5. Electronic versions of index 1984 to date, and full-text 1996 to the present at the Annual Review site.
  

Describes in essay form important new contributions to the literature in various subject areas. Each section is written by a specialist and is accompanied by an extensive bibliography. Subject indexes with each volume.

• U.S. Bureau of the Census

The official site includes access tools, current economic indicators, and more. For interactive mapping and data retrieval of 1990 US Census data only, try Columbia University's SEDAC Demographic Data Viewer.

• US Bureau of Labor Statistics
  

  An extensive collection of statistics and reports broadly related to employment and economics.

• Other statistical resources on the web can be found from the libraries Internet Resources page on statistics
  
  

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Finding Books

• WorldCat

WorldCat is a super catalog of the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide, including Earlham and all academic libraries in Indiana and Ohio. WorldCat will always tell you if Earlham owns a particular item.

• Earlham's Catalog

Otherwise known as PALNI, for the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana, the catalog includes not only Earlham's holdings but also those of some two dozen other academic libraries in the state.

Note that the screen provides various types of limits: which location or locations to search, date of publication, and material type (e.g., books, audio/visual, serials).

Once you have located at least one apparently useful title on your subject, note the subject headings at the bottom of the full record. You can then search for that heading by clicking on the heading.

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Periodical Resources

• Surveillance and Society. (an interdisciplinary "surveillance studies" journal).

In an emerging field of study the scholarly literature of that field is scattered in many different publication thus the use of indexes in different disciplines is important. the field of surveillance studies has gone beyond what I'll call the beginning stage with the publication of a journal focused on the field. However the journal is marginal because it has a weak financial base and depends on volunteers to get it published. The journal just published volume 3, number 2, which was originally scheduled for publication in December 2005. None of the 2006 issues have yet been published. Whether it will catch up anytime soon is uncertain.

• Academic Search Premier. (EBSCOhost)
  

This index is a broad ranging general index to popular and scholarly periodicals covering all fields of knowledge. The index covers some 8,000 periodicals. The time span of coverage varies. About 250 titles start as early as 1984, while most titles are indexed since about 1990. For 4,600 titles, the full-text of the articles is included with a different starting date for each title that generally falls mostly between 1995 and 1998.

• Sociological Abstracts 1963 to date

  This is the index for students of sociologic and anthropology, in that it covers most of the published literature --journal articles, books, dissertations, and research reports-- in the field. The indexing begins in 1963 and the abstracts began appearing in 1974. The database includes over half a million records.

• Anthrosource Irregular.

This is a collection of fulltext of 32 journals published by the American Anthropological Association. The back files are inconsistent in the time period covered. For some (e.g., American Anthropologist) the entire file is available from its beginning (in AA's case 1888) while for other titles only the most recent few years are available. Much of what is in Anthrosource is indexed in Sociological Abstracts. Therefore for complete searching use SA and there will be links to the articles in Anthrosource. If you want to browse a few recent issues of anthropology journals then Anthrosource is the source to use.

• LexisNexis 1980s to date.

This is not just one database but a collection of tools for accessing newspaper articles, government documents, newswire services, radio and television program transcripts, periodicals (mostly professional and "trade" publications. The interface allows you to slice-and-dice the database in many different ways. The value of this tool is the access it provides to the full range of publications and communication venues for issue of publicand social policy being discussed in the mass media, government, professional organizations and scholarly circles.

• SocialSci Search 1991 to date. Also known as part of the Web of Science.

This index provides a broad interdisciplinary approach to the entire spectrum of the social sciences. Unlike the Sociological Abstracts it provides less in-depth coverage across sociology, anthropology and more breadth on the social sciences by covering economics, political science, public policy, management and other aspects of the social sciences.

• Library of Intelligence and Surveillance Reference Documents.
  

A collection of original legal documents related to the topic.

• Library of Congress search results on federal legislation related to Arlen Specters 3/2006 proposed legislation on electronic surveillance.

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Web Resources

• Evaluating Internet Resources.
  

It is essential that you evaluate Internet Resources as you use them. The diversity of sources and their quality make it essential that you apply some basic criteria to the resources. To help you with that assessment by providing specific suggestions about how to evaluate an electronic resource, I recommend you consult with a document available on the Earlham libraries' web site. For further information, perhaps the best site on the web about evaluating web sites, see Elizabeth Kirk's, a librarian at Johns Hopkins University at the JHU library Web site.

• How to cite electronic resources.

• Software for managing bibliographic citations.

Privacy and Surveillance Organizations

The following resources were chosen primarily for the quality of their links and other online resources.

• American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU Privacy and Technology Project.
• American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU Safe and Free Project.
  
• Center for Democracy and Technology, an education and activism group that mobilizes for public policy issues.
  
• Consumer Privacy Guide: more links to privacy organizations.
  
• Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center.
• Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Medical Privacy Coalition.
  
• Privacy International.
  
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. (With links to privacy organizations.)
  
• RFID Nineteen-eighty-four. ( Also focus on identity card issues, store loyalty/rewards programs.)
  
• A site maintained by U Of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist, with good resources on Canadian privacy policies.
  
• Free annual credit reports. (Always useful and sometimes interesting.)

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Activist Groups

• Center for Media and Technology
  • An example of their coverage on the data service ChoicePoint.
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. (On privacy issues.)
• Consumer Reports Webwatch (privacy articles from nonpartisan consumer group).
• GoogleWatch.
• Health Privacy Project.
• Privacy Activism.
  • Carabella Goes to College.
  • Focus on Surveillance.
• Privacy Foundation.
• Save the Internet.
  • Full-screen version of their net neutrality video.

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