City & County Information

• American Factfinder-choose either city or county
• County and city extra: Annual metro, city and county data book. Covers population, age, income. sex, education, race, etc. REF HA202 .A362
• County Government in NYS
• City Government in NYS
• Community Information by Zip Code-interesting site from California State at Northridge.
• Demographics USA. County Edition.REF HF5415.1 .D46
• Demographics USA. Zip Edition. REF HF5415.1 .D462. Information by Zip Code.

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New York State

• New York State Social Indicators Project
• New York State Data Center-includes population and economic information.
• New York State Statistical Yearbook-REF HA544 .A2

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United States

• U.S. Census Bureau
• Statistical Abstract of the United States-look under "population"
• Demographics link from FedStats
• State Data Centers
• State & County Quick Facts from the Census
• State & Local Governments on the Net
• Rand McNally.Commercial atlas and marketing Guide. Population, economic & geographic data in more than 128,000 U.S. cities/towns towns including maps. REF G 1046 Q1 R18 (atlas case)

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International

• Official Statistics on the Web from University of Auckland
• Data by Country from the World Bank
• Demographic Yearbook. Published by the UN. Latest in Reference. HA17 .D45 +
• International Database from the Census Bureau

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Finding Books

The library catalog will help you identify a variety of print and non-print materials that will be useful to your research. You can search by specific authors or titles or you can do keyword and subject searching. Some specific subjects you can use to begin your search are:

• demographic surveys
• psychographics
• population
• United States Census

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Finding Articles (Online)

Available via the IC library home page using the "Electronic Research & Reference" link. Individual journal articles and papers are not listed in the library catalog and searching for relevant articles can be time consuming. Use databases which search for journal articles, conference proceedings, papers and book reviews. The IC Library does not own all the journals indexed in databases. For assistance identifying where a specific journal may be indexed and/or available in full text call the Reference Desk (274-3890) or try Serials Solutions.

• Population Index
• Infotrac OneFile
• Academic Source Premier
• Business Source Premier
• Business and company resource center-
• Lexis/Nexis-this is a full-text database which has magazines, newspapers, wire services and directory sources available. Does not contain scholarly journals.
• ProQuest Direct-includes links to scholarly publications as well as popular newspapers and magazines.
• Science Direct -full text articles from social science journals.
• Socioabs - a subset of Sociological Abstracts. Covers 1963 to the present.
• New York Times-historical coverage. (1851-2001). Also available via Lexis/Nexis. or ProQuest Direct for more current coverage.
• Wall Street Journal- historical coverage (1889-1987). More current available via Proquest Direct

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Selected Journals

This is a selected list of journals in the field available in the library or online.

• American Demographics HB3505 .A66. Current issues in Popular Periodicals.
• Demography available via JSTOR to 2001, Project Muse for more current
• Population available via JSTOR
• Population Studies via JSTOR 1947-2000

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Author: James Bondra
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