Csre 15 May 2009

Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity: A Guide to American and International and Foreign Resources Anthony M. Angiletta Morrison Curator for the Social Sciences Updated 15 May, 2009

Six Simple Dicta on Searching the Web, Google, Socrates or any Index    

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1. When in doubt, phrases in quotes 2. When in doubt, capitalize Boolean 3. When in doubt, use Advanced search 4. Narrow humongous search results: by format, by domain suffix 5. Supplement index searches with Google Scholar 6. If it is print resource and not at Stanford, use ILL

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The Web: Corralling the Beast of Results 

1. Google search: Race AND ethnicity = 1,260,000 hits

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2. Google search: Race AND ethnicity AND resources = 927,000 hits

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3. Google search: Race AND ethnicity AND bibliography = 272,000 hits

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4. Format and Domain limits: using Advanced Google • a. Using .pdf • b. Advanced: Race AND ethnicity AND .org = 131,000 hits

The Web: Corralling the Beast (cont’d) 

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5. Clusty.com search : Race AND ethnicity AND resources = Top 170 results of at least 890,300 6. Clusty.com search: Race AND ethnicity AND bibliography = Top 183results of at least 94,300 • Limit file type .pdf = 196 hits ♦7. Google Scholar search: Race AND Environment And health AND brownfields, 1997-2006= 771 hits

Some specific Non-Stanford Web sites  

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1. RACE & ETHNICITY at Trinity College 2. Hinman on Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism 3. Race and Ethnicity at eserver.org 4. Race, Ethnicity and Politics at American Pol.Sci.Assoc. 5. Scout Report cluster on Race and Ethnicity

Some specific Non-Stanford Web sites (cont’d) 

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6. Ethnic Conflict, Migration, Nationalism 7. ETHNIC-L listserver

Selected Stanford-Only Resources 

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1. SUL/AIR homepage. Research Help. Research 2. Some subject headings/crossreferences for Race and Ethnicity in Socrates and in Databases&Articles 3. Race and Ethnicity databases on SULAIR hom

4. Special collections/manuscripts and archives

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5. Some other relevant databases & full-text • • • • •

Academic Universe (also listed as Lexis-Nexis) Main Social Science disciplinary/field a&I indexes. Anthro/Comm/Econ/Educ/PolSci/PsycInfo/Sociol SSCI EBSCO cluster (for Academic Search Premier, Busin