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| Resources |
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| Reference Sources | |
| Source | Location |
| Encyclopedia of Urban America 2 vols. | Ref HT 123 .E5 1998 |
| Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World 4 vols. | Ref HM 756 .E53 2003 |
| ACCRA Cost of Living Index:Comparative Data for
314 Urban Areas | Ask at Research Assistance Desk |
| New Book of American Rankings | Ref HA 214 .N49 1998 |
| Statistical Portrait of the United States: Social Conditions & Trends | Ref HA 214 .S84 1998 |
| America's Top-Rated Cities 4 Vols. | Ref HT 123 .A43 1998 |
| Articles | |
| Database Name | Description |
| Factiva | Largest selection of news and current
events sources online, including transcriptions of most all televison
news programs, "20/20", "Nightline", etc., as well
as radio programs such as NPR's "All Things Considered." Also
Reuters News Service reports.
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| A retrospective collection of electronic full-text of more than a dozen Economics journals from Vol.1, Issue 1. They cover up to as recent as four years ago | |
| EconLit | Corresponds to Journal of Economic
Literature and the Index of Economic Articles, and covers journal articles,
dissertations, chapters in books, conference proceedings and entire books.
1969-current.
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| Books Available for Checkout |
| To find books on your topic, you will probably want to do a keyword search in ALCUIN, the Library's online catalog. ALCUIN supports most of the standard searching techniques we discussed in class, including Boolean Operators (AND, OR), Nesting (using parentheses), and Truncation (using the asterisk *). |
| Web Sources | |
| County Business Patterns | Metro Business Patterns |
| County Population Characteristics :2001 | Center
on Urban and Metropolitan Policy (Brookings Institute) |
| Geographic
Profiles of Local Unemployment (Bureau of Labor Statistics )
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| Citing What You Found |
| RefWorks |
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