Indexes over 500 journals covering health, social services, and related subjects.
Coverage: 1987-Current
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. It contains records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US. Subject coverage includes Education, Family, Gerontology, Health services, Housing, Mental health services, Nursing, Social work, and Substance abuse.
100 full-text reference resources covering most academic subject areas.
Credo Reference aggregates authoritative high-quality reference works for online delivery to libraries worldwide. UMass Lowell subscribes to 100 reference titles in Credo, with over 600 thousand entries, all fully integrated and intelligently cross-linked. Reference resources include Encyclopedias, handbooks, dictionaries, and atlases. Subjects covered in particular are history, health, world politics and culture, social sciences, music, literature, biology, education, and religion.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Child Trends has 12 areas of research, listed across the top of any page. Some of the topics include "Child Poverty," "Fatherhood & Parenting," "Youth Development," and "Health." In each section, the research focus on that topic is explained in a brief introduction, followed by resources that include research briefs, executive summaries and full reports, fact sheets, and a publications archive of materials over three years old.
Provides continuously updated trend data with the latest national estimates for all indicators;plain language reporting on trends & population subgroup differences informed by existing research;color graphics and tables that can be downloaded directly.
Site makes use of Trendanalyzer software to offer visualizations of statistics on a wide topic range e.g.best teeth, farm subsidies, carbon emissions, public services, and globalization. Also, you can create your own graphs by inputting your own data.
For hundreds of different types of jobs you can find: the training and education needed;earnings;expected job prospects including figures on current numbers and projected number of workers;what workers do on the job;working conditions.
State Trends & analysis.
Tax Revenue
Tax Revenue Volatility
Federal Share of State Revenue
Change in State Spending
State Medicaid Spending
Employment to Population Ratio
Debt and Unfunded Retirement Costs
Reserves and Balances
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