Social Ecology U211                                                                Julia Gelfand

Urban Design & Behavior                                                         Science Library 228

Winter 2007                                                                             jgelfand@uci.edu

                                                                                                949-824-4971

 

In addition to the list of resources from the UCI Special Collections and Southeast Asian Archive, my colleagues Steve MacLeod and Anne Frank shared with you and prepared, here are a few more for your consideration, primarily secondary sources, however there is a section of Government Documents and links to public sources that will be useful.

 

The following UCI Subject Pages for Planning, Policy & Design, Sociology, Asian American Studies and Government Information - California & Orange County will be immensely helpful, identifying appropriate databases and News & Newspaper Sources (includes section on Area and Ethnic newspapers) and Images. 

 

 

Locating California and Orange County government documents at UCI

            Another colleague, Yvonne Wilson is the California and Orange County Documents Librarian and will be happy to work with you about documents and those collections.  Please remember that the majority of the California and Orange County materials (especially those in print) are not identified in ANTPAC and both collections are located in the Langson Library Basement in separate collections and that more online material is found via the Subject Pages.  Ask for assistance at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor of the Langson Library.

 

Hints for how to find Orange County Documents using ANTPAC:

  • Search by keyword using the keywords in a project, geographic and city name

·        After finding a suitable publications use the subject headings listed for further searching

·        If you cannot find suitable material do the following:

1.      Ask for assistance with using the card catalog which is not in a public area, and locating the material in the collection at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor of the Langson Library.

  • Significant publications
    • Orange County Progress Report  F 868 O6 O7 Latest at LL Reference Desk
    • Real Estate and  Construction Report  HD 266 C22 L63 LL Reference Collection
    • Marc Baldassare's Orange County Annual Survey,1982 to 2004 on-line http://data.lib.uci.edu/ocs/ and in paper 1982-1999 LL Orange County Collection HN 79 C22 O77
    • Chapman University Economic and Business Review  HC 107 C22 O61   LL Reference Collection

Appropriate Databases that index journal literature and news on topics covered in your project assignment include - not all of them offer fulltext content so you may have search the source information in ANTPAC to determine whether we have access or the print content.  Some index journal literature as well as books, chapters, dissertations and reports.

  1. PAIS International - Public Affairs
  2. Sociological Abstracts
  3. Social Sciences Index Online
  4. Web of Science - search the Social Sciences Citation Index
  5. HAPI - Hispanic American Periodicals Index from UCLA
  6. Ethnic News Watch
  7. Lexis Nexis Academic News - select "Guided Search"and then from the pull-down menu select "General News" and your preferred type of news - Major Papers, News Magazines, Policy Papers, etc.
  8. America Newspapers (Newsbank)
  9. GeoBase - geography, demography, current events, social sciences
  10. ASSIA - Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts

 

Other recommended Internet Resources:

1.  State and Local Government on the Web for California

2.  Local Community Blogs - listed for many Orange County cities that track lots of issues and interests

3.  Orange County Resources - lists historical societies and libraries with special resources in each municipality in the county.

4.  Unofficial History of Orange County - includes a bibliography, history by time period and local legends and favorite information and inspirations by the website creators

5.  Answers.com data on Orange County - database does not list sources but has links to specific neighborhoods and a range of information

6.  Partners for Health: Increasing Diversity in the Orange County Healthcare Workforce

 

Statistics and Facts

 

A summary of Local Newspapers in different formats at or available to UCI users include:

  • America's Newspapers  (Newsbank)  provides access to many small city newspapers. Click on a state and then choose the newspaper for the geographic area of your research.
  • Los Angeles Times
    • Until spring of 2001 there was an Orange County Section, now Orange County information is blended into the California section
    • 1881-1984 Proquest Historical Newspapers, fulltext searching of scanned pages
    • 1985- present  Proquest Newspapers, indexing  and fulltext  
    • Current 6 months LexisNexis – News, indexing and fulltext
    • Current year only America’s Newspapers (Newsbank), indexing and fulltext
    • Web versions also available through the  News and Newspapers  Subject Guide section of the Library's home page.
    • Current issues in paper for 3 months in Langson Library's Current Periodical Room on the 2nd floor
    • Issues older than three months are on microfilm since 1881 in the microforms section of the Current Periodical Room
  • Orange County Register
    • Separate "Local Section" for county news,  continuously reports on ongoing issues
    • 1987- NewsBank indexing and fulltext
    • Web version also available through the  News and Newspapers Subject Guide section of the Library's home page.
    • Current issues in paper for 3 months in the Langson Library's (LL) Current Periodical Room on the 2nd floor
    • Issues older than three months are on microfilm since 1906 in the microfilm section of the LL Current Periodical Room
  • Daily Pilot (Orange Coast Daily Pilot) - provides recent indexing
    • Community paper for Costa Mesa and Newport
    • Current issue in paper for 3 months in Langson Library's Current Periodical Room on the 2nd floor
    • Issues older than three months are on microfilm since 1968 in the microforms section of the LL Current Periodical Room

·        Irvine World News  (fulltext searching since September 2000)

    • Weekly news paper 1970-August 2001; available on Microfilm M000067 in LL Current Periodical Room
    • Since August 2001 issued with the Thursday and now Saturday Orange County Register  and microfilmed with the Orange County Register

Locating Maps

  • USGS topographic maps for the western states; arranged by state and topo name in map cases in the Map and Atlas Area on the first floor of the Langson Library
  • Aerial photo atlases in the Map and Atlas Area on the 1st floor of the LangsonLibrary
  • Thomas Bros. city maps for Southern California at the Reference Desk on the 1st floor of the Langson Library
  • GIS
    • The Library participates in a campuswide ESRI license
    • ArcGIS software is available in the Multimedia Resource Center as well as in the Social Ecology Lab
    • Compatable GIS data is available in the library
    • UCI Libraries GIS and maps webpage

For Additional Information, please contact Julia Gelfand (Applied Sciences Librarian) or Yvonne Wilson (Orange County & California Librarian)