Social Science Librarian
Stephen (Social Sciences) Woods
He/him/his
Contact:
Office: 208 Paterno Library, University Park
Phone: 814.865.0665
How to use this guide
This course guide is designed to help you identify relevant material that you can include in your Demographic Report. Each lesson will focus on strategies for finding and evaluating three general types of materials as you build a bibliography of resources:
- Background resources (Lesson 2) that will help you define the scope of your topic such as: encyclopedias, handbooks, edited books and book chapters, and review articles.
- Reports (Lesson 4) gray literature from government and research organizations.
- Scholarly articles (Lesson 8) from peer review journals
Related Research Guides
- Applied DemographyThis guide will assist researchers who want resources that focus on practical applications of demographic methods and materials for decision-making purposes.
- International Population CensusGuide resources for finding information for international censuses.
- Census of the United StatesA guide to resources to information by and about the U.S. population and economic censuses.
- Labor Statistics & DataA guide to help researchers find numbers and data related to topics in labor studies.
- International OrganizationsResources to locate both intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations.