Social Science Reference Services

Download or read book Social Science Reference Services written by Pam M. Baxter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book addresses reference services across the spectrum of the social sciences. Chapters embrace a multidisciplinary approach to providing both materials and services to users and stress the variety of information formats available through a bewildering array of delivery mechanisms from an astounding number of sources. Among the topics address are challenges of the automated environment, dissertation development, improving the handing of business reference queries, user education/bibliographic instruction, data files for social research, strategies for locating information on environmental public policy; reference literature on the European Community, and using economic statistics from the federal government.