2005 Graduate Student Paper Competition

The Family Division announces its 2005 Graduate Student Paper Competition. Papers should be of professional quality, and may relate to any aspect of sociology of the family. Authors should be currently enrolled as graduate students, or individuals who received their Ph.D.s in May 2004 or later. To be eligible, a paper may not be published, accepted, or under review for publication. Papers that have been presented at a professional meeting or submitted for presentation at a professional conference are eligible. Papers must be student-authored; they can be authored by one or more students, but may not be co-authored with a faculty member or non-student. Papers should be no more than 35 pages in length, including all notes, references, and tables. Send papers and a cover letter specifying that the paper is to be considered for the Family Division Graduate Student Paper Competition to:

Nancy Mezey
Department of Political Science/Sociology
400 Cedar Avenue
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898.

Alternatively, papers may be sent electronically to Dr. Mezey at: nmezey@verizon.net
Papers are due no later than JANUARY 15, 2005. The winner and any runners-up will be announced in Spring 2005. The winner(s) will receive a modest cash stipend, registration fees, and an opportunity to present her/his paper at the SSSP conference, held in August 2005 in Philadelphia.

New Databases available!

The UConn Libraries has 5 new databases available from our homepage, www.lib.uconn.edu. Click on the Most Databases link on the left. They are:

JCR, or “Journal Citation Reports.”
Provides quantitative measures for ranking, evaluating, categorizing, and comparing journals- including the impact factor, a bibliometric measurement of a journal’s importance to a field.

ArtSTOR
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

EUROMONITOR World Marketing Data and Statistics
World Marketing Data & Statistics includes country-level data on demographic, economic, and other marketing indicators. Easy and fun to use!! Key macro data for 205 countries, over one million data types are covered ranging from GDP trends to media expenditure across 25 years. over 1,000 data types: Advertising and Media, Agricultural Resources, Automotives, Banking and Finance, Communications, Consumer Expenditure, Consumer Market Sizes, Consumer Prices and Costs, Cultural Indicators, Economic Indicators, Energy Resources and Output, Environmental Data, External Trade, Health and Living Standards, Household Characteristics, Income and Earnings, Industrial Resources and Output, Labour Force Indicators, Literacy and Education, Population, Retail Distribution, Transport, Travel and Tourisms. Easy cross-country comparisons Full range of manipulation tools available * Latest statistics instantly available.

American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
Contains digitized images of the pages of American magazines
and journals that originated between 1741, when Andrew Bradford’s American Magazine and Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine were launched, and 1900. Deriving from the American Periodicals Series microform collection, APS Online features over 1,100 periodicals spanning nearly 200 years-from colonial times to the advent of American involvement in World War II. Titles range from America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository, to popular magazines like
Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Source for references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year.