The nature of criminal justice as a discipline and types of statistics it requires are discussed. Also included are descriptions of bibliographic sources of criminal justice statistics literature (criticizing methods used in gathering and presenting data and reporting statistics) and reference sources to primary sources of statistics. Sixteen…

Describes resources available to librarians that provide references to government publications, presents sample reference questions and answers, and discusses the use of shared printed and human resources to aid in access to government information. (CLB)

An annotated bibliography of reference sources dealing with psychology and cognate subjects which are part of the reference collection at the State University of New York at Albany University Libraries is presented. Included are: (1) Biographies; (2) Dictionaries and Glossaries; (3) Encyclopedias; and (4) Indexes, Abstracts, and Bibliographies.…

Describes reference and information services which special libraries may provide in serving clientele, including information services, bibliographic services, online search services, document delivery services, indexing services, abstracting services, publishing and alerting services, translation services, newspaper clipping services, and records…

The two units of the instructional package included in this document are: Introduction to Serials Indexing and Abstracting Services and Introduction to Reports Indexing and Abstracting Services. The unit on serials is limited to periodicals. It discusses the factors to be considered when choosing an abstracting and indexing service to use for…

This is a summary of a presentation on the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC). The presentation provided information on how the user can gain access to the ERIC microfiche collection at libraries throughout the United States, and to reprints through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS). Use of the Thesaurus of ERIC…

A series of five runs comprised of 20 searches each were carried out in a three-year span of the INSPEC data base. The same queries were processed manually in the corresponding volumes of Science Abstracts, and comparison of the output of each search method exposed reasons for the failures. Emphasis is laid on the fact that a query comprises other…