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Unit 12: Database: Networked and Distributed Database in Social Science

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Source: NLM PubMed Training Manual, 2007
Fig. 12.1: Components of a Bibliographic Database
The following are the key database resources available on internet:
UNESCO Social Science Database - DARE: Directory of Social Sciences Institutions, Specialists,
Periodicals (http://www.unesco.org/most/dare.htm)
The DARE database offers over 11,000 worldwide references to social science research and training
institutes; social sciences specialists; social science documentation and information services; social
science periodicals. The database also contains special references to peace, human rights and
international law research institutes.
ERIC-Educational Resources Information Center (http://www.eric.ed.gov/)
The ERIC database is the world’s largest source of education information. The database contains
more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. You can access
the ERIC database on the Internet or through commercial vendors and public networks. You can also
access ERIC abstracts in the print publications Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals
in Education.

Population Index on the Web (http://popindex.princeton.edu/)
Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world’s population literature. It presents an
annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other
materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing
46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.

The SSRN (Social Science Research Network) (http://www.ssrn.com/)

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social
science research and is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social
sciences. Each of SSRN’s networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing
submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.
There are now hundreds of journals, publishers, and institutions - academic and other cooperating

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