#social explorer

[questny]

Here’s where we’ve been thus far, where should we go?

[Check out the interactive Google map here.]

[oupacademic]

As college graduates venture off into the real world this spring, Social Explorer takes a look at detailed education data. Learn about the breakdown of different college majors with data from the American Community Survey.

[lynneelu]

National Library Week

Happy National Library Week!  From April 13-19, Oxford University Press has opened up all its online resources for free access! http://global.oup.com/academic/online/?cc=us&lang=en for a list of all OUP's online resources/databases.

Username: libraryweek; Password: libraryweek.  Some OUP databases I particularly find cool:

http://www.bergfashionlibrary.com/: Quick, searchable access to material in "disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies,theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles." 

http://www.socialexplorer.com/: Access 220 years of demographic data, interact with and create data from 18,000 maps and tables

http://www.ukwhoswho.com/: Autobiographical entries (journals, diaries, etc) about 33,000 influential people still famous today as well as those long forgotten: covering years 1897-1940.

www.oxfordmusiconline.com: Scholarship on music history and culture, composer biographies and work lists and timelines, and audio samples

www.oed.com: Learn etymology, timeline, and definition of words with examples throughout history of their usage

www.oxfordbibliographies.com: Numerous subjects/disciplines with encyclopedic introductions and themes and relevant bibliographic references, all written and collected by specialized professors. Seems perfect for beginning research!

[oupacademic]

Social Explorer at ALA Midwinter 2014! Andrew Beveridge, President and CEO of Social Explorer and Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, speaks to some assembled librarians about how to access and illustrate current and historical census data and demographic information.

[oupacademic]

As Detroit grapples with its finances, Social Explorer examines the shifts in population and income over the past 60 years.

[qcsoc]

Social Explorer

The National Science Foundation published a highlight on Andrew Beveridge’s Social Explorer.  The highlight describes Social Explorer’s recent honors:

In 2010, Social Explorer was named an “outstanding reference source” by the Reference and User Services…

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[belltolling-blog]

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States. They provide thousands of interactive data maps going back to 1790.