ANNOUNCEMENTS

INTERNET APPETIZER
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, http://www.atf.treas.gov/

The Manhattan Project, http://www.mbe.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/index.htm

INTRODUCTION

NAMES: GENEALOGY RESEARCH

GUIDEBOOKS

• Dollarhide, William: The Census Book: A Genealogist's Guide to Federal Census Facts, Schedules and Indexes. Heritage Quest, 1999. Davis Reference HA214.D63 1999.
  
• Eichholz, Alice, ed., Ancestry's Red book : American State, County & Town Sources. Ancestry, 1992. Davis Reference Desk, CS49 .A55 1992.
  
• Szucs, Loretto Dennis: The Source : a Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ancestry, 1997. Davis Reference Desk, CS49 .S65 1997.
  

INTERNET RESOURCES

Genealogy and Family History Research at UNC-CH Libraries, Davis Reference Department. http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/hum/genealogy.html

Cindi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet, http://www.CyndisList.com/

NUMBERS: STATISTICAL DATA

All census publications released since 1996 are being made available in PDF format.

GUIDEBOOKS

• Anderson, Margo J. Encyclopedia of the U.S. Census, CQ Press, 2000. Davis Reference HA37.U55C66 2000.
• Cook, Kevin L. Dubester's U.S. Census Bibliography with SuDocs Class Numbers and Indexes. Libraries Unlimited. 1996. Davis Reference, HA214.C665 1996, Wall Shelving 13.
• Lavin, Michael R. Understanding the Census: A Guide for Marketers, Planners, Grant Writers and Other Data Users. Epoch Books, Distributed by Oryx Press, 1996. Davis Reference Desk HA37.U55L385 1996.
• Scott, Ann Herbert. Census, U.S.A.: Fact Finding for the American people, 1790-1970. Seabury Press [1968]. Davis Stacks: HA37.U55 S44.
• Suzanne Schulze has written the following, all published by Oryx Press:
  • Population Information in Nineteenth Century Census. Davis Reference, Z7164.D3 S44 1983.
  • Population Information in Twentieth Century Census Volumes: 1900-1940. Davis Reference, Z7164.D3 S45 1985.
  • Population Information in Twentieth Century Census Volumes: 1950-1980. Davis Reference, Z7164.D3 S46 1988.
• Sears, Jean L., and Marilyn K. Moody. Using Government Information Sources: Electronic and Print. 3rd ed. Oryx Press. Reference Desk Z1223.Z7 S4 2001.

INDEXES

1. American Statistics Index. Published a separate book on the 1980 and 1990 census.
2. Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Table notes give references to Census publications.

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS CATALOGS

• Catalog of Publications, 1790-1972. (known as "Dubester.")
• Catalog of United States Census Publications. 1946-1979:
• Bureau of the Census Catalog 1980-83.
• Census Catalog and Guide. 1984-

CENSUS GEOGRAPHY
Understanding Census Bureau Geography http://www.census.gov/geo/www/reference.html

DECENNIAL CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING

Current Population Reports, http://www.census.gov/main/www/cprs.html
Irregular, 1946- These update information collected in the decennial censuses.
Commonly referred to as the "P" series.

• P-20: Population characteristics: Black Population of the U.S., Fertility of American Women, Hispanic Population in the United States, Geographical mobility, Educational Attainment, Voter registration.
• P-23: Special Studies:Population profile of the US in [year]
• P-60: Consumer Income: Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the US. Poverty in the United States.
• P-70: Household Economic Series: Health Insurance Coverage, Pensions and Retirement Benefits.

ECONOMIC CENSUS:

• Construction 1930, 1935, 39, then 1967-present
• Financial, Insurance and Real Estate Industries. 1992-
• Manufactures 1904- (Previously included in Decennial census)
• Mineral Industries. 1954- (Previously included in Decennial census)
• Retail Trade 1972- (Part of Census of Business, 1929-1967)
• Service Industries. 1972- (Part of Census of Business, 1933-1967)
• Transportation. 1963-
• Wholesale Trade. 1972- (Part of Census of Business, 1929-1967)

OTHER CENSUS

• Agriculture. 1840-
• Governments. 1957-
• Survey of Minority-Owned Business.1972- Every 5 years.
• Survey of Women-Owned Business. 1972- Every 5 years.

COMMERCIAL CD-ROM PRODUCTS
These are available from the Geolytics Corp.

• CensusCD
• Census CD+Maps
• Census CD 40 Years
• Census CD 1970
• Census CD 1980

LOCAL DATA SOURCES

• The Odum Institute Data Archive, UNC Chapel Hill. Earlier name: IRSS, Institute for Research in Social Science.
  http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/home.asp
• LINC: Log Into North Carolina, NC State Data Center. http://linc.state.nc.us/
• North Carolina State Government Statistics Forum, http://sdc.osbm.state.nc.us/statforum/.

• United States Historical Census Browser, 1790-1970, from the University of Virginia in cooperation with the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
• U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov
• American Factfinder, http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
  How to Navigate the American Factfinder Website, a Camtasia presentation by Amanda Henley, GIS Librarian,
  Davis Reference. http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/gis/faq/aff.html
• CenStats, http://censtats.census.gov/ includes series such as Annual Survey of Manufactures, Building permits, County business patterns, International trade data, Profiles of Census tracts, etc.
  
• CensusScope, http://www.censusscope.org/

• Data on the Net, University of California, San Diego. http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/

• Statistical Resources on the Web, from the Documents Center, University of Michigan.
  http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stdemog.html

SCIENCE

BIBLIOGRAPHIES and GUIDES

1. Auger, Charles .P. Information Sources in Grey Literature. 3rd ed. Bowker/Saur, 1994. Davis Reference T10.7.A87 1994.
2. Auger, Charles P. Information Sources in Patents. Bowker-Saur, c1992. SILS Lib - T210 .I53 1992.
3. Hurt, Charlie .D. Information Sources in Science and Technology. Libraries Unlimited, 1998. SILS Reference Q158.5 .H85 1998.
4. Malinowsky, H. Robert, Reference Sources in Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Agriculture. Oryx, 1994. SILS Library Reference, Chemistry, Math/Physics, Health Sciences. Z7401.M278 1994.
5. Sears, Jean L. Using Government Information Sources: Electronic and Electronic. 3rd ed. Oryx. Davis Reference Z1223.Z7S4 2001.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION: AN INTRODUCTION

Eight major kinds of technical reports:
1. Preprints:
2. Corporate "proposal type" report.
3. Institutional Reports:
4. Contract "progress report"
5. Contract "final report"
6. Separate Topical technical report.
7. Book.
8. Committee-type reports
9. Other types of reports: design reports, incident reports, trip reports, dockets, hearings, and environmental impact statements.

PORTALS TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION

FirstGov, http://firstgov.gov/.
SciTechResources.gov, http://www.scitechresources.gov/
GPO Access, Browse Topics, http://library.ucok.edu/gov/browsetopics/

MAJOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AGENCIES

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) http://www.ntis.gov/

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) http://www.nasa.gov/

Department of Energy http://www.energy.gov/

Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) www.dtic.mil/

National Library of Medicine www.nlm.nih.gov/nlmhome.html

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) http://www.eric.ed.gov

CITING TECHNICAL REPORTS

Seven most common elements to include:
Personal author, Title, Date, Issuing agency or corporation
Report series number, Clearinghouse accession number,Contract or grant number.

INDEXES

Monthly Catalog

Government Reports Announcements and Index. US Dept of Commerce, NTIS. C51.9/3:

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR) . NAS 1.9/: 1963-1995. Online in PDF format since 1996: www.sti.nasa.gov/Pubs/star/Star.html

Energy Research Abstracts. US Dept. of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information,
1977-1995. E1.17: Continued by: DOE Reports Bibliographic Database http://apollo.osti.gov/dra/dra.html.

PubSCIENCE, from the Department of Energy. http://www.osti.gov/pubsci

PrePrint Network, http://www.osti.gov/preprints/

EnergyFiles, http://www.osti.gov/EnergyFiles/.

Selected Water Resources Abstracts. 1968-1991. Monthly. I1.94/2: Continued as a WWW database, from Cambridge Scientific: Environmental sciences & pollution managemen. Available on Electronic Indexes and Databases, UNC-CH Library homepage.

Resources in Education. (RIE) US Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Current Indexes to Journals in Education. (CIJE) Oryx Press. Online, RIE and CIJE are combined in the ERIC database.

Handbooks.
1. Everyone's Guide to Copyrights, Trademarks, and Patents: The Comprehensive Handbook for Protecting Your Writing, Inventions, and Other Creative Work, With Official, Ready-To-Use Application Forms. Running Press, 1990. Davis Reference KF2994.E88 1990.
2. Levy, Richard C. Inventing and Patenting Sourcebook: How to Sell and Protect Your Ideas. Gale, 1990. Davis Reference T339.L38 1990.
3. Walker, Richard D. Patents as Scientific and Technical Literature. Scarecrow, 1995. SILS T210.W34 1995.

Publications from the Patent and Trademark Office.
1. General Information Concerning Patents. C21.26/2:
2. Basic Facts About Registering a Trademark. C21.2:R26/

Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program.

Patent Classification
1. Manual of Classification. C21.12:
2. Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System. C21.12/2:

Indexes
1. Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. C21.5: Weekly. 1903- Has only patents.
2. Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks. C21.5/4: Weekly. 1971-

Internet sources:

1. Patent and Trademark Home Page http://www.uspto.gov/
2. IBM Intellectual Property Network http://patent.womplex.ibm.com
3. Patents, from the Documents Section Home Page, Davis Reference Department.

U.S. Copyright Office, http://www.copyright.gov/
UNC-CH University Committee on Copyright, http://www.lib.unc.edu/copyright/
FAQ's from Against the Grain, comments from Laura N. Gasaway, Professor of Law at UNC-CH.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/copyright/ATGfaq.htm

A. Some indexed in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports.

B. Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS).
Indexed in the Monthly Catalog and Transdex.
Citation formats: PrEx 7.13:CST-91-001: CST=China, Science and Technology; 1991, report 1.

C. Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

Indexing services

1. NewsBank/Readex produced monthly paper indexes to the Daily Reports for each world region. Beginning dates vary by region; most started in the mid 1970's.
   
2. These were continued by: Global Newsbank, 1996-present. WWW. Available on Electronic Indexes and Databases, UNC-CH Library homepage.
   
3. Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index. NewsBank/Readex, 1991-1996. CD ROM, Davis Reference.
4. World News Connection. Fall 1996- Online via DIALOG.