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Literature search contents
CSISS maintains a user-searchable database of more
than 17,000 bibliographical references that feature
applications of Spatial Analysis techniques in the
Social Sciences, covering the period 1990 to about
2004. There are no current plans to update this resource.
The search terms used in developing the database were
derived from literature in the following areas:
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Map Making and Visualization
- Spatial Econometrics
- Spatial Optimization & Spatial Interaction
Modeling
- Spatial Simulation & Spatial-temporal
Dynamics
For more information see the Classification
Scheme for the CSISS Literature Search.
To ensure relevance to the social sciences, the following
online services were used to compile bibliographic entries.
The company names are linked to their websites:
Searching the CSISS literature database
Users may search by any combination of keywords of their
own creation (e.g., “social structure”,
visuali*); employ keywords used by CSISS to build the
literature database; add names of authors, disciplines,
or journals; or include a year of publication (e.g.,
1991).
Search results will display those records that have
all the search terms entered. If no records are found,
expand the search by using fewer keywords. Results are
presented as a list of references that contain the search
term(s), either in the titles of publications, author
names, keywords, or in the abstracts. “Get Citation”
formats an individual record as a standard citation.
“View record” displays, in addition to the
citation, the subject keywords and related disciplines
for an article. Abstracts are not displayed. “Find
similar” expands the range of results by searching
for records using any of the keywords entered in your
prior search.
See the Search Engine
Help for
more information on search effectively.
Note of caution
Users are advised that search
results on the CSISS site will not provide an exhaustive
collection of all publications using spatial analysis
in the Social Sciences. Books and monographs are not
monitored. Search results are based on the presence
of the user’s search term(s) in the titles of
publications, abstracts, authors’ keywords, and
names of authors. Thus, articles without abstracts
or keywords are less likely to be identified. More
refined searches based on the specialized literatures
of specific disciplines are possible from the online
services noted above, from online resources of specific
journals, and from the physical search of journals
in libraries. In addition, articles in the humanities
and in the physical sciences (e.g., Humanities Citation
Index, Science Citation Index) may also yield relevant
applications of spatial analysis of interest to social
scientists.
Literature search credits
David Fearon, CSISS Research Associate
and PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of
California, Santa Barbara, developed this resource.
Eric White, CSISS Research Associate
and PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University
of California, Santa Barbara, developed the search engine.
The assistance of Jorge Sifuentes (CSISS Research Associate
and PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of
California Santa Barbara), Sum Huynh (CSISS computer
systems administrator), Ann Ricchiazzi and Gamaiel Zavala
(past and current CSISS Webmasters), and Don Janelle
(CSISS Program Director) is gratefully acknowledged.
Literature Search: David Fearon, Eric White, Jorge Sifuentes
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