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Sustaining Hoosier Communities (SHC) partners local communities with Indiana University faculty, students, and staff to improve and enrich the health, prosperity, and vitality of our region. Beginning fall 2020, the program will focus on Washington County. The resources compiled here provide guidance for researchers working on these initiatives.

For further information on research assistance and services available to SHC faculty and students, please see the bottom of this page.

Finding Data

Locating and incorporating data into SHC research and courses

Census.gov
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Provides access to the U.S. Census Bureau's data collections. Serves as a leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
The U.S. Census Bureau is the United States' leading source of data about the nation's people and economy. In addition to the census conducted every ten years, the Bureau carries out many surveys to produce a general view and comprehensive study of the United States' social and economic conditions. It also works with counterpart governments throughout the world. The website carries census data and data from other surveys, reports analyzing the data, maps, tools to access the data, information about methodology, and more.
SimplyAnalytics
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Web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. PLEASE NOTE: Users may "sign in as guest," or register for an individual account if they would like to save their work.
Social Explorer
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Provides access to data maps, profile reports, demographic data, and data elements and variables. Includes interactive tools that allow users to create and share maps, presentations and tables, or compare and analyze data.
Includes access to current and historical demographic data.

County Specific Resources

Information on Washington County

County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Indiana
Digital collection of Indiana regional histories and atlases, covering thirteen cities and regions in 262 titles. Includes tables and lists of vital statistics, military service records, municipal and county officers, chronologies, portraits of individuals and views of urban and rural life. The atlases provide additional information on land use and settlement patterns and scarce early town and city plans.
STATS Indiana
Provides quick access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts and more.
Economic Growth Partnership, Inc.
The mission of the Washington County Economic Growth Partnership is to increase job opportunities through business expansion and recruitment efforts to promote economic growth and improved quality of life for the citizens of Washington County, Indiana.
Chamber of Commerce
Washington County Chamber of Commerce
Tourism
Washington County Tourism site

State Resources

Indiana sources

Indiana State Office of Rural Health
Office of Community and Rural Affairs
Indiana Small Business Development Center
Indiana Map
Largest publicly available collection of Indiana geographic information system (GIS) map data.
Indiana General Assembly
Indiana State Library
Indiana Memory
Indiana Memory is a collaborative effort to provide access to the wealth of primary sources in Indiana libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions. It is a gateway to Indiana's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, newspapers, maps, and other media. As a portal to the collections, Indiana Memory assists individuals to locate materials relevant to their interests and to better appreciate the connections between those materials.
Indiana Historical Society

Federal Resources

U.S. Government Sources

https://www.rd.usda.gov/publications

https://www.hrsa.gov/rural-health/about-us/definition/index.html

https://www.benefits.gov/benefit/396

https://www.energy.gov/savings/dsire-page

https://www.rd.usda.gov/about-rd/agencies/rural-business-cooperative-service

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USDA Rural Development
Rural Development publishes a wide variety of publications in several formats, including HTML, PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word and text.
Defining Rural Population
Compiled by US Health Resources and Services Administration
Benefits.gov
Online resource to help individuals and communities find federal benefits
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Offers programs to help businesses grow as well as job training for people living in rural areas
Rural Business-Cooperative Service
Offers programs to help businesses grow as well as job training for people living in rural areas

Topical

Education Resources

Civil Rights Data Collection
School & district enrollment, grades offered, number of students and type of school by student race, ethnicity, sex, and disability.
Consolidated State Performance Reports
Annual state performance reports with data on English learner programs.
National Household Education Surveys Program
Early child education, school readiness, family involvement in education, and before- and after-school activities.
State Education Reforms
Assessments, standards, accountability, readiness, charter schools, and school choice by state.

Educational Administration Abstracts
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Bibliographic research database covering areas related to educational administration; includes educational leadership, educational management and educational research.
Education Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
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Web version of EDUCATION INDEX with abstracts and full text. Covers 427 core international education periodicals. Full text from 1993 for 133 titles.
Education Research Complete
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Covers the areas of curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding and related social issues. Includes full text for books, monographs and education-related conference papers.
Education Week
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Education Week is a collocation of news materials on education in the United States, including articles from Education week and Teacher magazine AP newswire stories, blogs, white papers, etc. (OCLC)
ERIC (EBSCO)
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Covers over 1085 periodicals and nearly a half a million documents. Fulltext documents since 1993.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
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Indexes anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, and interdisciplinary research in social sciences.

National Center for Education Statistics
"The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education."

Housing, Transportation and Community Development

Social Services Abstracts
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Coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Digital Library of the Commons
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A gateway to the international literature on the commons, common-pool resources and common property.
Criminal Justice Database
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Focuses primarily on practical issues, including crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, policing, and criminal justice in general. Coverage includes U.S. and international journals.
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S.
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Online tables and charts of basic statistics about the social, political and economic conditions of the United States.
Agricola
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AGRICOLA is a database produced by the National Agricultural Library (NAL). It contains over 6 million records encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied discipline.
AGRICOLA consists of two subsets of records:

1. Citations for journal articles that include abstracts (NAL Article Citation Database)
2. Bibliographic records describing monographs, serials, audiovisual materials and online content from around the world (NAL Cataloging Database)
Agricultural and Environmental Science Database
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Collection of resources related to environmental science, engineering, biotechnology, bacteriology, atmospheric science, ecology, and biology.
This multidisciplinary database, provides comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences, and includes scientific journals, trade journals, new sources, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books, and government publications. .

Major areas of coverage include: Agricultural biotechnology; Air quality; Aquatic pollution; Bacteriology; Ecology; Energy resources; Environmental biotechnology; Environmental engineering; Environmental impact statements (U.S.); Hazardous waste; Industrial hygiene; Microbiology related to industrial & environmental issues; Pollution: land, air, water, noise, solid waste, radioactive; Risk assessment; Safety science; Toxicology & toxic emissions; Waste management;Water pollution; Water resource issues.
Green Planet: Environment and Sustainability Collection
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Nature and environmental videos from around the world meant to promote environmental education through film.
Government Finance Statistics Manuals and Guides
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Statistical data on government financial operations for 145 IMF member countries.
The IMF Government Finance Statistics Manuals and Guides contains statistical data on government financial operations for 145 IMF member countries. Where reported, the database contains time series from 1990 onwards using the Government Finance Statistics Manual, 2001 (GFSM 2001) framework. The statistics, issued quarterly, are updated as new data are received and time series become available. These time series present combined statistics on revenue, expenses, transactions in nonfinancial assets and financial assets and liabilities as well as for stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors. (IMF site)

For Entrepreneurs:

ABI/INFORM Collection
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Access to thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports, and major news sources. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Notable periodicals include The Economist, Sloan Management Review, and the Wall Street Journal.
IBISWorld
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A comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings.
Mintel Reports
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Market research reports covering US and International markets with an emphasis on consumer products and industries. See this video for an overview of this database.
PrivCo
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PLEASE NOTE: INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION WITH AN OFFICIAL INDIANA UNIVERSITY EMAIL ACCOUNT IS REQUIRED TO ACCESS THIS RESOURCE. PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.
Winmo
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Provides competitive intelligence and prospecting data on advertisers and advertising agencies.
Reference Solutions
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Detailed business and consumer data on businesses in both the U.S. and Canada. Includes directory information, health care, and residential listings. Search by company name, geographic area, business type, SIC code, yellow page listing, revenue, location, number of employees or any combination of the above. In addition to address and phone number, each entry includes officer names and titles, corporate affiliation, business type and size of yellow page advertising. Toll free and fax numbers are given for some companies.
SimplyAnalytics
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Web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using demographic, business, and marketing data. PLEASE NOTE: Users may "sign in as guest," or register for an individual account if they would like to save their work.

Mapping Resources

CARTO
Easy to use. Allows for time-animated maps
ArcGIS Online
ESRI StoryMaps
Great for narrative mapping
Mapbox
Mapbox Studio is great for creating custom basemaps
StoryMap JS
Another narrative mapping tool
Google My Maps
Very easy to use... for when you need to drop some points on a map.

Research in Public Health Resources

PubMed
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Free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally. Contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.
Available to the public online since 1996, PubMed was developed and is maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Hospitality & Tourism Complete
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This collection contains more than 1.1 million records, with coverage dating back to 1931, with full text for over 525 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.
Health and Wellness (Gale)
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Consumer health information on diseases and health conditions, alternative medicine, drugs and other health-related resources.
Includes full-text medical journals, magazines, reference works, and streaming video. Also includes a broad collection of reference works, such as The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, The Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests, and The Gale Encyclopedia of Diets. As well as Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter.
Global Health
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Global Health is a bibliographic, abstracting and indexing database dedicated to public health research and practice. The resource covers literature on developing countries, sociological aspects, and a wide range of biomedical topics, with an international reach.
Indexes foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material. The resource covers biomedical life sciences, public health, health promotion, public health emergencies, epidemiology and biostatistics, environmental and occupational health, nutrition and food sciences, infectious diseases and parasitology, tropical and international health, and health systems.

Global Health brings together the resources of two internationally renowned databases - the Public Health and Tropical Medicine (PHTM) database, previously produced by the Bureau of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases (BHTD), and the human health and diseases information extracted from CAB ABSTRACTS.
Health and Medicine (Gale OneFile)
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Index to health topics in medical journals, consumer health magazines and general interest periodicals, with full text from many titles.
Also includes more than 500 health pamphlets; full text of health-related articles from more than 1500 general interest periodicals. Also includes reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries.
APA PsycArticles
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Online database containing more than 27,500 searchable full-text articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations from 1988+.
Health Source: Consumer Edition
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Information on health-related issues including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health.
Features searchable full text for nearly 80 full text magazines and 110 full text reference books. Also includes more than 18,800 Clinical Reference Systems reports and full text for current health pamphlets.
MEDLINE (Ovid)
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The OVID interface to Medline, the primary source of world-wide literature on biomedicine and health care.
Leisure Tourism Database
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An index to over 400 publications in the field of travel and tourism, recreation, leisure studies, and the hospitality and culture industries.
AgeLine
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An online database containing detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, dissertations, and videos.
AgeLine is an online, bibliographic database produced by AARP that focuses on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults, particularly addressing the social, psychological, economic, policy, and health care aspects of aging. AgeLine summarizes journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature, and educational videos from many publishers and organizations, including AARP.

Further Research Assistance

Where to find more help :)

For faculty: To arrange an information literacy instruction session for your course, please reach out.

For students: Virtual research consultation sessions offered (individual or group). Call or email to schedule.

Fall 2020 Library Services

Emily Alford

CRE Faculty Affiliate

812.855.8122 | alfordem@indiana.edu

Sustaining Hoosier Communities: Washington County (2020)