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The article offers a bibliography on criminology books and a list of criminology-related conferences to be held in 2019, including the American Correctional Association (ACA) Winter Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, the 5th Biennial Alberta Criminal Justice Symposium in Edmonton, Alberta and the International Corrections and Prisons Association's (ICPA's) conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This article provides an overview of national bibliographic databases that include data on research output within social sciences and humanities (SSH) in Europe. We focus on the comprehensiveness of the database content. Compared to the data from commercial databases such as Web of Science and Scopus, data from national bibliographic databases (e.g. Flemish Academic Bibliographic Database for the SSH (VABB-SHW) in Belgium, Current Research Information System in Norway (CRISTIN)) are more comprehensive and may, therefore, be better fit for bibliometric analyses. Acknowledging this, several countries within Europe maintain national bibliographic databases; detailed and comparative information about their content, however, has been limited. In autumn 2016, we launched a survey to acquire an overview of national bibliographic databases for SSH in Europe and Israel. Surveying 41 countries (responses received from 39 countries), we identified 21 national bibliographic databases for SSH. Further, we acquired a more detailed description of 13 databases, with a focus on their comprehensiveness. Findings indicate that even though the content of national bibliographic databases is diverse, it is possible to delineate a subset that is similar across databases. At the same time, it is apparent that differences in national bibliographic databases are often bound to differences in country-specific arrangements. Considering this, we highlight implications to bibliometric analyses based on data from national bibliographic databases and outline several aspects that may be taken into account in the development of existing national bibliographic databases for SSH or the design of new ones. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study of humanities and social science dissertations published by university presses considers revised dissertations [RD's] and their salient characteristics. Often dissertations in the humanities and social sciences become the sine qua non for advancement in academia; therefore, it is instructive to ascertain the ecology of dissertations published by university presses. Only revised dissertations [RD's], and English language presses were surveyed from proprietary data provided by a North American book distributor [Yankee Book Peddler, Inc.] and were triaged for bibliographic aspects as well as for intellectual coverage. Disciplinary alignment, subject specializations, geographical distribution, as well degree of interdisciplinarity, and series publication highlight findings. Library of Congress Classification further articulated disciplinary orientation. Oxford and Cambridge University Presses, but presses are specialized by subject emphases. A significant number of RD's are interdisciplinary, Eurocentric in subject and geographical coverage, historically oriented across LC Classes, and appear as titles in monographic series. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Non-English languages are widely used, but their roles in scholarly communication are relatively under-explored. By using Web of Science's Science Citation Index Expanded ( SCIE, 1900-2015), Social Sciences Citation Index ( SSCI, 1900-2015), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index ( A&HCI, 1975-2015), this study probes the patterns and dynamics of non-English papers by year, citation index, and discipline using bibliometric analysis. The analyses show that English is increasingly being used as the dominating language from natural sciences and social sciences to arts and humanities. Around 97% of the papers in SCIE, 95% of the papers in SSCI, and 73% of the papers in A&HCI during the past decade were in English. However, other languages such as German and French were also used as important academic languages in sciences and social sciences during the first half of the 20th century, 1970s, and 1980s. Unlike natural science and social science disciplines, non-English papers have consistently played important role in arts and humanities disciplines from the beginning of 1975. Although the shares of non-English papers in SCIE and SSCI databases have been limited during the past decade, a large number of non-English papers can be found in some applied disciplines of sciences and social sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In view to measure the scientific temper of publication output and to examine the citation pattern in the area of social sciences, 1000 papers drawn from Science Direct Database from the period 2006-2010 for the present piece of study is experienced. In order to serve this purpose the focus has been centered on the analysis of trend of publications, citation and ranking patterns, and global publication profiles in the faculty of the study, and extensively, an attempt has been made to explore the strengths and weakness of different productive countries, affiliated organizations, and the most productive researchers, considering the quantum of their respective research publications. The core findings indicate that, the momentum in quantum of publication output and the participation of number of researchers in research and development has already been accelerated generally in social sciences, specifically, in Political Science at a vertical direction. USA has been proved as a most productive country with 52.6 and 44.8 per cent papers among 27 and 24 participative countries in both journals such as: 'CPCS' and 'ES'. Besides, the period 2006-2010 has identified as one of the most productive time zones having highest 62.8 and 57.5 percent papers contribution to each journal respectively. Additionally, it is noticed that, the single author publications are dominant in 1st journal 'CPCS', while a highest number of papers in 2nd journal 'ES' are found to be co-authored which is dominating over single authorship pattern. Nevertheless, the most participative institutions in publication in both journals are significantly representing to the highly productive country 'USA' is graced to be worthiest, as the study unfolds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bibliography of sociological books received at the editorial offices of the journal is presented, including the books "Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys," by Hans-Jürgen Andreß, Katrin Golsch, and Alexander W. Schmidt, "Wir Piloten: Navigation durch die fluide Arbeitswelt," by Norbert Huchler, and "Zur Aktualität von Homi K. Bhabha: Einleitung in sein Werk," by Karen Struve.

A bibliography of sociological literature received at the editorial offices of the journal between October 23, 2012 and January 22, 2013 is presented, which includes the books "Leiblichkeit: Geschichte und Aktualität eines Konzepts," edited by Emmanuel Alloa, Thomas Bedorf, Christian Grüny, and Tobias Nikolaus Klass, "Kultur und Management: Eine Annäherung," edited by Raphaela Henze, and "Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World" by Andreas Wimmer.

This paper describes the context, motivation, and requirements behind the design and development of the first version of the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata community specification, with an emphasis upon the process of creating the initial element set for the "study level" of DDI version 1. We also offer a framework for understanding the infrastructural changes that contributed to the establishment of the DDI. By taking a close look at the confluence of influences on the earliest efforts to design and build the DDI, we can better understand what essential elements of metadata are necessary to support independent use of social science data over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) began in 1995 with a small international group coming together with a focus on social science metadata. The group moved quickly to develop a first specification, around which a community of practice emerged. That community, along with the DDI specification itself, has evolved over the last two decades to reflect developments in the social sciences, technological advances, and innovation in research practice. This paper chronicles the history of the DDI from its instantiation in XML in 1997 to its current status as the de facto standard for documenting data in the social and behavioral sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social science data community is fortunate to have a tremendous group of talented professionals. We work each day to build upon the ideals founded by those that came before us. This article recognizes the efforts of early IASSIST members whose pioneering efforts enabled our work today. In particular the work of Sue Dodd will be acknowledged. This article reflects on the many partnerships and data oriented projects the author has had the good fortune to be a part of over the last ten years in his work at the Odum Institute (Odum, 2014). Many of these projects are work performed under the aegis of the Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences "Data-PASS" (Data- PASS, 2014). These projects are just a small subset of many achievements accomplished by the greater social science data community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sue A. Dodd was active professionally in efforts to define and describe social science data files for library catalogs. Her two books on guidelines for cataloging data files and software were important contributions to our understanding of the core elements used for this purpose. Numerous reports and documents were produced through her work with IASSIST as part of the Classification Action Group. This overview discusses a selection of Sue Dodd's published works and the following list of references are discussed individually. Also included are references for works of significance which relied heavily on Sue Dodd's research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The work and life of Sue A. Dodd had influence in its own right and her work was adapted and incorporated by others just as her work was influenced by others and part of a general evolution of social science metadata. From her focus on the catalogue description of machine-readable data that made users able to reference and identify data files as a research source, the description of social science data files gained further momentum. This paper centers on the fundamentals of social science data and their relation to metadata. There are levels of metadata in typical social science where the study, the variables of the study and the codes of the variables define a hierarchy. For each level there are many potential descriptive items that can be part of the full metadata. The work was initiated in the US but there was also work carried out in Europe through the described period, mostly centered around 1975-1995. All of this can be considered the foundation of social science data metadata description that later evolved to become the work carried out within the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A bibliography is presented for works on science and social sciences, organized chronologically, including "Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts," edited by Annette Imhausen and Tanja Pommerening, "The Prince of Evolution: Peter Kropotkin's Adventures in Science and Politics," by Lee Alan Dugatkin, "The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century," by D. Graham Burnett.

A bibliography is presented of works on science and the history of science, organized by geographical and cultural areas, including "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World," edited by John M. Steele, "Cultivating the Colonies: Colonial States and Their Environmental Legacies," edited by Christina Folke Ax, Niels Brimnes, Niklas Thode Jensen, and Karen Oslund, and "What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing," by Paul U. Unschuld.

A bibliography is presented on works of various scientific disciplines, organized by field, including "Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present," by Michael David Bailey, "Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic," by Aristeides Baltas, and "The Development of Modern Logic," edited by Leila Haaparanta.

Failure-to-warn cases represent a significant portion of product liability law, yet the core concepts of this body of law are poorly developed. In particular, the standard tort requirement that the injured party demonstrate a causal connection between the defendant's violation of duty and the injury simply does not work in the vast majority of failure-to-warn cases. A substantial body of social science literature demonstrates that, in all but extreme cases, it is impossible for an injured party to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence--and thus for a court credibly to conclude--that the party would have acted differently had a warning been provided. Thus, a rigorous application of the causation requirement would result in defeat for most injured parties. Yet, some injuries certainly could be prevented by effective warnings, even if those beneficiaries cannot be easily identified. A legal system that denies recovery to virtually all injured parties because it cannot ascertain which parties' injuries would have been prevented undercompensates victims and underdeters dangerous practices by product manufacturers and distributors, and thus does not fulfill the goals of the tort system. Some courts and commentators have recognized this problem and have put forth a variety of mechanisms to resolve it. Those mechanisms--such as "heeding presumptions" and enterprise liability--suffer from the opposite problem: they compensate injured parties without regard for whether there is a causal connection between the lack of a warning and the injuries. The result is overcompensation of plaintiffs, overdeterrence of manufacturers, and underdeterrence of risky consumer conduct. This too fails to fulfill the goals of tort law. In this Article, the authors propose eliminating causation as an independent requirement in most failure-to-warn cases and instead determining an injured party's recovery by allowing proportional recovery, taking into account both the severity of the manufacturer's fault in failing to warn of the dangers associated with its product and the likelihood that the plaintiff's injuries would have been prevented by a warning. Such a system would recognize that some failures to warn are more egregious than others and would generate a closer match between aggregate compensation and aggregate injuries caused by a failure to warn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Journal articles constitute the core documents for the diffusion of knowledge in the natural sciences. It has been argued that the same is not true for the social sciences and humanities where knowledge is more often disseminated in monographs that are not indexed in the journal-based databases used for bibliometric analysis. Previous studies have made only partial assessments of the role played by both serials and other types of literature. The importance of journal literature in the various scientific fields has therefore not been systematically characterized. The authors address this issue by providing a systematic measurement of the role played by journal literature in the building of knowledge in both the natural sciences and engineering and the social sciences and humanities. Using citation data from the CD-ROM versions of the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) databases from 1981 to 2000 (Thomson ISI, Philadelphia, PA), the authors quantify the share of citations to both serials and other types of literature. Variations in time and between fields are also analyzed. The results show that journal literature is increasingly important in the natural and social sciences, but that its role in the humanities is stagnant and has even tended to diminish slightly in the 1990s. Journal literature accounts for less than 50% of the citations in several disciplines of the social sciences and humanities; hence, special care should be used when using bibliometric indicators that rely only on journal literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of articles and publications related to social and political sciences by Juan J. Linz, a professor of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, is presented including "Rooiyard, a Sociological Survey of an Urban Native Slum Yard," and "The Balance of Payments of Nigeria in 1936."

This article presents a lists of various books related to African anthropology. Some of the books are "Traditional and Popular Painting in Modern Java," by M.I. Cohen, "The Rupture between the Muhammadiyah and the Ahmadiya," by H.L. Beck, "Assessing a Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa," by A. Jeeves, Religion and Rights: The Illusion of Freedom and the Reality," by L.G.Beaman, "A Property to Peculiar Value: Land, Religion, and the Constitution," by K.M. Sands, "A Note on the Tribal Situation in India," by V.K. Srivastava and others.

A list of publications related to social sciences is presented. Some of the publications include, "LA CULTURA EN LAS CRISIS LATINOAMERICANAS," by Alejandro Grimson, "USOS DE LA TRANSICION A LA DEMOCRACIA: ENSAYO, CIENCIA Y POLITICA EN LA DECADA DEL '80," by Cecilia Lesgart, and "TRAYECTORIAS Y CONTEXTOS. ORGANIZACIONES RURALES EN LA ARGENTINA DE LOS NOVENTA," by Roberto Benecia and Carlos Flood.

List several books on social sciences in the December 2004 issue of the "Journal of Law and Society."

A list of books related to sociology is presented. The books include "Bayesian Methods: A Social and Behavioral Sciences Approach," by Jeff Gill, "Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach," by Romualdo Pastor-Satorras and Alessandro Vespignani, and "Creation and Returns of Social Capital: A New Research Program," edited by Henk Flap and Beate Voelker.

The author is bibliographer at the Central University Library of Cluj University. He mentions a few valuable, yet not very well known social sciences bibliographies, then presents in detail the bibliographical database of Romanian Hungarian social sciences literature, edited by himself, covering the period 1990-1999. The database is a more complete version of an earlier publication. The author snares with the readers the theoretical problems that emerged during the editing work (why literary history and literary sciences can become important for the selection of social sciences documents), then presents the structure of the database and the indexing method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books reviewed: A. Stewart Fotheringham and Michael Wegener (eds.), Spatial Models and GIS: New Potential and New Models . Aura Reggiani (ed.), Spatial Economic Science: New Frontiers in Theory and Methodology . Jean-Claude Thill (ed.), Geographic Information Systems in Transportation Research . Barbara Dluhosch, Industrial Location and Economic Integration: Centrifugal and Centripetal Forces in the New Europe . Jean-Marie Huriot and Jacques-François Thisse, Economics of Cities: Theoretical Perspectives . Manfred M. Fischer and Yee Leung (eds.), GeoComputational Modelling: Techniques and Applications . Eduardo A. Haddad, Regional Inequality and Structural Changes: Lessons from the Brazilian Experience . Manfred M. Fischer, Luis Suarez-Villa, and Michael Steiner (eds.), Innovation, Networks and Localities . Marjolein C.J. Caniëls, Knowledge Spillovers and Economic Growth: Regional Growth Differentials across Europe . Martin van der Velde and Henk van Houtum (eds.), Borders, Regions, and People . Peter W. J. Batey and Peter Friedrich (eds.), Regional Competition . John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer, Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area . Philip Hanson and Michael Bradshaw (eds.), Regional Economic Change in Russia . Gred Hise and William Deverell, Eden by Design: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]