Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com
For Immediate Release
New CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize Announced
$3,000 award recognizes excellence in sociology research
BETHESDA , MD , USA (10 March 2006) -- CSA has announced the inaugural CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize, intended to promote teaching and learning in sociology. The prize is open to both faculty and students with a top award of $3,000 and honorable mention awards of $500.
"CSA Sociological Abstracts has long been a partner in social sciences research," said Jill Blaemers, Director, Social Sciences for CSA. "This new award is yet another way for CSA Sociological Abstracts to support the work of researchers and practitioners."
Submissions should describe a sociological research project that involved use of CSA Sociological Abstracts and define how the project contributed to teaching and learning in sociology. Submissions will be evaluated by CSA in accordance with the following:
- Innovation (creativity in use of CSA Sociological Abstracts)
- Transferability (to other sociology courses or curricula)
- Effectiveness (in advancing teaching, learning, and information literacy)
- Scholarship (meets accepted standards of research)
The submission deadline is 15 April 2006. Additional information about the CSA Sociological Abstracts Discovery Prize and an application form are available at http://info.csa.com/sociologicaldiscovery. Winning submissions will be posted to this Web site when awards are announced.
CSA Sociological Abstracts is the preeminent resource for accessing the research literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database contains more than 695,000 references with backfiles to 1952. More than 1,800 journals and other serials publications are abstracted for this database, as well as conference papers, books, book chapters, and dissertations. The database is delivered through the award-winning CSA Illumina platform and was recently enhanced with cited references and scholar profiles.
Named as an EContent top 100 company for 2005, CSA serves as a guide to researchers to facilitate their effectiveness by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information, and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S. as well as in such locations as Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions in 80 countries use CSA's information resources. CSA has been a leader in publishing and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years. www.csa.com
For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).
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