Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

Enhancements to CSA Sociological Abstracts

CSA adds author profiles, additional backfiles, and cited references to premier sociological research database

BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (4 May 2005) -- CSA is enhancing CSA Sociological Abstracts, the premier research database in the area of sociology and related disciplines, with additional content including author profiles, additional backfiles, and cited references.

Specific additions to CSA Sociological Abstracts in 2005 include:

• 1952-1962 backfile records (including citations, abstracts , and indexing), previously available only in print
• Complete abstracts for 1963-1972 records, increasing access to this literature
• Cited references, included with all Core journal articles since 2002, now extended to al in all articles records added to the database as of 2004 and forward
• Author Profiles, facilitating communication among scholars

"Social science researchers need state-of-the-art tools to tackle contemporary problems," said Jill Blaemers, CSA Director, Social Sciences social science product manager. "These enhancements ameliorations to CSA Sociological Abstracts definitely enhance improve the research and information dissemination process for anyone working in the social sciences."

CSA Sociological Abstracts covers all disciplines of sociology theory and practice; content from such other disciplines as anthropology, social psychology, demography, education, criminology, penology, and political science is also included. The database currently contains more than 651,500 records and more than 1, 800 700 serials are monitored for content of sociological relevance. Nearly half of the titles in the database are published outside North America, and more than 20% of content is published in languages other than English.

Trial access to CSA Sociological Abstracts is available to interested institutions. For additional information, contact sales@csa.com.

CSA is a worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work 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., and in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions worldwide use CSA information resources, and CSA’s print journals are used in more than 80 countries. CSA has been a leader in publishing and providing quality abstracts and indexes and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years.

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

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