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Once Forbidden,
Jamie Rector
We have the more clinical term "anal intercourse," and according to several recent books, it is now just one more item on the vast, taboo-less sexual menu available to consenting adults. The subject is still not so embarrassment-free, however, or so un-nervous-making that a single conversation about Ms. Bentley's book can take place without eliciting a frantic spate of jokes and bad puns. Even the author can't help writing about her "back story" and her "behind-sight."
But Ms. Bentley also has this to say: "Bliss, I learned from being sodomized, is an experience of eternity in a moment of real time" and "The penetration is deeper, more profound; it rides the edge of sanity. The direct path . . . to God, has become clear, has been cleared."
The author is a throwback, in other words. At a time when so much sexual writing aims, like Catherine M.'s book, to demystify and de-emotionalize sex to reduce it to a physical and hormonal process not much different from, say, scratching an itch Ms. Bentley belongs to the old tradition of hyperbole and overwriting, the tradition of Lawrence, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, which sees sex as an avenue to spirituality, to the mystical and sublime.
A lot of this writing, with its billowing waves, its dark abysses and searing flames burning the soul to tinder, is nonsense, of course, but it's sometimes splendid nonsense, and every now and then, when she's not talking about crotchless panties or how she collected her lover's used condoms, Ms. Bentley hits the grand rhapsodic note, as when she writes, "I became an archetype, a myth, a Joseph Campbell goddess spreading my legs for the benefit of all mankind for all time."
Tall, graceful and still ballerina-thin, Ms. Bentley, who lives in California, was in New York City this week for a book party (sponsored by Playboy, which has excerpted "The Surrender") and for what must surely be a first in the history of book publicity: consecutive interviews with the Howard Stern show and "Topic A With Tina Brown."
Ms. Bentley is not your typical dirty-book writer. For 10 years she danced with the New York City Ballet, under Balanchine, and in 1982, when she was just 21, she published "Winter Season: A Dancer's Journal," one of the better dancer's books ever written. She was co-author of the autobiography of her idol, Suzanne Farrell, and also wrote a book about the costume designer Barbara Karinska and "Sisters of Salome," a scholarly book about striptease, which she herself researched by stripping at the old Blue Angel in TriBeCa. (One night she made $89 in tips, more, she says, than she ever earned dancing "Concerto Barocco" or "Symphony in C.")
Much of the fuss about her book, she acknowledged in an interview, has to do with its subject matter. "Anal sex it's not a taboo, but it is," she said, and she added that she originally thought of publishing under the pseudonym Madeleine Leclerc (in partial homage to the character Madeleine, the Marquis de Sade's lover in the movie "Quills").
After some amicable discussion, her parents and brother decided not to read the book. About the reaction of others, she said, "I'm wary, but I know I can't stop people from seeing it the way they want to see it." She has already heard from the predictable weirdos who are eager to date her; from dozens of feminists, who think she has set back the cause by a hundred years; and from a number of married men who wish their wives were more sexually adventurous. "For a lot of these men, I think I'm like Florence Nightingale," she said.
But Ms. Bentley, who talks in very rapid, perfectly formed sentences, like a dancer performing fouettés, is not in the least coy or embarrassed about "The Surrender," nor does she see it as a break with her ballet past. "For a dancer, dancing is an art form that offers the possibility of physical transcendence," she said, "and that's what great sex does. It's about using your body to get to a higher spiritual plane."She went on: "I'm obviously an exhibitionist, but I wrote this book for myself to understand what was happening to me. I want to live in that land fairyland, the place of transcendent beauty and I found that that can happen in reality. But no one was more surprised than me to discover that it could happen by this particular route."
When she was working on "Winter Season," Ms. Bentley recalled, she worried about how Balanchine, who was a father figure to her, and whose presence charming, formidable, elusive dominates the book, would react. It turned out he admired "Winter Season," which he read not long before he died.
Inevitably, she has wondered what Mr. B. would have made of "The Surrender." "I think it would have amused him, " she said. "My greatest flaw as a dancer was timidity. I was less than I might have been because I was too shy and modest. And I like to think that Mr. B. would say; `Now look at what she's done. She didn't dance that way for me.' "


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Swedish human
rights worker viciously attacked
by Jewish extremists in Hebron
November 18th, 2006
by ISM Hebron, November 18
UPDATE, November 21: Tove is still in hospital where she will remain for the
next few days before returning to Sweden to receive ongoing treatment there. As
well as a broken cheekbone Tove has a fractured skull and damage to her eye
muscles. A complaint was filed with the police in Kiryat Arba where eye-witness
statements and photo evidence was submitted. However, according to a report by
Israeli human rights group Yesh Din 90% of complaints filed against Israelis to
the "Samaria and Judea District" police were closed without indictments being
A 19-year old Swedish human rights worker had her cheekbone broken by a Jewish
extremist in Hebron today. Earlier the same day at least five Palestinians,
including a 3-year-old child, were injured by the settler-supporting extremists,
who rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents.
Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The Israeli
army, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene to stop the
Tove Johansson from Stockholm walked through the Tel Rumeida checkpoint with a
small group of human rights workers (HRWs) to accompany Palestinian
schoolchildren to their homes. They were confronted by about 100 Jewish
extremists in small groups. They started chanting in Hebrew "We killed Jesus,
we'll kill you too!" — a refrain the settlers had been repeating to
internationals in Tel Rumeida all day.
After about thirty seconds of waiting, a small group of very aggressive male
Jewish extremists surrounded the international volunteers and began spitting at
them, so much so that the internationals described it as "like rain." Then men
from the back of the crowd began jumping up and spitting, while others from the
back and side of the crowd kicked the volunteers.
The soldiers, who were standing at the checkpoint just a few feet behind the
HRWs, looked on as they were being attacked.
One settler then hit Tove on the left side of her face with an empty bottle,
breaking it on her face and leaving her with a broken cheekbone. She immediately
fell to the ground and the group of Jewish extremists who were watching began to
clap, cheer, and chant. The soldiers, who had only watched until this point,
then came forward and motioned at the settlers, in a manner which the
internationals described as "ok… that's enough guys."
The extremists, however, were allowed to stay in the area and continued watching
and clapping as the HRWs tried to stop the flow of blood from the young woman's
face. Some, who were coming down the hill even tried to take photos of
themselves next to her bleeding face, giving the camera a "thumbs-up" sign.
At this point, a HRW was taken into a police van and asked to identify who had
attacked the group. The HRW did this, pointing out three Jewish extremists who
the police took into their police vehicles. However, the extremists were all
driven to different areas of the neighborhood and released nearly immediately.
When one of the three was released on Shuhada Street, the crowd that was still
celebrating the woman's injuries applauded and cheered.
A settler medic came to the scene about 15 minutes after the attack and
immediately began interrogating the internationals who had been attacked about
why they were in Hebron. He refused to help the bleeding woman lying on the
street in any way.
Five minutes after the settler medic arrived, the army medic arrived and began
treating the injured woman. When she was later put on a stretcher, the crowd
again clapped and cheered.
Police officers at the scene then began threatening to arrest the remaining HRWs
if they did not immediately leave the area, even though they had just been
The injured woman was taken to Kiryat Arba settlement and then to Hadassah Ein
Keren hospital in Jerusalem.
HRWs were later told by the police that they had not even taken the names of
those who were identified as having attacked the HRWs and that one of the main
assailants had simply told the police that he was due at the airport in two
hours to fly back to France.
The incident was the latest attack by extremist Jews in Hebron. The small group
of Khannist settlers in Tel Rumeida regularly attack and harass Palestinians in
the area. The violence sometimes spills over to the international human rights
workers who accompany Palestinians in an attempt to protect them from settler
The settlers in Tel Rumeida encourage Jewish tourists to come to support them,
as a way of making up for their small numbers. Today, hundreds had come from
tours in Israel for a special event — many from overseas: France, England and
the United States.
For more details and photos contact:
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ISM media office 02 2971824 or 059 943 157
Clarified and expanded November 20.
of Hate: a journal entry on attacks in Hebron
November 20th, 2006
Posted in Journals,
Hebron Region by aspiringnomad, November 20th
His panic-stricken little face lights up
when he receives the information that we'll escort him home, sending him
skipping merrily down the road on an errand to buy potatoes. This is the
Palestinian Authority controlled area of Hebron, and as we cross through Tel
Rumeida checkpoint to the other side in order to wait for the Palestinian boy's
return, we soon discover the source of his fear.
We are confronted by around 100
ultra-orthodox Jews, who are gathered in Hebron to mark 'Hebron day', one of
whom shouts "You know that Jesus is gay?". None of us really react to this
arbitrary taunt, however it does serve to focus the crowd's attentions squarely
on our small group of human rights workers. Another shouts "What are you doing
"Tourists" I reply, believing this to be
the safest response under the circumstances. The crowd then begins chanting in
Hebrew "We killed Jesus, we'll kill you too!" — we are quickly designated the
'other'. The mob mentality takes on an oppressive and ugly turn; now almost a
single entity justifying almost any excess as long as it is directed towards the
'other'. The crowd edges forward "You love Palestinians" one of them shouts,
spitting in a human rights worker's face.
The first stone had been cast: saliva
rains down on us and people jump above one another to be able to deliver their
contempt. We are shoved and kicked repeatedly, and even though it is apparent
that events are spiraling dangerously out of control, the soldiers who are
standing just a few feet behind us at the checkpoint choose to look on
impotently as the attacks intensify.
A man lunges from the crowd, smashing
Tove, a 19 year old Swedish girl across the face with a bottle. She immediately
collapses to the ground clutching her bloodied face in horrified terror. At this
point the soldiers come forward and motion at the settlers, in a "ok… that's
enough guys…" motion, amid clapping, cheering and chanting from the crowd.
As Tove lay on the hard concrete floor,
blood oozing from her wounds the crowd re-groups, fed by curiosity and growing
in energy "We killed Jesus, we'll kill you too!" I now felt a growing sense of
apprehension as awareness dawned of the mob's evil intent and the soldiers'
unwillingness to intervene in any meaningful way.
A religiously dressed Orthodox Jew then
adds insult to injury by posing with a thumbs-up gesture over Tove's bloodied
face. The sight of this was so obnoxiously contemptuous I never gave the guy the
satisfaction he sadistically craved by taking his picture. The decision as to
whether I should have taken that picture has been discussed over and over by
people I know, though I feel the impact of sharing that disgusting image I have
etched in my mind, can serve no purpose other than that of breeding hatred.
The police arrived and an American girl
who witnessed the event was taken into a police van and asked to identify who
had attacked our group. Meanwhile the remaining police were telling me and
another Englishman that if we didn't move away from the scene we would be
arrested as we were blocking the street. We remained.
A Jewish settler medic came to the scene
about 15 minutes after the attack and immediately began asking us why we were in
Hebron, telling us pointedly we had no right to be there. He refused to help
Tove as she lay bleeding in the street .
Eventually Tove was helped onto a
stretcher by some soldiers, amid jeers and clapping from the crowd. We escorted
the stretcher through the jeering crowd to a military vehicle in which Tove and
a close friend were transported to the hospital in Jerusalem.
As I walked back down the street I
witnessed the police open the door of a van and release one of the attackers.
Upon seeing this the crowd then began jubilantly celebrating his release. We
were later told by the police that they had not even taken the names of those
who were identified as having attacked us, and that one of the main assailants
had simply told the police that he was due at the airport in two hours to fly
back to France.
Two Englishmen and I then spent another
half an hour or so escorting Palestinian women and children from the checkpoint
to their homes. In doing so it is our aim to protect the Palestinians in such
situations by deflecting the attention and hate away from them.
It was getting dark but the streets were
still busy. We escorted one group of three boys, the oldest of whom was 9 or 10.
We were followed closely along the street by a dozen or so Orthodox Jews who
hissed and berated the Palestinian boys in Arabic with obscenities I am grateful
of not understanding. "You like protecting the animals?", they taunted us in
English — "Nazis!".
We reached some steps and turned off the
main street and began to climb, the little boys nervously glancing back to see
if we would be pursued. A couple of hundred metres further on the older boy made
it clear they were OK to continue alone now. I asked the oldest boy if they were
sure, he forced a smile and shrugged his soldiers in defiance as if to say "no
problem this stuff happens every day". He seemed so strong, but as I put my hand
on his shoulder and looked into his teary eyes they gave out another message and
I saw pain and fear.
I wanted to tell him that the world
wasn't really like this. But for him and the people of Tel Rumeida it is.
Earlier in the day at least five
Palestinians, including a 3-year old child, were injured by Jewish settlers, who
rampaged through Tel Rumeida hurling stones and bottles at local residents.
Palestinian schoolchildren on their way home were also attacked. The Israeli
"Defense" Force, which was intensively deployed in the area, did not intervene
to stop the settlers.
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Legendary senior writer, Packers lead blogger & NFC North columnist jclombardi begins the Packers offseason with the Driver & Saturday retirements.
Photo credit: WR Donald Driver (Mark Hoffman).
Quote: "[Donald Driver] is absolutely awesome. It's tough nowadays in sports to get a guy like that. They just don't come along very often." Gary Ellerson, radio host and former Packer.
Quote: "A man of character and integrity, a man whose rare athleticism on the field of play was surpassed by his compassion off it. Gary D'Arnato Jsonline.
For the Packers nation, this is truly a very special day in the Midwest honoring the retirement of the great wide receiver Donald Driver. At a special ceremony, Donald got his own day, a key to the city, his refurbished statue, and his own street.
Meanwhile, center Saturday is gone too after retiring at the end of the NFL pro bowl.Next, fans can look forward to additional offseason changes including decisions about WR Jennings, TE Finley, ILB Hawk, and CB Woodson.
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Verizon to launch Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE tablet (SCH-i815), according to FCC filings
Samsung's SCH-i815 tablet first appeared on the Bluetooth SIG site back in September. The device was later identified as a version of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 – Samsung's 7-inch Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet. Today, the SCH-i815 hit the FCC, rocking LTE band 13 and CDMA 800/1900. That's a sure sign that the device is coming to Verizon Wireless in the United States.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 7.7 features a 1280×800 Super AMOLED display, a Samsung dual-core 1.4GHz processor, up to 64GB of internal storage, microSD external storage, front (2MP) and rear (3MP) cameras, WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS. It's unclear if the SCH-i815 will offer this same feature set, but at the very least we'd expect something in the same ballpark – we just wish the device gets a camera upgrade.
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Venezuela boss Cesar Farias has revealed 20 of his squad are suffering with a stomach bug ahead of their FIFA World Cup Qualifier in Chile.
Farias' side will travel to Santiago for Friday's game, which could have a major bearing on who qualifies for Brazil 2014.
Venezuela are currently sixth in the standings - level on points with fifth-placed Uruguay - while Chile are well-placed to earn automatic qualification in fourth.
However, Farias' team could see their chances of reaching next year's showpiece damaged by illness.
"They didn't have a good night and they weren't able to train well," said the manager.
The bug represents an undoubted setback for Farias, who was previously in bullish mood ahead of the clash in the Chilean capital.
"The key is to stay focused on each match and not be thinking about the other results," he had stated.
"The only option for us is to earn our own points.
"We will work to the end for it. We know it will be difficult but it is time for us to play to our best and deliver for all who have trusted and dream of hearing the national anthem in Brazil."
Meanwhile, Chile know that eight points from their final four matches will see them qualify for next year's tournament, and their squad was supplemented by the arrival of six players on Tuesday.
Claudio Bravo, Francisco Silva, Carlos Carmona, David Pizarro, Matias Fernandez and Bryan Rabello all joined up and will be available for selection for manager Jorge Sampaoli.
Dinamo Zagreb striker Junior Fernandes will also be in contention for a place in Sampaol's side, as he has been called up to replace the injured Humbarto Suazo.
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After the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, many New Yorkers decided to lend a helping hand to victims in any way they could. Some donated canned goods and warm clothing.
Others took a day trip by bus to areas hit hardest by the super-storm, donating their time and energy into helping clear and repair the heaps of rubble strewn across waterfront neighborhoods. Unfortunately, there is yet much to be done in terms of rebuilding and moving on from what many believe to be a living nightmare.
While many of us may find it difficult to clear an entire day of work and errands- even though for a good cause- there are other ways of helping that won't require quite as much time or effort. For example, there are many fundraising functions that one can attend where all proceeds will go towards funding projects helping to rebuild what Sandy has destroyed.
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The $20 donation at the door, along with the money raised from the auction art, will all go towards the New York Cares Organization (Sandy Relief Program). This is a great chance to support your fellow New Yorkers forced to spend this holiday season cleaning up the wreckage of their homes, and to also show your support for the arts.
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THE girlfriend of a Black Country regular 27-year-old Ed Fox, who is seriously ill with a very rare form of blood cancer, is appealing to Bugle readers to be potential stem cell donors to help save his life.
Ed, who used to drink at the Waggon & Horses in Halesowen and the Bull & Bladder, Brierley Hill, was diagnosed with Epstein Barr Virus driven lymphoma and hemophagocytosis just days after moving to Gent, Belgium, last May to be with his girlfriend Katrien.
Ed has been undergoing heavy chemotherapy while he waits for a suitable donor.
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Katrien explained: "The chance of a match is barely 1 in 50,000, but without the help of a stem cell donor the love of my life is going to die.
"That is why I hope as many people as possible will register. It doesn't take more than donating some blood and if it doesn't help my Ed, it might help some other unfortunate soul." Ed studied physics with astrophysics at Birmingham University and until recently had been studying International Development at The Open University. It was just before moving to Gent that Ed developed the virus.
In almost all cases the Epstein Barr virus causes glandular fever but Ed explained: "With me it caused an aggressive form of cancer and on top of that I have a rare complication from which 50 per cent of the patients die within a year."
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Posted: October 29, 2011
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Published in 1953, Demarcations (Territoires) is a volume that comes in the middle of Jean Follain's career, at the height of his poetic powers. The present translation by Kurt Heinzelman, appearing here with the original French text, is the only volume of this critical period in Follain's career to be translated in its entirety. Demarcations is a book obsessed with the implications for history of post-war worlds, the ones that become newly "demarcated," whether out of victory or defeat. Although the collection was published in the wake of the Second World War, the lucid yet subtle poems in Demarcations often look back to the rural and largely unautomated world of Follain's turn-of-the-century childhood - a world forever destroyed by the century's brutal and homogenizing wars. French critics generally proclaim this to be Follain's most masterful collection, and in this stunning bilingual edition, English readers can now for the first time see why.
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Kurt Heinzelman is a Professor in the English Department. He co-founded and for ten years edited the award-winning journal The Poetry Miscellany; he is currently Editor-at-Large for the Bat City Review as well as Editor-in-Chief of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL). He has been a multiple nominee for the Pushcart Prize; his first two books of poetry were both finalists for Poetry Book of the Year from the Texas Institute of Letters; a third, The Names They Found There, was published in the spring of 2011. Both a scholar and translator - he has done translations from Spanish, Italian, German, Turkish, and Latin, as well as French - he also serves on the Board of Directors of the Dylan Thomas Prize in Swansea, Wales.


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|This article is written like a personal reflection or opinion essay that states the Wikipedia editor's particular feelings about a topic, rather than the opinions of experts. (September 2011)
Family planning in India is based on efforts largely sponsored by the Indian government. In the 1965-2009 period, contraceptive usage has more than tripled (from 13% of married women in 1970 to 48% in 2009) and the fertility rate has more than halved (from 5.7 in 1966 to 2.4 in 2012), but the national fertility rate is still high enough to cause long-term population growth. India adds up to 1,000,000 people to its population every 20 days.[1][2][3][4][5]
Contraceptive usage[edit]
Low female literacy levels and the lack of widespread availability of birth-control methods is hampering the use of contraception in India.
Awareness of contraception is near-universal among married women in India.[6] However, the vast majority of married Indians (76% in a 2009 study) reported significant problems in accessing a choice of contraceptive methods.[3]
In 2009, 48.3% of married women were estimated to use a contraceptive method, i.e. more than half of all married women did not.[3] About three-fourths of these were using female sterilisation, which is by far the most prevalent birth-control method in India.[3] Condoms, at a mere 3% were the next most prevalent method.[3] Meghalaya, at 20%, had the lowest usage of contraception among all Indian states. Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were the other two states that reported usage below 30%.[3]
Comparative studies have indicated that increased female literacy is correlated strongly with a decline in fertility.[7] Studies have indicated that female literacy levels are an independent strong predictor of the use of contraception, even when women do not otherwise have economic independence.[8] Female literacy levels in India may be the primary factor that help in population stabilisation, but they are improving relatively slowly: a 1990 study estimated that it would take until 2060 for India to achieve universal literacy at the current rate of progress.[7]
Family planning programs[edit]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is the government unit responsible for formulating and executing family planning related government plans in India. An inverted Red Triangle is the symbol for family planning health and contraception services in India.
Historical background[edit]
Raghunath Dhondo Karve published a Marathi magazine Samaj Swasthya (समाजस्वास्थ्य)starting from July 1927 until 1953. In it, he continually discussed issues of society's well being through population control through use of contraceptives so as prevent unwanted pregnancies and induced abortions. He proposed that the Indian Government should take up a population control program, but was met with opposition.
In the early 1970s, Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, had implemented a forced sterilisation programme, but failed. Officially, men with two children or more had to submit to sterilisation, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant, poor men were also believed to have been sterilised. This program is still remembered and criticised in India, and is blamed for creating a public aversion to family planning, which hampered Government programmes for decades.[9]
Contraceptive usage has been rising gradually in India. In 1970, 13% of married women used modern contraceptive methods, which rose to 35% by 1997 and 48% by 2009.[2] The national family planning program was launched in 1951, and was the world's first governmental population stabilisation program. By 1996, the program had been estimated to have averted 168 million births.[10]
Fertility rate[edit]
India suffers from the problem of overpopulation.[11][12][13] Although the fertility rate (average number of children born per woman during her lifetime) in India has been declining, it has not reached replacement rate yet. The replacement rate is defined as the total fertility rate at which newborn girls would have an average of exactly one daughter over their lifetimes. In more familiar terms, women have just enough babies to replace themselves. Factoring in infant mortality, the replacement rate is approximately 2.1 in most industrialised nations and about 2.5 in developing nations (due to higher mortality). Discounting immigration and population momentum effects, a nation that crosses below the replacement rate is on the path to population stabilisation and, eventually, population reduction.
Historical fertility trend[edit]
The fertility rate in India has been in long-term decline, and had more than halved in the 1960-2009 period. From 5.7 in 1966, it declined to 3.3 by 1997 and 2.7 in 2009.[4][5]
State and country comparisons[edit]
Seven Indian states have dipped below the 2.1 replacement rate level and are no longer contributing to Indian population growth - Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Punjab and Sikkim.[14] Four Indian states have fertility rates above 3.5 - Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Meghalaya and Nagaland.[14] Of these, Bihar has a fertility rate of 4.0, the highest of any Indian state. For detailed state figures and rankings, see Indian states ranking by fertility rate.
In 2009, India had a lower estimated fertility rate than Pakistan and Bangladesh, but a higher fertility rate than China, Iran, Burma and Sri Lanka.[15]
|Country or Indian state
|Fertility Rate
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|United Kingdom
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA;[15] High rate of Urban population, Government requires compulsory contraceptive counseling for all couples prior to marriage (see: Family planning in Iran)
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA;[15] Official one-child policy enforced (see: One-child policy)
|Source: CIA[15]
|Andhra Pradesh
|Source: NFHS;[14] Andhra Pradesh has the lowest fertility rate of any Indian state
|Tamil Nadu
|Source: NFHS[14]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Himachal Pradesh
|Source: NFHS[14]
|United States
|Source: CIA[15]
|Sri Lanka
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: NFHS[14]
|Source: NFHS[14]
|Replacement Rate
|Replacement rate (assuming industrialized-economy levels of infant mortality)
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|United Arab Emirates
|Source: CIA[15]
|Jammu and Kashmir
|Source: NFHS[14]
|World Average
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Madhya Pradesh
|Source: NFHS[14]
|Source: NFHS[14]
|Source: CIA[15]
|Uttar Pradesh
|Source: NFHS[14]
|Saudi Arabia
|Source: CIA[15]
|Source: NFHS;[14] Bihar has the highest fertility rate of any Indian state
|Source: CIA[15]
See also[edit]
- Indian states ranking by fertility rate
- Total fertility rate
- One-child policy in China
- Population control
- Birth control
- ^ Rabindra Nath Pati (2003). Socio-cultural dimensions of reproductive child health. APH Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-81-7648-510-4.
- ^ a b Marian Rengel (2000), Encyclopedia of birth control, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 1-57356-255-6,
... In 1997, 36% of married women used modern contraceptives; in 1970, only 13% of married women had ...
- ^ a b c d e f India and Family Planning: An Overview (PDF), Department of Family and Community Health, World Health Organization, retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ a b G.N. Ramu (2006), Brothers and sisters in India: a study of urban adult siblings, University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0-8020-9077-X
- ^ a b Arjun Adlakha (April 1997), Population Trends: India (PDF), U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, retrieved 2009-12-05
- ^ B.M. Ramesh, S.C. Gulati, R.D. Retherford, "Contraceptive use in India, 1992-93" (PDF), National Family Health Survey Subject Reports, Number 2, October 1996 (International Institute for Population Sciences), retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ a b How Female Literacy Affects Fertility: The Case of India (PDF), Population Institute, East-West Center, December 1990, retrieved 2009-11-25
- ^ A. Dharmalingam, S. Philip Morgan (1996), "Women's work, autonomy, and birth control: evidence from two south India villages", Population Studies, JSTOR 2174910
- ^ "Manas: History and Politics, Indira Gandhi". Sscnet.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
- ^ B.N. Saxena (1996; 12:265-270), "Reproductive Health in India", Advances in Contraception (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Springer Netherlands), retrieved 2009-11-28,
... The National Family Welfare Programme, established in India during the late 1950s, has averted about 168 million births since its inception ...Check date values in:
- ^ http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/scisoc/environment/seniorsem03/Overpopulation_in_India.pdf
- ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
- ^ "Over-population warning as India's billionth baby is born". The Guardian (London). 2000-05-11. Retrieved 2010-05-02.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l National Family Health Survey, India, International Institute for Population Sciences, retrieved 2009-11-24
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w CIA, Country Comparison: Total Fertility Rate, The World Factbook, Central Intelligence Agency, retrieved 2009-11-24


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APA Citations
Academic integrity guidelines mandate the attribution of sources used in written work. Most business courses require the use of American Psychological Association (APA) style for in-text citations and references. The APA style is well suited to citing scholarly resources but more challenging to apply to practical business materials. Finding model APA citations that closely match typical business sources may take some adjustments. Remember consistent citation is key.
There are a number of tools (listed here) at your disposal for creating and managing citations. They save you time and effort but are imperfect. You will need to get to know the APA style in order to correct mistakes. The official APA Publication Manual is not available online.
APA Style Guide to Electronic References
Authoritative but not comprehensive guide to making APA citations. PDF format
Research and Documentation Online
Reliable but not authoritative guide to making APA citations. Easy to navigate website.
A web based library subscription service. Import citations from some library databases or key in bibliographic information to generate clean APA citations. A Word plugin enables you to insert in-text citations too.
A free web based reference manager also suitable for sharing pdf's.
A free web based reference manager also suitable for sharing
MS Word
The reference tab enables you to create citations and works cited lists.
Citing Business Sources Using APA
Home grown guide
Most academic article databases have citations utilities that generate citations for you or export citations to common citations managers such as RefWorks, Zotero or Mendeley.
Industry and Market Research Reports
Company Profiles
Country Business Profiles
Finding Scholarly Studies
In business disciplines scholarly studies can take the form of books, journal articles, working papers or reports. Types of scholarly studies include theoretical papers, literature reviews or meta-analysis, and empirical research either quantitative and qualitative or mixed method.
There are several dominant avenues for finding scholarly work:
Searching subject specific databases
Using general purpose and interdisciplinary search engines
Chasing citations in articles and books (see section on getting full text or article or journal)
Subject Specific Scholarly Databases
ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest)
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports.
Accounting & Tax Periodicals (ProQuest)
Based on the Accountants' Index, this quintessential tool for professionals provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Business Source Premier is a full-text, scholarly and trade article database covering a wide range of topics including management, marketing, accounting, finance, economics, international business, operations management and management information systems.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles; furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
EconLit with Full Text (EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, working papers and dissertations from 1969 to present based on the Journal of Economic Literature's subject classification and supported by the American Economic Association (AEA). This enhanced version of EconLit includes the full text of all AEA journals and roughly 600 other scholarly journals.
Emerald Journal Database
Searchable database of full-text journal articles on management and economics. Villanova subscribes to a portion of the journals offered full-text in Emerald.
Lexis Nexis Academic
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
PAIS International (ProQuest)
The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International database contains references for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
Indexes journals, dissertations and some books in the fields of personality psychology, social psychology, educational psychology and more.
Case studies, news and data on global marketing and advertising.
General & Interdisciplinary Databases
Google Scholar
Scopus (Elsevier)
Provides abstracts and citations for peer-reviewed journals in all major disciplines. Offers comprehensive coverage of the scientific, technical, medical, geographic and social sciences (including arts and humanities). Includes complete contents of GEOBASE multidisciplinary database.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, including the legal research network and political science network.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the physical and social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution). Coverage begins 1956 to present.
Business Databases A-Z
ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest)
The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM™ database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals, country-and industry-focused reports.
Accounting & Tax Periodicals (ProQuest)
Based on the Accountants' Index, this quintessential tool for professionals provides current accounting, taxation, and financial management information. National and international in scope, key publications focus on accounting policies and standards, state and national tax legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management, as well as profiles of accounting firms, CPAs, and management consulting firms.
Advertising Age Datacenter
News, reports and statistics about the advertising industry
Advertising Redbooks
The Advertising REDBOOKS online database provides current detailed data on advertising agencies, advertiser profiles for companies with estimated spend and contact information for personnel.
Audit Analytics
Audit Analytics data includes detailed categorizations of issues and is considered be the best primary data source for tracking and analysis of public company disclosures related to the audit, compliance, and governance.
Banking Information Source (ProQuest)
Search essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial services industry, banking, and industry trends.
Better Business Bureau (BBB) Information System
This free database provides reliability reports for North American companies.
BizMiner offers "Sole Proprietor and Start-Up" and "Industry Financial Reports" with average income statements, cash flows, balance sheet and financial ratios for benchmarking and projections for smaller private enterprises. Offers industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. It is searchable by keyword, SIC code or industry cluster.
Business Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
Contains business magazines and scholarly journals for more than 510 publications back to 1995.
Business Expert Press
Applied concise ebooks on marketing, management, operations, accounting and managerial finance by experts for non-experts
Business Regional News (Ebscohost)
This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
Business Source Premier is a full-text, scholarly and trade article database covering a wide range of topics including management, marketing, accounting, finance, economics, international business, operations management and management information systems.
CQ Researcher (SAGE)
Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each CQ Researcher report is based on a common structure: overview, background, current situation, pro/con section, special focus, chronology, bibliography and next step.
Cabell's Directories of Publishing Opportunities
Provides the publishing guidelines of journals in the following areas: accounting, management, marketing, educational curriculum and methods, educational psychology and administration, and psychology. Includes address for submission, review information (such as type of review, acceptance rate) and type of articles (current issues, literature reviews, etc.).
Canadian Business & Current Affairs - CBCA - Complete (ProQuest)
This product includes all the content present in the Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA) databases. Information is present from all areas including: current events, business, education, science and medicine, arts, law, academia, and lifestyles, all with a Canadian focus. Full text is available within these areas. CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in Canada.
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles; furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study.
Computer Science Index (EBSCO)
Covers computer science at the highest scholarly and technical levels. Subjects areas include artificial intelligence, expert systems, system design, data structures, computer theory, computer systems and architecture, software engineering, human-computer interaction, new technologies, social and professional context, and much more.
Conference Board Business & Economics Portfolio
Economic indicator datasets and global macroeconomic time series for economists. Quality reports, interviews and studies on leadership, compensation, organizational development, operations, globalization, diversity, sustainability, innovation and more for he management and HRD professionals.
Congressional Publications (ProQuest)
Provides access to every facet of U.S. Legislative activity: hearings transcripts and submitted testimony, committee reports, bills, public laws, congressional member public interest group ratings, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the U.S. Code.
Search and browse for datasets on topics ranging from banking to criminal justice to economic indicators to health to labor to natural resources and transportation gleaned from government agencies, private exchanges and international organizations. Statistical Datasets supports customized graphing, mapping and even some common statistical functions.
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval service for SEC filings is free and available to the public.
An online database that contains over 500,000 bibliographic references from 500 leading journals of accounting, economics and finance. EconLibrary's bibliographic references can be rapidly searched by author, keyword in title, journal or year, or combinations using the databases' Boolean logic searches." Falvey subscribes to the combined Economics Literature Database.
EconLit with Full Text (EBSCO)
Citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, working papers and dissertations from 1969 to present based on the Journal of Economic Literature's subject classification and supported by the American Economic Association (AEA). This enhanced version of EconLit includes the full text of all AEA journals and roughly 600 other scholarly journals.
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)
Commerce Reports, Country Reports and Market Indicators and Forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit offer monthly and annual in depth analysis, data and ratings for the infrastructure, demographics, political scene, domestic economy, foreign trade, including regional and industrial sector breakdowns for over 200 countries.
Emerald Journal Database
Searchable database of full-text journal articles on management and economics. Villanova subscribes to a portion of the journals offered full-text in Emerald.
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS)
Emerging Markets Information Service (EMIS) delivers deep, rich company and industry information, alongside the relevant news, research and analytics for developing markets.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
A comprehensive full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
European Patent Office (from EI Village)
This database provides a full-text patent and mosaic image search of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office, and Patent Abstracts of Japan.
FED in Print
Welcome to
Fed in Print
, the central catalog of publications of the US Federal Reserve System.
Financial Times
The distinctively salmon colored UK based
Financial Times
is recognized as a leading source for global business news. The web edition provides access to the same outstanding reporting found in the print edition (available via ABI Inform and Lexis-Nexis) and also additionally has multimedia content, company tear sheets, interactive charting, and educational features such as a dictionary of financial terms, and recruitment tool. For mobile access via iPad or iPhone visit app.ft.com. For mobile access via Android devices visit m.ft.com. Subscription courtesy of Villanova School of Business. Register with your Villanova email address.
Foundation Directory Online Professional
Excellent source for learning about non-profits via grant, grantmaker, company and 990 (non-profit tax form) searches.
Gale Directory Library
Digital platform for Gale directories. Our holdings include Business Rankings Annual, Market Share Reporter, Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources, Encyclopedia of Associations - National Organizations of the U.S., and Gale Directory of Publications and Broadcast Media.
Global Financial Data
Global Financial Data features historical data on worldwide stock exchanges, bond indices, intraday data, futures data, interest rates, population data, and much more. All data is clearly defined, easy to read, and readily downloadable into Excel.
Global New Products Database (Mintel)
Global New Products Database (GNPD) monitors new product activity in consumer packaged goods markets worldwide.
General scholarly legal database with current U.S., foreign and international law, law review articles, legal classics and historical documents. Provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals, Supreme Court Reports, Treaties in Force, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1977-2003) and the Federal Register (1936-1994).
Hoover's Company Profiles (ProQuest)
Features profiles of more than 40,000 companies. Database includes: company overview, history, officers and board members, competitors, products and operations, auditors, rankings, historical financials and much more. Hoover's in-depth company records available via Lexis-Nexis Academic.
IBIS World
U.S. and global industry market research reports.
IEEE Xplore
Published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its partners, the IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content including journals, magazines, conference proceedings, technical standards, e-books, and educational courses. IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) offers several time series and other types of aggregate data that consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses and administrative records. The data holdings contain studies and files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click
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A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Journal Citation Reports
Provides access to journal publication information for science and social science journals, including information such as No. of Citations, Half-life,ic information and cited references from the
Leadership Directory
Lexis Nexis Academic
Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
MarketLine Company Profiles
Recently rebranded from Datamonitor to MarketLine company reports cover both U.S. and foreign companies in a wide range of industries. Typically reports are 15-20 pages and provide a description of the business, company history, key personnel, products and services and competitors. Datamonitor industry reports are available from ReferenceUSA and OneSource
Provides marketing reports for many industries and demographic reports on a variety of age groups. Documents are formatted as Adobe Acrobat or PowerPoint files.
Mergent Online
Provides 15 years of detailed financial statements for international and U.S. companies. Enables customized viewing and output to retrieve company reports and financials into software applications such as Word, Excel or Adobe, and enables accurate cross-border searches using a variety of financial and text variables. Also provides access industry and country profiles. LIMITED TO 4 SIMULTANEOUS USERS.
Mergent WebReports
Features the full text of all of
Mergent / Moody's Corporate Manuals
from 1909 to the present. Once you enter the database select the option for "
Corporate Manuals
" and begin your search. Access to current reports for 24 broadly defined industries. Portal for quick access to annual reports.
Mintel Reports
Mintel's published market research has been helping leading businesses achieve their goals for over 30 years. As a globally recognised market analyst, Mintel produces hundreds of reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets every year. Each report that Mintel publishes provides a unique overview of a market's dynamics and prospects, giving you the knowledge to devise informed and profitable marketing strategy.
Morningstar Investment Research Center
Best known for performance and financial data on mutual funds, Morningstar Investment Research Center is also a great source for company data and analyst reports.
NetAdvantage (Standard & Poor's, Capital IQ)
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage is a comprehensive, professional source of proprietary analysis on industry trends, corporate activities, and investments. For non-business students, the service includes a Financial Education section with tools for understanding personal finance.
New York Times Historical [Fulltext from 1851-1999]
New York Times reporters often covered news and happenings between the CIA and various African governments, especially during the Cold War era.
OECD iLibrary
Full text access to all of the books, periodicals, statistics and working papers produced by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development since 1998. Statistics are available via pdf files or via interactive databases with downloadable Excel or comma delimited text. Metadata is easily accessible. Books, periodicals and working papers may be searched by title or subject fields or in full text. Browsing by publication type or thematic subject is also available. SourceOECD comprises 20 Book collections by theme, containing all our monographs and reports; 24 periodicals; a reference title; and the OECD statistical databases.
Source for global industry reports, company profiles, executive intelligence and news.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
A reference work providing almost 60,000 specially-written signed biographies of the men and women who shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2009. State-of-the-art search options, extensive internal cross-referencing, access to articles from the original DNB, and navigation by "themes" combine with rigorous research and scholarship to make the Oxford DNB one of the most innovative and important reference sites available online.
Oxford English Dictionary
The world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150. Based on the 1989 2nd edition, a 20-volume set, with additions from 1993-1997 and the 3rd edition (in progress) from 2000-. Approximately 1,000 new and revised entries will be released quarterly online.
PAISArchive [1915-1976]
Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Provides selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world. Contains more than 700,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976.
Euromonitor (Passport)
Authorized users limited to Villanova students, faculty and staff. Use for research or private study for academic purposes only. This resource is a database of demographic, economic, lifestyle, and consumer market information for over 350 markets and 207 countries. Statistics cover consumer lifestyles, retailing, and consumer market sizes and forecasts. The data includes 6-year historic market size data for more than 330 consumer products in 52 countries, plus 5-year forecasts. Lifestyle indicators for 71 countries, lifestyle reports for 65 countries, and country profiles for 250 countries are also included.
Pharmaceutical News Index (ProQuest)
Search the definitive database of pharmacological news, research, and regulatory information. Covers the most important specialized publications in the pharmaceutical, health care, biotechnology, and medical device industries.
Philadelphia Business Journal (American City Business Journals)
Searchable full text access to Philadelphia Business Journal and their Book of Lists with a 10 year archive of content. With 39 additional cities covered in the Business Journals, this is a great source for intelligence about local business conditions and trends.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Contains the complete text of articles covered beginning with 1981. It DOES NOT include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements and puzzles.
Polling the Nations
The database includes 18,000 surveys and 600,000 questions on more than 7,000 topics. Scope is international, from the United States to more than 100 other countries.
ProQuest Asian Business & Reference
Find the latest business and financial news from the Eastern Hemisphere. Covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications including Far Eastern Economic Review, Asiaweek, and many more.
ProQuest Business Periodicals (ProQuest)
Simultaneously search all business & industry periodicals available through Proquest Central, including the ABI/Inform databases, concentrated publications on the pharmaceutical, banking, computing and telecommunications industries and Canadian, Asian and European business news.
ProQuest Computing
Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
ProQuest European Business
Find the latest European business and financial information. Includes quality resources such as The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal, and many more.
ProQuest Snapshot Series
The Snapshot International Series of reports is designed to provide an instant overview of a market, and the data is supplied in both graphical and tabular format for ease of interpretation and analysis.
ProQuest Telecommunications
Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry.
PsycARTICLES (ProQuest)
PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber.
RIA Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters)
RIA has federal, state and international tax codes, regulations, cases, and administrative rulings with explanations and commentary. (Individual registration required for Villanova community members; contact the Information/Reference/Circulation Desks for assistance.)
Directory with US private and public company reports. Also includes household data.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
First-time users must register.
The Roper Center has a large archive of public opinion information. It contains nearly 500,000 questions and responses from national public opinion surveys going back to 1935. Among the many survey sources are Gallup, Harris,
New York Times, Wall Street Journal
, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC. The archive includes full datasets required to conduct bivariate and multivariate analyses using
SRDS (Kantar Media)
Standard Rate and Data Service (SRDS) media planners directories for consumer magazines, newspapers, and out of home advertising.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Provides citations and abstracts of articles in over 1800 journals (mainly scientific, technical and medical). Full-text is available only to the 327 titles to which Villanova University subscribes.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)
Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the physical and social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution). Coverage begins 1956 to present.
Sports Business Research Network
Statistics, articles and reports on sporting goods, participation, fans and facilities.
Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Search
An official source, OSHA.gov, contains information on the United States Commerce Department Industry Classification.
Statistical Insight (ProQuest)
Indexing and abstracting (with select full text from 2007) of statistical resources from U.S. state government, business and research institute statistical publications. Tables for U.S. government and business reports.
ThomasNet Register of American Manufacturers
Contains directory information on United States Companies, Services, and Products. Falvey owns the print version of the Register. Ask for it at the Reference Desk.
US Patent Full-text and Image Database
The database consists includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims. The display of each patent's full-text includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent. Information from Certificates of Correction and Reexaminations is not included in the full-text database per se, but can be found as pages attached to the full-page images of the original patent. Patents from 1790 to December 1975 offer only the patent number and the current US patent classification in the text display, and can be searched only by those fields. However, this limited text display also includes a hyperlink to obtain full-page images of each page of the patent.
United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademark database
The US Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Database contains the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks.
American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
Value Line Investment Survey
Designed to help investors analyze and select stocks by performing a broad range of functions including sorting, filtering (screening), graphing and reporting on individual stocks and groups of stocks.
Venture Capital & Private Equity Firms
Directory of venture capital firms.
Case studies, news and data on global marketing and advertising.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services)
Access and registration approved by James Jablonski of the Finance Lab. Data research platform for AuditAnalytics, COMPUSTAT, CRSP, CBOE, Option Metrics, Risk Metrics, TAQ, TRACE, Thomson Reuters 13f and other business data sets.
WorldCat (OCLC)
WorldCat is a catalog of library collections worldwide. WorldCat highlights publications available at Villanova University. Other items can be requested via an inter-library loan request form.
WorldCat Step-by-Step
is a self-paced interactive tutorial for students new to this resource.
E-books covering a wide range of subjects.
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