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Morningstar Investment Research Center

A stock database that includes financial data on companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ®, and the American Stock Exchange; research reports on companies; data on mutual, closed-end, and exchange-traded funds; analysts' reports on funds; exclusive investment tools and engaging educational features, including interactive training on basic and advanced stock, fund, and portfolio techniques.  Please NOTE:  this database is restricted to single-user access.

Women in Prison in the 1990's:  A Temporal and Institutional Comparison

This study explores the attitudes, perceptions and experiences of women in two prisons in California. The study includes both a temporal component comparing women's experiences in one prison in the early 1960s and the mid-1990s, and a comparative institutional component, comparing women's experiences in two different prisons operating in the social and policy milieu of the mid-1990s. It analyzes surveys of inmates and secondary data collected from official records, archives, and an earlier study of women in prison in California. The study portrayed women's reactions to prison as a function of (1) inmates' pre-prison characteristics, (2) characteristics of inmates' prison careers, (3) institutional structures and processes, (4) crime control ideologies and policies, (5) public attitudes toward crime and criminals, and (6) women's roles, opportunities, and lifestyles in the wider society. Closed-ended questions were developed for the survey designed to measure (1) the most difficult aspects of doing time, (2) the specific problems of prison life, (3) the various types of inmates and inmate relations, and (4) the nature of inmate-staff relations. The survey also included questions based on measures and scales used in penology research and the survey initially administered by Ward and Kassebaum to women prisoners in the 1960s. Demographic questions included age, ethnicity, if born in the United States, length of residence in the United States, marital status, and education.

This dataset is available through the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) database which provides search and browsing access to abstracts and data sets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Search or browse title of study, principal investigator, words in abstract, or study number. Browse major research categories..  Auburn University students, faculty, and staff only may create an account that will allow access to the membership-only data.

Please contact Barbara Bishop at bishoba@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1690 if you need more information concerning ICPSR .

Be sure to consult the Library Hours link located in the upper right side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage to determine library hours of operation during the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday period in effect Friday, January 13 through Monday, January 16.

Harriet Beecher Stowe:  Devil or Angel?

Dr. Walter B. Hitchcock, Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Auburn University

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Date and Time:  January 19 at 3 p.m.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities, and Auburn University Bookstore

On Saturday, January 7, at 3 p.m., the Special Collections and Archives Department will host a panel discussion on the life of Dr. George Washington Carver, the renowned scientist, teacher, and humanitarian of Tuskegee University.

Mark Hersey of Mississippi State University and Gary Kramer of the State Historical Society of Missouri, both Carver biographers, will serve on the panel, along with Dana Chandler, archivist at Tuskegee University.

Auburn University, Tuskegee University, the National Park Service, and Eastern National partnered to sponsor this program, which is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

For further information on related activities at the Carver Museum in Tuskegee, contact Park Ranger Shirley Baxter at (334) 727-3200 or by e-mail at shirley_k_baxter@nps.gov .

Seminars for on EndNote, EndNote Web, Zotero, and Advanced EndNote software citation programs are being offered by librarians during the Spring Semester.  Click on the Seminars link located under the "Services"  link located in the upper left hand side of the screen of the Auburn University Libraries homepage for registration information, etc.  Seminars are free but registration is required. 

January andd February seminars are listed below:

EndNote:  Saturday, January 7, 10:30 a.m. - 12:oo p.m.

Zotero:  Friday, January 20, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

EndNote Web:  Friday, January 27, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

EndNote:  Saturday, January 28, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Advanced EndNote:  Saturday, January 28, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

EndNote Web:  Thursday, February 16:  3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Zotero:  Thursday, February 23:  4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

EndNote:  Saturday, February 25:  10:30 a,m, - 12:00 p.m.

Advanced EndNote:  Saturday, February 25:  12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station reports date from 1888 through the present.  They cover a wide variety of research relating to agriculture in Alabama, from cultivating crops and raising animals to social issues in agricultural economics and rural life. 

These publications have now been digitized and are available by clicking on the Digital Collections link located under the "Quick Links" heading on the Auburn University Libraries homepage .  Next, click on the Open Access Collections link located in the upper right side of the Digital Collections page .  Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station (AAES) Reports is the first link that appears on that page.

The Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, part of the Sage Reference Online Collection, covers consuming societies around the world, from the Age of Enlightenment to the present, and shows how consumption has become instrinsic to the eworld's social, economic, political, and cultural landscapes.  This reference work is a useful resource for researchers in sociology, political science, consumer science, global studies, comparative studies, business and management, human geography, economics, history, anthropology, and psychology.

Edited by Dale Southerton and others and published by Sage in 2011, this resource is available in electronic format and can be located by doing a title search in the Auburn University Libraries online catalog available via the Libraries' homepage.

Be sure to consult the Hours link  located in the upper right hand side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage to be sure of library hours of operation during the Intersession and Holiday periods December 10 through January 8.