HUSL Library: Researching Across Disciplines: Guides and Reports

Researching Across Disciplines

Research Guide Description

This research guide pulls together resources available to all Howard University students, with a special focus on resources that may be useful to law students conducting multidisciplinary research, especially social science research, for their seminar papers.

Access additional resources by searchings these guides and websites:

CMI’s LGBT Market Research & Development Lab
Community Marketing & Insights (CMI) has been conducting LGBT consumer research for nearly 25 years. Our practice includes online surveys, in-depth interviews, intercepts, focus groups (on-site and online), and advisory boards in North America, Europe and Asia. Industry leaders around the world depend on CMI’s research and analysis as a basis for feasibility evaluations, positioning, economic impact, creative testing, informed forecasting, measurable marketing planning and assessment of return on investment.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
A comprehensive resource for theory and research in international affairs. CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
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Number of simultaneous logons: Unlimited.
FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting
Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics are produced from data received from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. The crime data are submitted either through a state UCR Program or directly to the FBI’s UCR Program.
Gender data: World Bank, EU and United Nations
Research guide created by the European University Institute that explains where to find gender statistics, and how to use these various resources.
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Series range from the mid-1960s to 2017, varying by country and variable.
Georgetown Law Library: Gender and the Law Research Guide
This guide covers gender and the law, legal feminism and feminist jurisprudence.
GLSEN Research
Contains research reports, climate surveys, state-by-state research, survey toolkits, articles and book chapters, and webinar trainings.
GLSEN has been conducting research and evaluation on LGBT issues in K-12 education since 1999.
Howard University: National and International News and Media Resources
Contains a list of news resources with links to their websites.
University of Southern Florida: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning Resources
The sources listed in this guide are resources that focus on various aspects of Lesbian, Gay Bisexual, Transgender, & Questioning studies.
Williams Institute: What We Know- Transgender Population
Document outlining resources available on the Williams Institute UCLA School of Law website that discuss how to study the experiences of and public policies relevant to transgender people.
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Published: June 16, 2015

Updated: February 2020.