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Sociological
Abstracts via CSA
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology
and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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Academic
Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications,
computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts
and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Delivered via the Web of Science platform.
The Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) and Social SciSearch® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. MORE DETAILS... |
1991+ |
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Social
Sciences Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law
and criminology, political science, social work, sociology,
etc. MORE
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Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1995+ |
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Social Services Abstracts via CSA
Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. MORE DETAILS... |
1979+ |
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Anthropology Plus
Brings together into one resource the highly respected Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK. Anthropology Plus provides extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. The index offers excellent coverage of all core periodicals in the field in addition to local and lesser-known journals. MORE DETAILS... |
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Covers trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing. MORE DETAILS... |
1968+ |
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong
in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics,
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life &
Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE
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Education
Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers contemporary education issues, including government
funding, instructional media, multicultural education, info
technology, etc. MORE
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Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1996+ |
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Elsevier
Science Direct
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical,
mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier.
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1995+ |
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ERIC
via Ebsco (with links to full text ERIC Documents)
A complete bibliography of educational materials from the
Educational Resources Information Center at the US Department
of Education. MORE
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Abstracts: 1966
Full text: 1996 |
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Health & Wellness Resource Center
Find magazines, journals, newspapers and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. MORE DETAILS... |
1980+
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Health
Source - Consumer Edition via Ebsco
Information on many health topics including the medical sciences,
food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and
general health.
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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Index to Current Urban Documents
A guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. MORE DETAILS... |
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JSTOR
A unique database of the complete backfiles of core scholarly
journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science
disciplines. Not only text, but accompanying charts, graphs,
equations, and pictures are reproduced. MORE
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Full text: starts
from volume 1; excludes latest 3-5 years |
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LexisNexis
Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE
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MasterFile
Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals.
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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MEDLINE
via the National Library for Medicine Gateway
Covers all areas of biomedicine and corresponds to the print
Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International
Nursing Index.
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1966+ |
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National
Library of Medicine (NLM) Gateway
The Gateway allows searches from one Web interface, providing
"one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information
resources or databases such as MEDLINE/PubMed, etc. |
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Opposing
Viewpoints
An online library of current event topics--the facts as well
as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors.
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PAIS International with PAIS Archive
Offers access to the international literature in public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations. The database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. MORE DETAILS... |
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PapersFirst
via FirstSearch
Provides access to individual papers presented at worldwide
meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses,
and symposia. MORE
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1993+ |
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POPLINE
via National Library of Medicine
POPulation information onLINE covers family planning, population
law and policy, and primary health care. |
1970+ |
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Project Muse
Abstracts and citations from over 140 journals in the humanities and social sciences: literary studies, classics, social and political science, mathematics and more. MORE DETAILS... |
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PsycARTICLES
via Ebsco
PsycARTICLES is an online database containing full-text articles
from 49 peer reviewed journals published by APA and allied organizations.
Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical,
and theoretical research in psychology. MORE
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1987+ |
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PsycINFO
via Ebsco
PsycINFO extensively covers psychological literature and includes
relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine,
psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social
science, and organizational behavior. MORE
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1967+ |
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PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, provides
access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's. |
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1994+ |
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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1971+ |
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Science
Direct via Elsevier
Access to the full text of 1,000+ scientific, technical, medical,
mathematical, management and social science journals from Elsevier.
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1995+ |
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SIRS
Researcher
Select full-text articles covering a a variety of social,
scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues.
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Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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Social
Work Abstracts
via SilverPlatter
Social work and human services info. Coverage includes theory
and practice in the areas of service, social issues, and social
problems. MORE
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1977+ |
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WDI
Online (World Development Indicators)
Provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators
with time series for 207 countries from 1960 to 2000, where
data are available. Data includes social, economic,
financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.
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