Social Sciences Databases
| Abstracts in Anthropology | |
| Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals. Online coverage from 2003 to present. | |
| Academic Search Premier | |
| Provides full text for over 2,940 scholarly publications including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, health sciences, and ethnic studies. |
| African American Experience | |
| Electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 400 volumns, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day. |
| America: History & Life |
| 1964-present. Comprehensive international database for research on all periods of U.S. and Canadian history, from prehistory to the current decade. Includes abstracts of journal articles and listings of books and dissertations. For world history, use Historical Abstracts. |
| American Indian Experience |
| The American Indian Experience offers access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, AIE is meant for anyone wishing to learn more about America's Native Peoples. |
| AnthroSource |
| Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications |
| Armed Conflict Database |
| The database seeks to cover international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism. It provides an interactive and user-friendly source of information on 70 armed conflicts including terrorism, refugees/ and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs ($US), historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. |
| Artstor | |
| ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. |
| Asia Studies Full Text | |
| Asia-Studies Full-text Online is the premier database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region’s most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. |
| Biblical Archaeology Online Archive | |
| The BAS Online Archive is an educational Web site containing the editorial content of each issue of the bimonthly magazine Biblical Archaeology Review from 1975 to present, as well as five books published by the Biblical Archaeology Society |
| Censtats | |
| Provides access to the following U.S. Census resources: County Business Patterns, USA Counties, Annual Survey of Manufacturers, ZIP Business Patterns, Census Tract/Street Index, Building Permits, International Trade Data, Occupation by Race and Sex, and Consolidated Federal Funds Report. |
| Child Abuse, Welfare and Adoption | |
| The foremost bibliographic resource on the maltreatment of children." Coverage: 1965 to present. |
| CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online | |
| Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. |
| ComAbstracts | |
| Contains abstracts of articles published in the primary professional literature of communication(s) studies. | |
| Communication and Mass Media Complete | |
| Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. 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 to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. |
| Congressional Research Digital Collections | |
| Includes full text Congressional Committee Prints from 1830 to the present, Congressional Research Service Reports from 1916 to the present and full text Congressional Committee Hearings, as well as related reports, statistical analyses, exhibits, and correspondence inserted into the record from 1824 to the present. |
| CQ Electronic Library | |
| Includes the following: CQ Researcher - provides in-depth analysis reporting on current and controversial issues of the day. CQ Weekly - expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. CQ Public Affairs Collection - public policy content organized by 22 key topics, pulls together CQ's wealth of historic documents and primary source materials, statistical overviews, directory contact information, and in-depth reporting on current affairs. CQ Supreme Court Collection - combines CQ's unique historical analysis and summaries of the most important Supreme Court decisions together with Justice biographies, statistics, and a quantitative analysis on essential topics, an institutional history of the Court, and news feed on current events and public opinion surrounding the Court's decisions. Encyclopedia of American Government - a reference on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and the U.S. Election process. |
| Daily Life Through History | |
| What did people eat, wear, or use? What did they hope for, invent, and sing?Daily Life Online explores ordinary life through time and across the globe. |
| Dissertations and Theses Full Text | |
| The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Citations for dissertations 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. Dissertations from 1997 to present are available in full-text PDF format. |
| Ebrary Academic Complete | |
| Academic Complete is a highly interactive eBook database from ebrary® that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. Note: you must first download and install the ebrary reader on your computer before accessing E-books. |
| EHRAF World Cultures | |
| eHRAF World Cultures is a cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text documents are subject-indexed at the paragraph level |
| Ethnic Newswatch | |
| News, culture, and history from over 240 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Both English and Spanish search interfaces are available. |
| Evidence Based Mental Health | |
| Launched in 1998, the purpose of Evidence-Based Mental Health is to alert clinicians working in the field of mental health to important and clinically relevant advances in treatment (including specific interventions and systems of care), diagnosis, aetiology, prognosis/outcome research, quality improvement, continuing education, economic evaluation, and qualitative research. |
| Factiva | |
| Factiva includes the Dow Jones and Reuters news wires, The Wall Street Journal and over 8,000 other magazines, newspapers, and trade journals from a wide variety of disciplines. [Note: You must use either Internet Explorer version 5.5 or higher, or Netscape version 6.01 or higher in order to access Factiva. Mac users must use the Safari browser 1.2+ Consult the Factiva Supported Browsers page for more information] |
| Family Studies Abstracts | |
| Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. |
| Health and Psychosocial Instruments | |
| Contains descriptions of instruments of use in assessing health and behavior. Includes questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales and tests. Please click on the 'Logoff' icon when finished. |
| Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) | |
| Index to journal articles, book reviews, original literary works and other materials. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From 1970 to present. | |
| Historical Abstracts | |
| 1954-present. International database for research on history of all regions (except the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the current decade. For US history, use America History and Life. |
| International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center | |
| This database offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues. |
| JSTOR | |
| JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. |
| Latin America Database | |
| A full-text news and information database on political, social, and economic issues in Latin America. | |
| Latino American Experience | |
| The Latino American Experience (LAE) is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. LAE’s content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos. | |
| Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe | |
| A full-text database of over 5,000 newspapers, magazines, wire services, business publications and company information along with basic legal and medical resources | |
| LGBT Life Full Text | |
| LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for 55 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 100 of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms. | |
| Library, Information Science & technology Abstracts (LISTA) | |
| ndexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| Full-text coverage of the LA Times from 1985 to present. |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook | |
| Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K. Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable judgments and informed selection decisions about the increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present. |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | |
| Ideal for those looking for pro and con arguments on a wide variety of contemporary social issues. Includes the opposing viewpoints series as well as links to reference materials, statistics, selected magazine and newspaper articles, images, primary documents, and Web sites. |
| Oxford Scholarship Online | |
| Oxford Scholarship Online is a groundbreaking online resource, combining OUP's core scholarly books in four disciplines (Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion and Theology) and powerful research tools into one cross-indexed, fully searchable database. With 926 classic and newly published titles now available, OSO will be updated quarterly with an additional 200 titles added each year. |
| Project Muse | |
| Provides online access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. | |
| PsycArticles | |
| PsycARTICLES® contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. | |
| PsycCritiques | |
| PsycCRITIQUES™, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is an electronic serial of book reviews featuring full text reviews of current scholarly and professional books in psychology. It also publishes reviews from a psychological perspective of popular films and trade books. PsycCRITIQUES also includes a searchable backfile of more than 5,400 reviews dating back to 1995. PsycCRITIQUES replaces the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. | |
| PsycINFO | |
| Includes psychology and relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, animal behavior, and organizational behavior. Allows you to limit to USD holdings and includes links to full-text for some articles. | |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection | |
| includes over 460 full text titles in psychology, mental health, and behavioral sciences. Most of the journals are peer-reviewed. For more comprehensive coverage in this area, use the PsycINFO database. | |
| Public Affairs International Service (PAIS) | |
| Indexes journals, books and book chapters in political science, international relations, and urban studies. |
| Sage Premier Journals | |
| The Premier package provides access to virtually all of the SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences, including a backfile dating back to 1999. |
| Smithsonian Global Sound | |
| Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. Note: You must create a user account in order to save playlists. Faculty who wish to set up course folders should contact Michael Epstein epstein@sandiego.edu | |
| Social Sciences Citation Index | |
| Social Sciences Citation Index provides access to bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references from over 1,700 of the world’s leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. It also includes individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world’s leading science and technology journals. (Dates of coverage: 1997-present.) | |
| SocINDEX with Full Text | |
| SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers. SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. | |
| SpringerLink Journals | |
| Includes access to over 1,500 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences. |
| Tests In Print | |
| Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). |
| Wiley Interscience Journals | |
| Includes access to over 250 journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, medicine, physical and life sciences. |