Databases by Subject - Social Science & Policy Studies
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| Database Title | In Quick Find | Description | Coverage | Some Full Text | Restricted to...† |
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 Academic OneFile |
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Search full-text articles on physical science, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Full Text Titles Included |
1980- |
Y |
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 Alternative Press Index |
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Titles Included | Search Tips |
1990- |
N |
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 Alternative
Press Index Archive |
Online archive of Alternative Press Index. |
1969-1990 |
N |
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An annotated bibliographical guide to the study of the history of U.S. foreign relations. |
1600- |
Y |
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 ArticleFirst |
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Citations from 15,000+ journals on all topics. Titles Indexed | Search Tips |
1990- |
N |
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 CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences EPrint Archive |
Archive of pre-published papers in cognitive psychology. Search Tips |
Varies |
Y |
 |
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 Contemporary Women's Issues |
Indexes 1,500+ sources on women issues, including health, human rights, the workplace, legal status, and more. Titles Included | Search Tips |
1992- |
N |
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InfoTrac databases cover scholarly sources on a variety of topics. Great starting place for articles. Includes titles from Expanded Academic ASAP and others. |
1980- |
Y |
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 General Reference Center Gold |
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InfoTrac database for full text magazines, reference books, and newspapers on a variety of topics. Titles Included |
1980- |
Y |
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 Google Scholar |
Google search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports on all topic areas. Use to find articles from academic publishers, professional societies, prepublication repositories and universities. |
Varies |
Y |
For best results, use Proxy |
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 JSTOR |
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Online archive of complete backruns of scholarly journals in a variety of academic fields. Titles Included | Search Tips |
1800s- |
Y |
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 HighWire Press |
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From Stanford University, includes Web versions of 920+ journals in biological, physical, medical, and social sciences. Titles Included | Search Tips |
Varies |
Y |
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 Journal Citation Reports |
JCR within ISI Web of Knowledge helps measure research influence and impact of journals and journal categories, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals. ThomsonReuters provides Journal Impact Factors with current and five year trends. |
Current | N | |
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 LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic |
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Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included, Search Tips |
Varies |
Y |
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 Making of America |
Digital library of books and journal articles in American social history from the antibellum period through reconstruction. Search Tips |
Varies |
Y |
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Search full text of the New York Times. |
2005- |
Y |
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Search full text and image 1851-2004 including news, illustrations, editorials, and advertisements. Search Tips |
1851-2004 |
Y |
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 Oxford Journals Online |
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Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas. |
1995- |
Y |
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Contains references to articles on public affair and
government issues from journals, books, government documents and
statistical directories. Also Includes public policy journals. |
1915- |
N |
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 Population Index on the Web |
Annotated bibliography of books, journal articles and working papers on population topics. See JSTOR for Population Index prior to 1986. Titles Included | Search Tips |
1986 - 2000 |
N |
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Full text access to scholarly humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Titles Included |
Varies |
Y |
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Access to the full text of thirteen newspapers: Titles Included | Help |
Varies |
Y |
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 psycNET |
Full text of articles from American Psychological Association (APA) and selected Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF) journals. Titles Included |
Varies |
Y |
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 PsycINFO |
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Indexes the literature of psychology. Titles Included |
1887- |
N |
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 ScienceDirect |
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Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips | Tutorial |
Varies |
Y |
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Indexes articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political and global issues. Search Tips |
1988- |
N |
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 Social Sciences Citation Index |
Covers the journal literature of the social sciences, including citation information for authors' works. Titles Included | Tutorial |
1990- |
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 Social Science Research Network (SSRN) |
Abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers e-paper collection containing full text documents in accounting, economics, legal, marketing, financial and information systems disciplines. Some content is pay-per-view, some freely available. |
1993- |
N |
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 SpringerLink |
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Access to a variety of scholarly science journals published by Springer. Titles Included |
Varies |
Y |
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Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics. |
1984- |
Y |
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 Wiley Interscience |
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Search journals published by Wiley. WPI subscribes to many titles in various topic areas. Search Tips |
1946- |
Y |
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