Database by Subject: Social Sciences
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Coverage |
Full Text? |
Description |
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1990 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated monthly. Provides full text for 5,256 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Includes full-page images as well as color embedded images. | |
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1974 - present |
No full text |
Updated regularly. Provides bibliographic access to Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. Also has a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa. | |
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1978 (select coverage 1966-1977) - present |
Limited full text |
Updated regularly. Contains detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos from the gerontology collection of AARP's Research Information Center, as well as selected articles from 300 magazines and journals. Covers English-language literature from many countries. | |
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1960 - present |
No full text |
Updated monthly. Covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works. | |
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1990 - present |
Some full text available |
Updated monthly. A scholarly business database providing a collection of bibliographic and full text content in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 are included. Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals. Contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database.
Additional full text, non-journal content includes financial data, books, monographs, major reference works, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses. | |
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Coverage Varies |
N/A |
Governmental source for population, housing, economic and geographic data. | |
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Coverage Varies |
Includes full text |
The Directory of Open Access Journals covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. DOAJ aims to cover all subjects and languages. There are over 2796 journals in the directory. Over 800 journals are searchable at article level. | |
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1994 - 1997 |
No full text |
Updated regularly. Covers over 350 international journals as well as book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.). Subject coverage for gender and sexuality means that articles on masculinity and male homosexuality are included. | |
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Coverage Varies |
Some full text available |
The British Library has launched 'Food Stories', an interactive service designed to teach users about the changes that have taken place in the UK food industry throughout the last century.
It covers a range of topics including changes in eating habits; food and regulation; the rituals and traditions surrounding food; and food and technology. | |
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Varies |
Includes full text |
Dozens of reference sources in many subjects. | |
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1936 - present |
No full text |
Updated annually. A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. | |
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Coverage varies |
No full text |
Updated frequently. Provides a bibliographic database on Human-Computer Interaction. | |
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1997 - present |
Includes full text |
Updated daily. Provides over 160 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and consumer health. Includes full-text reference books, pamphlets, overviews of clinical topics, and indexing and abstracts for over 1500 additional titles covering patient and consumer health information. Subset of Health and Wellness Resource Center. | |
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1973 - present |
No full text |
Updated regularly. A Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. Includes content from AIDSLINE (focuses on research, clinical aspects, and health policy issues related to AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), (BIOETHICSLINE (covering ethics and related public policy issues in health care and biomedical research), and HealthSTAR (covering the published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research). NLM | |
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Coverage varies |
Includes full text |
Explore a world of children's books at the ICDL, a public library for the world's children. Read 871 free children's books written in 33 different languages. The International Children's Digital Library is a project of the University of Maryland. | |
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Coverage varies |
Includes full text |
Updated regularly. Contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. | |
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Coverage varies |
Includes full text |
Updated continually. Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the world, including full text of the New York Times. Also provides access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. | |
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1990-present |
Some full text available |
Updated regularly. Provides indexing and abstracts for over 500 (with full text for 400) military and general interest publications. | |
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1950-1996 |
Includes full text |
This Nature collection is an archive of a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. | |
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Coverage varies |
No full text |
Updated regularly. Provides a comprehensive source of documentary and statistical political information on Latin American politics. Useful for students, academics, policy analysts and government officials. | |
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1970 - present |
N/A |
Updated monthly. Provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy. | |
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Coverage varies |
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Updated annually. Provides an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. A primary reference tool to the world's population literature. Princeton University | |
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1965 - present |
Limited full text |
Updated daily. A comprehensive database providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. | |
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Coverage varies |
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A community resource database that includes more than 2500 services from a 10 county region in Central Texas. Available services can be searched by topic, program name or agency name. United Way Capital Area | |
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1979 - present |
N/A |
Updated regularly. Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. United Nations | |
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Coverage varies |
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Updated regularly. Free access to a segment of the World Development Indicators (WDI) database, an extensive collection of data about development. This segment includes 54 timeseries indicators for 208 countries and 18 groups, spanning 5 years (1997 to 2001). You can choose several ways of displaying the data: index, percentage change, and graphs, and can export the result in standard formats. World Bank |