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All Social Science Subjects
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Communication | Criminal Justice
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Psychology | Social Work | Sociology
| Women's Studies
All Social Science Subjects
Annual Reviews -- indexing of the content to 7 social science Annual Reviews back to the first volume; full text review articles from anthropology and sociology Annual Review titles back to 1996; the articles in Annual Reviews offer a synthesis of the literature on a particular topic and aids in identifying key articles.
Project MUSE -- full text access to 170 core humanities and social science journals from over 50 academic and association publishers. Start date depends on the journal, but most start around 1998, through the latest issue. Also includes indexing/abstracting for another 130 journals.
ScienceDirect -- full text articles from around
200 social sciences journals back to 1995; includes indexing
of all 1800 Elsevier journals [help
with database]
Social Sciences Citation Index -- back to 1972
Anthropology
Anthropological
Index -- index for anthropology covering 1,100 periodicals
back to 1957
Encyclopedias
Communication
Communication
& Mass Media -- full text articles from around 200
magazines and journals, and indexing from another 300 titles
for all communication, journalism, and mass media subjects.
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Abstracts -- comprehensive index for
criminology, indexing around 500 periodicals back to 1968
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service -- two databases of indexing and full
text of government reports and periodical articles from the
U.S. Department of Justice back to the early 1970s
Encyclopedia
Education
Educator's Reference Desk -- The Educator's Reference Desk builds on the historical resources and services that educators have come to rely on from AskERIC and GEM. Synthesizing these resources with the combined efforts of the Information Institute of Syracuse and the Virtual Reference Desk, the Educator's Reference Desk provides 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
ERIC via the U.S. Department of Education -- comprehensive index for educational
issues back to 1966; includes links to full text PDF files of
ERIC Documents (1993-present). Alternate platforms for ERIC: ERIC via CSA,
ERIC via Ovid, ERIC
via FirstSearch, as well as ERIC via EBSCOhost .
JSTOR -- contains full text archive of 48 education journals from the first issue up to a moving wall of approximately 4 to 6 years and complete in those cases where the journal is no longer published.
MAS
Ultra School Edition -- aimed at high school students,
offers full text of over 500 popular and news magazines at the
high school reading level; also includes access to over 250
reference books and 75,000 primary documents
Mental Measurements Yearbook - contains full text information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas; covers the 9th edition of the Yearbook to the latest one, or 1985-present
PAIS International - Public Affairs Information Service -- provides broad coverage of social science issues worldwide and includes references to education policy in an international framework. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters, back to 1972 [more info]
Primary
Search -- aimed at elementary school students, offers
full text of over 60 popular and news magazines, and each article
is given a Lexiles reading level indicator
Professional
Development Collection -- aimed at educators, offers
500 full text journals, including more than 300 peer-reviewed
titles
PsycINFO (1985-present) -- comprehensive index for psychology which includes citations to articles pertaining to epistemology, classroom behavior, school counseling and much more. Includes over 1,500 journals and with links to full text articles in PsycARTICLES; click icon Change Database to search other year ranges; goes back to 1872. Also available through EBSCOhost
Social Services Abstracts -- provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development - all of which are areas that touch on education structures (school counseling, child welfare, social policy, etc.). The database abstracts and indexes over 1400 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews, back to 1980.
Sociological Abstracts -- the primary index to articles and conference proceedings for the social sciences and which includes education, back to 1963
Wiley Interscience -- offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on education such as ASHE Higher Education Report, Journal of Research in Science Teaching and several other periodicals.
Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of Education -- e-book version of this 2nd edition (2003) eight-volume set, with around 850 signed articles by experts in their field, ranging from 1-20 pages in length; the standard encyclopedia for education
LexisNexis
Academic -- full text articles from legal periodicals
and law reviews; click on Legal Research
on the left hand side of the screen [help
with database]
Westlaw's Campus Research -- full text articles from law reviews, as well as American Law Reports (ALR) and American Jurisprudence 2d; includes primary statutory and case law as well
Library Science
ERIC via EBSCOhost -- comprehensive index for educational issues back to 1966; includes links to full text PDF files of ERIC Documents (1993-present). Alternate platforms for ERIC: ERIC via Ovid and ERIC via FirstSearch, as well as the free Department of Education's version.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts --
indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more, back to the mid-1960s.
Political Science
CQ
Voting & Elections Collection -- full text analyses
and historical material on the American voter, major and minor
political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and
modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships
PAIS
International - Public Affairs Information Service -- indexes articles from around 1,600 periodicals,
and thousands of government reports a year from an international
perspective back to 1972 [more info]
State Politics & Policy Quarterly -- the official journal of the State Politics & Policy section of the American Political Science Association; full text PDF articles of this journal, back to volume 1, 2001, that you may browse or keyword search.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts -- indexes articles from
over 1,200 journals, as well as books, book chapters, and dissertations
on all political science subjects back to 1975 [help
with database]
Encyclopedia
Magazines
- CQ Researcher -- full text articles from this magazine back to October 1991; each weekly issue covers one current event or policy issue of around 20-30 pages in length [more info]
- The Nation Digital Archive -- full text articles from The Nation, 1865 to the present
Psychology
Mental Measurements Yearbook - contains full text information about and reviews of English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas; covers the 9th edition of the Yearbook to the latest one, or 1985-present
PsycARTICLES
-- full text of 54 journals published by the American Psychological
Association; need to check the PsycARTICLES limit to view just the 54 full text journals
PsycCRITIQUES -- Book and film reviews from the journal Contemporary Psychology, back to 1995
PsycINFO
(1985-present) -- comprehensive index for psychology
covering over 1,500 journals and includes links to full text
articles in PsycARTICLES; click icon Change Database
to search other year ranges; goes back to 1806 [help
with database]
PsycINFO Backfile (1806-1966) -- specifically covers years 1806 through 1966 of PsycINFO
Wiley Interscience - offers selected full text articles from scholarly journals on psychology back to around 1997; includes indexing of all 32 titles back to the first issue. Note: We do not have full text access to the online books or reference works.
Social Work
Haworth
Press -- access to full text articles in the most recent
issues of 30 journals mainly covering social work and human
services
Social
Services Abstracts -- comprehensive index for social
work and human services, covering over 1,500 journals back to
1980
Sociology
Sociological
Abstracts -- comprehensive index to sociology
covering over 1,700 journals, back to 1963
Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of Sociology -- e-book version of the second edition of this standard work, with around 450 signed entries aimed at academics
Women's Studies
Gerritsen Collection: Women's History Online 1543-1945
-- full text of over 2 million pages on women's rights and feminism
Encyclopedia
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