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| RECOMMENDED DATABASES & INDEXES |
America: History and Life -
- A comprehensive bibliographic database with abstracts that cover the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. This database covers over 2000 journals including all English language historical journals, from 1964 to the present.
Cambridge Histories Online -
- Contains over 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship in 15 different academic disciplines including: American, British, economic, regional and warfare histories, theater and performing arts, religious studies, political and social theory, philosophy, music, literary studies, language and linguistics, history of science, history of the book and general history.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) -
- A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators.
Ebsco Academic Search Premier -
- Provides full text for more than 3,460 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. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Environment & Energy Daily -
- The leading source of information for people who track environmental and energy action in Congress. From clean air legislation to public lands policy, E&E Daily brings readers the most comprehensive, objective, original coverage of Congress.
GPO Monthly Catalog -
- Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.) from 1976 to the present. Includes a bibliographic citation in each record.
Historical Abstracts -
- 1969 to present Historical Abstracts is the bibliographic database that covers the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada, see America: History and Life) from 1450 to the present. This is the leading bibliography for history, covering over 2000 journals published throughout the world.
Humanities E-Book -
- An online, fully searchable collection of more than 1,000 high-quality books in history, recommended and reviewed by historians and featuring unlimited multi-user access.
ICPSR -
- ICPSR (the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
JSTOR -
- A backfile of core journals in the arts and sciences, JSTOR contains millions of pages in PDF format searchable through JSTOR itself or through the appropriate subject indexes.
Project MUSE -
- With well over 100 journals in full-text, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others, searchable through Project Muse itself, or through the appropriate subject indexes.
SocINDEX with Full Text -
- Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network) -
- The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing
abstracts on over 63,500 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 40,900 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
WorldCat -
- Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records.
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