Databases by Subject - Social Science & Policy
See also General & Multidisciplinary and News.
| 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 |  |
 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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 American Foreign Relations Since 1600: a Guide to the Literature |
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 | |
 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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 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 | |
 Google Scholar |
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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 |
 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 | |
 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 | |
 LEXIS®-NEXIS® Academic |
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Full text news, legal, business, and biographical information. Titles Included, Search Tips | Varies | Y | |
 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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 New York Times (Current) |
Search full text of the New York Times. | 2005- | Y | |
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 New York Times (Historical) |
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Search full text and image 1851-2004 including news, illustrations, editorials, and advertisements. Search Tips | 1851-2004 | Y | |
 Oxford Journals Online |
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Search Oxford journals, we subscribe to 100+ titles covering a variety of topic areas. | 1995- | Y | |
 PAIS International |
Contains references to articles on public affair and
government issues from journals, books, government documents and
statistical directories. Also Includes public policy journals. Titles Included | Search Tips |
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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 Project MUSE |
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Full text access to scholarly humanities, social sciences, and mathematics journals. Titles Included | Varies | Y | |
 Massachusetts Newsstand - Proquest CSA |
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Access to the full text of thirteen newspapers: Titles Included | Help | Varies | Y | |
 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 | |
 ScienceDirect |
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Full text access to Elsevier Science scholarly journals. Search Tips | Tutorial | Varies | Y | |
| 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- | N | |
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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 | |
 ThomsonGale PowerSearch |
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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 Wall Street Journal - ProQuest |
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Full text of newspaper of offering coverage of global business, financial, and industry news and politics. | 1984- | Y | |
 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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