SocialDatabases
Archives Unbound
(Infotrac)
|
|
|
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level.
|
|
|
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, economics, politics, race relations and education.
|
|
|
Bibliography of Asian Studies
(Bibliography of Asian Studies)
|
|
|
The Bibliography of Asian Studies contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
|
|
|
Credo Reference
(Credo Reference)
|
|
|
Credo Reference is a source that reference librarians and others use that compiles essential, factual information from specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference sources. Credo Reference is written for the interested researcher, not the specialist. It's a great place to start your research.
|
|
|
CSA
(CSA)
|
|
|
CSA has been incorporated into the ProQuest database
|
|
|
CultureGrams
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
CultureGrams Online Database is a reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe. Sections include: Background, The People, Customs and Courtesies, Lifestyle, and Society.
|
|
|
ebrary
(ebrary)
|
|
|
ebrary books are included as part of the library's collection, and may be accessed like other library electronic materials via a link in BOSUN. Access the full-text of over 43,000 books. Create a personal bookshelf and highlight and take notes in the books. Coverage includes the subject areas of Business & Economics, Computers & IT, Education, Engineering & Technology, History & Political Science, Humanities, Interdisciplinary & Area Studies, Language, Literature & Linguistics, Law, International Relations & Public Policy, Life Sciences, Medical, Nursing & Allied Health, Physical Sciences, Psychology & Social Work, Religion, Philosophy & Classics, Sociology & Anthropology. Notes: ebrary eBooks the library owns are accessible directly from ebrary or from a link in the BOSUN record for each. You do not need to register to have your own ebrary account: one will be automatically created for you when you click on the Login button for the first time. Important: be aware that when you login to ebrary to use personalized features such as your own bookshelf, you will be prompted with a PROXY login screen, even if you're on campus. ebrary’s “reader” function is not supported under many browsers, including AOL's, MSN's, Netscape 6, Opera, and others, including ISP-branded browsers. ebrary works well without it. ebrary permits printing in 30 page increments up to 60 pages per user session. To print, right click on text, select "print" and indicate the pages needed. Note of December 17, 2010: eBrary has changed its personalized account features. Users who set up ebrary personalized accounts before this date may wish to contact ebrary tech support at support@ebrary.com to have their previous bookshelf contents merged with a newer "SSO" bookshelf account. In your email, please provide your previous username and your new username and ask to have your bookshelves "merged". (To see your new username, log in and look in upper right of the screen. Your new name will appear as "Logged in as...") |
|
|
Educator's Reference Desk
(Information Institute of Syracuse)
|
|
|
Educator's Reference Desk contains 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ responses to popular questions on the practice, theory, and research of education
|
|
|
ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
(U.S. Department of Education. )
|
|
|
ERIC is a database of education-related materials including: journal articles (mostly peer-reviewed), books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers. If available, links to full text are included.
|
|
|
FindArticles.com
(FindArticles.com)
|
|
|
From BNET.com. Free and fee-based archive of full-text articles. Subject areas in include business, health, society, news, technology and more. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 350 magazines and journals.
|
|
|
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941-1996
(NewsBank)
|
|
|
Translated text of radio and television broadcasts, newspapers and periodicals, government statements, books, and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature from non-English sources around the world.
For current reports see the Open Source Center. |
|
|
Index Islamicus
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
Index Islamicus indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world including main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies. Records included in the database cover almost a century of publications, with some going back to 1906. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level.
|
|
|
JSTOR
(JSTOR)
|
|
|
JSTOR is a digital archive collection of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. It contains the entire runs of each journal from the first volume up to those published 2 to 5 years ago. By agreement with the publishers JSTOR maintains a moving 2 to 5 year lag in most recent holdings available.
|
|
|
MagPortal.com
(MagPortal.com)
|
|
|
This current awareness resource indexes some 120 periodicals, in twelve categories, including Business; Computers; Education; Entertainment; Family; Finance; Health; Internet; Pets; Science; Society, Politics; and Sports.
|
|
|
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
(U.S. Department of Justice)
|
|
|
The NCJRS Abstracts Database is one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 180,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials. The NCJRS sponsoring agencies publish hundreds of reports and other information products each year. Most of the titles are available online through the NCJRS Web site.
|
|
|
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
(United States Department of Justice)
|
|
|
The NCJRS Abstracts Database is one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 180,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials. Most of the titles are available online through the NCJRS Web site.
|
|
|
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Publications
(U.S. Department of Justice)
|
|
|
This Search provides links to Publications and Products of the NCJRS.
|
|
Open Source Center
(United States Government )
|
|
|
Formerly FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Open Source Center offers an extensive, in-depth collection of translations and transcriptions of open source information monitored worldwide on such diverse topics as military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology. The information is obtained monitoring radio, television, press, periodicals, books and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature.
For older reports see Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports. Currently available: 1953-1996 of total years, 1941-1996 |
|
|
Oxford English Dictionary
(Oxford University Press)
|
|
|
Complete text of the OED's twenty-volume Second Edition and three-volume Additions Series. |
|
|
PIVOT
( )
|
|
|
PIVOT is the leading global resource for hard-to-find information critical to scientific research and other projects across all disciplines. PIVOT enables you to:
|
|
|
Project Muse
(Project Muse)
|
|
|
Full-text access to over 100 university press journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage for most journals begins in 1995.
|
|
|
ProQuest
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
Select the databases you want to search and then click on Use selected databases.
Databases include: ABI/INFORM Global (business, management & trade), Aerospace Database, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), Computer and Information Systems Abstracts, COS Funding Opportunities, EconLit, GeoRef, Hoover's Company Profiles, Index Islamicus, Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts, National Newspapers Core, Oceanic Abstracts, OxResearch (geopolitical and macro-economic analysis), PAIS (Public affairs, public and social policies, international relations), ProQuest Computing, ProQuest Historical Annual Reports, ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), Los Angeles Times (1881-1986), San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922), Christian Science Monitor (1908-1995), New York Times (1851-2007), Wall Street Journal (1889-1991), Washington Post (1877-1993)], ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Science Journals, ProQuest Telecommunications, PsycINFO, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. |
|
|
ProQuest Government Periodicals Index
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
The U.S. government agencies publish approximately 170 magazines and newsletters with substantial research value. Government Periodicals Universe provides detailed subject and author indexing to access this body of literature and is updated quarterly (March, June, Sept, and December). Each update covers more than 2,000 articles of research value.
|
|
|
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
Provides full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue of the following newspapers:
Annual Reports (1844-Current) Christian Science Monitor (1908-1997) Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005) Los Angeles Times (1881-1987) New York Times (1851-2007) San Francisco Chronicle (1865-1922) Wall Street Journal (1889-1993) Washington Post (1877-1994) |
|
|
PsycINFO
(ProQuest)
|
|
|
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. The database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain non-evaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
|
|
|
Social Sciences Citation Index
(ISI Web of Knowledge)
|
|
|
Once you are into Web of Knowledge, click on Web of Science. The Social Sciences Citation Index® in Web of Science provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world’s leading science and technology journals. Dudley Knox Library’s subscription covers articles and papers published from 1898-present.
|
|
|
SocINDEX with Full Text
(EBSCO)
|
|
|
Once you are into EBSCO click on SocINDEX with Full Text. This comprehensive sociology research database contains the citations, abstracts, and often the full text of journals, books, conference papers and other materials, encompassing areas such as criminology & criminal justice, demography, economic development, ethnic and racial studies, social psychology, and other sub-disciplines.
|
|
|
SpringerLink
(Springer)
|
|
|
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database of journals and books published by Springer. The Library has access to books and journals in: Business & Economics; Computer Science; Earth & Environmental Sciences; Engineering; Humanities, Social Science & Law; Mathematics & Statistics. |
|
|
Web of Knowledge
(Web of Knowledge)
|
|
|
The website includes access to Web of Science (Science Citation Index 1956-present, Social Sciences Citation Index 1898-present, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science 1991-present, and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities 1991-present) , Medline 1950-present, and Journal Citation Reports 2006-2010. It provides citation and tracking information on current and retrospective research and a current awareness tool. Cited references [footnotes and bibliographies] for all articles are captured and indexed, allowing tracing of the references and citation analysis. Includes access to some full-text articles.
|
|
|
WorldCat
(OCLC)
|
|
|
With WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog) you can simultaneously search the catalogs of over 9000 libraries worldwide. WorldCat contains more than 50 million records in over 400 languages.
|
|
|
World Christian Database
(BRILL)
|
|
|
The World Christian Database (WCD) is based on the 2600-page award-winning World Christian Encyclopedia and World Christian Trends, first published in 1982 and revised in 2001. This extensive work on World religion is now completely updated and integrated into the WCD online database. Designed for both the casual user and research scholar, information is readily available on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demographic statistics. Additional secular data is incorporated on population, health, education, and communications. |
|
|
World Religion Database
(BRILL)
|
|
|
The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world’s religions for the period 1900 to 2050. |
|