Social Science Databases
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Anthropology/Archaeology Business & Economics Criminal Justice Education History Law Political Science Psychology Sociology |
Alternate Listings: Arts & Humanities Databases A-Z |
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| Database | Description | Provider |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. |  |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
| CountryWatch | CountryWatch provides specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world. Includes current and historical statistics, news, maps. | |
| LitFinder | LitFinder contains a wealth of literary works including over 150,000 full-text poems and 800,000 poetry citations, as well as short stories, speeches, and plays. LitFinder also includes secondary materials like biographies, images, and more. | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. |  |
| Religion and Philosophy Collection | Contains nearly 300 full-text journals in the topics of world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Searchable full-text online versions of 59 specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and reference sources. All topical areas: cultures, countries, history, sciences, and much more. |  |
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| Business & Economics | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| Business & Company Resource Center | Detailed company and industry news and information, including company histories, investment reports, and periodical articles. | |
| Business Source Complete | Index with full text for 9200+ journals and magazines in all business topic areas; includes market research and industry reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses. | |
| Regional Business News | Full text for 50+ regional business publications nationwide. | |
| JSTOR | JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The database is full-text searchable, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Searchable full-text online versions of 59 specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and reference sources. All topical areas: biography, business, finance, e-commerce, crime, cultures, and much more. | |
| Vocational and Career Collection | Provides full-text coverage for nearly 350 trade and industry-related periodicals, covering topics such as computer & data processing, electrical technology, nursing, interior design, law enforcement & criminal justice, marketing & advertising, hospitality & tourism, construction, and others. | |
| CCH TAXEssentials | CCH Tax Guide online service - (This database requires a username and password; please contact the Information Desk at 585-343-0055 Ext 6419) | |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
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| Criminal Justice | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | An excellent source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. | |
| Points of View Reference Center | Features essays and othe full-text articles that present multiple sides of a current issue. Contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide. | |
| ScienceDirect | Citations, abstracts and full text for 863+ journals, including: science, social science, medicine, math, technology. | |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Searchable full-text online versions of 59 specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and reference sources. All topical areas: biography, crime & justice, cultures, drugs, espionage, sciences, and much more. | |
| CREDO Reference | Full text of over 300 reference sources from 50+ publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Allows you to continue your search in other GCC databases. | |
| DSM Online | Full-text, searchable version of the DSM-IV-TR® - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision | |
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| Education | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| ERIC | Educational Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to 3000+ education journals, research studies, digests, teaching materials, etc. Full text for 2200 titles. | |
| Education Research Complete | Scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Indexes 1500 journals with full-text for 750 plus full-text for 100 books, conference papers. Coverage includes all levels of education, educational specialties, administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. | |
| Professional Development Collection | Specialized collection for education researchers, professional educators, librarians. Includes full text for 500+ education journals and 200 reports. | |
| Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text | Contains full text for 240+ journals covering various aspects of librarianship and information management. | |
| JSTOR | JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The database is full-text searchable, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. | |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. | |
| MasterFILE Premier | Index to periodicals covering general topics. Full text of 1950 titles. Includes an "Image Collection" of photographs, primary source documents, biographies and full text of 500 reference books. | |
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| History | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| JSTOR | JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The database is full-text searchable, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. | |
| CREDO Reference | Full text of over 300 reference sources from 50+ publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Allows you to continue your search in other GCC databases. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Searchable full-text online versions of 59 specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and reference sources. All topical areas: authors, biography, crime, countries and cultures, history, wars, world leaders, and much more. | |
| HarpWeek | A full-text, full-image electronic version of Harpers Weekly for 1857-1865, a prominent, heavily illustrated American newspaper. News, editorials, illustrations and advertisements are indexed and searchable. | |
| Military & Government Collection | Collection of magazines and journals designed to offer current news about all branches of the military and government; includes full text of 400 publications, with indexing for 500 additional titles. | |
| Salem History | Salem History includes the complete content of the "Decades in America" printed reference series. This fully searchable full-text database focuses on American history from 1950-1989 and includes illustrations and suggestions for further reading. | |
| CountryWatch | CountryWatch provides specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world. Includes current and historical statistics, news, maps. | |
| New York Times- Historical | Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. For the New York Times 1995-present use Academic OneFile.) | |
| Humanities International Complete | Indexing and full text for articles and books covering all areas of the humanities. | |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. | |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | An excellent source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. | |
| Points of View Reference Center | Features essays and othe full-text articles that present multiple sides of a current issue. Contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide. | |
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| Law | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| CREDO Reference | Full text of over 300 reference sources from 50+ publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Allows you to continue your search in other GCC databases. | |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. | |
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| Political Science | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
| CountryWatch | CountryWatch provides specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world. Includes current and historical statistics, news, maps. | |
| JSTOR | JSTOR includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The database is full-text searchable, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references. | |
| CREDO Reference | Full text of over 300 reference sources from 50+ publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Allows you to continue your search in other GCC databases. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Searchable full-text online versions of 59 specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and reference sources. All topical areas: American foreign policy, biography, countries and cultures, history, and much more. | |
| Military & Government Collection | Collection of magazines and journals designed to offer current news about all branches of the military and government; includes full text of 400 publications, with indexing for 500 additional titles. | |
| Salem History | Salem History includes the complete content of the "Decades in America" printed reference series. This fully searchable full-text database focuses on American history from 1950-1989 and includes illustrations and suggestions for further reading. | |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | An excellent source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. | |
| Points of View Reference Center | Features essays and othe full-text articles that present multiple sides of a current issue. Contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide. | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. | |
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| Psychology | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| PsycINFO & PsycARTICLES | PsycINFO provides indexing and abstracts of 1,997 psychology and psychiatry journals from 1887-present, plus indexing of selected dissertations and books from 1840-present. PsycARTICLES provides full-text articles in 50+ psychology and psychiatry journals from 1985-present. (PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES are linked.) | |
| Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection | Contains 570 full-text journals and 48 books & monographs in the field of Psychology. Coverage is particularly strong in child & adolescent psychology and various areas of counseling. | |
| DSM Online | Full-text, searchable version of the DSM-IV-TR® - the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision | |
| PsychiatryOnline | A full-text psychiatry resource center that includes; the DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Handbook of Differential Diagnosis, APA Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders, The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry, 4th Edition, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and psychiatry-related books, journals, and self-assessment tools. | |
| MEDLINE | Authoritative medical information from the National Library of Medicine, provides indexing for 4800+ biomedical journals; includes medicine, veterinary medicine, nursing, dentistry, health care system topics. | |
| ScienceDirect | Citations, abstracts and full text for 863+ journals, including: science, social science, medicine, math, technology. | |
| Health Reference Center - Academic | Health-related periodical index with full-text, plus full-text of medical reference books and 500+ pamphlets. | |
| Health & Wellness Resource Center | Periodical index of 788 health-related journals and magazines with full-text for 601 titles, plus 2200 general interest publications; full-text of medical reference books, directories, drug information, pamphlets, care notes, Clinical Reference Systems guides, web links. | |
| CREDO Reference | Full text of over 300 reference sources from 50+ publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Allows you to continue your search in other GCC databases. | |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | An excellent source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. | |
| Points of View Reference Center | Features essays and othe full-text articles that present multiple sides of a current issue. Contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide. | |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
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| Sociology | ||
| Database | Description | Format |
| Academic OneFile | Scholarly, peer-reviewed, full-text journal articles from the world's leading journals; also includes magazines, newspapers, reference book excerpts and podcasts. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. | |
| General OneFile | Citations, abstracts or full text for articles on all topics, from: academic journals, popular magazines, newspapers, business and technical publications, law journals. (Database formerly known as InfoTrac OneFile) | |
| Academic Search Complete | Index of 10,000+ journals and magazines, with full text for 6,100 titles. Broad topic coverage. | |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center | An excellent source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. | |
| Points of View Reference Center | Features essays and othe full-text articles that present multiple sides of a current issue. Contains 255 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument) and Critical Thinking Guide. | |
| ScienceDirect | Citations, abstracts and full text for 863+ journals, including: science, social science, medicine, math, technology. | |
| CREDO Reference | Full text of over 300 reference sources from 50+ publishers, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations. Allows you to continue your search in other GCC databases. | |
| CountryWatch | CountryWatch provides specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world. Includes current and historical statistics, news, maps. | |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library | Searchable full-text online versions of 59 specialized encyclopedias, handbooks and reference sources. All topical areas: bioethics, biography, crime, countries and cultures, history, marriage and family, sociology, and much more. | |
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