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Abstracts in social gerontology  (1999- )

Academic Search Premier (1975- )

Full text. Journal index. Includes over 8,000 journals with full text for over 4,500. Subject coverage is for most academic disciplines. More info 

Access World News

A full text, newspaper database. Includes over 1,000 international newspaper titles, none from the United States.

 

AfricaBib.org

A mixture of databases, dictionaries, and historical information on Africa. Compiled and maintained by Davis Bullwinkle, "director of the Institute for Economic Advancement Research Library within the Institute for Economic Advancement on the campus of the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, in Little Rock, Arkansas."

 

AgeLine  (1978- )

Indexes books, journals, research reports and videos. A database produced by AARP including information about aging, care giving, health, psychology, retirement, social policies, medical issues, etc. This database is free, but is limited in concurrent users, nationwide. If you are unable to access this database, wait a few minutes and try logging in again. Use the Thesaurus of aging terminology when searching by subject. More info

 

Alternative Press Index (1991- )

Journal index. Covers cultural, economic, political & social change.  More info 

American Indian index

"Part of the Hayden Labriola National American Indian Data Center Collection, covers prehistory to the present time and includes all topics dealing with the American Indian in Alaska, Canada, and the United States. Photographs are included in this collection." Specialized index made available by Arizona State University.

 

Arizona and Southwestern Index

Specialized index made available by Arizona State University. "Dates from prehistory to the present time and covers all subjects dealing with Arizona and The Southwest including some southwestern Indian tribes. The index contains photographs and material found in the Hayden Arizona Collection in the Department of Archives & Manuscripts."

 

ArticleFirst  (1990 - )

Journal index. Searches the tables of contents for nearly 13,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. More info

 

ASSIA - Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (1987 - )

Journal index geared toward the "practical and academic professional". This resource is multidisciplinary covering over 500 journals published worldwide. New records are loaded monthly. Produced by CSA. More info 

Associations Unlimited (1 concurrent user allowed)

Contains information about more than 120,000 international and U.S. regional, state, and local non-profit membership organizations in all fields. More info

 

Business source premier (1965 - )

A full text, business database. This database covers all aspects of business: finance, management, economics, international business, and much more. More info

 

An international database providing evidence based articles in the social and behavioral sciences. This searchable database includes material on criminal justice, education and social welfare.

Case studies in public policy and management

Produced by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, this database includes materials on public policy and government in the form of cases. Material is available for purchase, abstracts are free.

 

Child abuse, child welfare & adoption (1965 - )

Indexes journals, books, reports, multimedia, etc. This database is produced by the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse. Click here to register in order search and use this database. More info

 

Clase and Periodica   (1975 - )

CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. More info

 

Cochrane Library
A database of systematic reviews providing the best evidence in health related literature.  The Library provides additional resources relevant to evidence based practice in the social sciences. More info

Community of Science (CoS)

A database listing researchers and research projects nation wide. Funding sources may also be found. Individual researchers can include their projects.

 

Contemporary Women's Issues  (1992 - )

Full-text. Journal index. Provides access to international information on women and women's issues from journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups, governments and international agencies, and fact sheets. Updated 26 times a year. More info

 

CQ researcher  (1991 - )

Full-text. Journal index. Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week; topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology. More info 

CQ weekly (1983 - )

Full-text. 'Your complete source foe expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, backroom maneuvering, and more. More info

 

Dissertations

Education Full Text  (1983- )

Journal index. Full-text. Indexes more than 400 English Language periodicals and books, and includes full-text articles from 204 of those titles. Updated monthly. More info

 

ERIC (FirstSearch)

Journal index. Over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. Includes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. Updated monthly. More info

 

Essay and General Literature Index (1985 - )

Provides citations to essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Updated annually. More info

 

Ethnic NewsWatch (1990 - )(3 concurrent users allowed, please log off when finished)

Full-text. Journal index. A full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press, covering many subject areas ranging from the more focused ethnic area studies to the arts, business, education, the environment, history, journalism, political science, and sociology. More info

 

Family & Society Studies Worldwide (1970 - )

Includes journals, conferences, reports, books, etc. This database combines four previous databases into one with over 700,000 records. More info

 

GenderWatch (1974 - )

Full-text. Journal index. A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. Over 31,000 full text articles from approximately 115 publications and archival material dating as far back as 1974. Updated quarterly. More info

 

GLBT Life

GLBT Life is a database indexing literature on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender issues. This database currently indexes materials from over 80 GLBT periodicals. It has an archive of material indexing literature back to the 1950s. "Disciplines covered by GLBT Life include civil liberties, culture, employment, family, history, politics, psychology, religion, sociology, and more."(From Database Help link on database search page). More info

 

GPO catalog (1976 - )

Listing of publications available from the U.S. Government Printing Office. More info

 

GreenFILE (1975- )
Information from popular as well as scholarly journals covering environmental and ecological topics.  Contains some full text.

HaPI: Health and Psychosocial Instruments

Journal articles and psychosocial tests and measures; including rating scales, questionnaires, etc. To access this database you must ask full time library staff for a username and password. Access is restricted to on campus usage.

 

HaPI: HISPANIC AMERICAN PERIODICAL INDEX (1970 -)

Indexes journal articles, original literary works, book reviews and more. Includes material on "Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States."
 

HRAF WORLD CULTURES

Produced by Yale University and a consortium of other universities and colleges.  This database includes information on societies and cultures around the world.  Customs, cultures, societies are discussed, compared, reported.

 

IBZ online (1983 - )

Journal database. Covers international research in all areas of research but is strong in social science and humanities. More info 
 

ICPSR: the Inter-University Consortium for Social and Political Research
Access to very large computer data files in the social sciences, including election results, polls, surveys, and census. More info

IngentaConnect

Some full text. A searchable database of titles collected by Ingenta. Use this database to set up a current awareness service to monitor new articles published on a subject of interest or keep up with what is being published in an important journal in a subject area. More info

 

InTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES ( 1952 - )

Some full text. An international database that indexes articles, book reviews and select book chapters in the social sciences. Produced by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

 

IRIS

Grants database that searches some 7,500 funding opportunities available to graduate students, faculty, undergraduate students, and institutions. Available on the Washington University campuses due to a subscription by the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. More info

 

LexisNexis Academic

Full-text. Journal index. A subset of the Lexis-Nexis service, containing full-text news, business, legal, and reference information. More info

 

LexisNexis Congressional

Full-text. U.S. legislative information, including full-text of bills & laws. Good source for Brown School Social Work Policy papers. More info

 

LexisNexis Statistical

Abstracts and index to U.S. & state governments and privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources (ASI, SRI & IIS). More info

 

MEDLINE, via PubMED  (1951 - )

Journal index. More than 3,500 journals published internationally, covering all areas of medicine. Updated monthly. More info and other options

 

MEDLINEplus

An authoritative source for current, free, and easily accessible health information. Includes information from the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, and health experts on over 500 diseases. There is access to encyclopedias, dictionaries, drug handbooks, medical organizations, etc. More info

 

National criminal justice reference service abstracts (1970 - )

Provides abstracts to over 170,000 publications covering books, journals, and reports on the local state and federal level. All aspects of criminal justice are included. Some full text material is included and linked from the abstract. More info

 

National Journal Services  (1977 - )

Full-text. Includes access to the National Journal, the Hotline, Congress Daily, and other politics, policy and government information. More info

 

Oxford Reference Online

Full-text. Contains about 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. ONE CONCURRENT USER; click Log out when finished. More info

 

PAIS International (1972 - )

Journal index. Indexes and abstracts books, periodical articles, and government publications in the fields of public affairs and public policy. Provides social and economic analyses of international, national, and local policies. More info

 

PILOTS - Published International Literature on Stress (1871- ) 

Produced by the National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and searchable via the CSA Illumina interface. The database is international in scope and does not limit itself to veteran injury or experiences.

Polling the Nations (1986 - )

Full-text. A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. More info

 

Popline (1970 - )

Journal index. Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals and other materials for worldwide coverage of population, family planning, and related health issues. Updated twice monthly. More info

 

PsycINFO (1887 - )

Journal index. Journal articles, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. Updated monthly. More info

 

PubMed (1951 - )

The database provided by the National Library of Medicine to health professionals, researchers, consumers for authoritative, current medical information. There are links to full text journal and book articles. Search filters are provided for evidence-based article retrieval. More info

 

ScienceDirect

Some fulltext. A searchable database of Elsevier titles. This service includes Elsevier titles published in Business and management, Economics and finance, and the Social sciences. More info

 

St. Louis Post-Dispatch  (1988 - )

Online access to the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, including the archive from 1988 to the present. Please note that while you can search the archive for free, full-text articles are no longer free on the web. The Libraries do have this newspaper on microfilm. Please ask at the Olin Library Help Desk for assistance. More info

 

Social Science Research Network

Consists of "an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 30,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 15,000 downloadable full text documents." More info

 

Social Sciences Citation Index, via Web of Science (1988 - )

Journal index. A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Updated weekly. More info

 

Social services abstracts (1980 - )

Journal index. Indexes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. More info

 

Social Work Abstracts (1977 - )

Journal index. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., this database contains more than 35,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more. More info

 

SocINDEX for alumni
Indexes scholarly journals, books conference proceedings, reports, etc in the social sciences. This database covers 590 core journals; with coverage going as far back as 1895 for some select titles.

SocINDEX with fulltext
A comprehensive social sciences database.  Scholarly journals, books, conference proceedings and many other published materials are included in the indexing coverage of this database.  Most core journals are indexed back to 1908 with some going as far back as 1895. More info

tHOMAS
A searchable database of current and recent legislation. THOMAS is produced by the U.S. federal government. Allows searching for key words, bill numbers, subjects, sponsor, etc. Includes Congressional reports. Provides bill summaries and status. Can search through Congressional record.

UNESCO Documents and Publications

An index to the publications of this multinational, multilingual organization. Many publications are available for free or electronically in full text.

 

United Nations Common Database

A statistical database compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division providing data from select sources for all countries. The material is searchable by various topics.

 

United WDI Nations Common Database

A statistical database compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division providing data from select sources for all countries. The material is searchable by various topics.

 

Web of Science (1988 - )
(15 concurrent users allowed, please log off when finished) Journal index. Includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Updated weekly.  More info

 

WorldCat

A database of bibliographic information for books, journal titles, videos, and other materials cataloged by thousands of U.S. and foreign libraries.  More info

 

WorldNews Network

An international news website providing current news from over 500 media sources. This site covers not only print but also electronic sources for news coverage.