Databases for the Social Sciences

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Social Sciences

AgeLine: Created by the AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons), this database provides "detailed summaries of publications about older adults and aging, including books, journal and magazine articles, research reports, and videos."
Journals indexed. Coverage started: 1978, with selected coverage of the years 1966-1977.
Note: The total number of users who can search at any one time is restricted. If you are denied access, wait for 10-15 minutes and try again.
Anthropological Index Online: This index "is based on the journal holdings of The Anthropology Library at the The British Museum (Museum of Mankind) which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology, from academic institutions and publishers around the world."
Coverage started: 1957.
CQ Researcher (Full-Text): For controversial topics of public interest, each weekly issue provides background information, a clear statement of opposing positions, the outlook for the future, and an annotated bibliography.
Coverage started: 11/91.
Clase and Periodica: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIODICA covers Latin American journals specializing in science and technology. Offers access to more than 300,000 bibliographic citations from documents published in 2,600 scholarly journals published in the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English languages.
Coverage started: Clase: 1975- , Periodica: 1978- . Updated quarterly.
Columbia Earthscape (Full-Text): This "is an integrated, interdisciplinary resource that connects the Earth and environmental sciences with their social, political, and economic dimensions... [It also offers] a dynamic, inquiry-based educational resource, featuring illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, and basic textbook readings. columbia earthscape also gives policy makers and professionals a ... collection of environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers. And it offers scientists an educational venue in which to incorporate their research as well as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online data sets."
Conference Board Research Database (Full-Text): This "is a searchable database of full-text research reports on the latest issues in business management and US and global economics. Proprietary, nonbiased research includes studies of Fortune 500 companies on business trends, leadership decisions, performance excellence, corporate governance, HR, productivity, CRM and more."
Coverage started: 1995.
Consumers Index (Some Full-Text): Provides access to evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities as well as abstracts of articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection. Entries link to the best Internet resources and print publications for consumers. Web links provide free, direct access to the contents of full-text journals (e.g. FDA Consumer), news releases, booklets, recalls, and other sources available via the World Wide Web.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1986. Updated quarterly. (via FirstSearch)
Contemporary Women's Issues (Full-Text): This is “a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.”
List of titles. Coverage started: 1992. Updated 26 times per year.
Criminal Justice Abstracts: Provides coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Coverage started: 1968. Updated quarterly. (via SilverPlatter)
Criminology: SAGE Full-Text Collection (Full-Text): This source includes the full-text of 15 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
List of titles. Coverage: varies with title. Oldest starts 1982.
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of over 2700 journals in a variety of subject areas. EMU is paying for access to online full-text for 664 of the titles. Articles are presented in page image formats (predominately PDF) that include all original content and images. The interface supports cross-journal searching and browsing within selected journals. Users can view bibliographic information for all journals and view full-text articles from journals to which their institution subscribes. Adobe's free Acrobat PDF viewer and CatchWord's free RealPage viewer are required to view the full-text articles.
List of titles available full-text to EMU community. List of all titles available. Coverage started: 1995, but varies by journal. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
Facts.com (Full-Text): Answer questions about events, issues, statistics, and people of the last 20 years with selected content from seven databases, including Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service, and World Almanac and Book of Facts. Delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events.
Coverage started: 1940. Updated weekly.
FactSearch (Some Full-Text): Contains full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, and environmental public policy issues. Entries come from more than 1,000 print sources as well as a wide range of Web-based resources.
List of publication titles. Coverage started: 1984. Updated quarterly. (via FirstSearch)
GenderWatch (Full-Text): GenderWatch (GW) is a full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings that focus on how gender impacts on a broad spectrum of subject areas.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1970.
GPO Monthly Catalog: Index to the publications of the U.S. Government.
Coverage started: 1976. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Highwire Library of the Sciences and Medicine (Some Full-Text): Search citations and abstracts from about 375 Highwire-hosted journals in the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences and/or search Medline. Free access to about 700,000 full-text articles from the Highwire-hosted journals.
Journals published online with Highwire assistance.
Journals with free full-text articles.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Full-Text): Covering both the social and behavioral sciences, this full-text encyclopedia includes over 3,800 signed articles and 90,000 bibliographic references.
Issues & Controversies @ FACTS.com (Full-Text): This full text reference database "presents and enhances the full backfile of Issues and Controversies on File, which has probed more than 250 controversial topics in the news since its debut in September 1995. Chronologies, illustrations, maps, tables, sidebars, bibliographies and contact information augment the balanced, accurate coverage of current and historical events."
JSTOR (Full-Text): Complete text of the backfiles of about 600 core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and the social sciences.
List of full text periodicals by title and discipline.
LegalTrac (Some Full-Text): This legal database indexes about 1300 periodicals, including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, international legal journals and law-related articles from business and general-interest titles. Over 100 titles include full-text.
List of source titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
LexisNexis Academic (Full-Text): Access to a wide range of FULL-TEXT news, business, legal and government information sources, as well as company, country, financial, market research and industry reports, biographical and medical and health information.
List of titles. Updated daily.
LexisNexis Congressional (Full-Text): In addition to the indexing and abstracting of the CIS's Index to the Publications of the United States Congress, it provides the FULL-TEXT of Congressional hearings, committee reports, bills, selected committee prints, public laws, Congressional Record, Federal Register, U.S. Code.
Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts: This indexing/abstracting service covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1973. Updated monthly.
Mental Measurements Yearbook (Full-Text): Contains descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language educational, personality, aptitude, neuropsychological, achievement and intelligence tests. It contains the text of test reviews starting with the Ninth Mental Measurements Yearbook.
Updated every six months. NOTE: Up to four users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database (Some Full-Text): Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies (the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office for Victims of Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy) since 1995 are available in full text online at the NCJRS Web site, the Justice Information Center, at http://www.ncjrs.org/.
Coverage started: early 1970's.
National Journal Group's Policy Central (Full-Text): Includes the National Journal, a leading weekly on politics, policy and government; Markup Reports & Bill Status, comprehensive coverage of every House and Senate committee and subcommittee markup session; Technology Daily, monitoring news and trends in information technology politics and policy; Almanac of American Politics, analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts; and a few other politics and policy databases.
Coverage started: 1977- (National Journal archives). Updated daily.
New York Times (June 1980- ) (Full-Text): Text-only articles from June 1980. When connected, click the word 'Sources' on the top right menu, type 'new york times' (without the quotes) in the Source List search box, click the 'Find Title' button, click 'Search This Title' below 'New York Times, The'. In the search dialog box that appears, fill in your search terms. (In Step Four, you might want to expand the time frame of your search beyond six months.)
New York Times Backfile (1851-2001) (Full-Text): Every backfile issue from 1851-2001 has been digitized from cover to cover in pdf format, including news stories, editorials, photos, graphics, and advertisements.
NewsBank-NewsFile (Full-Text): Full-text news resource containing coverage of current issues and events from over 500 US and Canadian newspapers, news sources and domestic and international newswires. More than 70,000 articles selected annually provide regional, national and international perspectives and coverage of the arts, and people and professions in the news.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1991. Updated daily.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Full-Text): Provides full text information on about 70 controversial social issues. It "brings together viewpoint articles, contextual topic overviews, government and organizational statistics, court cases, profiles of government agencies and special interest groups, newspaper and magazines articles, as well as links to more than 1,000 reviewed and subject-indexed web sites."
NOTE: Two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
PAIS International (Some Full-Text): Index of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1972. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Physical Education Index: This database indexes materials "from peer-reviewed journals, report literature, conference proceedings, trade magazines, patents, articles from the popular press, and many other publications. Beginning in January 2001, enhancements to the database include the addition of abstracts, e-mail addresses, expanded publisher and author information..."
Coverage started: 1970. Updated monthly. (via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
PsycARTICLES (Full-Text): "PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APAs Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. It contains all the material (with the exception of ads and editorial board lists) from nearly 50 top psychology publications."
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1988+. Updated monthly.
PsycINFO (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 1400 journals, chapters, books, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1887. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Science Citation Index Expanded (Some Full-Text): A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Part of the Web of Science.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only. Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
ScienceDirect (Some Full-Text): Search and browse descriptions of articles in over 1,200 science, social & behavioral science, technology, and medical journals. Search and browse the full text of about 100 journals EMU subscribes to. You can limit your search to only those full text titles subscribed to by EMU.
Full text journals subscribed to by EMU. Coverage started: 1995 (EMU Full text: 1997).
Click on 'group-wide login' to begin.
Social Sciences Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 400 English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Social Sciences Citation Index (Some Full-Text): A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 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. Part of the Web of Science.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only. Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
Social Services Abstracts: CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,406 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
List of Periodical Titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
Social Work Abstracts: Index of articles from social work journals. Also available, both on- and off-campus, is the "NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers."
Coverage started: 1977. Updated quarterly. (via SilverPlatter)
Sociological Abstracts: CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1963. Updated monthly.
SPORT Discus: "SPORT Discus is a unique resource for both practical and research literature on sport, physical fitness and physical education topics. Records cover sports medicine, exercise psychology, biomechanics, psychology, training, coaching, physical education and fitness, and other sport- and fitness- related topics. SPORT Discus also provides comprehensive indexing of the microform publications collection of dissertations and theses of the International Institute for Sport and Human Performance. Also included are all citations from the previous Sport & Leisure bibliographic database of SIRLS, covering the research literature for the social and psychological aspects of sport and leisure, including play, games and dance."
Coverage started: 1975. Updated quarterly.
THOMAS - U.S. Congress on the Internet (Full-Text): Created by the U.S. Library of Congress, this site contains a vast array of information about the work of the U.S. House and Senate. Included, among other things, are: Bill Summary & Status [93rd through 107th Congresses (1973 - present)]; Bill Text [101st - 107th Congresses (1989 - present)]; Public Laws by Number [93rd through 107th Congresses (1973 - present)]; full text of Congressional Record [(1989 - present)]; full text of Committe Reports [104th - 107th Congresses ]; House and Senate directories; US Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873.
Updated daily.
Web of Science (Some Full-Text): Two databases are available. Science Citation Index Expanded: A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences. It indexes more than 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines. Social Sciences Citation Index: A multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 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.
Coverage started: 1995. Updated daily.
3 Simultaneous Users Only. Please log off when you finish to allow access to others.
Wiley Interscience Journals (Full-Text): Site offers browsable and searchable full-text of over 500 science and social science journals. EMU has access to the text of about 260 of the titles.
List of EMU subscribed titles.
Wilson Select Plus (Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 1300 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1994. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
World Almanacs (Full-Text): The World Almanacs database includes the contents of: The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1998; The World Almanac of the U.S.A.; The World Almanac of U.S.; Politics; The World Almanac for Kids.
Updated annually. (via FirstSearch)

Multidisciplinary Databases

ArticleFirst (Some Full-Text): Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture and allows browsing of contents pages.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1990. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)
Associations Unlimited (Full-Text): Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations in all fields, including IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations. For some 2,500 major U.S. national associations, provides full-text association materials such as brochures, pamphlets, and membership application forms.
Blackwell Synergy (Some Full-Text): Blackwell Synergy holds the content for about 740 Blackwell Publishing journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. While citations and abstracts for all articles can be searched and displayed, full-text is available only for articles from the 135 journals to which EMU subscribes.
List of EMU subscription titles. Coverage: varies with title.
Books in Print (via Bowker) (Some Full-Text): Descriptions of over 4.4 million books, 337,000 videos, and 157,000 audiobooks (new and forthcoming); 1.3 million out of print titles; 763,000 full-text reviews from 12 sources.
Updated weekly.
Dissertation Abstracts: Index of doctoral dissertation accepted at accredited institutions.
Coverage started: 1861. Updated monthly. (via FirstSearch)
Eastern Michigan University Theses and Dissertations (Full-Text): Site offers the full-text (in PDF format) of many EMU theses and dissertations mostly published after 1996. Search by keyword in title or abstract, author name, or advisor name.
Electric Library Elementary (K-6) (Full-Text): Geared to children in grades K-6, contains the full-text of selected articles from: about 30 magazines (e.g., Jack & Jill, Ranger Rick, Highlights for Children, Time for Kids, Entertainment Weekly); about 10 newspapers; about 50 books (e.g., Alaska Purchase, Battle of the Alamo, Gold Rush of 1849); as well as maps and pictures.
List of titles. Periodical coverage started: 1992. Updated daily.
Expanded Academic ASAP (Some Full-Text): This multidisciplinary database indexes about 3,200 mostly academic titles and offers full-text from about 2,000 of the titles.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
General Reference Center Gold (Some Full-Text): An index to the contents of about 1000 periodicals, with about 60% available with full-text.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated monthly.
NOTE: There is a delay when adding new issues of certain titles to the database. List of embargoed titles and their database inclusion delays.
InfoTrac Custom Full-Text Newspapers (Full-Text): Includes the full-text of articles from the last 365 days of the New York Times. Other newspapers from around the United States as well as Australia, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Mexico have varying full-text coverage dates.
List of newspapers and coverage dates.
InfoTrac OneFile (Some Full-Text): This multidisciplinary database indexes nearly 8,000 titles and includes more than 4,200 full-text titles. It includes indexing of The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Christian Science Monitor; full-text from 89 wire services covering agriculture, general news, broadcast news, government, business press releases, industry topics, sports and current events from all over the world; and indexing and some full-text from general interest magazines; refereed academic journals; business publications; technology periodicals; plus specialty titles in law, health care and computers.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1980. Updated daily.
InfoTrac Student Edition (Some Full-Text): This database is comprised of a variety of full-text sources that support the curriculum needs of secondary school students. It offers 330+ indexed and 270 full-text periodical titles, more than 40,000 full-text newspaper articles, 14 full-text reference books, 500 historical images and more than 300 full-color maps.
List of titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
Ingenta (Some Full-Text): Search and browse the contents of over 27,000 periodicals. Full text of some articles available via EMU Library subscriptions.
Periodical titles. Coverage started: 1985. Updated daily.
Kluwer Online (Full-Text): Complete contents of about 265 Kluwer journals in subjects including sciences, social sciences, technology, and humanities.
List of full text titles and start dates.
netLibrary (eBooks) (Full-Text): eBooks are electronic versions of printed books. Through this service we now have access to about 14,000 copyrighted books in addition to about 4,000 public domain titles.
Complete list of titles is available as two Excel spreadsheets: eBooks Michigan and MEL Ebooks
OAIster (Full-Text): "OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services [whose] goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources that are easily searchable by anyone."
Oxford English Dictionary Online (Full-Text): "The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3)...The OED is currently being revised, with the aim of producing a completely updated third edition by the year 2010. Draft material from the revision programme will also be published online..."
Updated quarterly.
PapersFirst: Index to papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, and meeting received at The British Library.
Coverage started: 1993. Updated 24 times per year. (via FirstSearch)
Periodical Abstracts Full-Text (Some Full-Text): Index to about 2000 general and academic journals, covering business, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and others.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1987. Updated weekly. (via FirstSearch)
ProceedingsFirst: Index of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library.
coverage started: 1993. Updated 24 times per year. (via FirstSearch)
Project Muse (Full-Text): Project Muse is an online journal collection containing the full-text of 112 titles in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
List of periodical titles. Coverage: varies with journal; often starts with 1995. Updated when new issues are available.
Readers' Guide Abstracts (Some Full-Text): Index to the contents of about 180 popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada.
List of periodical titles. Coverage started: 1983. Updated monthly (via FirstSearch)
Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890 - 1982): Index to the contents of popular magazines published in the U.S. and Canada.
List of periodical titles. Coverage: 1890-1982.
Union List of Periodicals: Lists the periodical holdings of thousands of libraries.
Updated semiannually. (via FirstSearch)
Who's Who on the Web (Full-Text): Over 1 million biographies taken from 20 Marquis Who's Who print titles. Updates to biographies made daily, and new biographies added daily.
NOTE: Up to two users at a time. Try again later if you cannot connect.
WorldCat: WorldCat is the OCLC Online Union Catalog, containing more than 35 million records describing items owned by the Library of Congress, EMU, and about 19,000 libraries around the world; each record contains library holdings.
Coverage started: 1000 A.D. Updated daily. (via FirstSearch)

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Last Updated: July 6, 2004
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