Guest Databases for Social Sciences
Alphabetical list of databases:
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Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked "IN LIBRARY USE ONLY"
can be searched
exclusively from the Public Access/Gov Docs computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
| Academic Search Complete
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 9,810 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields. |  |
EBSCOhost |
| Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) | The AULIMP is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals | |
Gov |
| American FactFinder | Population, economic, housing, and geographic data, especially Census 2000 data. Produced by the Census Bureau | |
Gov |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice. | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
| Education Research Complete
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,870 journals, as well as full text for more than 1,060 journals. This database also includes full text for 133 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Federal R&D Project Summaries | Consortium of federal agencies providing R&D summaries: Dept. of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation | Gov | |
| GrayLIT | Science portal of technical reports | |
Gov |
| Handbook of Latin American Studies (expert search page) | Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities | Gov/Library of Congress | |
| History Resource Center: U.S.
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Access to this resources is available until May 2010.
History Resource Center: U.S. provides integrated access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journal covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present. The material also includes citations from over 180 additional history journals from the Institute for Scientific Information's Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the entire "American Journey Online" series. |
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Gale / Infotrac |
| Issues and Controversies
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Online source of information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day | |
Facts on File News Services |
| JSTOR
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Online archive of non-current issues of scholarly journals. For the most part, the time interval between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of these journals varies between 3 and 5 years. | |
JSTOR |
| Latin America Network Information Center | LANIC facilitates access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America. Covers areas such as the social sciences, economy, governments, and history. Includes a Castro Speech Database | |
Free/ UT Austin |
| MEDLINE with MeSH
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing | EBSCOhost |
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| National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library - Full-text publications | NCJRS is an online collection of over 7,000 full text publications from the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice including: police, courts, corrections, juvenile justice, community crime prevention, criminal justice system, fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs | |
Gov |
| Project MUSE
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Offers full-text, online access to over 200 essential periodicals in the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences. | |
Johns Hopkins University Press |
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PsycARTICLES
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber in both HTML and PDF formats. These journals cover general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. | |
EBSCOhost |
| PsycINFO
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law | |
EBSCOhost |
| Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Nearly every full text title included in this database is indexed in PsycINFO. This database is updated daily. | |
EBSCOhost |
| Religion & Philosophy Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This database provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. Religion & Philosophy Collection offers more than 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles. This database is updated daily. | |
EBSCOhost |
| ScienceDirect®
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provides access to more than 1000 scientific, medical and technical journals published by the world's leading scientific publishers, many in full text. | |
Science Direct® |
| Social Services Abstracts
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
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 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
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Sociological Abstracts
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
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 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. | Cambridge Scientific Abstracts | |
| Sociological Collection
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Full text database that provides information on all areas of sociology. | |
EBSCOhost |
| STINET (Scientific and Technical Information Network) | "Public STINET" gives access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added to the Defense Technical & Information Center from late December 1974 to present. The link is to "Quick Search". For more information see the home page. | |
Gov |
| Test Reviews Online | Searchable database that indexes reviews of over 4,000 commercially available tests. More than 2,000 of the tests listed have been reviewed by the Buros Institute. No free full text is available. Database records provide the citation and location of reviews in the Mental Measurement Yearbooks. | Buros Institute of Mental Measurement | |
| Wiley InterScience®
(IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Provide full-text access to journal articles in the fields of business; chemistry; computer science; earth and environmental science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; mathematics and statistics; medicine and healthcare; physics and astronomy; polymers and materials science; psychology; and social sciences. | |
Wiley |
