Guest Databases for Social Sciences
Alphabetical list of databases:
A B C D E F G H I-J-K L M N O-P-Q R-S T U-V W-X-Y-Z
Databases by subject
Specific database services
Databases marked “IN LIBRARY USE ONLY” can be searched exclusively
from the Public Access computers in the Library.
indicates a TexShare database
| Database | Description | Full Text | Service |
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Academic Search Complete (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary database, featuring thousands of full-text journals. This resource offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women’s studies, zoology, and many other fields. |
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EBSCOhost
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| 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 |
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Gov |
| American FactFinder | Population, economic, housing, and geographic data, especially Census 2000 data. Produced by the Census Bureau |
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Gov |
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CQ Researcher Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
CQ Researcher, published online 44 times a year by CQ Press, offers original, comprehensive reporting on and unbiased analysis of issues in the news. Areas covered include health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. |
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CQ Press / SAGE |
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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. | EBSCOhost | |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Service that provides access to quality controlled Open Access Journals. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use an appropriate quality control system, and it is not be limited to particular languages or subject areas. |
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TexShare
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Dissertations and Theses (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Contains more than 2 million entries for doctoral dissertations and master’s theses. The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester. Since 1997, new publications have been available electronically, and many publications can be ordered through the system for a fee. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Angelo State University faculty, students, and staff have free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available, of all ASU theses published through UMI Dissertation Publishing. |
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ProQuest |
| Dissertations and Theses in Texas | Hosted institutional repository service, developed by the the Texas Digital Library, which allows Texas institutions of higher learning to preserve and provide wide online access to their scholarly and pedagogic output. |
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Texas Digital Library |
| DTIC Online | A DoD publicly accessible repository and database of releasable technical reports from 1986 to the present (more than 400,000 citations and abstracts); as well as access to the databases of technical reports of NASA and the Department of Energy (DOE). |
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Gov |
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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. |
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EBSCOhost |
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Europa World Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, an important source of information on world-wide affairs. The database includes detailed surveys of over 250 countries and territories, a comprehensive listing of over 1,650 international organizations, access to the very latest statistics, directory information and current analysis. |
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Routledge |
| Federal R&D Project Summaries | Consortium of federal agencies providing R&D summaries: Dept. of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation | Gov | |
| GreenFILE™ | Research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment, with well-researched but accessible information on topics ranging from global warming to recycling to alternate fuel sources and beyond. Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. |
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EBSCOhost/Free |
| 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 | |
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Issues and Controversies (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Online source of information on the most prominent and hotly debated issues of the day |
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Facts on File News Services |
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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. |
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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 |
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Free/ UT Austin |
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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 | The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), created in 1972, is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to further support research, policy, and program development worldwide. NCJRS is sponsored by a partnership of Federal agencies from the Department of Justice. Online publications on the NCJRS Web site come in three formats: HTML, Text, and PDF. |
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Gov |
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PAIS International (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
Database chronicling global public policy and social issues. Includes materials in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish with English language abstracts and subject headings, and links to web resources and publisher websites |
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ProQuest |
| PILOTS | This database, covering the Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont, and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. |
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Free / ProQuest |
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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. |
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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. |
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EBSCOhost
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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. |
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EBSCOhost
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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 |
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EBSCOhost
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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. |
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EBSCOhost
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SAGE Journals Online (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
SAGE Publications publishes over 460 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine. SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections are also available on SAGE Journals Online |
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SAGE Publications |
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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. |
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Science Direct® |
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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 | ProQuest | |
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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. | ProQuest | |
| 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 | |
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TOPICsearch (IN LIBRARY USE ONLY) |
This current events database allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals. |
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 EBSCOhost
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Wiley Online Library® (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. |
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Wiley |
