*Social Sciences: Databases

With content in mass media, communication studies and other closely related fields, this database, provided by EBSCOhost, provides coverage of more than 820 titles with full text for over 500 journals.

"Search millions of articles covering all aspects of communications, including advertising, public relations, and more."

"Access scholarly journals and magazines that both analyze and contribute to popular culture."

"A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed and expansive filmographies."

"Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe."

"Access a range of periodical content to explore cultural differences, contributions, and influences in the global community."

"Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database"

This resource provided by ProQuest provides citations and abstracts from over 450 publications including 200+ titles in full-text supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. subjects include counseling psychology, political science, social work, and cultural and sociological anthropology. Coverage: 1972 - present.

Provides full-text articles from law reviews and journals, federal and state cases and statutes, federal regulations, tax material, patents, company profiles, executive and industry dossiers, SEC filings, and more. Good source for legal, business, accounting, criminal justice, communications studies, economics, finance, world language, and foreign-language news coverage. Coverage: 1969 - present

A statistics portal with over 18,000 public, private and proprietary data sources. Download data, immediately add data to powerpoint slides or excel. Source citations included for all data including links back to original sources.

"Women and the Law (Peggy), a database that brings together thousands of books, biographies, and periodicals that allow users to research the progression of women’s rights over the past 200 years. Discover primary legal and political sources as well as secondary scholarly analysis of issues such as abortion, women in the workforce, the education of women, women’s suffrage, and more.

Affectionately nicknamed for the mother of Hein’s CEO (Margaret “Peggy” Marmion), this database also includes titles from Emory University Law School’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project which provide a platform to view the effect of law and culture on the female gender."

"Find timely and historically relevant content on issues that influence women’s lives across the globe."

"Essays, articles, reports and other reliable sources provide an in-depth look at the history of race and provide critical context for learning more about topics associated with race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness."

"HeinOnline presents its newest addition to the Social Justice Suite, LGBTQ+ Rights. This collection charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. All titles in this collection have been assigned one or more title-level subjects relating to their scope, and are further divided into six subcollections, whose areas of focus constitute Marriage and Family, Employment Discrimination, Military Service, AIDS and Health Care, and Public Spaces and Accommodations. A separate subcollection, Historical Attitudes and Analysis, presents books, pamphlets, reports, and more from the 18th century through the mid-20th century. Content in this subcollection includes accounts of individuals criminally tried for their sexuality to attempts to find a medical cause for homosexuality.

This collection is rounded out by a curated list of Scholarly Articles selected by Hein editors, as well as a Bibliography of titles to launch your research outside of HeinOnline. Finally, an interactive timeline, incorporating documents from HeinOnline with other media from around the internet, plots out an overview of LGBTQ rights in America from 1950 to the present day, helping to demonstrate the relevancy of the content within the database to the real-world events to which they are connected. "

"Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database"

Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.

Full-text access to back issues of 2,300+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, business, life and general sciences, and more. Coverage: 1900 - 2011 subjects include: accounting, biology business, communication, computer science, counseling psychology, criminal justice, economics, education, English, political science, psychology, religious studies, theater arts, social work, and many more.

This database provided by ProQuest features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Religious Studies, Theater and Cultural Studies.

Provides contextual information on hundreds of the most significant people, events and topics in U.S. History. Includes full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

This resource merges Gale's authoritative reference content with full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles dating from 1693 to 1877.

"Legal Collection includes 34 active, full-text non-open access journals not available in any version of Academic Search; 96 full-text law reviews; 29 journals with searchable cited references; 147 active full-text, non-open access journals; as well as additional content."

"Legal Information Reference Center is an online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms."

Provides full-text articles from law reviews and journals, federal and state cases and statutes, federal regulations, tax material, patents, company profiles, executive and industry dossiers, SEC filings, and more. Good source for legal, business, accounting, criminal justice, communications studies, economics, finance, world language, and foreign-language news coverage. Coverage: 1969 - present

"HeinOnline has partnered with Fastcase, a leading next-generation legal research service that features powerful "best-case-first" tools that make research faster than ever. This partnership offers HeinOnline subscribers access to a wide array of case law at the federal and state levels and enables HeinOnline users to access the full text of cases through their HeinOnline subscription without the hassle of using multiple research databases."

"An extensive collection featuring thousands of works from some of the greatest legal minds in history."

"HeinOnline provides the only complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports, an indexed compilation of the official full text of all decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and the official record of its rulings, orders, case tables, and other proceedings. In addition to the U.S. Reports, the 600+ titles in HeinOnline's U.S. Supreme Court Library include books, periodicals CRS reports, rules of the Court, and external links. Users can navigate the database using various tools, including HeinOnline's ScholarCheck, linking to case law with FastCase, and linking to Oyez, a complete and authoritative source for Supreme Court audio."

Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos.

Online Books from John Wiley & Sons, including content from the key imprints Wiley, Wiley-VCH, Jossey-Bass, and others.

"Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database"

ProQuest Political Science covers the literature of political science and international relations, including such topics as comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, and hundreds of related topics. Coverage: 1923-present

Full-text access to back issues of 2,300+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, business, life and general sciences, and more. Coverage: 1900 - 2011 subjects include: accounting, biology business, communication, computer science, counseling psychology, criminal justice, economics, education, English, political science, psychology, religious studies, theater arts, social work, and many more.

PAIS provided by ProQuest is an excellent source for finding research materials related to public policy. It is international in scope with topics ranging from economics to the environment. Subjects include business, communication studies, criminal justice, economics, history, political science,sociological and cultural anthropology. Coverage: 1915-present.

Broad coverage of local, state, national and international newspapers from NewsBank. Find full text articles from regional papers including the Olympian, News Tribune, Seattle Times, and Spokesman Review.

"Military & Government Collection is a database of full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers."

This database provided by ProQuest covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering and more. It includes over 550 titles, with more than 370 available in full-text, allowing you to search over 3.5M records, dating back to the early 1990's.

HeinOnline is a database that provides access to academic journals, law journals, and government publications. Useful for legal studies, criminal justice, political science, economics, history, environmental studies, education, gender and identity studies, and nursing.

This database provided by ProQuest provides abstracts and indexing for more than 640 titles, with over 540 titles available in full text. Many titles are indexed in PsycINFO. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, social work, psycho-biology and psycho-metrics.

The APA's resource for abstracts of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations provided by EBSCOhost. Contains over 3.2 million citations and includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields. Subjects include communication studies, counseling psychology, criminal justice, education, health and nursing, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology and cultural anthropology. Coverage: 1887 - present

Extensive coverage, along with thousands of research instruments, makes PsycTESTS an ideal starting point for researchers initiating new research projects. The majority of measures include reliability and validity information.

Includes more than 2500 encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research provided by Gale Cengage.

Find current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage: 1979-current.

International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage 1952 - current.

Full-text access to back issues of 2,300+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, business, life and general sciences, and more. Coverage: 1900 - 2011 subjects include: accounting, biology business, communication, computer science, counseling psychology, criminal justice, economics, education, English, political science, psychology, religious studies, theater arts, social work, and many more.

"Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database"

Provided by EBSCOhost, Education Research Complete covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. Contains more than 1400 full text journals and more than 550 full text books in the field. Subjects include ESL, Communication Studies, Health and Medicine, Nursing, Social Work, Sociology and Anthropology, and World Languages

Resource for social science and interdisciplinary research provided by ProQuest - broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Subjects include Economics, Finance, History, Political Science, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. Coverage 1951 - current.

Full-text access to back issues of 2,300+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, business, life and general sciences, and more. Coverage: 1900 - 2011 subjects include: accounting, biology business, communication, computer science, counseling psychology, criminal justice, economics, education, English, political science, psychology, religious studies, theater arts, social work, and many more.

PAIS provided by ProQuest is an excellent source for finding research materials related to public policy. It is international in scope with topics ranging from economics to the environment. Subjects include business, communication studies, criminal justice, economics, history, political science,sociological and cultural anthropology. Coverage: 1915-present.

This collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education. Featured databases include IBSS, PAIS and Sociological Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more, including deep indexing and full text from over 1000 important social science journals. Coverage 1871 - current.

International literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage 1952 - current.