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Social Science Periodical Indexes

General and Interdisciplinary

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) - provides for citation analysis of published English-language research in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences.  Coverage: 1966 to present. - UW restricted

Expanded Academic Index - index of current North American periodicals of general interest. - UW restricted

IBZ - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature - an index to journals published in Western Europe - mainly Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain. - UW restricted

JSTOR Search - full text database of hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century English-language periodicals in the social sciences and humanities, with most recent issues dating approximately to 2001. - UW restricted

Project Muse Search - contains full text of several hundred English-language periodicals, primarily in the humanities, from the late 1990s to present. -UW restricted

Russian Humanities/Social Sciences Index - the most extensive available index to general interest and specialized periodicals published in Russia.  Coverage: 1988 to present. - UW restricted

Economics

EconLit - citations, abstracts and full text of published work in economics worldwide from 1969 to present. Contains scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, and more. - UW restricted

EIU.com (Economist Intelligence Unit) - analysis of economies worldwide, produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit. - UW restricted

SourceOECD - full text of journal articles, books, working papers and socioeconmic data produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Europe). - UW restricted

Education

ERIC - two databases in one - Resources in Education (RIE) and the Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), indexing research in education published mainly in North America. - UW restricted

Geography

Geobase - "a multidisciplinary database supplying bibliographic information and abstracts of research world wide in the earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography and oceanography" - Geobase help screen - UW restricted

eHRAF World Cultures - a systematically organized collection of thousands of books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world. - UW restricted

Popline - Reproductive health database; provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

History

Historical Abstracts - Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to present, indexing research published worldwide since the 1950s. - UW restricted

Law

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals - Covers published work on the law of countries other than the U.S., Great Britain, and British Commonwealth, 1985 to present. - UW restricted

Political Science

Congressional Universe (U.S.) - Provides daily updated information, including full text of bills starting in 1989, public laws starting in 1988, committee reports starting in 1990, House and Senate documents starting in 1995, Congressional Record starting in 1985, Federal Register starting in 1980. - UW restricted

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) - Covers social and public policy literature from thousands of periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources, 1915 to present. - UW Restricted

Religion

ATLA Religion Database - A full-text collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. - UW restricted

Index Islamicus - A bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world. Also includes reviews. - UW restricted

Felix Posen Bibliographic Project on Antisemitism - Bibliography of work published about anti-Semitism.

Sociology

Social Services Abstracts - Indexes and abstracts articles in the fields of community development; crisis intervention; evaluation research; family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services. - UW restricted

Social Work Abstracts - Index to journal articles published in the social work and social welfare field. Also included are selected dissertations. - UW restricted

Sociological Abstracts - abstracts of periodical literature in sociology and related disciplines from approximately 2,500 journals published worldwide. - UW restricted


Created by: Michael Biggins
Last modified: Thursday October 16, 2008 (your netid here)