Subject: Social Sciences
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Key Databases
Social Sciences Full-Text
Indexes more than 600 journals relating to the social sciences. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1983.
Social Services Abstracts
Indexes journal articles in social work, human services, and related disciplines. Coverage back to 1980.
Social Work Abstracts Plus
Indexes resources relating to social work and human services. Coverage is from 1977 to present.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers relating to the social sciences. Coverage goes back to 1963.
Related Databases
Academic Search Premier
This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.
Ageline
Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), this database indexes research relating to gerontology. Coverage is back to 1978.
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Indexes international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers pertaining to criminology and related disciplines.
Criminal Justice Periodicals
Indexes more than 230 criminology related journals, some with links to the full-text. Coverage is back to 1981.
ERIC (FirstSearch)
The standard resource for educational research, ERIC is a useful source for educational psychology or for any topics relating to children and adolescents. Easy access to full-text links when available through EDRS or USF Libraries journal subscriptions. 1966-date.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text access to newspapers, magazines and journals from the ethnic and minority press. Coverage is back to 1990.
GenderWatch
Full-text access to journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings relating to women’s studies and gender issues. Coverage is back to 1970.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Provides indexing to journals in the social sciences and humanities dating back to 1907.
Medline (FirstSearch)
Considered the main resource for medical research, this database is produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. 1965-date
PsycINFO (Ebsco)
Produced by the APA, this database is considered the primary index to scholarly, psychological literature. Indexes articles in more than 2,100 journals as well as relevant books and book chapters. The Ebsco version of this database provides easy ways to limit searches and to export citations to ProCite, EndNote, or RefWorks. Added features in this version are cited references and a convenient link to the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. 1806-date.
Social Sciences Full-Text
Indexes more than 600 journals relating to the social sciences. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1983.
Social Services Abstracts
Indexes journal articles in social work, human services, and related disciplines. Coverage back to 1980.
Social Work Abstracts Plus
Indexes resources relating to social work and human services. Coverage is from 1977 to present.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers relating to the social sciences. Coverage goes back to 1963.
Web of Science
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. One of the most comprehensive databases with indexing to more than 5900 journals. This resource may be best known for its extensive forward and backward links to cited references. Also links to full-text articles when available through USF subscriptions. 1900-date.
Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition
A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects. Many citations link to the full-text of the article. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.
E-journal collections
Annual Reviews
Searchable full-text access to the entire content of the Annual Review titles including Anthropology, Law and Social Science, Psychology, Public Health, Medicine, and Sociology.
Blackwell Synergy
Searchable access to the journals from Blackwell Publishing including a number of titles relating to sociology such as: Addiction, Journal of Law and Society, Journal of Marriage and Family, Psychology of Women Quarterly, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Quarterly, Sociological Review, Studies in Family Planning, etc.
Cambridge Journals Online
Searchable access to the journals from Cambridge University Press.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals. More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.
HighWire Press
A partnership between Stanford University Libraries and influential scholarly societies, university presses, and publishers, HighWire provides searchable, full-text access to a large number of the 200 most frequently cited journals.
JSTOR
This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. The database is multidisciplinary but contains many titles specifically related to sociology including the American Journal of Sociology dating back to 1895 and the American Sociological Review back to 1936.
OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online
A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.
Oxford Journals
Searchable access to the journals from Oxford University Press.
Project Muse
Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities.
ScienceDirect
A searchable collection of more than 1,000 Elsevier science journals. Also provides access to articles that are in press but not yet published in the print version.
Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Searchable access to 28 journals relating to the social sciences.
SpringerLink
Searchable access to the journals from Springer.
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