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SOCIAL
SCIENCES (Including Political
Science and History)
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BOOKS: Refer
to the Books section of this site <click
here>.
For information
on History topics, try Annals of American History
Online, North American Women's Letters
and Diaries, History Reference Center,
and World History
Collection.
Your choices
for broad coverage of the social sciences are the following four
databases: Academic OneFile, Academic
Search Complete, Expanded Academic ASAP,
and Research Library.
These provide coverage of a wide range of social science topics.
Secondary choices
are Arts & Sciences Collection and/or
SocINDEX with Full Text.
Other databases
listed in this section are highly specialized. See descriptions
for details.
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Academic
OneFile via InfoTrac
Includes full text.
A primary
resource for full-text journal articles. A one-stop
source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics:
business, computers, economics, education, environmental issues,
health care, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science,
social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. |
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Academic
Search Complete
via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
A primary
resource for full-text journal articles. Provides
indexing for nearly 8,200 journals, of which 4,700 are in text,
including full text for over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers
information dating as far back as 1975. |
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ACLS
Humanities E-Book via American
Council of Learned Societies
Includes over 1,700 full-text titles offered by
the ACLS in collaboration with a number of learned societies, publishers,
and the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. |
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African
American History and Culture via
Facts on File
Includes full text.
Comprehensive
coverage from Facts on File of African-American history from Africa
to the present. Includes biographies, primary sources, images, timelines,
maps, and charts. |
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Annals
of American History Online
Includes full text.
This
database contains proclamations, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper
and magazine articles, sermons, letters, and editorials from 1493
to the present. |
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Biography
Reference Bank via Wilson Web
Contains
articles and abstracts dealing with over 500,000 people. Where
full text is not available, a list of databases is provided, indicating
other databases in which full text of abstracts may be found.
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This
database is provided as part of Troy University's participation
with the Alabama Virtual Library (AVL). Click on the AVL logo
to read more about. |
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Contemporary
Women's Issues via First Search
Indexes books,
journals, and various agencies, to address such issues as health
and human rights. |
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CQ
Researcher via
CQ Electronic Library
Includes full text.
Offers
in-depth, non-biased 12,000-word reports on political and social
issues, covering such topics as health, international affairs, education,
the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy. Reports date
back to 1991. |
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Early
American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639 - 1800 via
NewsBank
Includes full text.
Provides images
of more than 37,000 items created between 1639 and 1800, including
books, pamphlets, diaries, and letters. |
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Ethnic
NewsWatch via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Collection of full-text articles,
editorials and reviews, with a broad diversity of perspectives and
viewpoints, from 240 newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic
and minority press. |
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Europa
World
Includes full text.
Europa World
is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, a
valuable source of world-wide information covering political and
economic information about more than 250 countries and territories,
from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. |
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Expanded
Academic ASAP via
InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
Primary
resource for full-text journal articles in general
social science, current events, humanities, and science. |
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FactSearch
via First Search
Indexes facts and statistics on topics
of current interest. |
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General
OneFile via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
A large full-text
index combining the academic and non-academic periodicals of many
InfoTrac databases, covering a broad range of such topics as business,
humanities, and technology. |
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Historical
Abstracts via
ABC-Clio
Contains abstracts
of journal articles and citations to books and dissertations covering
the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North
America). |
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History
Reference Center via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Designed for
secondary school through undergraduate college research. Contains
full text of more than 6,560 historical encyclopedias and
non-fiction books as well as full text for nearly 60 historical
periodicals; 58,000 historical documents, and thousands of biographies. |
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Informe
via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
A collection
of general Hispanic magazines with full text, covering business,
health, technology, culture, and other current topics. |
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JSTOR
(Arts & Sciences Collections) via JSTOR
Includes full text.
Multi-disciplinary
full-text collections which include the complete back runs
of journal titles in many disciplines, mainly in the social sciences
and humanities. Does not have current information, but is an excellent
resource for background information on many topics. |
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LexisNexis
via LexisNexis
Includes full text.
A primary
resource for full text journal articles,
this is the gateway to a number of databases embedded within. To
access these database, click the appropriate area of interest in
the left-hand column. Resources include business articles, case
law, law reviews, industry reports, company reports, statistics,
and health care news. Clicking the various buttons at the top of
their page (How Do I?, Sources, News, etc.) produces helpful information. |
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NetLibrary
Includes full text.
A specially created online
collection of nearly 50,000 full-text books, in a broad range of academic
subject categories. These are actual academic books that have been digitized
for the convenience of library users. Make sure to read HELP.
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North
American Women's Letters and Diaries
Includes full text.
Contains
the full text of letters and diaries of over 1,300 women, from
Colonial times until 1950, representing all age groups, ethnicities,
and many geographical regions. Can be searched by authors, historical
events, dates.
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Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center via InfoTrac Web
Includes full text.
A
source for information on conflicting viewpoints on social issues.
Geared to high school and General Studies college courses, it includes
articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links
to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. |
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Oxford
Reference Online Collection
Includes full text.
Online offerings
from the Oxford University Press. OUP publishes journals from science,
technical, professional, medical, humanities, arts and social science
disciplines. |
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Research
Library via ProQuest
Includes full text.
A primary
resource for full text journal articles covering
a wide range of subject areas, including not only the social sciences,
but also business, education, literature, political science, and
psychology. |
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SocINDEX
with Full Text via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
SocINDEX with
Full Text is a very comprehensive sociology research database, featuring
more than 1,300,000 records with subject headings from a 15,000
term sociology-specific thesaurus. The database contains full text
for 235 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895,
and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also
includes full text for 545 books and monographs, and full text for
6,601 conference papers. |
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World
History Collection via EbscoHost
Includes full text.
Over 150 full-text
titles covers a wide-range of world-wide historical topics, including
culture, government, heritage, regional issues, sociology, and more. |
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
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