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General sources that cover Sociology and Social Work

Academic OneFile | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
Academic Search Premier| | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  Some full text More info
Expanded Academic ASAP | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
General Reference Center | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
General OneFile (Previously InfoTrac OneFile | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |  Some full text More info
PROQUEST | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  No full text More info
SIRS Knowledge Source | DISCUS Logo | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  Some full text More info
TDNet - Electronic Journals Master List | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |  Some full text More info
Wilson Web | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1983- |  Some full text More info
World Cat OCLC | Available Free on the Web |
 Some full text More info

Core sources for Sociology and Social Work

Humanities Full Text (Wilson Web) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1984- |
To search only this database, click Humanities (HUM) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. This database covers archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary & social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

Human Relations Area Files - eHRAF | Available to Authorized Users On Campus Only |
A full text database that provides primarily descriptive information on the cultures of the world. Annual installments will contain 50,000 or more pages of text on 15 or more cultures. In addition to the text, indexed by the Outline of Cultural Materials, the database also contains a bibliography for each culture and a cultural summary.

Ingenta | Available Free on the Web | 1988- |
Ingenta provides keyword access to the table of contents pages from over 17,000 journals. It lists over 7 million articles that have appeared since 1988 and includes periodicals from all subject areas although it concentrates heavily on the sciences and social sciences.

JSTOR | Available to Authorized Users On Campus Only | date varies |
JSTOR offers full-text online access to back issues of more than 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Issues are entered online after having been published for 2-5 years. The entire printed matter of the journal as published is included, and coverage for most titles begins with their starting numbers. Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary to view and print from JSTOR.

Project Muse | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
Includes the full-text of over 300 quality journal titles, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

PsycARTICLES| | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
A definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations. It contains all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each of the 52 journals. Coverage spans from 1985 to the present.

PsycINFO| | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
PsycINFO , from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains nearly 2.4 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 98 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection| | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |
A comprehensive database providing more than 550 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. Publications offered can be searched independently, but also allows users to conveniently link to full text from citations within PsycINFO. All full text publications included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO. The majority of full text titles in this database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.

ScienceDirect | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | date varies |
ScienceDirect offers full-text access to over 1 million articles in broad collections of primary journal literature. The heart of this database is the Elsevier Science collection, which comprises 1,100 journals. It covers chemistry, materials science, engineering & technology, environmental science, economics, business & management science, neurosciences, pharmacology & toxicology, physics, mathematics & computer science, earth sciences, social sciences, biochemistry, microbiology & immunology, biological sciences, and clinical medicine.

Social Sciences Full Text (Wilson Web) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1983- |
To search only this database, click Social Science (SS) in the Subject Area menu of Wilson Web's OmniFile Full Text Mega. Updated weekly, this database covers addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health & medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning & public administration, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies.

Social Services Abstracts (CSA) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1980- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated monthly, this database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related topics such as social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Sociological Abstracts (CSA) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus | 1963- |
Click the link above, then Alphabetical List, either Quick Search or Advanced Search, and finally select this title from the list. Updated quarterly, this database contains the latest worldwide findings in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. It provides access to articles, serial publications, monographs, and dissertations.

Web of Science (ISI Citation Databases) | Available to Authorized Users On and Off Campus |1982- |
The Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index make up the Web of Science system, which collectively indexes more than 8,000 peer-reviewed journals cover-to-cover. It provides users with complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts when available, and cited references from the world's most influential journals.


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