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ProQuest Social Science Journals -  ProQuest CSA                    1990s-                         Updated Daily
Provides access to a variety of social science journals. The database includes over 510 titles, with more than 280 available in full text.  Coverage extends back to the early 1990s. Search Guide

Anthropological Index Online - Royal  Anthropological Inst.  1970-  Updated Monthly
Searchable database of The Anthropological Index to Current Periodicals in the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal  Anthropological Institute library). WWW

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology  - Blackwell Reference            2007
The reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. This 11-volume set includes 1800 entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers.
 
ScienceResearch.com -   Deep Web Technologies, LLC            Current File   Updated Monthly
ScienceResearch.com is a free, publicly available Internet web portal that searches thousands of high-quality journals and databases and ranks results by relevance on a single results page. Some full text is available but most citations include only a brief abstract. Subject areas covered include Astronomy, Biology & Nature, Chemistry, Computers & Technology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, General Science,  Health & Medicine,  Materials Science,  Mathematics,  Physics, and Social Sciences.

PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences   PNAS   1915-                Updated Weekly
Provides searchable access to the entire full text backfiles of PNAS - one of the world's most-cited multidisciplinary scientific serials. Since its establishment in 1914, PNAS continues to publish cutting-edge research reports, commentaries, reviews, perspectives, colloquium papers, and actions of the Academy. Coverage in PNAS spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.

EconLit - American Economic Association           1969 -      Updated Monthly
Contains citations, with abstracts, to articles from more than 400 economics journals.  In addition, subject indexing and abstracts of books and subject indexing of dissertation titles are included. Corresponding printed sources are: Journal of Economic Literature, Index of Economic Articles, and Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in EconomicsFirstSearch / Search Guide

RePEc: Research Papers In Economics - University of Connecticut                        Current file                Updated Weekly
The largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and available freely on the Internet. Over 325,000 items of research can be browsed or searched, and over 225,000 can be downloaded in full text - some subcriptions required. This site is part of a large volunteer effort to enhance the free dissemination of research in Economics, RePEc.  Includes working papers, articles, and software components.

Essay and General Literature Index - HW Wilson    1985-  Updated Annually
Cites essays and articles contained in collections of essays and other works published in the U.S., Great Britain and Canada.  More than 300 volumes and 20 annual or serial publications indexed annually.  Includes full bibliographic information. Focuses on humanities and social sciences literature. FirstSearch / Search Guide

Other Periodical Indexes and Databases

Academic Search Premier - Ebsco               1975-                    Updated Daily
The world’s largest scholarly, multi-discipline, full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. With a collection of 4,000 peer-reviewed, scholarly full text journals, this database offers critical information from many sources found in no other database. The database includes full-page images as well as color embedded images.  Scholarly, full text resources are provided for nearly all academic areas of study: social  sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.  WWW  Search Guide

Academic Search Elite  -   Ebsco            1990-          Updated Daily
Covers a wide range of academic areas: business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science,education, multi-cultural and general reference including: Full text for over 1,000 journals, and abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals; Coverage of 1,700 peer-reviewed journals; and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. WWW.  Search Guide

Academic OneFile - Gale                     1995-                                     Updated Daily
Contains more than 3,000 full text journals, including peer-reviewed journals and reference sources with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.  Search Guide

General OneFile  -  Gale                1980-                Updated Daily
Provides desktop access to more than 6,000 full text periodical titles including 121 wire services; full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor newspapers; and a total of more than 10,000 periodical titles with 25 years of backfile coverage from 1980 to present.  The database uses the same search engine as our other InfoTrac databases.  Content includes more than 508 million records from  periodical and news content and indexing from a variety of mainstream and specialized sources including refereed academic journals. WWW Search Guide

Expanded Academic ASAP – IAC                      1980-                Updated Daily
Access to 3,526 journals and magazines including 2,172 in full text. WWW. Search Guide

JSTOR-  Jstor Inc.                Coverage Varies                         Updated Daily
A full-text collection in PDF format of retrospective issues from 162 scholarly journals of prime importance in their fields. Subject coverage includes African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies,  Ecology and Botany,  Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science,  Population  / Demography, Sociology, and Statistics.  Dates of coverage: Varies depending on journal title; most have a moving wall that excludes the most recent 2-5 years of coverage. Search Guide

Population Index - Princeton University     1986-1998              Updated Monthly
A searchable and browsable database containing 41,103 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index from 1986-1998. Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. WWW.   Search Guide


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