Social Sciences

AgeLine Database
AgeLine is an online guide to English-language books, research reports, articles from journals and magazines, and videos related to issues of aging and life at 50+.


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ARTFL
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language covering nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.


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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library of Congress reference staff

• Business and Economics Web sites
• Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
• International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
• Science and Technology Web sites

Bibliographic Index Plus
Cumulative bibliography for information in all areas of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology.


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Bibliography of Data Related Literature
A searchable database that contains over 37,000 citations of known published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), archive.


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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Publications Library
Provides full text access to data and research findings on fiscal policy issues and issues affecting low- and moderate-income families and individuals.


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Communication and Mass Media Complete
Abstracts, and some full text, of articles from over 300 journals, as well as handbooks and recent encyclopedias, in communication & mass media.


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ConnectSciences
ConnectSciences provides citation access to scientific and technical information resources and services.


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CSPV Violence Literature Database
VioLit contains citations and abstracts of juvenile violence related research and literature primarily from journal articles, books, and reports.


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Death Penalty Information Center Database of Executions
Search executions in the United States since 1976 by Year, Age at Execution, Race of Person Executed, Race of Victim, Gender of Person Executed, State, Region, and Method of Execution.


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Digital Dissertations
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.


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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.


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E-Journals in Social Sciences
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Anthropology, Education, Geography, Population Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics.


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EconLit
Provides citations for articles and dissertations in more than 620 journals, books, dissertations, and working papers on economics.


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Érudit
Erudit contains the full text in French of some 40 journals and a dozen or so books and proceedings covering a wide range of disciplines within the humanities, social and natural sciences.


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Essay and General Literature Index
Cites 65,000 essays and articles contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections.


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Essay and Speech Finder
Indexes full-text essays, speeches, and discursive writing.


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FactSearch
Provides statistical evidence and date-linked data in the fields of economics, environment, health, political and social issues from more than 1,100 mainstream and alternative serial sources such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates.


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FRANCIS
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).


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GLBT Life
GLBT Life provides indexing and abstracts for over eighty magazines, academic journals, newspapers, and newsletters that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender concerns.


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Green Book
The Green book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.


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Home Economics Archive
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950.


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Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective
Indexes all aspects of the humanities and social sciences from over 1,200 North American and European periodicals.


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Index to Current Urban Documents
ICUD contains reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the United States and Canada.


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Index to Theses
Contains a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.


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International Data Base : World Statistics
The IDB provides quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.


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JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, and General Science
JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century - the Library of Congress currently subscribes to four of the modules: Arts & Sciences I (117 titles), II (187 titles), III (169 titles) and General Science (7 titles).


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Merck Manual of Health & Aging
Provides information on aging and the care of older people in words understandable by the lay public.


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NCJRS Abstracts Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.


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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.


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PapersFirst
Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.


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Population Database
The United Nations Population Division database allows one to calculate and display past (back to 1950) and future (up to 2050) population statistics for all major regions of the world, the entire planet, and many specific countries.


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Population Index
An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.


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PsycFirst
Covers international material selected from periodicals in Psychology and related fields written in over 25 languages.


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PsycInfo
Contains almost 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.


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RaDiUS
The Research and Development in the United States (RaDiUS) database tracks in virtually real-time all of the research and development activities and resources of the federal government (RaDiUS users must register with the licensor to use the database).


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RAND Publications Online
A topical listing of online publications by RAND, a nonprofit research organization.


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Retrospective Indexes
Search the Wilson Art, Humanities, Legal, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences Retrospective Indexes (1890 - 1982), as well as Bibliographic Index Plus, simultaneously.


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Social Science Data Archives
Collection of Web sites and databases for the social sciences covering Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Oceania, North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Central America.


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Social Science Information Gateway
SOSIG aims to provide selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.


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Social Science Research Network
The SSRN abstract database contains information on over 100,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.


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Social Sciences Citation Index
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences (available in ISI Web of Science).


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Social Sciences Full Text
Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts contains citations to over 550 popular journal titles covering the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.


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Social Services Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serial publications in the areas of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, community development, child welfare, counseling, crime and corrections, disabilities, evaluation, families, gerontology, health and mental health, poverty, professional issues, social workers, substance abuse and therapies.


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Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology, political science, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as policy areas in science.


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SourceOECD
Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.


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Statistical Warehouse
Provides statistical data for a range of demographic, social and scientific areas (formerly titled Regional Onesource ).


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UK Data Archive
The UK Data Archive is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.


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USA Counties
Files include all of the data published for counties in the latest editions of the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book.


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Virtual Data Center
The Virtual Data Center is an operational, open-source, digital library designed to enable the sharing of quantitative research data, and the development of distributed virtual collections of data and documentation.


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Xreferplus : Social Sciences
Xreferplus includes the full text of over 100 reference sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations.


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Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Provides information, in the form of text, tables, and charts, about the various types of foreign nationals who are inspected, naturalized, apprehended, or removed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


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