Last updated: 6/23/08
Reference Databases Social Sciences

  Abstracts in Anthropology (MetaPress)

Abstracts in Anthropology covers a broad spectrum of significant, current anthropological topics from a vast number of periodicals. Indexed by author and subject. Covers cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics. 2002-. Updated semiannually.

  AgeLine Database

Produced by AARP. English language books, articles, research reports, and videos about older adults and aging. 1978-.

  Anthropological Index Online (Royal Anthropological Institute)

Index of periodicals available in the Museum of Mankind Library, which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology from academic institutions and publishers around the world. 1957-.

  AnthroSource

Full text access to current and back issues of fifteen of the American Anthropological Association's periodicals. Coverage varies by publication, but generally covers the 1990s to the present.

  Communication Abstracts (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of publications related to communications, broadcasting, and public opinions on a world-wide scale. Covers articles, reports, papers, and books. 1977-. Updated bimonthly. [user guide]

  EconLit (EBSCOhost)

Indexing and selected abstracting of more than 550 international economics journals, books, dissertations, and working papers covering economic development, economic history, macroeconomics, and microeconomics. 1969-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  Gale Virtual Reference Library (InfoTrac)

Database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. OSL’s collection includes: Beacham’s Guide to the Endangered Species of North America, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer, Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Biology, and World of Earth Science. Enter your 14 digit OSL/CLAN barcode when prompted. [user guide]

  GEOBASE (FirstSearch)

Indexing of articles from over 2,000 journals covering the world-wide literature of geology, geography, and ecology. 1980-. Updated monthly. Password required — please ask at Reference Desk for access. [user guide]

  Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (WilsonWeb)

Indexing of nearly 1,200 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, including magazines and scholarly journals. 1907-1984. [user guide]

  ICPSR Direct

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, may be downloaded by URI users after creating an account on the site.

  Journalism and Mass Communication Abstracts (AEJMC)

Journalism & Mass Communications Abstracts, formerly Journalism Abstracts, includes abstracts of dissertations and theses accepted for graduate degrees. The abstracts were prepared by the student authors and represent research theses. The abstract database may be searched by author's name, institution, year, and subject for theses, dissertations or both. [user guide]

  JSTOR

JSTOR is an online archive of back runs of core scholarly journals in many disciplines. Articles may be searched by keyword or browsed by journal. JSTOR provides high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Note that JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR’s archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. [user guide]

  Library/Information Science & Technology Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost)

Indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. [user guide]

  Mental Measurements Yearbook (EBSCOhost)

Provides a guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Contains information about test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Vol. 9 (1985)-. [user guide]

  PILOTS (CSA)

The PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) database provides current and retrospective indexing and selected abstracting of literature on post-traumatic stress disorder and related psychological effects of traumatic events. 1871-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

 

  Population Index

Indexing and abstracts of journals, books, and other materials on demographics and population studies. 1986-2000.

  Project MUSE

Project MUSE offers the full text of over 220 journal titles from 37 scholarly publishers covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. [user guide]

  PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)

Provides full text access to articles from journals published by APA and allied organizations. Covers general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. 1988-. [user guide]

  PsycINFO (CSA)

Indexing and abstracts of journal articles and books in psychology, including applied psychology, developmental psychology, and personality. 1806-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Science Direct is a collection of journals from the publisher Elsevier and its affiliates. Journals may be browsed or searched by keyword. Access to the full content of articles from selected journals is available to URI users from 1995 to the present. Availability is indicated by a green icon. Other articles may be requested via Interlibrary Loan.

  Social Services Abstracts (CSA)

Abstracts and indexes current research in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Covers journals, including book reviews, plus dissertations. 1979-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  Sociological Abstracts (CSA)

Covers the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexing and abstracts for journals, books, dissertations, and conference papers in areas such as social structure, inequality, social change, and social problems. 1952-. Updated monthly. [user guide]

  Web of Science (ISI)

Web access to ISI citation databases (Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index). Contains citations to articles from nearly 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. The ability to search by cited reference allows the user to uncover the research that influenced an author’s work or to navigate forward in time to discover a paper’s impact on current research. 1998-. Updated weekly. [user guide] [online tutorial]

  Women’s Studies International (EBSCOhost)

Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Sources include journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, Web sites, and grey literature. Coverage ranges from 1972 and earlier to the present. [user guide]