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Social Sciences databases for Law patrons
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Provides indexing and abstracting for 650 journals covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Full-text articles from over 340 periodicals covering the social sciences.
Provides abstracts, cited references, times cited, and links to full text when available for articles in the social sciences (1975 to present). Part of Web of Science.
Citations and abstracts to research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Scholars tab provides author profiles from Scholar Universe.
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Also known as: Academic OneFile - Florida Electronic Library Resource (alternate title)
Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 7400 primarily peer-reviewed journals in science, technology and medicine, as well as the humanities, social sciences, and more. Full text is available for 3300 of the journals. Also includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full text for The New York Times.
This video collection includes 67,000+ films. Content comes from 60 Minutes, BBC, Broadway, CNN, DSM-5/ICD-10, Medical Imaging in Video, PBS, World Newsreels Online, and many more. Subjects include: the Arts, architecture, dance, fashion, music, theater and opera, business, environmental studies, feature films, health, history, education, counseling and therapy, criminal justice, and more. All films are available year round with unlimited use.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology will increase students' understanding of important concepts, people, and trends in social sciences, and serve as a ready reference for scholars and teachers who need a well developed but concise exposition of a concept.
The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science and Humanities, accessed via Web of Science, helps researchers access the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide. This resource offers a complete view of conference proceedings and their impact on global research, letting you use cited reference searching to track emerging ideas and new research beyond what is covered in the journal literature.
Provides full text information, maps, images, website links, etc. on folklore, cultures, and customs of peoples around the world from ancient times to the present.
Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts.
Also known as: Data Planet (is now Sage Data) (alternate title)
The Data-Planet repository of statistical content currently holds datasets presented in 2+ billion views of data (maps, trends, tables, rankings). The datasets are sourced from reputable public and private organizations and cover topics across 16 broad subject areas, including education, population and income, industry, commerce, trade, housing and construction, and much more. For more information see this guide.
Home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, design data visualizations and more.
This platform provides access to more than 60 full-text ebooks on multiple subjects, including: arts and humanities, business, science, computer and information science, education, and social sciences.
Ebook Central is the new platform for accessing the NSU Libraries EBL e-books and former MyiLibrary ebook collections. Subject content includes Science & Technology, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Health & Medicine. E-books are downloadable for offline reading in both PDF and EPUB or can be read online with the e-book viewer.
Provides full-text entries on all aspects of the statistical sciences.
Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum including race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. This release now provides 1,019 titles, equaling approximately 806 hours.
Provides citations and abstracts for articles from over 7400 primarily peer-reviewed journals in science, technology and medicine, as well as the humanities, social sciences, and more. Full text is available for 3300 of the journals. Also includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full text for The New York Times.
Gale OneFile: Diversity Studies explores cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. This collection is updated on a daily basis for current content.
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering gender studies, family and marital issues, and more.
Provides articles and home improvement-focused titles covering topics including architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and others.
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and trade publications that cover the cultural and economic aspects of travel and tourism. Offers content that provides coverage of both the historical and current state of affairs in the hospitality and tourism industries as well as information on state parks, planning a vacation, and full-text travel guides from Fodor's.
Provides articles from leading journals, including Business Insurance, Claims, Employee Benefit News, National Underwriter Life & Health, Pensions & Investments, Risk Management, and more.
This database is updated daily and provides access to authoritative periodical content covering topics such as 21st-century skills, organizational dynamics and leadership, adult learning and continuing education, and more.
Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that analyze and support popular culture. The database provides information useful for researchers in social science, history, art or liberal arts courses.
Offers content on conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale. This collection is updated daily and includes more than 200 full-text periodicals relevant for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science.
Gale Primary Sources allows users to search across the Archives Unbound and Financial Times Historical Archive collections. It provides full-text primary source content, dependable metadata, and intuitive subject indexing.
Full-text articles from scholarly journals are available (from Volume 1 to issues published 2-5 years ago) in the arts, business, humanities,
literature, social sciences, general science, mathematics and statistics
With a minimum of 125 titles available by the end of 2013, the Arts & Sciences X Archive Collection features broad coverage in Business and the Social Sciences. Sociology, Education, Public Policy & Administration, and the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine are all represented in this collection.
Kanopy is a video streaming database featuring more than 60,000 films. Subjects covered in our collection include the Arts, Business, Education, Global Studies & Language, Media & Communications, and the Social Sciences. Films range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, classics and blockbuster movies. Download the Kanopy app from the Apple App Store or Google Play store. Users must create an account to use as a login for the mobile app.
LatAmPlus is a digital collection of open access, full-text, peer-reviewed journals. Articles can be searched, retrieved and downloaded for free from top institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean. There are more than 50 journals specialized in Latin American and Caribbean Humanities and Social Sciences. Content is updated biweekly and most of the content is in Spanish.
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual people and the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. The collection will have cross-disciplinary relevance beyond LGBT courses, serving research and teaching in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, politica
Citations and abstracts for literature of disciplines concerned with the nature and use of language
and various fields of linguistics.
Collection of Open Access (OA) ebooks from MIT Press on business, arts and humanities, education, computers and engineering, medicine, psychology, political science, social sciences and science.
Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.
NSUWorks is a service of the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Libraries. Research, scholarly and creative output included in this institutional repository has been selected and deposited by NSU’s individual colleges, schools, centers and administrative departments. Online access is provided to both published and unpublished works by the NSU community. This includes journal articles, books, theses, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings, teaching materials, data sets, University publications, digital and multimedia collections. Contribution of completed works to this repository ensures long-term preservation and worldwide electronic accessibility.
Provides citations and abstracts related to current issues and public affairs. Includes references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Websites, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. 1972 - present.
Also known as: Periodicals Archive Online (alternate title)
Periodicals Archive Online spans the humanities and social sciences, across 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles, of value both to customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Coverage is from volume 1 issue 1 of each journal and all issues are digitized from cover to cover.
The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a family of indexes that measures the average change over time in selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective of the seller. This contrasts with other measures, such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI), that measure price change from the purchaser's perspective. Sellers' and purchasers' prices may differ due to government subsidies, sales and excise taxes, and distribution costs.
Full-text ebooks and journals from scholarly journals and publishers in the humanities and social sciences, including arts, history, literature, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. All ebooks and journals are fully integrated for search and discovery.
Our largest full-text multidisciplinary database includes over 13,000 titles, with over 10,000 available in full text. Content is provided in over 160 subject areas.
Search four databases on one platform. ProQuest One Academic includes ProQuest Central (covering 160 subject areas), Academic Complete (a collection of 150,000 ebooks with unlimited, multi-user access), ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, and Academic Video Online (AVON), a collection of 67,000 academic videos across multiple subjects.
Periodicals Archive Online spans the humanities and social sciences, across 37 key subject areas. It is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles, of value both to customers in English-speaking countries and internationally. Coverage is from volume 1 issue 1 of each journal and all issues are digitized from cover to cover.
Provides 100 years of citations from leading U.S. magazines covering all subjects. Particularly useful for humanities and social science research, as well as for historical information on any
subject.
Citations, abstracts,
and selected full-text covering business, current affairs, economics, literature,
religion, education, law, psychology, women's studies, arts and humanities,
multiculturism, science, social science, health, and more.
Sage Academic Books features ebooks in the social sciences.
Sage Business Cases offers cases from around the world. These cases range from short vignettes to narrative long form, written using both field research and publicly available sources. Topics include Marketing, Operations Management, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, International Business, Human Resource Management, and more. In addition to Sage’s proprietary and newly commissioned cases, the collection includes cases from a list of world-renowned institutions and associations. For more information see this guide.
Use Sage Campus online skills and research methods courses to: equip students with practical skills for study, research, and the workplace; upskill researchers and faculty in the latest skills and research methods; expand face-to-face skills training and make it accessible for off campus students; supplement classes for asynchronous or flipped classroom teaching. For more information see this guide.
The Data-Planet repository of statistical content currently holds datasets presented in 2+ billion views of data (maps, trends, tables, rankings). The datasets are sourced from reputable public and private organizations and cover topics across 16 broad subject areas, including education, population and income, industry, commerce, trade, housing and construction, and much more. For more information see this guide.
Sage Explorer provides access to Sage's complete social science library. This includes Sage Business Cases, Sage Knowledge, Sage Research Methods, Sage Video, Sage Campus, Sage skills, Sage Data. and CQ Press Library.
Sage Reference features eReference content in the social sciences.
Sage Reference and Academic Books features ebooks and eReference content in the social sciences.
Effective data visualizations can instantaneously communicate complex concepts by creating a visual story. Through text, video, and practice dataset content, users will learn to produce compelling illustrations for reports and presentations. Content guides users through the different types of charts, how to select the best type for their data, and the pitfalls of ineffective visuals.
Learn by doing, with downloadable datasets and step-by-step instructional guides that walk users through quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Sourced from government and academic sources, each dataset has been optimized for student use, giving them the chance to learn analysis hands-on and saving instructors hours of work sourcing and cleaning data.
This transformative collection is dedicated to supporting users in conducting research that is both critical and inclusive by showcasing a diverse range of experiences and approaches from marginalized, underrepresented, underserved, and vulnerable communities, as well as decolonial perspectives that challenge traditional research paradigms. Content types include video tutorials, real-life case studies, practice datasets, and how-to guides.
Online communication and internet technology are increasingly used in research and expected to keep growing in popularity. Through how-to guides, case studies, video tutorials, and practice data, this collection will guide users in adopting these methods, as well as the practicalities and ethical issues related to doing research online.
With contributions from a global list of experts, Foundations introduces key terms in research, including hundreds of qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Innovators in the field are also covered, with a special emphasis on previously underrepresented figures.
This collection of videos features content on business, counseling and psychotherapy, criminology, education, leadership, media and communication, nursing, politics, social work and sociology. For more information see this guide.
Full-text reference works including: Comprehensive Clinical Psychology, Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology, Encyclopedia of Information Systems, Encyclopedia of International Media and Communications, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, and International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Citations and
abstracts of current research focused on social work, human services, and related
areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Offers documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization. The current release features more than 122,000 pages of content by major theorists. Highlights include 33 volumes of the Complete Works of Marx & Engels.
Statista.com consolidates over 3 million data points on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and makes it available on four platforms: English, Spanish, French and German. Market Outlooks provide market sizes, forecasts and other indicators for the digital economy, key consumer markets and relevant automotive markets, and key economic and social indicators for up to 150 countries. The Global Consumer Survey allows analyses of consumer behavior and media usage in the on- and offline world based on the data of 400,000 consumers from 46 countries, who were surveyed about 50 topics and 5000 international brands.
Full text ebooks on the following subjects: humanities, social science, behavioral science, law and science. Includes Routledge Handbooks Online.
University of California Press Journals contains access to 31 peer reviewed publications covering humanities and the social sciences.
Provides abstracts, cited references, times cited, and links to full text when available for peer reviewed articles in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Tools allow citation tracking, exporting of citations, etc. Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can also be searched separately. Need help? Watch this video.
Full-text of selected Wiley Blackwell journals, Major Reference Works, and Current Protocols. Covers business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental sciences, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and healthcare, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials science, psychology, social sciences, and more.
World Bank provides data sets via DataBank which is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them. Includes World Development Indicators and Education Statistics and more.