Recommended Databases: Ethnic and Gender Studies
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Academic
Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications,
computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts
and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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America:
History and Life
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the U.S.
and Canada. Covers Popular Culture, Multicultural Studies,
Gender Studies, Anthropology, Literature, Sociology, etc.
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CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world:
political, economic, and business information. MORE
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CQ
Researcher
The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher explores a single
"hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics
range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |
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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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Emerging
Markets from ISI
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern and Southeastern
Asia. For each country, info about current events, companies
and industries, financial markets, macroeconomics issues, and
legal and political affairs. MORE
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LexisNexis
Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE
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MasterFile
Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals.
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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Newpaper
Source via Ebsco
Provides selected full text for 140+ US and international newspapers.
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News
of the World via Dialog1
African and Middle Eastern news, Asian, Pacific Rim and Australian
news, Canadian news, European news, Mexican, Central American
and South American news, United States news. MORE
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Project Muse
Abstracts and citations from over 140 journals in the humanities and social sciences: literary studies, classics, social and political science, mathematics and more. MORE DETAILS... |
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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Sirs
Renaissance
Select full-text articles covering cultures, architecture,
philosophy, religion and visual arts. MORE
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1992+ |
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Delivered via the Web of Science platform.
The Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) and Social SciSearch® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. MORE DETAILS... |
1991+ |
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Social
Sciences Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law
and criminology, political science, social work, sociology,
etc. MORE
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Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1995+ |
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