Emmanuel d'Alzon Library

Anthropology & Sociology

Academic OneFile
Academic Onefile contains 8,000 academic journals, the majority in full-text, available in HTML and PDF formats. In addition it contains hundreds of podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, and the CBC, as well as full-text New York Times content to 1995.

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 3,970 journals covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more. Full text and abstracts from 1958 to present.

AltPressIndex -
Available via FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1991 to the present. Citations concerning cultural, economic, political & social change from nearly 300 alternative periodicals, newspapers, and magazines.

AltPressIndexArchive - Coverage is from 1969-1990.

British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries
Personal writings of women from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, spanning more than 400 years.

ClasePeriodica -
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities from 1975 to the present.

Contemporary Women's Issues -
Available via FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1995 to the present and topics pertain to Sociology. This database contains citations from over 1,500 sources covering women's issues in more than 150 countries.

CQ Researcher
Published 44 times a year, the single-themed CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

Credo Reference Social Sciences resources
Search eight browsable reference books from a collection of the world's leading publishers.

EconLit -
Available via FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1969 to present. Topics relate to Sociology and Anthropology. This database indexes over 600 journals, books and working papers on economics.

Educator's Reference Complete
Use this mainly full-text collection of over 1100 periodicals and 200 reports for educational research from preschool to college.  Every educational specialty can be found here including technology, health and bilingual education, testing, and issues in administration, funding and policy. 

Encyclopedia Americana
Contains additional materials, including maps, flags, tables, and links to related sites on the World Wide Web.

Encyclopedia of Population
Provides expanded, up-to-date coverage of demographic topics both in the core field and in neighboring disciplines.

ERIC
Available via EBSCO. Coverage is from 1966 to the present. Full text articles are available from 1996 to the present. Topics pertain to Rehabilitation Sciences. This is a database of citiations and abstracts from nearly 1,000 educational journals plus full text of educational documentation.

Expanded Academic ASAP
Coverage is from 1980 to the present. This database covers all of the social sciences. This is a database of periodicals covering all major academic disciplines including many articles in full text.

Fashion, Costume, and Culture
Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day.

Health Reference Center Academic
Coverage is from 1980 to the present. Topics pertain to Psychology and Rehabilitation. This is a database of articles including some full text on various topics.

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
Contains 8,000 to 12,000 word essays on specific culture groups in the United States, emphasizing religions, holidays, customs, and languages in addition to providing information on historical background and settlement patterns.

General OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles. Updated daily.

Health Reference Center Academic
Database of articles including some full text on various topics.

Immigration and Multiculturalism: Essential Primary Sources
Primary source documents focuses on some of the leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries: immigration and multiculturalism.

In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives
Personal narratives- the most comprehensive archive of social memory. Covers many topics including historical events and people from World War I and II to popular culture, music to medicine, Hitler to John Wayne, gay rights to September 11th.

Issues & Controversies
Source of current, in-depth and objective information on hotly debated issues of the day.

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JSTOR
Available via JSTOR. Coverage is from the first issues to the last 3 to 5 years. Topics pertain to sociology and anthropology. This is a database of over 100 full text scholarly journal titles including some volumes dating back to the nineteenth century.

Project MUSE
Available via John Hopkins University Press. Coverage is from 1993 to the present. This is a database of over 100 full text scholarly journals mainly within the past five years.

PsycARTICLES
PsycARTICLES™ is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists.

PsycINFO
Available via EBSCO. Coverage is from 1887 to the present and topics pertain to psychology. This is a comprehensive international coverage of scholarly literature in psychology. Includes articles from more than 1300 periodicals in over 25 languages.

PubMed
Available via the National Library of Medicine. Coverage is from 1966 to the present. Comprehensive index to articles in the field of medicine.

SIRSResearcher -
Available via FirstSearch. Coverage is from 1988 to the present. Abstracts are available from 1994 to the present. Topics pertain to Sociology and Anthropology. References include social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide from over 1200 domestic and international newspapers, periodicals and government publications.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Includes tens of thousands of primary documents, document projects with introductory essays that interpret the documents, a definitive bibliography, related web links, a Dictionary of Social Movements, and an enormous collection of images.

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