Social Sciences Ready Reference

• ***** E-Ref - Has over 880 free electronic reference titles appropriate for undergraduates.



• Best Online Reference Sites - Has over 500 links on biography & history, books & literature, business & finance, countries & government, consumers & household, dictionaries & encyclopedias, directories, entertainment & recreation, facts, health & science, magazines & news, maps & travel, measures, New York State & local, quotations & writing.



• Credo Reference - Was xreferplus. Search over 210 reference sources (biographies, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations) in 16 academic disciplines. Covers art, business, history, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, psychology, science, social sciences, technology, etc.. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• Directory of Electronic Text Centers - Has links to virtual libraries in the humanities & social sciences.



• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - Can search, browse over 2,300 links to scientific & scholarly journals in 17 categories (health sciences, etc.). Can search over 670 journals at the article level.



• EDIRC (Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World) - Has links to over 10,,000 institutions in 226 countries.



• e-journals.org - Has links to ejournal collections in over 30 categories. Includes History Journals Guide, The; etc..



• Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions - Has articles from authors worldwide.



• Encyclopedia of Law & Economics - FindLaw. Has over 5,000 pages of articles with searchable bibliographies of over 20,000 publications.



• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS) - Was Embryonic Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (Embryonic ELS) & Nature Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ESL). Search 3,900 peer-reviewed articles on biology, clinical medicine, diseases & conditions, evolution, morphology, immunology, neuroscience, plant science, science & society, etc.. Has a glossary with 4,000 definitions. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, Berlin), THmed, TUN.



• Fast Facts: Almanacs/Factbooks/Statistical Reports & Related Reference Tools - Has links in over 140 categories. Focus is U.S. & Canada.



• Footnotes to History - An overview of micronations, ephemeral & secessionist states, etc., that you never heard of in high school. Has links.



• FreeFullText.com - Has links to over 7,000 scholarly periodicals with some or all articles for free. Some require free registration.



• Gale Virtual Reference Library - Provided by NOVEL, NY State Library's free public statewide virtual library pilot project funded via a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant to the NY State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Search & browse 27 works. Covers business, history, law, literature, medicine, science, social science. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), Law, THmed.



• Geostat (Geospatial and Statistical Data Center) - Has links to statistical & social science data, maps & geospatial data.



• History Journals Guide, The - Has directories of 5,400 periodicals & 950 discussion lists; articles in 170 ejournals; 12,500 reviews in 100 sources. Has an enewsletter.



• History Journals Index - Has links to over 1,200 ejournals (not all free).



• Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data - Has over 750 links in 25 categories (data archives & Web directories [macroeconomics, elections, population, poverty, labor, public opinion, education & health, etc.], etc..



• Lawyers.com - A subsidiary of LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Has a directory of lawyers & basic consumer legal information. Let's you find, ask, contact lawyers.



• LivRe - Has links to over 2,700 ejournals in the biological, health & medicine, agricultural, exact & earth, engineering, applied social (management, accounting, economy, etc.), human sciences (education, psychology, etc.); linguistics, literature & arts.



• Mental Measurements Yearbook - Search information about & reviews of all English-language standardized tests of educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, etc.. Data is from the printed Yearbooks 9 to 15 & includes author, publication, scoring information; test materials & time needed; etc.. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, Israel), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• National Digital Archive of Datasets (NDAD) - Can search, browse links to databases created by U.K. government departments (health, law & order, transport, demography, etc.) back to 1963.



• NoodleTools - Generate, edit, publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list that complies with rules of the current MLA Handbook & APA Publication Manual. For detail on using this program, read our Creating Your Bibliography with NoodleTools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South). WHEN YOU LOG IN THE FIRST TIME, CREATE YOUR OWN ACCOUNT. WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION. FACULTY - Create a Class Name for your students so they can share their citation/reference lists with you for review & comment.



• Oxford Reference Online (premier collection) - Search & browse over 100 ebooks in 24 categories. Covers the English language, history, literature, physical sciences & mathematics, politics & social sciences, religion & philosophy, science, etc.). Includes bilingual dictionaries. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• PsycCRITIQUES - Read releases of over 15 reviews of current books & films each week. Browse releases back to 1995 & search all releases plus the 10-year backfile of Contemporary Pschology book reviews. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• psychiatryonline - Search & browse a DSM Library, 6 journals back to 1998, APA Practice Guidelines, etc.. Log in to My PsychiatryOnline to use bookmarks, email to colleagues, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, South, Israel). WHEN FINISHED, CLICK ON LOG OUT TO CLOSE YOUR SESSION.



• Rare Map Collection - Has maps of colonial, revolutionary, Civil War America & the South.



• Ready Reference & Quick Facts - ***** Librarians' Internet Index. Has links to abbreviations & acronyms, foreign exchange rates, statistics, zip/postal codes, airports & airport codes, calendars, conversion tables, encyclopedias, holidays & observances, phone books, quotations, weignts & measures, censuses, gazetteers, names, standards, time, etc..



• Reference Collection - Has links to 21 academic (meta sites; acronyms & abbreviations; almanacs; associations; biography; books, book reviews; publishers; colleges & universities; countries; dictionaries; thesauri & grammars; encyclopedias; flags & anthems; government information, the Internet, journal directories, local & regional information, maps & map services, quotations, speeches & transcripts, statistical sources, style guides, U.S. facts & locations) & 19 general information (audo prices; awards & prize winners; calculators; career resources; consumer information; currencies; email addresses; films; financial aid & grants; genealogy; medicine & health; news; phone books; recipes; September 11th terrorist attacks; time, date & calendars; travel; weather; weights & measures) sites.



• Reference Desk - History Matters. Has links on citing & evaluating digital resources, copyright & fair use, standards for history & social studies.



• Reference Resources - History - American and British. Has links to maps, statistics, American & British history bibliographies, ejournals, book reviews, biographies, curricula & syllabi, general/miscellaneous resources.



• Scholarly Societies Project - Has links to over 4,100 major international societies & 3,700 conferences, standards, 150 enewsletters, etc..



• ScienceDirect Social & Behavioral Sciences College Edition - Search articles in over 550 journals. Includes reference works, handbooks, book series. Covers business, education, health, history, psychology, etc.. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), TUC, TUI.



• Social Sciences Electronic Journals - Social Sciences Virtual Library. Has links to over 100 ejournals (not all free).



• STATRef - Search all 42 standard medical reference ebooks or limit to individual titles. Can search PubMed, etc. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual ebooks. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, Berlin, Israel), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN.



• Virtual Reference Shelf - Library of Congress, The. Has links in 30 categories (abbreviations, almanacs, associations, awards/prizes, calculators, calendars, clocks/times, consumer information, current events, dictionaries/thesauri, directories, encyclopedias, genealogy, biography & archaeology, government, grant resources, libraries, maps/driving directions, quotations, statistics, etc.).



• Westlaw Campus Research - Search & browse news (hundreds of U.S newspapers, magazines, trade journals, international & foreign language publications, 400 newswires, newsletters, broadcast transcripts, company information) & law-related content (analytical sources - American Jurisprudence, American Law Journal, 800 law reviews & journals; primary law sources - US Code, federal/state/Supreme Court cases, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, European Union Law). Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.