Social Sciences Bibliographies & Indexes

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• AATA Online - Can search 100,000 citations & abstracts of articles in over 470 journals, plus books, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, audiovisual & selected digital resources on the conservation of cultural material. Requires free registration.



• Abstracts in Economic History - Can search, browse over 300 citations & abstracts of dissertations, working & conference papers, journal articles, contributions to anthologies.



• African Women's Bibliographic Database - Can search over 35,000 citations of edited books, journal articles, theses, dissertations, honors & conference papers, videocassettes back to 1986.



• AgeLine Database - Can search, browse over 90,000 citations & abstracts of books, research reports, articles from over 600 journals & magazines, videos on life at 50+.



• Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP), The - Can search citations of articles, news items, editorials from military & aeronautical periodicals back to 1988.



• Alcohol Studies Database - Can search over 60,000 citations of journal articles, books, dissertations, conference papers, audio-vietohsual materials.



• Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of books, journal articles, films, CD-ROMs, Web sites on how nuclear issues have influenced the evolution of science & technology, domestic politics & international relations, the arts & humanities.



• Asian Law Centre bibliographic database - Can search citations of books & chapters, journal articles, theses. Does not include newspapers, magazines, conference papers, unpublished articles.



• Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt index (ANRW) - Can search over 680 citations of journal articles on Roman literature & society.



• BAESL: Bibliography of Archaeological Excavations in the Southern Levant - Can search over 15,000 citations of books, reports, journal articles back to the early 19th century.



• Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database - Can search over 57,000 citations of articles from 480 journals.



• Bilingualism Database - Can browse citations of books & journal articles in 19 categories (bilingualism & speech disorders, teaching English as a second foreign language, etc.). Has links.



• Boundary news archive - Can search citations & abstracts to over 10,000 boundary-related journal & newspaper articles, reports, radio transcripts, etc., back to 1991.



• CAIRSS for Music (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System) - Can search citations of articles in 19 specialist journals on music education, psychology, therapy, medicine.



• CESAR Publications (Center for Substance Abuse Research) - Can search over 150 documents, including citations to journal articles, back to 1988.



• CIRRIE Database - Can search over 24,000 citations of journal articles & conference papers on international rehabilitation research back to 1990.



• Daily Life in Classical Antiquity - General Bibliography - Can browse over 100 citations of books & journal articles.



• Diotima's Bibliography - Can search, browse citations of book chapters, journal articles, dissertations, etc.



• EconPapers - Can search citations of over 58,800 papers & 39,700 journal articles (not all free).



• EconPapers - Can search & download (pdf) over 125,600 working papers, 155,300 journal articles, 1,300 software items, 660 ebooks, 1,400 ebook chapter, etc. Includes the former BibEc a& WoPEc.



• EdResearch Online - Can search 12,000 citations & abstracts of articles in 120 leading Australian education journals.



• ETOH Archival Database (1972-2003) - Can search over 130,000 citations & abstracts of articles, books, dissertations, conference papers, reports, chapters, etc.



• Evaluation Center Database, The - Can search over 4,700 citations of books, journal articles, reports, etc., on the theory, practice, use of evaluation.



• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - Can search citations of articles, book reviews, essays in books about women, sexuality, gender during the Middle Ages.



• getCITED - Can search over 30,600 citations from 3.3 million books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc., from over 10,000 academic institutions. Requires free registration.



• Gnomon Online - Can search, browse over 3,000 citations of journal articles, conference papers, dissertations, on classical studies.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• HAPI Online - Web version of the Hispanic-American Periodicals Index. Can search 265,000 citations of articles (34,000 with links to full-text) in over 500 journals worldwide.



• History On-Line - Directory. Can search, browse over 40,000 citations of books, journal articles; 3,300 citations of U.K. theses back to 1993, etc.; university lecturers & research; evaluated links.



• HLAS Online (Handbook of Latin American Studies) - Library of Congress, The bibliography. Can search citations of 5,000 books, journal articles, conference papers, etc.



• IDEAS (Internet Documents in Economics Access Service) - Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE). Can search over 290,000 papers; download (pdf) over 190,000 journal articles (not all free), etc.



• IndMED - Can search citations of articles in 200 peer-reviewed biomedical journals from India back to 1985. Includes a MetaMED search tool for IndMED & PubMed.



• IngentaConnect - Can search, browse over 20 million citations & abstracts of over 29,600 books, journal articles, conference proceedings, working papers, reports, etc. in 15 categories.



• ISIHighlyCited.com - Can search, browse the most highly cited researchers in 21 categories of life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering, social sciences from 1981-99. Provides biographical information & publication lists.



• IT Road Maps - Can search 5,000 citations of data sets, journal articles, conference papers, books, Web sites, etc., on the social & economic implications of IT.



• John Locke Bibliography - Can search, browse 9,000 citations of works by & writings about the philosopher.



• Labordoc - Can search over 350,000 citations of print & ebooks, journal articles on the economic & social aspects of labor & employment & human rights worldwide.



• Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC) - Can search, browse 800 citations of journal articles.



• Law and Economics Journal Bibliographies - Can browse bibliography citations & tables of contents for 8 journals.



• Library Search - Child Welfare Information Gateway. Can search over 40,000 citations & abstracts of reports, journal articles, videos, etc., on child abuse & neglect, child welfare, adoption.



• Looting Question Bibliography: Web and Literary Resources on the Archaeological Politics . . ., The - Can browse citations (some links to full-text) of books, journal articles, legislation, etc.



• Mental Health Needs and Services for Youth in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems: - Can browse annotated citations of books & journal articles. Many links to full-text.



• National Early Childhood Transition - Literature Database - Can search over 500 citations & abstracts of journal articles.



• NCCEV Online Library - Can search citations of books, journal articles, books, curricula, reports, videos, etc.



• NCJRS Abstracts Database - Can search over 185,000 citations & abstracts of research reports, books, journal articles, etc., back to the 1970s.



• New Communication Technologies, Their History and Social Influence: An Annotated Bibliography - Can search over 2,600 citations of journal articles, books, government publications.



• NLM Gateway - Can simultaneously search MEDLINE/PubMed, TOXLINE Special, NLM Catalog, MedlinePlus, ClinicalTrials.gov, DIRLINE, Genetics Home Reference, Meeting Abstracts, HSRProj, OMIM, HSDB.



• PARLIT Database - Can search citations of books & journal articles on parliamentary law & practice back to 1992.



• PEPLiteratureSearch - Can search over 50,000 citations of psychoanalytic journal articles, books, book reviews back to 1920.



• Physicists and the Bomb Bibliography - Can search over 500 citations to books & journal articles.



• PILOTS Database, The - Can search, browse over 24,900 citations (most with abstracts) of books, journal articles.



• POPLINE Population and Environment Bibilographic Resource - Can search citations & abstracts of journal articles, conference papers, etc., on population, family planning, related health issues.



• Population Index - on the Web - Can search, browse over 46,000 citations & abstracts of books, journal articles, working papers published from 1986 to 2000.



• PSYCLINE - Can search 2,000 ejournals (not all free) via Journal Locator & citations & abstracts via Article Locator.



• PubMed - Can search over 15 million MEDLINE citations & abstracts back to the mid-1950s, plus life sciences journals.



• REHABDATA Database, The - Can search 65,000 citations & abstracts of journal articles & books on disabilities, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, etc., back to 1956.



• RHS Bibliography (Royal Historical Society) - Can search over 420,000 citations (some links to full-text) of books, articles in over 580 journals, etc. Covers Irish history.



• SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting - Can register for emailed tables of contents for Carfax, CRC Press, Frank Cass, Parthenon, Psychology Press, Routledge, Spon Press, Taylor & Francis journals.



• Scirus - Search engine. Can search over 135 million science-related Web pages, including citations & abstracts of peer-reviewed journals, conferences, preprints, etc. Covers economics, business, management; medicine; neuroscience; psychology; social & behaviorial sciences; etc.



• Sleep Bibliography Database - Can search, browse over 60,000 citations & abstracts of journal articles on basic & clinical research.



• Staff College Automated Military Periodicals Index (SCAMPI) - Can search citations of articles in over 100 journals on joint & multinational operations, military history & naval science, operational warfare, operations other than war. Many links to full-text.



• Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists (TOCS-IN) - Can search 45,000 citations of articles in over 185 journals back to 1992.



• Tennessee Archaeology Net Bibliographies for Anthropological Research - Has links to bibliographies for anthropological research in 16 categories, organizations, careers, laws/ethics, etc.



• U.S.-Mexico Border Issues: A Selected Bibliography from the Smithsonian Institution . . . - Can browse citations of books, journal articles, Web sites, databases.



• Undocumented Immigrants: An Annotated Bibliography - Can search citations of journal articles, government documents, books up to 2005. Many links to full-text.



• Untimely Past, The - Has citations of books, journal articles, etc., on the intersection of historiographic practice with poststructuralism, postmodernism, allied areas of theory/practice.



• Vietnam War Bibliography - Lists books, journal articles, government documents, etc., in subject categories, from 1946-72. Has some links.



• Viva Search - Can search, browse citations of articles in over 170 west European & American scholarly journals on women's history back to 1995.



• Women in Politics Bibliographic Database - Can search citations of books, journal articles, theses, etc., back to 1948.



• World Food Habits - Can search citations of book & journal articles on cannibalism, eating attitudes, hunger & famine, vegetarian diets, etc.