Social Sciences Gray Literature

• 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 - EH.Net (Economic History Services). Can search, browse over 300 citations & abstracts of dissertations, working & conference papers, journal articles, contributions to anthologies.



• Academic Search Complete - Designed for academic institutions. Search articles in over 5,300 publications (over 4,460 peer-reviewed) back to 1865, citations & abstracts for 9,300 journals & 10,900 publications (monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.), cited references for 1,000 journals. Covers all areas of academic study (area studies, biology, chemistry, ethnic & multicultural studies, general science, law, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, etc.). Updated daily. Use eJournals to link to individual titles. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ.



• AfricaBib.org - Includes the African Women's Bibliographic Database, Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database, etc..



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



• Africana Studies & Research Center Masters Degree Theses - Can search citations & abstracts of theses granted at Cornell University back to 1973.



• 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+.



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



• Annotated Bibliography of Government Documents - Threat of Terrorism - Attacks of Sepbember 11, 2001 - Can browse over 700 pages of citations. Covers terrorism & the American homeland, international context of terrorism, War on Terrorism.



• Antitrust Case Browser, The - Can search, browse summaries of U.S. antitrust cases. Has the full-text of key cases, links



• AoA Grantee Project Reports Bibliographic Database Query (1985-2002) - Administration on Aging (AOA). Can search project reports.



• ARD - the Anthropology Review Database - Can search reviews of books, audiovisual materials, software & multimedia, exhibits, tourist sites, conferences, on-line resources.



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



• 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.



• BibEc: Working Papers in Economics - Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE). Can search citations of over 58,800 papers & 39,700 journal articles (not all free).



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



• CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) - Can search, browse over 550 etexts on Irish literary & historical culture in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, English. Has resources (journal tables of contents, bibliographies, maps, etc.).



• Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) - Has Center information, Fourth World Documentation Archives (over 500 essays, position papers, resolutions, treaties, U.N. documents, speeches, declarations, etc., on the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Melanesia, Pacific), etc., a site search.



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



• CIRRIE Database - CIRRIE (Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange). Can search over 24,000 citations of journal articles & conference papers on international rehabilitation research back to 1990. For U.S. research, use REHABDATA Database, The.



• Classics of American Colonial History - Can browse primary sources (books & articles) on African & Native Americans, economics & trade, European immigration, politics, religion, wars.



• CogPrints - Can search, browse, download (pdf) self-archived cognitive sciences eprints.



• Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Virtual Archive - Can search, browse documents, working papers, etc., on Russia, Eastern Europe, China, the former Communist Bloc.



• Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) - Can search over 127,000 citations of USAID technical & program documents, 22,000 downloadable (pdf), on democracy, economics, health, etc..



• Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) - Can search, browse working papers on the commons (environmental policy, equity, experimental economics, game theory, gender, participatory management systems, sustainability, etc.) by Indiana University faculty.



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



• Directory of History Dissertations - Can search over 22,700 citations of history theses at 195 academic departments in the U.S. & Canada.



• Dissertations & Theses @ Touro - Search over 440 School of Health Sciences & 150 Graduate School of Jewish Studies masters theses. All theses also listed in UMI's printed Masters Abstracts International, included in the ProQuest Digital Dissertations Database, preserved on microfilm in the UMI vault & at the Midtown Library. Use the Books & Media (Library Catalog) to link to individual theses. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel, Moscow), Law, THmed, TUC, TUI, TUN, LIJ. TO DOWNLOAD THESES, FOLLOW THE ONLINE INSTRUCTIONS & DOWNLOAD THE ACROBAT READER IF NECESSARY.



• Economics Working Papers - Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Can search, download (pdf) papers back to 1990.



• EconPapers - Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE). 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.



• EconWPA Archive - Can search working papers.



• EPrints Repository - Can search, browse over 1,500 journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., by Australian National University faculty.



• eScholarship Repository - California Digital Library (CDL). Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 13,900 articles in journals & peer-reviewed series, working papers, etc.. Covers business, education, the social sciences.



• ETOH Archival Database (1972-2003) - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Can search over 130,000 citations & abstracts of articles, books, dissertations, conference papers, reports, chapters, etc..



• EurekAlert - Can search, browse science news releases & archives in 14 categories. Has links (100 science, technology, medical peer-reviewed journals; etc.).



• European Research Papers Archive (ERPA) - EloPortal (European Integration Online Portal). Can search, browse over 1,000 papers from 6 working paper series back to 1998.



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



• Fed in Print - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF). Can search books, journal articles, conference & working papers, etc., on economic research.



• Federal Register, The - National Archives, The. Can read it & the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), public laws, Presidential documents.



• Full-text state statutes and legislation on the Internet - Has links to U.S. state's statutes, legislation, constitution, session laws.



• 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 - A ***** Google search engine. 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.



• GPO Access - Can search, browse links to 1,500 federal databases; download (various formats) 7,500 Federal agency files. Includes the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP); Code of Federal Regulations (CFR); Congressional Bills; Congressional Record; Core Documents of U.S. Democracy; Economic Indicators; Federal Register (FR); United States Code; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; etc..



• History News Service (HNS) - Has articles back to 1997 ("op-ed" articles to the press, for Talking History & H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online), etc.). Includes a citation guide, Jewish Studies Network Directory of Professionals, etc..



• 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..



• HTP Prints (History & Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive) - Can search, browse over 200 articles posted by scholars worldwide.



• Human Rights Library - Has over 18,000 etexts (treaties, reports, documents from international & regional organizations; texts on international law; bibliographies), links to 4,000 other sites.



• 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..



• ILOLEX - Can search over 75,000 documents on international labor standards (human rights, conditions of work, etc.).



• IMF Publications (International Monetary Fund) - Can search, browse journal articles; working, occasional, policy papers; country reports; world economic & financial surveys; etc..



• Index to Classical Dissertations and Theses in Progress or Recently Completed . . . , An - Can browse citations compiled from the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 1994-99.



• Internet Law Library, The - LawGuru.com. Was the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library. Can search the U.S. Code, download (pdf) codification tables. Has U.S. & international laws, links to schools & libraries, professional directories, etc..



• 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.



• JCPR: Working Paper Series (Joint Center for Poverty Research) - Can search, browse, download (pdf) papers by affiliates & graduate fellows.



• Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project - Includes links to national & international statistics, legislative & judicial documents, etc..



• 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..



• Macroeconomics and Growth - World Bank, The. Can search, browse journal articles & working papers.



• Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Has most of The Autobiography & The Papers, speeches, sermons, a biography, chronology, staff articles, links.



• National Archeological Database (NADB) - Can search 350,000 citations of reports on planning & investigation, downloadable (gif) maps, etc., a site search .



• National Security Archive, The - Can search links to released documents (100,000 records), authority files (30,000 records) & FOIA requests (20,000 records).



• NATLEX - Can search 55,000 citations & abstracts of national labor, social security, human rights law in 170 countries or territories.



• NBER Working Papers - NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research). Can search over 10,000 citations & abstracts back to 1993, citations back to 1973.



• NCCEV Online Library - National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV). Can search citations of books, journal articles, books, curricula, reports, videos, etc..



• NCCIC Online Library - National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC). Can search journal articles, books, conference papers, dissertations, etc., back to 1966.



• NCJRS Abstracts Database - National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Can search over 185,000 citations & abstracts of research reports, books, journal articles, etc., back to the 1970s. For 8,000 full-text items, use the NCJRS Advanced Search.



• NCJRS Advanced Search - National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Can search over 7,000 technical reports, books, journal articles, etc., back to the 1970s. For 170,000 summaries, use the NCJRS Abstracts Database.



• NetEc - Can search WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economic); etc.. Includes &/or sponsors RePEc (Research Papers in Economics).



• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations Union Catalog - Can search, browse citations & abstracts of research worldwide.



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



• New Deal Network (NDN) - Directory. Can search, browse 20,000 photos, political cartoons, etexts (speeches, letters, documents). Has lesson plans.



• NIDRR Program Directory - NARIC (National Rehabilitation Information Center). Can search, download (ascii) 400 research projects, funded literature.



• OAIster - Can search & link to over 9.7 million ebooks, ejournal articles, audio files, images, movies in digital collections of over 700 academic institutions.



• OECD Economics Department Working Papers - OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). Can search, browse, download (pdf) over 780 papers back to 1983.



• OECD Publications - OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). Can search citations of all OECD publications back to 1961.



• Online Archive of California (OAC) - California Digital Library (CDL). Can search, browse over 1,000 etexts & tens of thousands of photos, paintings, graphics, etc..



• Online Papers on Consciousness - Can browse 2,160 links on the philosophy & science of consciousness, philosophy of mind.



• Organized Crime in North America and the World: A Bibliography - Can browse citations (some links to full-text) of journal articles, conference papers, books, etc..



• Original Sources - From Encyclopaedia Britannica. Search & browse original source documents in history, politics & government, philosophy, religion, science, the social sciences & original work of literary figures writing in English & other languages. Has a quotation finder, concordance. RESTRICTED to TC (NY, LA, South, Berlin, France, Israel), Law, LIJ.



• OT Search - Search 34,000 citations of books, proceedings, theses & dissertations, unpublished papers, journal articles on rehabilitation, education, psychiatry, psychology, health care delivery & administration topics & assessment tools. RESTRICTED to TC (NY), THmed, TUN.



• Our Documents - Has 100 milestone acts, treaties, Supreme Court decisions, constitutional documents, presidential speeches, resolutions, executive orders, etc., from 1776-1965.



• Oyez - Can search summaries & opinions of selected historic Supreme Court decisions, with RealAudio of cases back to 1956.



• Pew Internet & American Life Project - Can search research reports & data on the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, health care, schools, work, civic/political life.



• Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, The - Can search over 100 survey reports on public attention to news stories, opinion on political & social values back to 1997.



• PIE Database (Policy Information Exchange) - Can search over 5,000 documents on mental health policy, research, training.



• Politics Research Group - Can browse, download (pdf) working papers from the Kennedy School of Government in 13 categories.



• POPLINE Population and Environment Bibilographic Resource - PopPlanet. 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.



• Prevention Online, PREVLINE - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), The. Has Quick Facts with links to research reports on the sociological, psychological, medical aspects of substance abuse.



• Priory Lodge Education Ltd. - Can search peer-reviewed articles on psychiatry, medicine (family, chest), pharmacy, etc..



• ProQuest Digital Dissertations (PDQQ) - Can search citations & abstracts of U.S. dissertations for the last two years & download (pdf) the 1st 24 pages.



• PsycEXTRA - Search books & chapters, magazines, newspapers, gray literature (dissertations, technical & annual reports, consumer brochures, etc.) back to 1872. Contains 45,000 records with 30,000 added annually. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• PsycINFO - Search nearly 2.3 million citations & summaries of articles (2,100 journals, 97% peer-reviewed), book chapters, books, dissertations back to the 1800s. Covers the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law, etc..RESTRICT ED to TC (NY, South, Berlin), Law, THmed, TUI, TUN.



• Public Diplomacy Query (PDQ) - U.S. Department of State. Can search articles, books, documents (official texts, statements, publications, reports, etc.), on U.S. foreign policy, international issues, IIP overseas programs back to 1990.



• Public Documents Masterfile - Search & browse citations of federal, state, local, international public documents back over 200 years, Includes links to World Bank publications back to 1946. RESTRICTED to TC (NY).



• Publications Search - Child Welfare Information Gateway. Can search fact sheets, bulletins, research summaries on child abuse & neglect, child welfare, adoption.



• Rand's Publications - Can search, browse titles before 1998 in 16 categories (child policy, civil justice, education, energy & environment, health & healthcare, international affairs, national security, population & aging, public safetly, science & technology, substance abuse, terrorism & homeland security, etc.).



• RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) - NetEc. Can search & download (pdf) over 191,000 working papers; search over 237,000 journal articles (not all free); etc..



• 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..



• Social Cognition Paper Archive and Information Center - Can search over 75 preprints, abstracts of papers & presentations, links to researchers.



• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Can search 70,100 & download (pdf) 46,700 journal articles, working papers, etc. Requires free registration.



• Society for Political Methodology Working Paper Archive, The - Can search, browse papers back to 1995.



• State Statutes Search - Child Welfare Information Gateway. Can search summaries of statutes (some full-text of laws) on child abuse & neglect, child welfare, adoption.



• Technical Reports and Working Papers in Business and Economics - Library of Congress, The. Can browse links to over 210 sources.



• Theses Canada Portal - Can search over 220,000 citations, with abstracts back to 1995, download (pdf) theses submitted between 1998 & 2002.



• Theses Link Collection - Has links to collections in Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, German, Sweden, the U.S., etc..



• THOMAS - Library of Congress, The. Can search legislative information (congressional bill text, congressional record text. For regulations & other executive branch materials, use GPO Access.



• Tobacco Industry Documents - Tobacco Information & Prevention Source (TIPS). Can search the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository, etc.. Has a glossary, links.



• UNBISnet (UN Bibliographic Information System) - United Nations (UN). Can search bibliographic records of the Dag Hammarskjold Library & Office at Geneva Library, voting records back to 1946, speeches back to 1982.



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



• UNESCO Documents & Publications - UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). Can search citations (some full-text) of documents, publications, periodicals.



• United States Code - U.S. House of Representatives. Can search, download (zip) general & permanent law of the U.S..



• University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - Can search, browse journal articles, books & chapters, working & conference papers, theses, etc., back to 1945.



• Urban Institute policy research - Can search, browse surveys, case studies, statistical analyses in 20 categories.



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



• 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.



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



• Working Paper Sites of Political Science - Can search, browse, download (pdf) scholarly working papers in 14 subject categories.



• Working Women, 1870 - 1930 - Can search, browse over 2,050 books & pamphlets, 4,000 pages of manuscripts on women's roles in the U.S. economy between the Civil War & Great Depression.



• World Bank Data & Research - World Bank, The. Can search, browse, download 14,000 working papers, policy reports, etc..



• World History Archives - Can search, browse documents from a working-class & non-Eurocentric perspective.