Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy. This online library that allows students to investigate current issues and topics from a number of perspectives.
Backfile content has been added to our subscription to International Political Science Abstracts. The database now includes records from 1975 - present.
In the American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, a team of distinguished historians has culled the most important published and unpublished works in U.S diplomatic literature and thoroughly annotated them. The work comprehensively covers five centuries, from America’s colonial era into the 21st century.
Provides current issues of American Anthropological Association’s journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA’s journals, newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print.
Library Literature & Information Science Retrospective is a bibliographic database that indexes articles and book reviews of key library and information science periodicals. Books, chapters in collected works such as conference proceedings, library school theses, and pamphlets are also indexed. Coverage also includes full text content from 69 years of the Wilson Library Bulletin (the classic trade magazine for librarians, founded in 1914).
CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.
Do you need to find the impact factor for a particular journal? The Thomas Cooper Library and the School of Medicine Library have partnered to bring you Journal Citation Reports online access! Both the Science and Social Sciences journals are included in this resource.
The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The core content includes:
Available through August, 2008.
Provides reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field of sociology. Contains over 1800 specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of scholars and teachers. Entries range from short definitions of key terms to extended explorations of major topics; historical materials and recent developments; sociological theories; timelines; extensive bibliographies.
Online access is available until 12/2007.
We have upgraded to the Scholar’s Edition of this database. In addition to the basic content, Scholar’s Edition adds an important new resource: The Women’s Commission Reports collection is an archive of the publications and documents of local, state, and federal Commissions on the Status of Women from 1963 to the present. A future release of the Scholar’s Edition will also include the full text of the complete five volumes of Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, available for the first time in electronic form.