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  • EconLit
    Contains citations to, and selected abstracts of, the field of economics from international journal articles, dissertations, and books, books chapters and articles and conference proceedings.
    Coverage: 1969-.
    articles newspaper magazine articles scholarly

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  • JSTOR
    A full-text database of archived issues of academic journals. Since JSTOR is a backfiles project, a typical coverage range is the beginning of a journal until three or five years ago. Supported in part by the Dail Endowment Fund.
    Coverage: Varies.
    articles scholarly multi-subject databases

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  • Science Citation Index (Web of Science)
    A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the sciences: agriculture, neuroscience, astronomy, oncology, biochemistry, pediatrics, biology, pharmacology, biotechnology, physics, chemistry, plant sciences, computer science, psychiatry, materials science, surgery, mathematics, veterinary science, medicine, and zoology.
    Coverage: 1945-.
    articles scholarly multi-subject databases
  • ScienceDirect
    Coverage includes Biochemistry and Biology, Business & Management, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Medicine & Pharmacology, Neurosciences, Physics, Social Sciences.
    Coverage: varies.
    articles scholarly
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
    Indexes journals in the social sciences. Provides links to full-text when available. Useful for searching for articles that cite a known author or work (citation searching). Citation searching also allows you to use a given work as a subject term in order to identify more recent articles about the same topic.
    Coverage: 1956-.
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  • Social Services Abstracts
    Provides access to scholarly journal coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
    Coverage: 1979-.
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  • Sociological Abstracts
    Provides citations and abstracts to articles published in sociology, social welfare, and social policy, as well as other related topics in the social and behavioral sciences. Also includes citations to some books and many dissertations. Includes Social Services Abstracts.
    Coverage: 1952-.
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  • SPORTDiscus
    Citations and some abstracts from periodicals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations and theses, research papers, etc. covering the areas of sports, physical fitness, sport science and recreation. Access is limited to four simultaneous users.
    Coverage: 1830-.
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  • War and Terrorism (Gale OneFile)
    Provides access to books, periodicals, and other materials in the areas of war and terrorism intended to be of use for analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science
    Coverage: 1980-.
    articles scholarly books e-books encyclopedias reference
  • Web of Science
    Contains three ISI Citation Databases (Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index), plus Biological Abstracts, Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE (PubMed), and the SciELO Citation Index. Provides bibliographic data, author abstracts, and cited references.
    Coverage: 1945-.
    articles scholarly multi-subject databases

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