Social Sciences

DATABASES

Academic Search Elite

A multi-disciplinary database offering full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals. Covering virtually every area of academic study, it offers full text information for many of it's journals dating as far back as 1985.

ArticleFirst

Click on the database tab to access ArticleFirst. OCLC index of articles from the contents pages of journals. Results will indicate if the journal title is held by UCA. Use the Library's catalog to locate the journal.

Books In Print   

Find books, movies, and audio books in this user-friendly database of over 5 million titles.

Britannica Online

Includes the Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus. Search results include articles in the encyclopedia, web sites, and links to relevant journal articles.

Cabell's Directories

Provides directories of publishing opportunities in the following areas: Accounting, Economics and Finance, Management, Marketing, Educational, Curriculum and Methods, Educational Psychology and Administration, and Psychology.

ClasePeriodica

Click on the database tab to access ClasePeriodica. Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities. Use the Library's Catalog or E-Journal Finder to verify holdings.

Discovering Collection

Provides reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.

ECO

Click on the database tab to access ECO. An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. Results will indicate if the journal title is held by UCA. Use the Library's catalog to locate the journal.

Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia

Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.

JSTOR Scholarly Journals

Offers back issues and current issues of 117 journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.

Legal Collection

Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. offers full text for more than 250 of the world's best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.

Lois Law Library  To use click on MEMBERS. Call the Reference Desk (450-5224) to get a user i.d. and password.

Offers a wide range of legal content and supporting materials, including: up-to-date cases, statutes, rules and regulations, and other primary law for all 50 states and federal jurisdictions; expert-authored online treatise libraries, focused around practice areas, including Wigmore on evidence, Ginsberg and Martin on bankruptcy, and Price on estate planning; and extensive public records for individuals and corporations.

National Newspaper Abstracts

Provides abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. Select database from the database drop down menu.

NetLibrary

Provides access to 10,912 eBooks and 3,407 publicly accessible eBooks.

Newspaper Source

Provides selected full text for 25 national(U.S.) and international newspapers, as well as full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.

Ovid Nursing

An aggregate of hundreds of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies. Full-text available for subscribed journals. Subject areas include: Clinical Medicine, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Life Sciences, and Nursing.

PapersFirst

Click on the database tab to access PapersFirst. OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.

Proceedings

Click on the database tab to access Proceedings. An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings.

Professional Development Collection

Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of more than 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, as well as, more than 200 educational reports. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 900 journals.

ProQuest Research Library

Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

PsychINFO

From the American Psychological Association, contains over two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, all in the field of psychology, dating as far back as 1840. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 24 languages. Also includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law.

Sage Journals Online

Provides full-text and abstracts for journals in a variety of subject areas including Education, Geography, Health/Nursing, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Writing. Full-text available for subscribed journals only.

Social Service Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Sociological Abstracts

Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Major areas of coverage include: Culture and social structure, Economic Development, Environmental Interactions, Religion and Science, Social Development, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Women's Studies, and more.

SpringerLink

Complete tables of content, abstracts and full-text articles from more than 650 journals. Full-text available for subscribed journals. May search using keyword or publication title. For article searching, click the Advanced tab next to the top Search Bar and select "Articles by Text" or scroll down to Browse and Explore.

State of the Nation  Password Required - ask at Reference Desk. Library Use Only.

Provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. Direct access to the Federal Government's wealth of information on the U.S. Economy.

United States Code

Provides access to the most recent official version made available by the US House of Representatives.

Wilson Social Sciences Full Text

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Wilson Web

Provides a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere plus the full text of selected periodicals. Includes the following indexes: Applied Science and Technology, Art, Biological and Agricultural, Business, Education, General Science, Humanities, Legal, Readers’ Guide, and Social Science.

WorldCat

Click on the database tab to access WorldCat. OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.

WorldCat Dissertations

Click on the database tab to access WorldCat. A database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat.

WEB RESOURCES

Geography

Geographic.org

Provides access to information on climate, countries, maps, flags, and people to help students, parents and teachers in the teaching of geography.

Geography

This is a collection of geography pages, maps, printouts, flags, quizzes, and activities for students. The pages are listed by continent, alphabetically, and by topic.

Maps & Geography Subject Guide

This portion of the National Geograpic website allows you to find nearly any place on Earth, and view it by population, climate, and much more. Plus, browse antique maps, find country facts, or plan your next outdoor adventure with our trail maps.

U.S. Geological Survey-Geography

USGS Geography monitors the changes that occur on the land surface using remote sensing, studies the connections between people and those changes, and then provides individuals and society with information they can use to cope with the consequences of those changes.

WorldAtlas.com

Political Science

American Political Science Association

With a range of programs and services for individuals, departments and institutions, APSA brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics.

American Presidency

The American Presidency uses materials for the Grolier encyclopedias to look at the presidents and presidential elections.

Political Science Resources on the Web

From Richard Kimber, Political Science Resources is your gateway to most significant resources relevant to the study of politics and government.

Rulers

This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country entries), as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately.

Psychology

American Psychological Association

The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. Among other things, the site provides access to various publications on psychology and of note for students a carrer info/classified ads section.

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Provides access to over 2,000 Internet sites on topics such as careers, organizations, paradigms and theories, and underlying reductionist machinery.

Psychology Information Online

Psychology Information Online provides a central place on the Internet for information about the practice of psychology.

School Psychology Resources Online

Research learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.

Religion

Center for Jewish History

The Center for Jewish History emerged from a vision of a unique central repository for the cultural and historical legacy of the Jewish people. The Center embodies the unique partnership of five major institutions of Jewish scholarship, history and art: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. This site provides access to the center's catalog, and a variety of other research services.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is a wide variety of electronic books and an online discussion group.

Promised Land: Western Religious History

This section of WestWeb provides information about religion and faith in the West. Provides links to a variety of different religious sites.

Sociology

American Sociological Association

Provides information on the association, research in sociology, and job resources for the professional, student and public.

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology is the reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. This ground-breaking project brings together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers.

Sociology Internet Resources

Provides links to Culture & Society, Ethnicity, Women, Family, Criminology, Theory, Research, U.S. Census, General and Miscellaneaous topics.

Sociology Online

The Sociology section contains a number of introductions to the subject. The section includes discussions of the 'sociological imagination' and the origins of sociology.

Sociology Timeline from 1600

Very basic timeline of Sociology. Also provides a calendar of sociology related events.

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