Benedictine University Library - Databases by Subject

Databases covering Sociology

Database name / Provider	Description
Academic Search Premier / EBSCOhost Coverage: ca. 1975 -- (varies with journal) Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Contains indexing for more than 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
ACLS Humanities E-Book / ACLS Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars.
Annual Reviews / Annual Reviews Coverage: 1996 -- Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Online access to the full text of the following Annual Reviews titles: Anthropology, Biochemistry, Cell & Developmental Biology, Energy & the Environment, Ecology & Systematics, Immunology, Medicine, Microbiology, Nutrition, Physiology, Phytopathology, Psychology, Public Health, Sociology. You can search the content of all 29 Annual Reviews titles. However, you can only view the full text of the titles to which Benedictine subscribes.
Contemporary Women's Issues / FirstSearch Coverage: 1992 -- Full text: Some Available from off campus:** No	Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights. Includes links to full-text articles for many articles.
CQ Researcher / Congressional Quarterly Coverage: 1991- Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	This award-winning database explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of every issue. Numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts -- round out each report. The database offers access to issues dating back to October 25, 1991. PDF files are available for full issues dating back to January 1996; for issues published since January 2001, PDF files are in color.
ebrary / ebrary Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Electronic collection of approximately 44,000 books in the Academic Complete collection which includes 16 key subject areas.
JSTOR / JSTOR Coverage: varies with journal Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Collection of full text journals in the arts and sciences and literature. Arts & Sciences I Collection includes 117 titles in fifteen disciplines. The Language & Literature Collection includes 58 titles spanning the literary cultures of many different countries, and in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.
Liebert Online / Liebert Online Coverage: varies by journal Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Over 50 journals in a variety of medical and health sciences fields
Project MUSE / Johns Hopkins University Press Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs. Their journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Currently, our subscription to MUSE provides full-text access to current content for 194 titles.
PsycEXTRA / EBSCOhost Coverage: varies Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes (use last name & Library ID Number)	PsycEXTRA, produced by the American Psychological Association (APA), is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. It contains more than 150,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database.
Sage eReference / Sage Coverage: n/a Full text: Yes Available from off campus: Yes	47 full text reference resources

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Last updated: December 1, 2004