Essay and General Literature Index

Includes Indexes, Abstracts, and Articles specific to the fields of Social Sciences and the Humanities.
You can log in with your St. Edward’s Gmail if you want to be able to save articles to the database itself.
You can search by keywords or you can click search options below the basic search bar for more options
For more information on how to search the database, click the question mark on the right hand side of the search bar

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)

Advances and expands social and behavioral research, by providing data stewardship and a data archive, including specialized collections in education and criminal justice.
You can explore data by category (e.g., Child and Family Data Archive, etc.)
Discover data related literature (click on “data related publications”)
- If you click on this, you can see searching tips
You can also search a broad topic in the search bar and then narrow it down using the filters on the left hand side of the screen
- Filters include data type, collection method, time period, thematic collection, etc.

Provides abstracts as well as full articles on a variety of topics in the social sciences.
The database automatically opens to the advanced search. If you want to use the basic search tool, you can click “Social Science Premium Collection” and it will pop up.
In the basic search you can limit your search to full text articles or peer reviewed articles.
If you want to use the advanced search, you can search by publication date, publication company, subject headings, source type (i.e., book, magazine, scholarly journal), and language.

Indexes essays and articles abstracts contained in collections of essays and miscellaneous works published in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada.
Includes a broad range of topics from the Humanities and Social Sciences.
You can log in with your St. Edward’s Gmail if you want to be able to save articles to the database itself.
You can search by keywords or you can click search options below the basic search bar for more options
For more information on how to search the database, click the question mark on the right hand side of the search bar
At the top of the webpage, you can click on “Thesaurus” or “Indexes” to browse those.

Provides an excellent foundation for research and teaching in these fields: Arts & Humanities; Criminology; Media, Cultural & Communication Studies; Mental Health & Social Care; Politics, International Relations & Area Studies; Psychology; Sociology & Related Disciplines
On the main page, you can scroll down and browse different categories such as education, law, etc.
If you click on “advanced search”, you can see search tips as well as narrow down you search using boolean operators, publication years, and by citation

Search e-books on topics such as Political Science, Controversial Issues, Global Studies, etc.
After you search a broad topic (i.e., history), you can narrow your search using Boolean Operators, content type, publisher, Journal, Author Name, Research Area, etc.

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