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Social sciences citation index. - The most complete search social science literature available. Social Sciences Citation Index also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching: 1- Trace how an idea has been confirmed, applied, extended or corrected in later work. 2- Identify authors who cite a particular article (yourown or someone else's). 3 - Identify highly cited authors in a field of study. 4- Observe the progress of an author's research. 5 - Evaluate the impact of an author's work in a particular field. 6 - Conduct multidisciplinary searches. (Also called the Web of Science)
ScienceDirect - Full text of more than 1000 Elseviere journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Project Muse - Journals available through Project Muse are peer-reviewed, scholarly titles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
PsycARTICLES - PsycARTICLES® contains more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.
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Sage journals online A full text database of Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine journals.
CQ researcher - A great tool to use to investigate current events and topics. It can provide detailed information on themes ranging from technology, health and international affairs. Each report contains background, current situation assessments, pro/con statements and bibliographies that point to materials for further research.
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EBSCOHost - Provides full text for thousands of scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
JSTOR - JSTOR is an archival collection of over 130 full-text journals. It offers back issues of journals from the very first issue (starting in the 1800's for some journals).