Scholarly Sources are authored by academics, experts in their field of study, usually affiliated with a college or university and are intended to be read by academic audiences such as professors, researchers, and students. Scholarly Articles are published in journals by a scholarly press or organization and have a narrow scope or are limited to a specific field of study with the goal of promoting scholarly research.
These sources have been edited by other experts in the field before publication, you'll often see them referred to as peer reviewed.
Below is a list of databases that contain journals, articles, and research related to Social Sciences.
This multi-disciplinary database has records for nearly 18,000 periodicals - journals, magazines, and newspapers - of which nearly 16,000 are peer reviewed. It provides full text for more than 5,000 journals, and you can use Journal Finder to locate articles that do not have a PDF readily available.
Digital access to texts, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music in the collections of the Library of Congress and other federal government agencies, documenting the American experience. Arranged by topic, American Memory is also keywords searchable.
Audio and text of the 100 top-rated American public speeches of the 20th century, in rank order of popularity.
In-depth, original profiles combined with full-text articles, page images, and abstracts from the complete range of source material (including biographical profiles, feature articles, interviews, essays, book reviews, performance reviews, speeches, or obituaries). Biography Reference Bank offers a breadth and depth of information you’ll find in no other biography database. It covers over 500,000 people and includes over 36,000 images!
Biography Reference Center offers a comprehensive collection of more than 450,000 full text biographies, including the complete full text run of Biography Today and Biography Magazine, as well as thousands of narrative biographies that are not available in other databases.
This ProQuest website features select primary source documents related to critical people and events in African American history and the ongoing fight against racial injustice in the U.S. The documents presented here represent a selection of resources available in several ProQuest databases including American Periodicals, Black Abolitionist Papers, ProQuest History Vault, ProQuest Congressional, Supreme Court Insight, and Alexander Street’s Black Thought and Culture.
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of high-quality academic content including including open access journals.
"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map."
Connecticut Archives Online (CAO) search brings researchers to primary source materials held in Connecticut’s libraries, universities, colleges, museums, and historical societies through one simple interface.
DPLA connects people with America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. The materials available through DPLA include photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more for free and immediately available in digital format.
Search and view thousands of full text eBooks.
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Gives background information on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness. It also includes a collection of points of view essays offering solutions to issues related to race.
GovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch. GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.
This database provides access to journals, magazine, newspapers, and trade publications as well as profiles on companies, people, products, and more.
Contains all information available on the journals and series on the Master List of Periodicals for the MLA Bibliography.
Nobel Lectures provides English-language transcripts of all Nobel Prize Award Ceremony speeches from 1901 as well as biographical notes, prize citations, and video of the speech presentation when available.
OpenDissertations now includes the content from American Doctoral Dissertations. It is a free database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. Full text of dissertations available by clicking on URL in each record to link to participating institution's digital collection.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
ProCon.org is a non-profit dedicated to presenting controversial issues in a clear, concise, pro/con format free of bias and partisanship.
Project Syndicate provides syndicated news analyses and commentaries from around the world. The organization receives support from the Gates Foundation and the European Climate Foundation with the goal of supporting the growth of global independent news media.
Search all the ProQuest databases at the same time, including Dissertations, ABI, newspapers, criminal justice and more.
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 500 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
(Replaces Sociological Abstracts) SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study.Indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 core coverage journals dating back to 1895. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 31,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
TOPICsearch contains full text for over 150,961 articles from 475 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled collection of periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.
Ulrichsweb is a directory providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. Limited to 2 concurrent users.
The United States Geographical Survey providing reliable, scientific, geological information by mapping, collecting and analyzing data, and monitoring natural resource conditions, issues, and problems
USA.gov is a platform for searching across multiple government agencies for information on statistics, services, and more.
