Social Science Databases

Academic Search Complete    Full Text Available   Part of TexShare Program
Provides full text for more than 3,430 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.

Anthropological Index
Current Periodicals in the The Anthropology Library at the British Museum (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute library).

Bibliography of Native North Americans     Part of TexShare Program
A bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy.

Biographies Plus Illustrated   (trial version until Dec. 31, 2006)    full text available
Making this the first stop for any biographic inquiry, Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated includes in-depth, full-text profiles, with more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects, plus up-to-date bibliographies.

Columbia Intl. Affairs    full text available
A comprehensive database that covers international affairs.

Directory of Open Access Journals    full text available   Part of TexShare Program
Provides indexing, abstracting, and free full text access for selected international scholarly journals in many subject areas, including agriculture and food science, biology, chemistry, health science, languages and literature, mathematics, physics, engineering, the arts, business, environmental science, history, law, political science, philosophy, religion, and social science.

Handbook of Texas
Encyclopedia of Texas history, geography & culture.

HSUS    full text available
With the Historical Statistics of the United States, "you can access data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History."

Legal Collection    full text available    Part of TexShare Program
This database contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

New England Quarterly    full text available
The New England Quarterly surveys New England's cultural, political, and social history.

Making of America    full text available
A free database of thousands of 19th century American books and journal articles.

Military & Government Collection    full text available   Part of TexShare Program
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites.

NCJRS FT    full text available
1500+ full-text criminal justice sources from NCJRS & partner sites.

PsycArticles    full text available
PsycArticles is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycArticles database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection    full text available   Part of TexShare Program
This database provides nearly 575 full text publications, including nearly 550 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycInfo
Rich resource for research in psychology and related disciplines. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines.

SocIndex Full Text Available
SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,918,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 428 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 136 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 720 books and monographs, and full text for 6,785 conference papers.

Texas Reference Center    full text available   Part of TexShare Program
Texas Reference Center includes more than 80 full text journals and books about Texas history, ethnic & cultural diversity, gender studies, literature, public health, business as well as home & garden and sports & leisure. The database contains biographies portraying famous historical and contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna Dickinson and Sam Houston.

Wilson Select Plus    full text available
Covers high-quality periodicals with in-depth indexing and abstracts. All records point to complete online full text.

World History Collection   Full Text Available   Part of TexShare Program
World History Collection offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East.