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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes many journals in the areas of anthropology and sociology. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Social Sciences Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full-text of selected articles in 1995.
ScienceDirect: Elsevier is the world's leading publisher of social, physical, and health science information, producing 25% of the world's scientific journal information. The ScienceDirect College Edition collection provides access to more than 1,900 multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal titles, including leading titles like The Journal of Rural Studies, Habitat International, and the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.
Sociological Abstracts: Indexes and abstracts an international selection of sociological journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations in the field of sociology. Coverage is from 1963 to the present.
Sociological Collection: The Sociological Collection is a comprehensive database covering information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. Includes over 500 full-text journals. Coverage is from 1965 to the present.

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Anthropological Index: Provides indexing to the scholarly literature in anthropology, including general anthropology, physical anthropology, archaeology and cultural anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics. Prepared by the Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library). Coverage is from 1957 to the present.
Europa World: Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
Oxford Reference Online: Politics & Social Sciences: Oxford Reference Online includes full-text of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Coverage varies by title.
Social Services Abstracts: Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Includes links to full-text in other sources.

Last updated October 24, 2008