Social Sciences

	University of Maryland Eastern Shore
	Frederick Douglass Library

The following is a list of online databases available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with research in the Social Sciences.

General

Psychology

Sociology

Related Databases

General

Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier 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.

African American Studies Center NEW
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 full-text articles focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. It includes over 1,300 images, primary sources with specially written commentaries, and maps. Charts and tables offer information on everything from demographics to government and politics to business and labor to education and the arts.

CQ Researcher
Full-text database which provides history and background information, relevant pro & con arguments, bibliographies, contact information, and outlooks on "hot topics" in current events.

EJS E-journals
E-Journals allows search and retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text. Users have access to titles from publishers who have given EBSCO permission to re-use Table of Contents and abstract information in an aggregated database. Please note that this does not represent all of the titles available in EJS. Limiters can be utilized to further narrow search results. Most of these titles are scientific, technological or medical in nature.

Library Literature & Information Science Abstracts (LISTA)
An index of more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.

Opposing Viewpoints
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Psychology

Mental Measurements Yearbook
The Mental Measurements Yearbook provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

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.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 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
PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.

Social Science Abstracts
Social Science Abstracts (H.W. Wilson) contains indexing for more than 520 publications, including such targeted publications as AIDS & Public Policy Journal, Child Development, Feminist Review, and Journal of Drug Issues.

Tests in Print
TIP serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).

Sociology

JSTOR
JSTOR contains full-text journals in arts and humanities.

Social Service Abstracts
Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage 1979 to present.

Sociological Abstracts
The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles.

Social Work Abstracts
This scholarly database is produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc. and provides access to more than 45,000 records. It covers social work and related topics such as aging, AIDS, child and family welfare, homelessness, substance abuse and more. Coverage 1977 to present.

Related Databases

For assistance with these databases, please consult a Reference Librarian.

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