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Social sciences databases

Academic Search Premier   (EBSCOhost)
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals and popular magazines covering all academic subjects. The full-text is available for about 4,700 periodicals (3,600 peer-reviewed).
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965; some current issues embargoed for several months

American National Biography   (Oxford University Press)
Biographies of over 18,000 Americans. Includes illustrations.

Annals of American History   (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Over 2,000 selections from historical accounts, memoirs, speeches, and other primary source documents in American history. Many images, video clips, and audio clips.
Coverage:  1492 to present

Biography Resource Center   (Gale Group)
Biographical database with full-text articles from over 280 periodicals and 120 reference sources, such as the Dictionary of American Biography, Encyclopedia of World Biography, Contemporary Musicians, and Notable Scientists.

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index   (ProQuest)
Indexing and abstracts for 190 journals related to criminal justice. Includes full-text of articles from almost 50 titles.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text from 1988 to present; indexing from 1981 to present

CQ Researcher   (CQ Press)
Full-text reports and analysis of current events, with topics such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published 44 times a year. Limited to five (5) simultaneous users.
Coverage: 1991 to date

Dictionary of National Biography   (Oxford University Press)
See Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

EconLit  (OCLC FirstSearch)
The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics-related journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations.
Coverage:  more than 30 years

GPO Monthly Catalog   (OCLC FirstSearch)
Indexes United States government publications, including the following: Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments (e.g., Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President).
Coverage:  1976 to present

History Resource Center--Modern World   (Gale Group)
Full-text resources in modern world history (1900--present): over 1300 primary source documents, 1400 maps and images, full-text of articles from about 110 journals and 30 reference works from Gale, Macmillan, and Scribner's.

History Resource Center--US   (Gale Group)
Full-text resources in US history (pre-colonial period--present): over 1000 primary source documents, 2000 maps and images, full-text of articles from about 100 journals and 30 reference works from Gale, Macmillan, and Scribner's.

JSTOR   (JSTOR)
Full-text archive of the back issues of over 600 core scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. See JSTOR is here to learn more about this database and how to use it.
Coverage:  varies; 2-5 year embargo on current issues

Legal Collection   (EBSCOhost)
Subset of scholarly legal journals in Academic Search Premier with full-text for over 250 titles.
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

LexisNexis Academic   (Lexis-Nexis)
Provides full-text access to general news, current events and business news, as well as company profiles, financial, legal, medical and reference information. Sources include national and international newspapers, journals, wire services, radio and television broadcast transcripts, SEC filings, case law, statutes, patents and more.
Coverage:  varies

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography   (Oxford University Press)
Online version of the 60 volume print edition provides 55,000 biographies of individuals noteworthy in the history of Britain and from the 4th century BCE to 2003.
Coverage:  published in 2004, updated 3 times a year. 

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection   (EBSCOhost)
Subset of psychology and behavioral sciences journals in Academic Search Premier. Includes full-text for over 550 periodicals (500 peer-reviewed).
Coverage:  varies; some full-text back to 1965

PsycARTICLES   (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's full-text database of peer-reviewed, scholarly journal articles in psychology, covering general psychology as well as specialized, applied, clinical and theoretical research. There are more than 100,000 articles from fifty-nine journals, forty-eight of which are published by the APA.
Coverage:  1894 to date; most APA journals from v. 1

PsycBooks   (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's full-text database of 1,377 scholarly books, including 691 books published by APA and 686 classic resources in psychology from other publishers. Also includes the online version of the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology
Coverage:  1950 to date, but with 18 month embargo on new APA titles

PsycINFO   (EBSCOhost)
American Psychological Association's index to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and reports on psychology and related fields. When available, citations have direct links to full-text in Academic Search Premier.
Coverage:  1887 to present

Research Library   (ProQuest)
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 2600 journals, magazines, and newspapers covering all academic subjects. Full-text for over 1,700 journals is available.
[This database is provided jointly by the Washington State Library and the O'Grady Library, and is funded in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act funds.]
Coverage:  varies with journal; full-text 1986 to present; indexing 1971 to present

Washington State Newsstand   (ProQuest)
Provides the full-text of newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
[This database is provided jointly by the Washington State Library and the O'Grady Library, and is funded in part with federal Library Services and Technology Act funds.]
Coverage:  1986 to present

WorldCat -- the OCLC Online Union Catalog   (OCLC FirstSearch)
Online catalog of books, web sites, video recordings, sound recordings, and other materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries worldwide.
Coverage:  1000 BCE to present