Guide to Human Sciences Research
Databases

Databases

American Factfinder from the U.S. Census Bureau

CAB Abstracts

Covers the significant research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health and nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources.

Child Welfare Information Gateway
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides access to print and electronic publications, websites and online databases covering a wide range of topics including child welfare, child abuse, neglect, adoption, search and reunion and much more.

CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature).  This bibliographic database covers over 1,175 nursing and primary journals in more than a dozen allied health disciplines.

Consumer Health Complete

Consumer Health Complete is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics.

Current Contents
Contains the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from thousands of journals. Current Contents is  available on WebSPIRS.

Directory of Open Access Journals

Provides full text access online to articles in journals in a variety of disciplines.

Dissertation Abstracts International
This resource provides a subject, title, and author guide to over 1.2 million doctoral dissertations and masters theses written since 1861.

EBSCO MegaFile

A database that includes multi-disciplinary peer reviewed journals, company profiles, business news.

EconLit

An index to articles in economics and related journals published by the American Economic Association.

ERIC
The premier national database that provides indexing and abstracts of educational literature from 1966 to the present. It lists journal articles (EJs)  and ERIC documents (EDs) including research reports, project and technical reports, curriculum guides, and more. 

HaPI

Health and Psychosocial Instruments provides access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers in finding measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

JSTOR
Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of more than 125 scholarly journals in many fields including education, sociology and anthropology.

Lexis Nexis Academic  
Indexes and provides full-text articles from newspapers, periodicals, business and legal publications.

Lexis Nexis Congressional  
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Lexis Nexis Statistical
An index to statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; and knowledgeable professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.

MarciveWeb DOCS
Provides citations to United States government publications from July 1976 to the present.

Medline/PubMed
This National Library of Medicine database is the the premier bibliographic database for medical journal literature.

Ovid

Provides full text access to over 250 journals in pharmaceutical, medical and health related journals. Premier databases include CINHAL, MedLine, EBM Reviews, Books@Ovid, Journals@OvidFullText, and YourJournals@OvidFullText.

ProQuest
ProQuest provides access to several different bibliographic and full-text databases covering a wide variety of disciplines and topics. The Social Sciences Module and the Research Library Core are probably the most useful for sociology. However other modules may be appropriate for certain topics. Many full-text journal articles are provided.

PopLine through Infoforhealth.org

Info For Health is the knowledge sharing project for reproductive health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health. The site includes PopLine as well as other searchable databases. PopLine is a searchable database for citations to reproductive health periodical literature.

PsycINFO
This American Psychological Association database covers journal articles, book chapters, and book literature in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as sociology, education, anthropology, and others. It contains citations with abstracts to journals, books, and book chapters in psychology and the behavioral sciences.

Sage Full Text Journals- Full text discipline specific research databases in Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning published by SAGE Publications and participating societies.

Sociological Abstracts
The Sociological Abstracts database indexes and provides abstracts for journal articles from sociology and related disciplines. In addition, it covers relevant association papers and PhD and Master's theses. Older journal articles are also covered in the paper Sociological Abstracts shelved on the library's main floor in the Abstracts & Indexes area (305.So15).

Social Services Abstracts
Indexes the literature of social services from 1980 to the present..

Web of Science

Multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature includes Arts & Humanities Index, Social Science Citation Index, 2001-present and Science Citation Index Expanded, 1992-present.