Social Sciences Resources
The links on this page offer access to a wide variety of resources
devoted to the Social Sciences in general.
Databases
- InfoTrac Web
(Carnegie Mellon users only)
InfoTrac has parts that can be searched separately. The General BusinessFile
ASAP section can be used to research all business and management topics. Expanded Academic contains information on: religion,
law, history, humanities, current events, communications, and the general
sciences.
- Keesing's Record of World Events 1967-. (monthly)
REF-1 INDEX
The news found in Keesing's is culled from the world's press and information
services. Countries are covered individually with a separate section for
international events and worldwide topics.
- LexisNexis
Academic (Carnegie Mellon users only)
LexisNexis contains court decisions, legal codes, and constitutions at the
federal and state levels. Some public opinion polling data is reported in
the "General New Topics; Wire Service Stories" section. This source also includes
international, national, and regional newspapers; business information; and
reference materials on numerous topics.
- ProQuest
Direct (Carnegie Mellon users only)
ProQuest focuses upon business information but also covers a wide range of
academic subjects. Many national newspapers are available, including the Pittsburgh
Post Gazette. The historical section contains the full text of the New
York Times (1851-) and Wall Street Journal (1889-). These databases
can be searched in combination or individually. The majority of documents
are available in full text.
- Web of
Science (Carnegie Mellon users only)
Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts,
covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities.
The Social Sciences Citation Index is the electronic version of the former Social Sciences Citation Index in print. Users may choose to search across all the databases, or select just one. This
unique database indexes and links cited references for each article. All formats
provide complete bibliographic data and additional features, such as cited
reference searching, links to related articles, plus author and publisher
addresses.
- Cited Reference Searching -- You can search the citation
data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known relevant paper and
finding other, more recent, papers that cite it. You can locate all cited
authors, not just first authors, for articles in the database.
- Related Records -- You can find records that share one
or more cited references, yielding additional relevant results.
- Web of Science contains 3 separate databases:
- Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present)
- Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)
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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences (1999)
HUNT REF-1 300.3 Y77D
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001)
HUNT REF-1 300.3 I613
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968)
HUNT REF-1 300.3 I612
- Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1930)
HUNT REF-1 300.3 E56a
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Indexes and Abstracts
- Facts on File.
Vol. 1-, 1940-. (Weekly)
HUNT REF-1 INDEX
This reference source contains a detailed weekly distillation of the news
and current information as reported in more than 70 major newspapers and newsmagazines
from the United States and around the world. Fact boxes, page references to
earlier articles, maps, and tables provide additional background information.
The index is cumulative. The latest five years are in reference; earlier editions
reside with the journals on the third floor.
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Internet Gateways
- Social Science Information
Gateway
Generally known as SOSIG, this high quality site offers users the chance to
read descriptions of resources available over the Internet and to access these
resources directly. SOSIG points to thousands of resources and each one has
been selected and described by a librarian or academic.
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