Databases/Articles

Browsable collection of digital documents relative to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government from the Yale Law School Law Library. 

Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals. Source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations,book reviews, and working papers. Years of coverage are 1969-present.

The standard source for the quantitative facts of American History.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of International statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance produced by the IMF. The IFS database contains time series data from 1950. **Access is by username and password only. Please see a Reference Librarian for assistance.

Full texts of journals from many different disciplines including Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies and Sociology. JSTOR journals are back issues, no title will be more than 3-5 years back. 

Provides full-text documents from over 5900 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications.

Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, and other materials covering political, economic, and social issues. Coverage: 1972 to the present.

An annotated bibliography of recently published books journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. Coverage is 1986-2000.

This database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It´s designed to find the information scientists need. Updated daily, Scopus offers: 15,000 peer-reviewed journals from more than 4,000 publishers, over 1000 Open Access journals, 500 conference proceedings, 33 million abstracts and seamless links to full-text articles and other library resources.

Social Explorer is based at Queens College of the City University of New York. Our main goal is to visually display the demographic change that has occurred in the U.S. since 1790 through the present, for the country over all down to the level of the county. Certain cities may even be displayed as far back as 1910. To do this we have developed a collection of interactive demographic maps that can be viewed, queried and manipulated on our site.

An index to articles in scholarly journals in the social sciences, covering publications from 1984 to the present. Provides broad coverage in the social sciences including anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, family studies, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women´s studies, and related subjects

SocINDEX provides coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, gender studies, ethnic & racial studies, rural & urban sociology, social psychology and many others. It contains 777 full-text journals, and more than 820 full-text books and monographs.