Researching Society - K. Bloch: Finding Articles

Scholarship as Conversation

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Popular Databases

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PsycINFO (EBSCO Interface) This link opens in a new window
Search for academic articles, books, and dissertations in all areas of psychology and behavioral sciences. Contains full-text for some items. Coverage: 1800s to present.
Journal coverage is from the 1800s to the present, and includes international material from approximately 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Find articles on topics in psychology and behavioral sciences.
Some topics covered include: emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods.

Anthropology and Sociology Databases

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Critical reviews of significant primary literature (1998-present) in the areas of biology, biomedicine, chemistry, physics, sociology, and related disciplines. Published yearly, this is the online, full-text version of the printed Annual Review of... series.
Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window
Indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present.
Anthropology Plus combines the Anthropological Literature database (from Harvard University) with the Anthropological Index database (from the Royal Anthropological Institute).
Chicano Database (EBSCO Interface) This link opens in a new window
Discover citations to articles, books and more on Chicano/Mexican-American topics; it also includes the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Subjects include education, arts, humanities, psychology, politics, and sociology. Coverage:1900-present
LGBT Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search the LGBT Life database as well as the full text for more than 140 of the most important and historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines and regional newspapers, plus full text for 150 monographs/books. Includes an LGBTQ+ Thesaurus containing over 10,000 terms.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
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Find articles on topics in psychology and behavioral sciences.
Some topics covered include: emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, and observational and experimental methods.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Explore this mapping tool with over 500,000 data indicators for the United States from present to 1790, including all Decennial Censuses, American Community Surveys, and many other datasets.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Search for articles on sociology topics.
Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for articles on sociology topics.
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary encyclopedia of social and political movements worldwide. Contains more than 400 entries.

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