Databases and E-Resources at the Library of Congress

Social Sciences


AgeLine Database
AgeLine is an online guide to English-language books, research reports, articles from journals and magazines, and videos related to issues of aging and life at 50+.

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Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection
Annual Reviews contains citations to analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.

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ARTFL ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language covering nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to non-fiction prose and technical writing.

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BEOnline Plus
Free Internet resources selected and annotated by The Library of Congress reference staff

  • Business and Economics Web sites
  • Humanities and other Social Sciences Web sites available from Alcove 9
  • International Resources Web sites available from Portals to the World
  • Science and Technology Web sites
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Bibliographic Index Plus Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cumulative bibliography for information in all areas of the humanities and social sciences as well as science and technology.

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Bibliography of Data Related Literature
A searchable database that contains over 40,000 citations of published and unpublished works resulting from analyses of data held in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) archive.

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Publications Library
Provides full text access to data and research findings on fiscal policy issues and issues affecting low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

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Chicago Manual of Style Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
CMOS provides the rules for editing and publishing - punctuation, italicizing, bolding, capitalization, tables - for American English grammar, usage, and document preparation.

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Communication and Mass Media Complete ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts, and some full text, of articles from over 300 journals, as well as handbooks and recent encyclopedias, in communication & mass media.

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Credo Reference : Social Sciences Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes the full text of over a dozen reference sources covering international relations, political science and sociology.

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CSPV Violence Literature Database
VioLit contains citations and abstracts of juvenile violence related research and literature primarily from journal articles, books, and reports.

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Death Penalty Information Center Database of Executions
Search executions in the United States since 1976 by Year, Age at Execution, Race of Person Executed, Race of Victim, Gender of Person Executed, State, Region, and Method of Execution.

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Digital Dissertations ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index of doctoral dissertations and master's theses, with coverage from 1861 to the present.

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Directory of Published Proceedings
Citations to papers and poster sessions from major scientific meetings around the world.

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E-Journals in Social Sciences ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Browse an alphabetical subject list of electronic journals in Anthropology, Education, Geography, Population Studies, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics.

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ECO: Electronic Collections Online Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexing and abstracts for articles from over 5,400 scholarly journals covering agriculture, library science, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, social sciences, and technology.

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EconLit Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides citations for articles and dissertations in more than 620 journals, books, dissertations, and working papers on economics.

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Érudit
Erudit contains the full text in French of some 40 journals and a dozen or so books and proceedings covering a wide range of disciplines within the humanities, social and natural sciences.

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Essay and General Literature Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Cites 65,000 essays and articles contained in some 5,300 anthologies and collections.

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Essay and Speech Finder ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes full-text essays, speeches, and discursive writing.

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Foundation Directory ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Foundation Directory Professional provides program details for leading grantmaking organizations.

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FRANCIS Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).

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GrantSelect ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Offers more than 10,000 funding opportunities and an extensive list of sponsored research opportunities.

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Green Book
The Green book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.

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HAL
HAL (Hyper Articles en Ligne) provides access to full text documents in all academic fields submitted by French universities and institutions.

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History Reference Online ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ABC-CLIO History Reference contains the full text of over 600 books focusing on United States and world history, current issues, politics, and geography.

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Home Economics Archive
HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in Home Economics and related disciplines published between 1850 and 1950.

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Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Indexes all aspects of the humanities and social sciences from over 1,200 North American and European periodicals.

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Index to Current Urban Documents ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ICUD contains reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the United States and Canada.

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Index to Theses ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.

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Informaworld ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.

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International Data Base : World Statistics
The IDB provides quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.

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Intute
Search for open access resources with original content in a wide range of subject areas.

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IQSS Dataverse Network
Gateway to social science research data collections.

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JSTOR Arts & Sciences I, II III, IV, Life Sciences, Biological Sciences, Complement and Health & General Science Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
JSTOR is a collection of full-text, keyword-searchable academic journals dating back to the late 17th century.

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LGBT Life Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
LGBT Life provides indexing and abstracts for over eighty magazines, academic journals, newspapers, and newsletters that deal with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.

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Merck Manual of Health & Aging
Provides information on aging and the care of older people in words understandable by the lay public.

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MPI Data Hub
Provides access to the latest facts, stats, and maps on immigrants in the United States and Europe, and asylum seekers worldwide.

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NCJRS Abstracts Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

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Oxford Reference Online : Humanities & Social Sciences Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of over 150 books in general reference, language, science and medicine, humanities and social sciences, and business and professional subjects published by Oxford University Press.

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PapersFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Worldwide coverage of published congresses, symposiums, conferences, expositions, workshops and meetings received by The British Library Document Supply Centre.

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PERSEE
Database of French journals in the social sciences and humanities.

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Population Database
The United Nations Population Division database allows one to calculate and display past (back to 1950) and future (up to 2050) population statistics for all major regions of the world, the entire planet, and many specific countries.

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Population Index
An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.

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PsycFirst Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers international material selected from periodicals in Psychology and related fields written in over 25 languages.

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PsycInfo Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains almost 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.

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RAND Publications Online
A topical listing of online publications by RAND, a nonprofit research organization.

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Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects
Contains links to projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the United States Government.

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Retrospective Indexes from Wilson Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Search the Wilson Applied Science & Business, Art, Humanities, Legal, Readers' Guide, and Social Sciences Retrospective Indexes (1890 - 1982), as well as Bibliographic Index Plus, simultaneously.

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Social Science Data Archives
Collection of Web sites and databases for the social sciences covering Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Oceania, North America, the Caribbean, South America, and Central America.

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Social Science Research Network
The SSRN abstract database contains information on over 100,100 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers.

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Social Sciences Citation Index Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences (available in ISI Web of Science).

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Social Sciences Full Text Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Wilson Social Sciences Abstracts contains citations to over 550 popular journal titles covering the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

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Social Services Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serial publications in the areas of social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, community development, child welfare, counseling, crime and corrections, disabilities, evaluation, families, gerontology, health and mental health, poverty, professional issues, social workers, substance abuse and therapies.

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Sociological Abstracts Find It at LCON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology, political science, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as policy areas in science.

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SourceOECD ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.

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Statistical Warehouse ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides statistical data for a range of demographic, social and scientific areas (formerly titled Regional Onesource ).

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UK Data Archive
The UK Data Archive is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.

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United States Congressional Serial Set Maps Digital Collection ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The Serial Set Maps Digital Collection ranges from the great exploratory surveys and battlefield maps of the 19th Century, to water resources, weather, wilderness, public works, and Army Corps of Engineers maps extending through the 1960s.

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USA Counties
Files include all of the data published for counties in the latest editions of the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book.

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WAO : World Affairs Online
World Affairs Online is one of the largest social science databases in Europe, currently containing over 665,000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters, hearings, and grey literature.

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Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Provides information, in the form of text, tables, and charts, about the various types of foreign nationals who are inspected, naturalized, apprehended, or removed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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