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Location: Murray
Room: LIB 122.8
Phone: 966-7262
Email: Chris.Adams@usask.ca


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Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) 1952 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic database, abstracting and indexing "the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers." [details]
SocINDEX with Full Text Indexing & Abstracts: 1895 - present; Full text: 1908 - present Bookmark and Share
A multi- and cross-disciplinary service with approx 800 journals title full-text as well as a further 1200 "core" jouranl titles and approx. 3,000 journals with selective coverage. [details]
Social Services Abstracts 1980 - present Bookmark and Share
Bibliographic database indexes and abstracts over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews, covering current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. [details]
Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI) Web of Science 1956 - present

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PsycINFO 1806 - present Bookmark and Share
Bibliographic database "providing abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences."
Library Guide (pdf) [details]
Public Administration Abstracts 1974 - present Bookmark and Share
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]
Academic Search Complete (ASC) 1887 - present Bookmark and Share
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database indexing 11,900 journals, with more than 7,900 full-text periodicals, including more than 6,800 peer-reviewed journals. In addition it indexes 12,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. [details]
ArticleFirst OCLC FirstSearch 1990 - present Bookmark and Share
Bibliographic database indexing articles from over 16,000 journals covering business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology and popular culture. [details]
Expanded Academic ASAP 1980 - present Bookmark and Share
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this full text database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! [details]
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) 1989 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic database of political science articles fomr over 900 scholarly journals and yearbooks worldwide. [details]
JSTOR Volume 1 through to a "moving wall" embargo period of the last 2 to 5 years that varies by title Bookmark and Share
Fulltext archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, as well as 19th century British pamphlets. A unique e-journal database of complete backfiles of core scholarly journals in the arts and sciences. [details]
OCLC FirstSearch Coverage varies by database Bookmark and Share
A portal service to OCLC bibliographic databases and reference sources. Permits cross-searching. [details]
PAIS International & PAIS Archive Public Affairs Information Service 1914 - present Bookmark and Share
Bibliographic database covering public affairs, public and social policies, international relations. It has an archive going back to 1914. [details]
Project Muse Varies [1995 - present] Bookmark and Share
Access to the full text (HTML and PDF formats)of over 400 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 90 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and more. [details]

Aging & Elders

Abstracts in Social Gerontology [Journal] Electronic Collections Online (ECO) 1995 - present Bookmark and Share
An electronic journal index with abstracts, providing a comprehensive summary of current literature in the field of social gerontology. [details]
AgeLine 1978 - present; with selected coverage from 1966-1977 Bookmark and Share
Bibliographic database, indexing and abstracting over 200 journals, books, book chapters, and reports, covering the literature of social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. The focus is exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. [details]

Black Studies

Black Thought and Culture African Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Historical - present Bookmark and Share
A collection of nearly 800 "monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to the present." [details]
Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007 1490 - 2007 Bookmark and Share
A portal to an extensive collection of digitized documents and collections related to slavery and abolition studies from libraries across the Atlantic world. Topics include" the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. This resource will be released in three phases between 2007 and 2009. [details]

Canadian content

America: History & Life with Full Text (AHL) 1964 - present; selected titles include retrospective coverage back to v. 1, issue 1. Bookmark and Share
Definitive "database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With selective indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to the present this database also provides full-text coverage of more than 196 journals and more than 92 books. [details]
CBCA Complete Canadian Business & Current Affairs Index: 1971 - present; full text: 1985 - present. Bookmark and Share
Abstract and indexing database covering more than 1,665 scholarly journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers, news services and magazines, including 600 full text titles, covering current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information produced in Canada. Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). [details]
Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies & Prairies Varies; 1985 - present Bookmark and Share
Major Canadian dailies and news sources and newspapers from across Canada and the Prairie region. [details]
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals Index Quarterly) Indexing: 1980 - present; full text 1983 - present Bookmark and Share
A full text database of articles from Canadian and International journals, magazines and reference content from Gale, all with a Canadian focus. Includes Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail; Maclean's weekly magazine; Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the Canadian Parliamentary Guide and Canadian Newsmakers. [details]

Communications and Mass Media

NFB.ca National Film Board of Canada Online Historical and current collection Bookmark and Share
Access over 720 full-length National Film Board (NFB) of Canada films, trailers and clips. The Library's institutional license includes public performance rights on campus. [details]

Criminology

Criminal Justice Abstracts 1968 - present; selected titles back to 1912 Bookmark and Share
An indexing and abstracting database containing abstracts of current books, book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide covering criminal justice and and criminology. [details]
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books 1981 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic database that indexes articles from over 900 legal periodicals from the U.S., Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, as well as law books, covering all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship. [details]

Culture Studies

Hapi Online Hispanic American Periodicals Index 1970 - present Bookmark and Share
An authoritative source for worldwide information about Latin American issues, including analyses of current political, economic, and social issues, as well as coverage of arts and letters. Includes some full text. [details]
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (MECAS) 1900 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic index of research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Includes abstracts and links to full text. [details]
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories 1840 - present Bookmark and Share
A collection of personal narratives including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories, providing a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. [details]
Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 1500 - 1926 Bookmark and Share
Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography of the history of the Western Hemisphere, Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time, this collection of over 29,000 digitized works, "contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's. Included are books, pamphlets, serials and other documents that provide original accounts of exploration, trade, colonialism, slavery and abolition, the western movement, Native Americans, military actions and much more." [details]

Education, Sociology of

ERIC (ProQuest) Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) 1966 - present Bookmark and Share
A database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education providing extensive access to educational-related literature, including journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. [details]

Family Studies & Abuse

Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) 1970 - present Bookmark and Share
An anthology of four databases providing comprehensive coverage of "research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare." [details]
Family Studies Abstracts 1979 - present Bookmark and Share
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]
Violence & Abuse Abstracts 1995 - present Bookmark and Share
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]

Historical Sociology

London Low Life Street Culture, Social Reform and the Victorian Underworld 18th C. - 20th C. Bookmark and Share
A "full-text searchable resource, containing colour digital images of rare books, ephemera, maps and other materials relating to 18th, 19th and early 20th century London."
Access Note: Users must self-register (free) in order to access such functionality as My Archive and My Lightbox. [details]
Empire Online Varies by collection; 1492 - 2007 Bookmark and Share
A digitzed collection of original documents relating to Empire Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It covers: cultural contact, empire writing and literature of empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, race, class & colonialism [details]
Mass Observation Online 1937 - 1972 Bookmark and Share
Digitized manuscripts and typescript papers created and collected by the Mass-Observation organisation, a pioneering social research organisation whose papers cover the cultural and social history of Britain primarily from 1937 to 1965. [details]
Victorian Popular Culture 1779 to 1930 Bookmark and Share
A portal to digitized books and documents describing Victorian popular culture and popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Users are invited "into the darkened halls, small backrooms and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic and spiritualist séances." [details]
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (HA) 1955 - present; selected retrospective coverage back to v. 1, issue 1 Bookmark and Share
Comprehensive full text database of the literature covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada, covered in America: History & Life with Full Text) from 1450 forward, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. HA provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, and access to the full text of more than 316 journals and more than 138 books. [details]

Medicine, Sociology of

AMED (Allied and Complementary Medicine) 1985 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic database indexing over 500 journals in complementary medicine, palliative care, and several professions allied to medicine. [details]
MEDLINE® Ovid MEDLINE 1950 - present Bookmark and Share
Major bibliographic database for clinical medicine, including: internal medicine, general medicine, primary care, family medicine, and general practice, as well as: veterinary medicine, nursing, allied health, dentistry, and pre-clinical sciences. [details]
Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive Edition FT: 1975 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic database ,including nearly 400 full text journals (nearly 300 are peer-reviewed), covering the areas of "nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines. ACCESS NOTE: some titles do not include current year. [details]
SAGE JOURNALS Online & SAGE Deep Backfile Premier Collection Includes backfiles to volume 1, issue 1; 1879 - present Bookmark and Share
Full text collection of over 500 SAGE electronic journal titles in business, social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with a deep backfile to volume 1, issue 1. [details]
ScienceDirect Academic Press (AP): 1993- present; Elsevier: 1995 - present; selected complete backfiles from volume 1, issue 1 Bookmark and Share
Portal to scholarly journals, book series, and ebooks published by Elsevier, Academic Press and affiliated publishers primarily covering science, technology, and medicine and the social sciences. The University of Saskatchewan Library has a current license to the full text of over 1742 of the journal titles back to 1995 (1993 for Academic Press titles) as well as access to several subject backfile collections with coverage from from volume 1, issue 1. Also includes several major reference works and ebook collections. [details]
Scopus A&I: 1823 - present; complete metadata including references: 1996 - present Bookmark and Share
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technolgy, and medicine (STM), and social sciences. [details]

Native Studies & Aboriginal Peoples

First Nations Periodical Index 1970 - present Bookmark and Share
This resource indexes twenty First Nations journals and magazines, largely from the 1990's to 2005. The Saskatchewan Indian has indexing from 1979 to 2005, with selected full text articles going back to 1970. [details]
iPortal indigenous studies portal, research tool Bookmark and Share
Online full text resources for indigenous studies in all the disciplines, including articles, books, book reviews, websites, archival materials, and theses and dissertations.
Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) 16th C. - present Bookmark and Share
Bibliographic database covering all aspects of native culture, history and life in North America, Greenland, and eastern Siberia, including: archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. [details]
North American Indian Thought and Culture 17th century - present Bookmark and Share
A collection of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America. With over 119,000 pages of content, including biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories, reference works, manuscripts, and photographs. [details]

Rural/Urban Sociology

CABI: CAB Abstracts® & CAB Abstracts® Archive 1910 - present Bookmark and Share
Index and abstract database to agriculture, forestry, and biosciences literature, including: journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, and patents. [details]

Science & Technology

Inspec® & Inspec Archive 1896 - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic database providing access to the world's scientific literature in electrical engineering, electronics, physics, control engineering, information technology, communications, computers, computing, and manufacturing and production engineering. See also EI Engineering Village [details]
ScienceDirect Academic Press (AP): 1993- present; Elsevier: 1995 - present; selected complete backfiles from volume 1, issue 1 Bookmark and Share
Portal to scholarly journals, book series, and ebooks published by Elsevier, Academic Press and affiliated publishers primarily covering science, technology, and medicine and the social sciences. The University of Saskatchewan Library has a current license to the full text of over 1742 of the journal titles back to 1995 (1993 for Academic Press titles) as well as access to several subject backfile collections with coverage from from volume 1, issue 1. Also includes several major reference works and ebook collections. [details]
Scopus A&I: 1823 - present; complete metadata including references: 1996 - present Bookmark and Share
A very large abstract and index database of research literature and quality web sources covering the science, technolgy, and medicine (STM), and social sciences. [details]

Sexuality & Gender Studies

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI) 1992 - present Bookmark and Share
A multidisciplinary, full-text database "that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries." [details]
Defining Gender, 1450-1910 1450 - 1910 Bookmark and Share
A digitized collection of original documents relating to Gender Studies, sourced from libraries and archives around the world. It has five thematic sections: Conduct and Politeness, Domesticity and the Family, Consumption and Leisure, Education and Sensibility, and The Body. [details]
Gender Studies Database 1972 & earlier - present Bookmark and Share
Combines NISC's Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with coverage of sexual diversity studies issues. [details]
LGBT Life with Full Text Coverage varies by title Bookmark and Share
Index to literature covering lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT) issues and including the full text of 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. [details]
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 1600 - 2000 Bookmark and Share
A collection of documents, images, and links to other websites, covering the history of women in social movements in the United States. [details]
North American Women's Letters and Diaries Colonial to 1950 Colonial period - 1950 Bookmark and Share
A collection of over 150,000 pages of published letters and diaries of women writing in North America. [details]

Socialism, Communism

Left Index 1982 and earlier - present Bookmark and Share
A bibliographic abstract and index database with some full text covering the "diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia." [details]

Terrorism, Anarchism & Peace Studies

Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources 2006 edition Bookmark and Share
A collection of primary source documents from the Social Issues Primary Source Collection focusing on the issue of terrorism in the last three centuries. [details]
Peace Research Abstracts 1964 - present Bookmark and Share
Index and abstracting bibliographic database covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. [details]
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center (ISCTRC) Current Bookmark and Share
Full text resource covering security and counter-terrorism issues, combining news sources and scholarly writings with expert commentary from across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum. [details]

Proceedings

Directory of Published Proceedings 1995 - Bookmark and Share
Identifies material from more than 40,000 conferences, meetings & symposia.
PapersFirst OCLC PapersFirst 1993 - present Bookmark and Share
OCLC index of papers presented at conferences worldwide. Covers every published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. [details]
ProceedingsFirst 1993 - present Bookmark and Share
An OCLC index of worldwide conference proceedings, including published congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received by The British Library Document Supply Centre. Records contain a list of the papers presented at each conference. [details]