Journal Articles:

Common Database Choices

• Academic Search Premier (many full-text) All subjects. [INFO and SLIDECAST TUTORIAL]
• America: History and Life(links to full-text)
• Humanities International Index (many full-text) [INFO]
• JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections I, II, III, and IV (full-text backfiles) [INFO] [Tutorial]
• Project MUSE (Basic Research Collection) (full-text backfiles) [INFO]
• SciFinder: First time? Register with your PSU email address, or login to SciFinder. Please note: Due to the nature of SciFinder, it is not currently available from off campus.
• SocINDEX with Full Text (mostly full-text) [INFO]
• Web of Knowledge [INFO]
• World History Collection (all full-text) [INFO]

Database Choices for Special Topics

• American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (Full-text)
• ARTstor (digital works of art) [INFO]
• The Chronicle of Higher EducationDissertation Abstracts Online
• Communication & Mass Media Complete (many full-text) [INFO]
• Contemporary Women’s Issues (all full-text) [INFO]
• CultureGrams (all full-text) [INFO]
• DailyLife/World Cultures Online
• FirstSearch (Ask at Reference Desk for password) [INFO]
• FirstSearch journal titles list
• In the First Person (index only) [INFO]
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (index and abstracts only) [INFO]
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (links to full-text) [INFO]
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts(links to full-text)[INFO]
• PsycARTICLES (select index; all full-text) [INFO]
• PsycINFO (huge index; links to full-text) [INFO]

News, Analysis, and Opinion:

• The Chronicle of Higher Education
• CQ Researcher (all full-text) [INFO]
• LexisNexis Academic (business/law/reference; all full-text) [INFO]
• New York Times 1980-present
• New York Times Digital Archive, 1851- (all full-text) [INFO]
• Newspaper Source (mostly full-text) [INFO]
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (all full-text) [INFO]
• Regional Business News (many full-text) [INFO]
• Union Leader/NH Sunday News (all full-text) [INFO]
• Wall Street Journal 1984-present

Reference:

• Credo reference (all full-text) [INFO]
• Encyclopaedia Britannica (all full-text) [INFO]
• Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia [INFO]
• Gale Virtual Reference Library (Reference E-books) [INFO]
• Encyclopedia of Communication and Information (Gale EBook)
• Oxford English Dictionary (OED) (all full-text) [INFO]

Web Sites:

• Google Directory — Anthropology
• Google Directory — Archaeology
  
• Google Directory — Demography and Population Studies
  
• Google Directory — Public Administration
  
• Google Directory — Sociology
• Google Directory — Urban and Regional Planning
  
• Google Directory — Women’s Studies
  

• Librarians’ Internet Index — Astronomy
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Biology
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Environment
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Health
• Librarians’ Internet Index — People
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Physics
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Reference
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Science
• Librarians’ Internet Index — Weather

• National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

• American Anthropological Association (List of recommended sites)
• Librarians’ Internet Index –Social Science

Browse Journals:

Check the Journal List

Selected Journals by Title

[Note: This is only a partial list. To find access to other journals by title, use the A-Z Journal List.]

Journals by Subject

Social Sciences (~10,314)

Communities. Classes. Races (~50)
Classes (~2)
Human settlements. Communities (~3)
Races (~2)
Rural groups. Rural sociology (1)
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology (~19)

Economic theory. Demography (~339)
Business cycles. Economic fluctuations (~2)
Capital. Capitalism (~5)
Competition. Production. Wealth (~5)
Demography. Population. Vital events (~11)
Economics as a science. Relation to other subjects (~11)
History of economics. History of economic theory (~12)
Income. Factor shares (1)
Methodology (~5)
Welfare theory (~2)

Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform (~35)
By region or country (~12)
Social pathology. Social and public welfare. (~525)
Alcoholism. Intemperance. Temperance reform (~4)
By region or country (~2)
Criminal justice administration (~20)
Criminology (~41)
Drug habits. Drug abuse (~11)
Emergency management (1)
Free professional services (1)
Protection, assistance and relief (~30)
Refugee problems (~2)
Social service. Social work. Charity (~7)
Social sciences (General) (~59)
Socialism. Communism. Anarchism (~15)
Anarchism (1)
Communism/socialism in relation to special (~2)
Communism: Utopian socialism, collective (1)
Utopias. The ideal state (1)
Societies: secret, benevolent, etc. (1)
Sociology (General) (~117)
Culture (~3)
Deviant behavior. Social deviance (~2)
Social change (1)
Social psychology (1)
Statistics (~28)
Statistical data (1)
Theory and method of social science statistics (1)
The Family. Marriage. Women (~457)
Life skills. Coping skills. Everyday living (1)
Men (~2)
Sex role (1)
Sexual life (~9)
The family. Marriage. Home (~39)
Women. Feminism (~45)
Transportation and communications (~704)
Air transportation. Airlines (~23)
Artificial satellite telecommunications (1)
Automotive transportation (~67)
Cellular telephone services industry. Wireless telephone industry (~11)
Ferries (1)
Freight (General) (1)
Railroads. Rapid transit systems (~16)
Stage lines (1)
Telecommunication industry. Telegraph (~76)
Telephone industry (~2)
Traffic engineering. Roads and highways. (1)
Water transportation (~3)

Check the Journal List

Books:

Searching Library Catalogs

• Catalog

• Google Books

• WorldCat

Library of Congress Classification System

Consult the Library of Congress Classification system to find areas to browse in the general collection or in the reference section.

Library of Congress Classification System

Consult the Library of Congress Classification system to find areas to browse in the general collection or in the reference section.

• Library of Congress Classification
• Library of Congress Classification:Class A — General Works
• Library of Congress Classification:Class B — Philosophy Psychology Religion
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class C — Auxiliary Sciences of History
• Library of Congress Classification:Class D — History General and Old World
• Library of Congress Classification:Class E — History of America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class F — Local History of the United States and Latin America
• Library of Congress Classification:Class G — Geography Anthropology Recreation
• Library of Congress Classification:Class H — Social Sciences
• Library of Congress Classification:Class J — Political Science
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class K — Law
• Library of Congress Classification:Class L — Education
• Library of Congress Classification:Class M — Music
  
• Library of Congress Classification:Class N — Fine Arts
• Library of Congress Classification:Class P — Language and Literature
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Q — Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class S — Agriculture
• Library of Congress Classification:Class T — Technology
• Library of Congress Classification:Class U — Military Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class V — Naval Science
• Library of Congress Classification:Class Z — Bibliography Library Science Information Resources

Associations:

• Google Directory — Directories

• American Anthropological Association
• American Sociological Association (List of Associations)