The links on this page offer access to a wide variety of resources devoted to the Social Sciences in general.

Databases

• InfoTrac Web (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  InfoTrac has parts that can be searched separately. The General BusinessFile ASAP section can be used to research all business and management topics. Expanded Academic contains information on: religion, law, history, humanities, current events, communications, and the general sciences.

• Keesing's Record of World Events 1967-. (monthly)
  REF-1 INDEX
  The news found in Keesing's is culled from the world's press and information services. Countries are covered individually with a separate section for international events and worldwide topics.

• LexisNexis Academic (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  LexisNexis contains court decisions, legal codes, and constitutions at the federal and state levels. Some public opinion polling data is reported in the "General New Topics; Wire Service Stories" section. This source also includes international, national, and regional newspapers; business information; and reference materials on numerous topics.

• ProQuest Direct (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  ProQuest focuses upon business information but also covers a wide range of academic subjects. Many national newspapers are available, including the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. The historical section contains the full text of the New York Times (1851-) and Wall Street Journal (1889-). These databases can be searched in combination or individually. The majority of documents are available in full text.

• Web of Science (Carnegie Mellon users only)
  Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the literature of the sciences, social sciences and the arts & humanities. The Social Sciences Citation Index is the electronic version of the former Social Sciences Citation Index in print. Users may choose to search across all the databases, or select just one. This unique database indexes and links cited references for each article. All formats provide complete bibliographic data and additional features, such as cited reference searching, links to related articles, plus author and publisher addresses.
  • Cited Reference Searching -- You can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known relevant paper and finding other, more recent, papers that cite it. You can locate all cited authors, not just first authors, for articles in the database.

  • Related Records -- You can find records that share one or more cited references, yielding additional relevant results.

  • Web of Science contains 3 separate databases:
    • Science Citation Index Expanded (1945-present)
    • Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present)

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• The Dictionary of Critical Social Sciences (1999)
  HUNT REF-1  H41 .Y68 1999

• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (2001)
  HUNT REF-1  H41 .I58 2001

• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968)
  HUNT REF-1  H40 .A2 I5 VOL. 1

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Indexes and Abstracts

• Facts on File. Vol. 1-, 1940-. (Weekly)
  HUNT REF-1 INDEX
  This reference source contains a detailed weekly distillation of the news and current information as reported in more than 70 major newspapers and newsmagazines from the United States and around the world. Fact boxes, page references to earlier articles, maps, and tables provide additional background information. The index is cumulative. The latest five years are in reference; earlier editions reside with the journals on the third floor.

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Internet Gateways

• Intute: Social Science
  Formerly known as the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG), this high quality site offers users the chance to read descriptions of resources available over the Internet and to access these resources directly. Intute points to thousands of resources and each one has been selected and described by a librarian or academic.

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