Databases About 'Social Sciences'


Academic OneFile (Gale) - Full Text

Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources. Covers the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and the CBC plus full-text New York Times content from 1995 to present. Updated daily.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles


Academic Search Elite (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary with full text for more than 2,100 journals, including over 1,700 peer-reviewed titles covering virtually every area of academic study with backfiles as far back as 1985.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles


Biography in Context (Gale) - Full Text

Contextual information on the world's most influential people. Authoritative reference content (including Lives & Perspectives) merged with periodicals and multimedia organized into a user-friendly portal experience while also allowing users to search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender as well as keyword and full text.

Resource Types: Reference


CQ Researcher (CQ Press) - Full Text

Full text, comprehensive reports and analysis on issues shaping our world with statistics, chronologies, bibliographies, and more.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; Reference


Credo Reference (Proquest) - Full Text

Covers all areas of criminal justice. Includes abstracting/indexing for 240 journals with over 80 in full text.

Resource Types: Reference


Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (Proquest) - Full Text

Covers all areas of criminal justice. Includes abstracting/indexing for 240 journals with over 80 in full text.


eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Access to RFK library's collection of over 36,100 electronic books on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary eBooks).

Resource Types: Books; Reference


European Views of the Americas : 1493 to 1750 (EBSCOhost)

The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of Native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered, from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

Resource Types: Reference


FirstSearch Databases

A collection of online databases, providing coverage of much of the journal literature for academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page

Resource Types: Database Gateway


General OneFile (Gale) - Full Text

News and periodical articles covering business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; News and Newspapers


Global Road Warrior (World Trade Press) - Full Text

The ultimate guide to the world with information on 175 countries.

Resource Types: Reference


JSTOR (Jstor) - Full Text

GSC's four JSTOR collections provide access to 471 full text journals. Our JSTOR collections are: Arts and Sciences II; Arts and Sciences III; Ecology & Botany; and Language & Literature. These collections cover a large number disciplines.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles


Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) (EBSCOhost) - Librarianship

Indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings covering librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more.

Resource Types: Reference


MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary with full text for over 1,750 periodicals. Also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, over 164,474 primary source documents and an Image collection of over 453,000 photos, maps and flags.

Resource Types: Reference


Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale) - Full Text

Contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues featuring continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-test magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; Reference


Points of View Reference Center (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Multidisciplinary - provides essays that present multiple sides of 200 controversial topics. Also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.

Resource Types: Journal and Magazine Articles; Reference


Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCOhost) - Full Text

Wilson's social science full text database - Select 'Social Science (SS)' from the pull-down menu under 'Subject Area' – Contains articles from some 215 journals covering the latest concepts, trend, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.


WVDeli (Overdrive) - Full Text

West Virginia Digital Entertainment Library Initiative. Download audiobooks, eBooks, music and video from a rapidly growing library collection of digital materials. Sign in by selecting Glenville State College from the library drop down list and using your ten digit college ID number. Call 304-462-4109 if you need help.

Resource Types: Books; Reference; Video and Music