Indexes and Databases

Sociological Abstracts - Indexes and abstracts articles and dissertations in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science.

HAPI Online - The Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. The hardcopy is located in the Reference Stacks. For an online tutorial, click here.

JSTOR - a full text database of many core academic journals in a variety of disciplines.

North American immigrant letters, diaries and oral histories - a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Included are approximately 100,000 pages of primary sources (much previously unpublished),such as letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, political cartoons, and oral histories. Materials included cover a period from approximately 1840 to the present, with most of the focus on the period from 1890 to 1920.

Ethnic newswatch - Provides full text access to articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press in America. Searchable in English and Spanish.

Historical Abstracts - Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. It indexes articles from over 2,100 journals (about 900 are published in the U.S.). Materials in many languages are indexed.

Latin American Database - LADB is a searchable online index of reports and news on a variety of political, economic and social issues.

¡Informe! Revistas en español - Provides indexing and full-text access to 60 Spanish language magazines and 100 pamphlets. Includes the most popular and well-read titles among Hispanic users. Citation titles in both English and Spanish. For an online tutorial, click here.

Expanded Academic ASAP -Provides a combination of indexing, abstracts, images, and full text for scholarly and general interest journals embracing all academic disciplines.

Academic search premier - ASP contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles. Academic Search Premier contains unmatched full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, education, English literature, etc.