Search tips
Combine keywords and phrases:
- start with just a few broad key terms, connecting terms with AND.
- add terms to narrow your search
- enclose phrases in quotation marks, e.g. "climate change"
- include alternative terms in parentheses connected with OR, e.g. (policy OR legislation OR regulation)
- truncate terms with an asterisk to find variant endings, e.g., (Note: Don't truncate after just a few letters -- you will find too many unrelated terms.)
- Note: Most databases will find plurals without the need for truncation.).
Examples:
sweden AND finland AND pension
hungary AND "social policy"
norway AND "housing policy"
"social insurance" AND
"social protection" AND
etc.
Search tip: try different terms and phrases, welfare, "social policy" , "entitlements" (maybe)
Subject databases
- Worldwide Political Science AbstractsCovers political science and its complementary fields, including law, public administration, and public policy.
Note: You'll also see a fair number of Dissertations in the results. You can use the limits on the left-hand sidebar to filter these out.
- Sociology SourceA key sociology database.
- America: History and LifeIdentifies articles, essays, books chapters and monographs on the history of the United States and Canada. Strong coverage of US government, policy, and foreign relations topics.
- Black Studies CenterSecondary and primary sources. Focus is African Americans. Includes Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Index to Black Periodicals Full Text, Black Literature Index, the HistoryMakers, and the Chicago Defender.
- GenderWatchFocuses on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas .... including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.
- Historical AbstractsIdentifies articles, essays, books chapters and monographs on history worldwide (except the US and Canada. See above). Strong coverage of political history, from pre-history to the present.