Selected Databases
- America History and LifeArticles, book chapters, and some monographs on United States and Canadian history, culture, and politics through the present.
- EconLit with Full TextFull-text articles in all fields of economics including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory and urban economics.
- Historical AbstractsIdentifies articles, essays, books chapters and monographs on history and politics, worldwide, from pre-history to the present.
- History of Science, Technology and MedicineProvides references to articles, books, and book chapters, on medical, scientific, and cultural/social histories of disease.
Note: This database has very little coverage on Covid-19, so far, but a search for pandemic finds over 300 articles. - ScienceDirectFull-text articles on a wide variety of science topics.
- Sociology SourceIdentifies articles from more than 590 "core" Sociology journals. Also includes indexing for books, monographs, conference papers, and other sources. Offers coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology.
- Web of ScienceMultidisciplinary. Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. May be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. May also be searched for articles that cite a known author or work (citation indexing).
If the pdf is not available in the database, follow the "Get-it! Cornell" link to find the full-text.
Finding More Databases
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