Selected Databases
- America History and LifeArticles, book chapters, and some monographs on United States and Canadian history, culture, and politics through the present.
- EconlitArticles on economics topics.
- 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 SourceA key sociology database.
- Web of ScienceWeb of Science indexes scientific journal articles. It is also a citation database that allows cited- reference searching to determine articles that have cited a particular article or author.
If the pdf is not available in the database, follow the "Get-it! Cornell" link to find the full-text.
Finding More Databases
- Good: Search under the broad categories on the databases page
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