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SOCL 160 : Social Problems (BMC)

Getting background information:

CQ researcher

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1991-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1991-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1991-present.

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, Inc.

Offers full-text reports on current and controversial world issues. Topics include social, environmental, health, education, science and technology issues. Covers 1991-present.

Scholarly journal articles:

Sociological abstracts

Holdings:
1963-

Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,

Provider: CSA

Indexes the literature of sociology and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Includes journal articles, reviews, case studies, conference papers, and dissertations. International in scope. 1963 to the present.

To search for book reviews, include "book review" as a search term. In the results screen, click on the BOOK REVIEW TAB.

ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

For all subjects. Provides abstracts and many full-text articles from 1,700 scholarly and popular periodicals across disciplines. 1971 through the present.

Worldwide political science abstracts

Provider: CSA

Provides citations and abstracts of journals in political science and related fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975-present.

PAIS international

Provider: CSA

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, and reports from various agencies. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1972-present.

JSTOR

Full text of most of the top journals in Sociology and many other fields. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years before today.

America, history and life

Provider: EBSCO

Provides abstracts of journals, reviews and dissertations on United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. Covers 1954-present.

Mainstream media:

ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

After doing a search for your topic, select the MAGAZINES tab to see articles from popular periodicals.

Readers' guide retrospective

Provides indexing of general-interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890-1982.

LexisNexis academic

Provider: LN

Includes hundreds of newspapers and magazines -- foreign, domestic and local -- dating back to the 1980s; includes all types of articles, from news to reviews to Opinion/Editorial and letters to the editor. For a more powerful search, click Guided News Search, then select a News Category and a News Source. Remember to change the coverage dates.

Access world news

Provider: NewsBank

Full-text articles from the electronic editions of more than 700 newspapers around the globe. Includes the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1981 to the present.

The New York times on the Web

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1851-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1851-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1851-present.

Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times.

Alternative press:

Alternative press index

Provides abstracts to alternative news sources including radical and left journals, newspapers and magazines. Coverage is international and interdisciplinary. Covers 1991- present. Alternative Press Index Archive, a companion database covers 1969-1990.

GenderWatch

Offers full-text access to scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, books, conference proceedings, government and non-governmental organization reports. Materials focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. Covers 1970-present.

Ethnic newswatch

Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Covers 1990-present.

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