Databases by Subject: Social Justice

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

Dates Covered:  1975-present
Full Text:  Partial
Description: The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Academic Search Premier is a useful place to start for a research paper related to Social Justice issues as many relevant articles may be found in this comprehensive database. Searches may be limited by date of publication, the availability of full-text or to peer-reviewed journals.

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Academic OneFile (Gale)
Dates Covered: 1980-present
Full Text: Partial
Description:  This multidisciplinary index contains articles, many in full-text in the areas of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers are all included.

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Ethnic NewsWatch

Dates Covered: 1990-present
Full Text: Yes 
Description: ENW is an index to full-text articles from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. It includes articles, editorials, columns, reviews, etc. providing a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. It is especially useful for finding information in publications not usually included in more traditional indexes like Academic Search Premier or Academic OneFile and for learning about an ethnic
perspective in that group's own voice. ENW can be searched by words in article titles, named people, subject, date or the country that is the focus of the article.

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Dates Covered: 1970-present
Full Text: Yes
Description: This index is a full text database comprised of 175 periodicals and other publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. GenderWatch supports programs in business, education, literature and the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, n-g-o and special reports. GenderWatch contains some archival materials from the 1970's, making this an important repository on the historical perspective of the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles over the last fifteen to twenty years.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1968-present
Full Text: No
Description:  This index provides provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.

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Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection  (CSA Illumina)

Dates Covered: 1982 - current
Full Text: Yes
Description: Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and participating societies. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

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Historical Abstracts

Dates Covered: 1955-present
Full Text: Partial
Description: Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.

Print version of Historical Abstracts available 1962-2000 in REF D299 .H5. Beginning in 1971 split into two titles: Historical Abstracts Part A, Modern History Abstracts and Historical Abstracts Part B, Twentieth Century Abstracts.