Research Guides: A Taste of Databases in the Social Sciences: Finding Scholarly Articles Plus

Multidisciplinary Databases

ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection: Index to over 10,000 social science titles, including journal articles, books, dissertations, proceedings, and government publications; full-text access to over 1800 journals. International and interdisciplinary in scope. (Rutgers-restricted Access)

JSTOR: JSTOR provides electronic access to back runs, many back to the 19th century or earlier, of more than 2000 important scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines. JSTOR does not include current issues of journals; generally the most recently published issue of any current journal will not appear in JSTOR until 3-5 years after the publishing date. Rutgers current access is to ten of the twelve JSTOR Arts and Sciences collections. Rutgers-restricted access

Data and Statistics Databases

Rutgers Databases for Data and Statistics

Need Help Finding and Using Data?

Jonathan Torres jonathan.torres.@rutgers.edu is the Data Librarian. See his guide to Dana Library's Data Support

Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations and Theses Global: Index to doctoral dissertations and master's theses. American doctoral dissertations indexed back to 1861. Most works added to the database since 1997 are available in full text; selected full text for earlier years. Rutgers-restricted Access

If Your Research is Related To:

Accounting:

Your primary database is: Business Source Premier
Your Librarians are: Roberta Tipton: tipton@rutgers.edu and Jonathan Torres: jonathan.torres.@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Accounting and Taxation Research Guide

Business

Your primary database is: Business Source Premier
Your Librarians are: Roberta Tipton: tipton@rutgers.edu and Jonathan Torres: jonathan.torres.@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Index to our extensive collection of topical guides to information and research resources in business and management studies.

Criminal Justice

Your primary database is: Criminal Justice Abstracts
Your Librarian is: Natalie Borisovets: natalieb@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Criminal Justice: Issues in Retention and Reentry Guide

Economics

Your primary database is: EconLit
Your Librarian is: Roberta Tipton: tipton@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Urban Economics Guide

Education

Your primary database is: ProQuest Education Database
Your Librarian is: Natalie Borisovets: natalieb@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Urban Education (The Most Basic) Library Stuff Guide

Finance

Your primary database is: Business Source Premier
Your Librarians are: Roberta Tipton: tipton@rutgers.edu and Jonathan Torres: jonathan.torres.@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Finance Guide

Political Science

Your primary database is: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Your Librarian is: Natalie Borisovets: natalieb@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Research Methods in Political Science Guide

Psychology

Your primary database is: PsycINFO
Your Librarian is: Bonnie Fong: bonnie.fong@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Experimental Methods for Cognitive and Behavioral Sciences

Public Administration

Your primary database is: Proquest Social Sciences Premium Collection
Your Librarian is: Roberta Tipton: tipton@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Public Affairs, Public Service, and Public Administration Guide

Social Work

Your primary database is: Social Services Abstracts
Your Librarian is: Natalie Borisovets: natalieb@rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Social Welfare Policy and Services

Sociology

Your primary database is: Sociological Abstracts
Your Librarian is: Naomi Gold: neg61@libraries.rutgers.edu
You can also check out the Sociology Guide

Where Are The Other Databases?

This is a selected list of databases that you may find useful for finding articles on your topic. You can also check out the complete list of Rutgers online indexes and databases.

How About Other Research Guides?

See the full list of Research Guides at the Rutgers Libraries here.