Our Unsilencing: Opinion Commentary Bootcamp: Databases

A growing full text collection of core social science, humanities, and science journals and books.

A unique resource for U.S. public policy research in that it grants users access to timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities. Over 75 public policy topics are covered, from foreign policy to domestic policy. The majority of Policy File Index records link directly to the full-text report, paper, document, or other source. Content is updated on a very frequent basis, with approximately 250 new records added weekly. Organizations are reviewed daily in order to add their latest information into Policy File Index and additional subjects and organizations are also added to the resource as needed. Provided by ProQuest.

The website's mission is to promote critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format. Topics such as Sex and Gender, Religion, and Media and Entertainment have at least one pro/con issue. The "for" and "against" text is in two columns, preceded by a "Did you know" and followed by a background essay. Footnotes are embedded in the text with many live links.

Index to articles and other literature (books, dissertations, book reviews, etc.) covering the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada, from the 15th century to the present. Indexes nearly 1,800 journals from 1860s to present, including all key journals in the discipline, state and local history publications, and selected articles from scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities. Provided by EBSCO.

Provides access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources. Coverage: 1985 to present.

Filtered Google Search finding scholarly journal articles, books, citations, and case law.

Locate articles in the humanities and social sciences from and about Latin America and related to Chicano and Latino studies from the Hispanic American Periodicals Index. Some fulltext available.

Designed to serve the information needs of students and researchers studying political science and international relations with coverage of complementary fields, such as international law and public administration/policy. The database offers abstracting and indexing of the literature in the field with scholarly journal titles from over 50 countries. Coverage: 1909 - current. Provided by ProQuest.

HeinOnline is an ever-expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals.

ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. In addition to scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice.