Library Guides: Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences: Home

In This Guide

This guide will help you navigate the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences resources the Library offers.

Use the tabs above to access the following pages of the guide:

Find Articles -- resources to help you find articles in the humanities and social sciences field
Find Books -- find books and eBooks
Reference Works -- background information, key concepts, and definitions
Organizations and Web Sources -- find professional organizations, scholarly societies and other quality web resources
Evaluating Sources -find information on finding authoritative sources
Citing Sources - find information on citation formats, citation management tools, and more

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Core Electronic Resources

Online resources to help start your research.

Academic Search Premier
This scholarly resource contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over 100 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Coverage: 1975-current
JSTOR: Arts and Sciences Collections I-III
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Full-text digital archive of over 700 scholarly journals, especially strong in Social Sciences, Humanities, Economics, and Mathematics.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
Academic OneFile
This article database includes full-text and abstracts of scholarly, trade, and general-interest periodicals covering topics in the areas of current events, general sciences and technology, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Coverage: 1980-current
SpringerLink
SpringerLink is Springer's comprehensive online delivery platform, providing easy access to millions of STM resources, including ebooks, journal articles, reference works, and protocols.

More Resources

Environmental Studies in Video
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500 hours of film covering all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science. Films were produced from 1970 to the present, and address specific topics including alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.
Environmental Issues Online
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This database uses text, archival primary sources, and video to address major past and ongoing environmental issues—water challenges, air pollution, biodiversity, climate change, energy issues, consumption and waste issues, and land issues—in comparative, historical, global, and interdisciplinary ways.
Kanopy
Kanopy is a streaming video resource with a broad collection of over 26,000 films on every subject imaginable and from leading producers such as: The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, HBO California Newsreel, and more. Their website makes it easy to watch, share and discuss films across campus.
World Bank Open Data
The World Bank provides open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog. Broader access to these data allow policymakers and advocacy groups to make better-informed decisions and measure improvements more accurately. They are also valuable tools to support research by journalists, academia, and others, broadening understanding of global issues.
Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for 72 different languages. Mango utilizes its proprietary methodology, engaging interface, and easy, intuitive interactive tools to deliver practical conversational skills and valuable cultural insight for new languages.

Note: Begin using Mango right away by clicking on the "Guest Access" button, sign-up for a Mango profile to track your activity, or login to your existing profile. Mobile app is also available for download.