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Subject Indexes for History, Political Science and Economics
- America: History & LifeScholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada.
- Historical abstractsScholarly literature in history from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.Supplies up-to-date research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy and covers over 1000 journals drawn from the international serials literature.
- PAIS International1914 to the present
Public Affairs International Service covers many publications beyond books and articles, including government publications. - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)The IBSS has more than two million references to articles and books going back to 1951 in the social sciences.
- EconLitIndexes and abstracts over 400 economics journals, books, dissertations, and working papers.
- JSTORPlease note and remember that the journals in history are not all the ones that exist, maybe some of the best, and that they are not the most recent. Please be sure to use the Advanced search and make sure your terms are in the title or abstract, not full-text, for the most relevant results.
- Environment AbstractsEnvironmental Abstracts provides access to abstracts from more than 950 journals on topics related to the environment. Additionally, conference papers, proceedings, grey literature, and selected books and government publications are indexed.
- ScopusAn index to the scientific technical and medical literature covering 14,000 scholarly titles including 2,700 titles in Social Science, Psychology, and Economics. Updated daily. Full-text linking is available wherever the technology and the access arrangements permit and continues to expand as such arrangements allow.
- Africa-Wide InformationOffers multidisciplinary information and provides the opportunity to search across 40 integrated databases sourced worldwide in the history and current events in Africa.
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