Electronic Databases for Social Sciences

Academic Search Premier - Type: Full Text

Description: The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline full text database designed specifically for academic institutions. It offers critical information from many sources found in no other database.

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Annual Reviews - Type: Full Text

Description: Full text annual reviews of information in the fields of biological, physical, and social sciences.

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Clase and Periodica - Type: Article Index

Description: Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities

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CQ Researcher - Type: Full Text

Description: CQ Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report contains a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts. From October 25, 1991 to the present.

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Dissertations & Theses: Full Text - Type: Full Text

Description: With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download, and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week.

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Dissertations and Theses@Emporia State University - Type: Full Text

Description: Provides digital access to the Dissertations written at Emporia State University.

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EBSCOHost EJS - Type: Full Text

Description: Access to Full Text of online journal subscriptions for which ESU has a subscription. Also includes Tables of Contents and Abstracts of many more.

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Emporia State Institutional Repository Collection (ESIRC) - Type: Full Text

Description: The purpose of ESIRC is to collect, preserve and share a range of artifacts related to teaching, scholarship and cultural events at Emporia State University with the wider scholarly community and public.

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Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments Online - Type: Full Text

Description: Provides a complete examination of each of our nation's 27 Constitutional Amendments. From the prohibition of alcoholic beverages, to slavery, to the voting rights of women, this text illustrates how the US Constitution has changed since its ratification in 1789.

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Expanded Academic ASAP - Type: Full Text

Description: From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images! From 1980 to the present.

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HeritageQuest - Type: Full Text

Description: ProQuest Information and Learning's HeritageQuest Online provides libraries with a unique, growing collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture. HeritageQuest Online is the marriage of ProQuest's Genealogy & Local History Online, a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories, and content from HeritageQuest.

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Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Full Text

Description: Humanities Full Text covers both scholarly journals and general magazines in all aspects of the humanities, including art, communications, film, folklore, history, literary criticism, music, religion, philosophy, and related fields. Indexing and abstracts are from 1984 to present, with selected full text from 1994 to present.

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In The First Person - Type: Article Index

Description: An index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives.

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Informe! (Revistas en Espanol) - Type: Full Text

Description: Una colección de revistas hispánicas con textos completos. Abarca negocios, salud, tecnología, cultura, temas de actualidad y otras materias. 1999 to present.

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JSTOR - Type: Full Text

Description: Archive and fulltext of scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. Each journal begins with the first issue. Has a moving wall of 3-5 years.

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Kansas Memory (Kansas Historical Society) - Type: Full Text

Description: Kansas Memory has been created by the Kansas State Historical Society to share its historical collections via the Internet. It supports the mission of the Society--to identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate materials and information pertaining to Kansas history in order to assist the public in understanding, appreciating, and caring for the heritage of Kansas. Kansas Memory provides a very tangible means of fulfilling the vision of the KSHS, which is to enrich people's lives by connecting them to the past.The value of the site is in its rich content?letters, diaries, photographs, government records from the State Archives, maps, museum artifacts, and historic structures in Kansas.

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Kansas.GOV - Type: Full Text

Description: Official website of the State of Kansas. Includes government information including legislation and legislative actions.

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Lexis - Nexis Academic - Type: Full Text

Description: Provides access to a variety of news, business, legal, and reference information. Some of the articles are full text. Sponsored by LEXIS-NEXIS.

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Mental Measurements Yearbook - Type: Full Text

Description: Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

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Newsbank - Type: Full Text

Description: Newsbank provides fulltext access to several newspapers in Kansas including the Emporia Gazette (2002-present), Lawrence Journal-World (1989-2004), Manhattan Mercury (1997-present), Topeka Capital-Journal (2001-present), Wichita Eagle (1984-present), and Kansas City Star (1991-present).

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Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers - Type: Full Text

Description: American History, American Literature, Art and Architecture, Genealogy, Journalism, Religion as well as Theatre are covered in this data base which provides access to full text content and facsimile images in about 1.8 million pages from more than 500 19th Century newspapers in the United States. The American Civil War/Reconstruction, African-American History and Culture, Native Americans, Western Migration as well as the U. S. Constitution are among the topics which are emphasized. Newspapers of national interest such as The Liberator, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as well as The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator are included in addition to a large variety of newspapers from the present states including Kansas and others in the Great Plains.

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OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Full Text

Description: This database provides full text articles from a variety of databases that cover several disciplines including education, science, humanities, business and the social sciences. Coverage begins in 1982 and goes to the current date.

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Oxford Reference Premium - Type: Full Text

Description: Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

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Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) - Type: Full Text

Description: Social Sciences Full Text covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. Indexing is from 1983 to present, with abstracts from 1984 to present and selected full text from 1994 to present.

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World Factbook - Type: Full Text

Description: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) publishes The World Factbook which contains information on countries worldwide.

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