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Abstracts and indexes international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Pulled from nearly 2,000 serial publications are abstracts from a variety of sources including journal articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers.
Part of Web of Science. Indexes over 3,000 social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text (PDFs) for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Provides access to critical reviews written by leading scholars in a broad range of disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical and Social Sciences. Annual Review articles transfer expert knowledge synthesized from the expanding corpus of scientific literature.
Includes over 70,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more; curated for the educational experience.
Biography in Context delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries — on more than 528,000 individuals — spanning history and geography.
A general knowledge encyclopedia on all topics. The rich combination of the venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica plus Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, magazines and periodicals, and many other research tools provides the variety of reliable sources that students need to consult when conducting thorough collegiate research.
HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice database brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
Contains narrative biographies of scientists from around the world and across history.
Comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news including health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue, and environmental films to colleges and universities, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution. All 2000+ films are immediately available, and come with performance rights for campus viewings.
The EBL and eBrary ebook collections have merged to become Ebook Central
WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide
A collection of locally owned and created digital scholarship, cultural, and historical materials contributed by Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith colleges. Mount Holyoke’s initial featured collections include the Archives and Special Collections digital collections, the full run of the Mount Holyoke News (back to volume 1, 1891), and the Art Department Teaching Collection.
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines.
eReference titles cover a wide variety of full-text interdisciplinary content in many subject areas.
Google books allows for searching anywhere from basic bibliographic information to the partial text, to the full text of a book. Sometimes a Google Books search allows for a more detailed search of the contents of a book, even if you then locate an actual physical copy via the library catalog.
Google's database of scholarly works. Much of the content is articles and books, but you will also see theses, dissertations, patents and other items here.
If you are on campus you can often access full text articles available through the library directly from Google Scholar. If you are off campus, go into the settings and set the library link to Mount Holyoke College.
This HeinOnline collection brings together more than 680 titles dealing with this difficult and important topic. Included are periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. Links to nearly 500 scholarly articles,* an extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided. Research the National Firearms Act, the Miller and Heller decisions, and other key aspects of this subject.
HathiTrust Digital Library is a searchable collection of over 10 million digitized books and publications from more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries. Over 3 million of the items included are public domain and fully viewable. For full access, click Log In, choose Mount Holyoke College from the list of institutions, and click Continue.
Social science data sets are available for downloading; coverage includes but is not limited to the U.S. Census, crime and criminal justice, foreign and national opinion polls, health, consumer surveys, and historical data sets. You will need to create an ICPSR account from a computer connected to the college computer network to download datasets.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and books in all subject areas, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor.
Dictionaries, language reference, and subject encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press.
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
Features collections on American workers and labor from the late 19th through 20th Century, and records of the Socialist Party of America. The module Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century consists of federal government records and has strong coverage of strikes and radical labor unions in the first half of the 20th Century. The Socialist Party of America Papers module documents the party's revolutionary efforts, as well as their involvement in several major reform movements of the 20th century. The Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO module consists of records sourced from the Wisconsin Historical Society, Catholic University of America, and the AFL-CIO.
Springer’s eBook collection delivers complete access to a large collection of scientific, technical and medical publications published by Springer.
Springer published scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works in science, technology and mathematics.
WorldCat is a shared catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.