Reed College Library Research Guide

Sociology



Academic Literature from Other Disciplines

Databases / Bibliographies

 

Databases from Related Disciplines


EconLit is the major database covering economic literature. It includes citations to journal articles, books, and working papers published since 1969.


America: History and Life covers academic journal articles published since 1964 on the subject of history of North American history.


An index, with abstracts, to research in world history (excluding North America) from 1450 to the present.


Public Affairs Information Service provides citations and abstracts covering over 3,600 journals, books, public documents, websites, and policy reports relating to domestic and international policy issues published from 1972 to present. Choose the PAIS Archive for indexing from 1915 to 1976.

Citations and abstracts covering about 1,200 academic journals relating to political science, policy studies, and government from 1975 to present.

Index with fulltext of many journals and magazines covering communication and mass media both as an academic discipline and as an industry.


Locating Print Bibliographies




Many book-length bibliographies are available in libraries on a variety of topics. Find them by using a keyword search in the Reed library catalog, Summit, or WorldCat. Add the word --Bibliography to your search (e.g., keyword search welfare policy bibliography).

Book-length bibliographies, like review articles, can be great for pointing out most important books and articles on a topic, and they can help you to delve into important older works that were published too early for inclusion in the library databases. In addition, well-done bibliographies can be! invaluable for giving you a sense of the depth, breadth, and organization of the literature on a topic.