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Links to Best Websites for:
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Art
- Current Events
- Ethnic Relations
- History
- Literature
- Movie
Information
- Nutrition
- Psychology
- Social Issues
Magazine
& Journal Databases
Newspaper
Databases
Business,
Government & Statistics Databases
Science/Medical
Journal
Databases
Reference
Databases
Access to all databases from off-campus
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Gale PowerSearch databases
START HERE on campus or
off-campus w/ library card
Articles from academic journals, magazines, newspapers & other published
sources in all subject areas.
Academic
OneFile
on
campus or off campus w/ library card
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference
sources.
History
in Context (Gale Resource Center)
on campus or
off-campus w/ library card
Articles
& sources on U.S.
& modern world history. info
America:
History & Life with Full Text
on campus or off-campus w/ library
card - info
Current
and back issues of academic history journals. Best for in-depth academic journal articles on all historical
topics
JSTOR
- Scholarly journals archives
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Back
issues of important scholarly journals, no current issues
CQ Historic Documents
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Over
3200 documents covering the most significant events of each year from 1972 to
2007. - info
History
Cooperative
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text
articles from 11 academic history journals- info
CountryWatch - on-campus
OR: off campus w/ library card
Political, economic, and business info on any country. info
Gale
Biography In Context
on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Biographical
articles on famous people.
Country
Studies
Historical,
social, economic & political information on countries throughout the
world, from the Library of Congress.
World Factbook
Basic
statistical data on countries of the world, published annually by the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
SFPL
Article Databases
San Francisco Public Library ID number is
required to access these databases.
Extensive set of databases covering all subject areas.
Recommended humanities & social science databases:
-- JSTOR: extensive archive of full text
academic journals--especially in history & social sciences-- going back
to1838
-- Art Full-Text: art periodical database
-- Oxford Music: music encyclopedia
-- Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI): full text
articles
-- GenderWatch: full text articles on gender-related
issues
California
History Quarterly Subject Index:
Look up
articles in the California History Quarterly journal by subject so you
can then find the print volumes in Skyline Library.
Movie/Film
Information:
New York Times Movie
Review Archive
all
films reviewed by NY Times since 1960
Internet
Movie Database
Movies, Race
& Ethnicity
videographies providing a
sampling of ethnic and racial representations in movies over the last century
List
of movies set in Los Angeles
Ethnic Movies by Category
from Reel Movie Critic.com
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Psychology
& Behavior Sciences Collection
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Full-text
psychology & behavioral science journal articles
Gale
Literature Resource Center
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
High
quality full-text literary criticism & biographical info on authors. info
LitFinder
on
campus or off campus w/ library card
Database
of nearly 150,000 complete poems, short stories, essays, speeches and plays.
info
Opposing
Viewpoints In Context
on-campus or
off-campus w/ library card
Full-text viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary
documents, and magazine and newspaper articles on a wide range of social
issues
Oxford Music Online
on-campus or
off-campus w/ library card
Use “Library barcode login” from
off-campus
Leading online resource for music
research: full text of The New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians & more.
ERIC
(education
documents)
Education
journal article abstracts and non-journal education-related full-text
documents. info
Gale Virtual Reference Library Sources:
- Early
Civilizations in the Americas
- Encyclopedia
of Clothing and Fashion
- Encyclopedia
of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior
- Encyclopedia
of Food and Culture
- Encyclopedia
of Multicultural America
- U.S.
Immigration and Migration Reference Library
- U*X*L
American Decades
Oxford English
Dictionary
on-campus or off-campus w/ library card
Definitions
for most words in the English language, plus information on word origins
Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
What Do I Read Next?
Searchable
database of recommended book titles
Online Dictionary of the
Social Sciences
National Criminal
Justice Reference Center
Federal
criminal justice publications. info
LISTA (Information Science abstracts)
Library,
Information Science & Tech. Abstracts. info
Links
to Other Web Resources:
Literature
Resources (IPL)
Links
to Web literary criticism & author sites.
Social Science
Information Gateway
Searchable and annotated directory of resources in the social sciences, in
the UK.
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