Research Guides: SOC|CBSC|ENVS|POLIS 370B: Planning Community Initiatives: Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles and Books

General Academic Databases

JSTOR
Access a wide variety of journal articles in the humanities and other disciplines.

Note: You may not be able to access the most current 2–7 years of certain journals—but many of these recent publications are found in Project MUSE.
Google Scholar
Search for books and articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, pre-print repositories and universities, and more. To add a "Find It @ Emory" button, go to Library Links in the Settings menu, search for Emory, and click the "Find It @ Emory" box. NOTE: Unlike a library database, many sources found in Google Scholar require payment before providing full text; check library holdings of journal titles in Library Search or Interlibrary Loan before paying.
Academic Search Complete
Provides indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Access broad ranging resources that include full-text journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and video content from the Associate Press etc.

Access broad ranging resources that include full-text journals, monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and video content from the Associated Press, etc.
Project MUSE
Includes the most recently published output of many major scholarly journals. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, cultural studies, education, political science, and more.

SocINDEX with Full Text

Indexes journals, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines.
Sociological Abstracts
Covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from 1952-present.
Anthropology Plus
Covers journal articles, edited books, and essays in anthropology, archeology, and related interdisciplinary research.
Abstracts in Anthropology

Access journals, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications on anthropological scholarship and all its subfields: Cultural Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Archaeology, and Linguistics.

AGRICOLA
A bibliographic database of agricultural literature created by the U.S. National Agricultural Library and its cooperators. Themes range widely across agriculture and allied disciplines.
Agricultural & Environmental Science Database
A multidisciplinary database for the environmental sciences. Includes scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.

Includes the databases: Toxline and Agricola
Environment Complete
Access material related to environmental studies. Major fields include agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, geography, and more.

Child Development and Adolescent Studies
Access current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Includes book reviews, abstracts, theses and more.

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