Social sciences

Useful resources for social sciences

Indigenous Studies

Databases

• Indigenous Australia on Informit
• Indigenous Collection on Informit

Philosophy Databases

• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection on Ebscohost
• Psychology Collection on Gale
• Religion & Philosophy Collection onEbscohost
• Religion & Philosophy Collection on Gale 
• Psychology Journals on ProQuest
• Sage Knowledge
• Springer link
• Informit

Politics and International Studies Databases

• Military Database on Proquest

Coverage includes foreign policy, international relations and terrorism.

• Political Science ProQuest

Sociology Databases

• Ebscohost

A platform for more than 40 databases, use this link to search across all of them or to selectindividual, or groups of, relevant databases such as:

• SocIndex(Sociological Index)
• LGBT Life
• Race Relations Abstracts
• Urban Studies Abstracts
• Violence & Abuse Abstracts
• Family studies abstracts

• Informit

A platform with more than 80 databases strongly focused on Australia and Australasia including:

• ProQuest Central

This resource includes citations and full text articles in a range of disciplines, including business, social sciences, health, literature, _lm, political science; as well as news and general interest items. Search multiple databases simultaneously or select individually:

• Australian & New Zealand Database

Indexes journals published in Australia and New Zealand covering a range of topics including the social sciences.

• Social Science Database
• Sociology Database

Multidisciplinary Databases

• Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost

A multidisciplinary database covering a range of subject areas including film and televisionstudies. Provides full text for more than 5000 journals, both scholarly and popular.

• ProQuest Central

This resource includes citations and full text articles in academic &professional disciplines, e.g., business, social sciences, health, literature,film, political science; as well as news and general interest items. Searchmultiple databases simultaneously or select individually.

• Scopus

One of the world’s largest abstract and indexing databases.

Research Methods Database

• Sage Research Methods Online

A database of ebooks, articles, videos and other resources to help researchers to design andconduct research projects, understand methods, identify new methods and write up results.

Provides tertiary educational videos (streaming videos and DVDs) within Australia

Online Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks

Selected Ebooks

• Cambridge Books Online

• Ebook Central (ProQuest)
• Military Science

• IG Publishing
• Anmol Publications (IG Publishing)
• AUP eBooks 
• Columbia University Press 

• ScienceDirect
• Social Science and Humanities
  • Psychology

• Wiley Online Library
• Psychology
• Applied Psychology
• Clinical Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Educational & School Psychology
• General Psychology
• Personality & Individual Differences
• Psychological Methods, Research & Statistics
• Psychotherapy &Counseling
• Social Psychology
• Social &Behavioral Sciences
  • Development Studies
  • Family & Child Studies
  • Political Science
  • Social Policy & Welfare
  • Sociology
• International encyclopedia of housing and home (Elsevier)
• International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (Elsevier)
• The world’s great philosophers (Wiley)