Library:Choosing Databases

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Global Citizens
Individual and Society

CBCA Complete

  • Full text and indexed content from four Canadian CBCA databases: Business; Current Events (politics and news); Education; and Reference (humanities, social sciences, sciences)

Sociological Abstracts

  • The major index for the whole discipline of sociology. Supports precise searching by subject, author affiliation, date range, limit to journal articles, etc. for some of the journals included. Includes automatic citation formatting.

Family and Society Studies

  • Publications indexed in the database are drawn from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history, and social work.
Law and Society

CBCA Complete

  • Full text and indexed content from four Canadian CBCA databases: Business; Current Events (politics and news); Education; and Reference (humanities, social sciences, sciences)
New Culture and Media

Arts and Humanities Index

  • A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature in the arts and humanities, covering over 1,395 scholarly journals 1975 to the present. Allows searching by author, title word, cited author, journal title, and institution

Communications and Mass Media Complete

  • Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media.

MLA International Bibliography

  • The MLA International Bibliography, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore and includes coverage from 1926 to the present.

Literature Criticism Online

  • Literature Criticism Online is comprised of ten individual Gale series that represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres.