Urban Studies: Databases and Indexes

This database provides indexing/abstracts to over 4360 scholarly journals, popular magazines, and journals of commentary, including full text access to more than 3,430 of those publications/journals covering a wide variety of academic areas of study, including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and press. The search interface is offered in both English and Spanish. Coverage is from 1985-present.

This database provides indexing, abstracts, and full text for 171 regional U.S. newspapers, 20 international newspapers, 15 newswires and newspaper columns, 24 TV and radio news transcripts, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today (for a total of 233 full text newspapers and other sources).

Provides access to journal articles in sociology and related disciplines. Coverage goes back to 1895 for core titles which represent about one-fourth of this collection. Coverage is more recent for the remainder of the collection (ca. 1100 titles).

This database provides indexing, abstracts, and links to full text of articles from over 620 journals in the field of sociology; over 580 of those journals are peer-reviewed titles.Sociological topics covered in the database include social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.