CSA Social Sciences and Arts

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CSA Social SciencesandArts Humanities
DatabasesLaura KarvesOctober 2006
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CSA has 4 subject areas

• Social Sciences
• Arts Humanities
• Natural Sciences
• Technology

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• Social Sciences

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CSA Social Sciences

• Communication Abstracts
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• PAIS International
• Sociological Abstracts Social Services Abstracts
• WorldWide Political Abstracts
• Institute of Management International Database

• AgeLine
• ASSIA Applied Social Sciences
• EconLit
• ERIC
• IBSS International
• Index Islamicus
• PsycInfo
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycBooks

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Communication Abstracts

• Abstracts indexes database published by SAGE.
• In addition to Communication Studies the database
  covers international literature in film studies,
  the role of technology in human communications,
  risk communication, crisis communication, and
  public policy.
• It includes journal articles, reports, papers,
  and books.
• 45,000 total records abnd backfiles up to 1977.
• Bimonthly updated.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts

• Abstracts database published by SAGE.
• It covers crime trends, crime prevention and
  deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile
  justice, police, courts, punishment, and
  sentencing.
• Comprehensive coverage of international journals,
  books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished
  papers on criminology.
• Also indexes and summaries of international
  journal articles, books and governmental and
  non-governmental reports.
• Total of 80,000 records,
• with backfiles up to 1968.

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Sociological Abstracts Social Services Abstracts

• CSAs largest sociology database, which includes
  more than 750,000 abstracts
• Includes references and citations on over 3,000
  journals, conference papers, books, book reviews
  and dissertations
• Backfiles from 1952!
• Includes own thesaurus

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CSA Sociological databases ProQuest full-text
journals

• 139 full-text titles 161,000 full-text documents
• ONLY 19 embargoed for up to 1 year
• 93 (129 titles) are refereed 66 (92 titles)
  have ISI impact factors
• Deep archive dating as far back as 1922.
• Weekly updating!

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ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Indexes Abstracts

• A comprehensive source of social science and
  health information for the practical and academic
  professional.
• Covers health, social services, psychology,
  sociology, economics, politics, race relations
  and education.
• ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records
  from over 500 journals published in 16 different
  countries, including the UK and US.
• Updated monthly.

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AgeLine

• A bibliographic database covering social
  gerontology the study of aging in social,
  psychological, health-related, and economic
  contest.
• Includes over 76,000 records from Journals,
  magazines, aging-related dissertations and
  deiscriptions of videos.
• Backfiles up to 1978.

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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

• Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of
  the international serials literature in
• political science and its complementary fields,
  including international relations, law, and
  public administration / policy.

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CSA Political database ProQuest full-text
journals

• 131 full-text titles 143,600 full-text documents
• ONLY 25 embargoed for up to 1 year
• 87 (129 titles) are refereed 50 (65 titles)
  have ISI impact factors
• Deep archive dating as far back as 1922
• Weekly updating!

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PAIS International

• Main focus on Public Affairs in an international
  perspective .
• Subjects covered Child labour, Citizen militia,
  Cyber Cops, Disaster Relief, Ethnic Cleansing,
  Free Speech, Genetic Engineering, Globalization,
  Gun Control, Internet, Political Correctness,
  Street Children, Virtual reality, Weapon
  Stockpiles etc. etc. etc.
• Includes publications from over 120 countries

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Index Islamicus

• The database indexes literature on Islam, the
  Middle East and the Muslim World.
• It does not only write only about the Middle East
  but also about Asia and Africa and Muslin
  minorities elsewhere.
• It includes more than 2,000 journals, conference
  proceedings, monographs, book reviews and
  multi-authored works.
• More than 292,000 records and it is updated with
  about 12,000 records a year.
• Backfiles up to 1906!

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PsycInfo

• Electronic bibliographic database
• Covers 2,000 journals, 2,300 books a year,
  dissertations
• 2.2 million records as far back as 1806
• Multidisciplinary coverage
• Scholarly content onlyvery international in
  scope
• gt15 million cited references

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PsycARTICLES

• Provides full-text articles from 48 journals
  published by the American Psychological
  Association (APA).
• Coverage starts with 1985.
• More than 41,000 articles as of January 2005
• Linking to CSA databases PsycInfo and PsycBooks.
• Updated weekly.

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PsycBOOKS

• Another APA database, but instead of journal
  articles, it includes books and chapters of APA
  published books.
• Includes about 750 titles, including 100
  out-of-print books from 1950 2002.
• The database offers 120 archival resources in
  psychology, and the exclusive electronic release
  of the APA/Oxford University press Encyclopedia
  of Psychology.

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SAGE Full-text journals

• Communication Studies
• 17 journals, 5,000 full-text articles and 23
  years backfiles
• Criminology
• 21 journals, 5,000 full-text articles and 23
  years backfiles
• Education NEW
• 23 journals, 7,000 full-text articles and 36
  years backfiles
• Political Sciences
• 23 journals, 9,000 full-text articles and 23
  years backfiles
• Sociology
• 31 journals, 12,000 full-text articles and 23
  years backfiles

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SAGE Full-text journals

• Management Organisation Studies NEW
• 36 journals, 10,000 full-text articles and 57
  years backfiles
• Material Science NEW
• 15 journals, 5,300 full-text articles and 10
  years backfiles
• Nursing Health Studies NEW
• 23 journals, 6,000 full-text articles and 23
  years backfiles
• Psychology NEW
• 31 journals, 18,000 full-text articles and 35
  years backfiles
• Urban Studies NEW
• 24 journals, 6,000 full-text articles and 23
  years backfiles

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• Arts Humanities

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Arts

• ArtBibliographies Modern
• DAAI Design and Applied Arts Index
• BHA Bibliography of the History of Arts
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

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Humanities

• LLBA Linguistics and Language Behaviour
  Abstracts
• LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts
• ATLA Religion Database
• BHI British Humanities Index New!
• MLA International Bibliography New!
• The Philosopher's Index New!
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

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BHA Bibliography of the History of Arts

• Western art history from the fourth century
  onwards, with a primary focus on traditional art
  media, as well as in-depth coverage of
  archaeology and architecture.
• Contains 650,000 records, with 24,000 records
  added per year.
• Covers journals, books, catalogues,
  dissertations, conference papers and other media.
  
• It has both French and English index terms and
  abstracts.
• International in both coverage and scope.

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MLA International Bibliography

• Published by the Modern Language Association
• MLA is a subject index for books and articles
  published on modern languages, literatures,
  folklore, and linguistics.
• It includes more than 4,000 periodicals and 1,000
  book publishers.
• Very international coverage records also in
  Swedish, Norwegian, German, Russian.

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Philosophers Index

• A bibliographic database with informative,
  author-written abstracts covering scholarly
  research in all areas of Philosophy.
• Covers over 5,000 journals and book chapters,
  from more than 40 countries.

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