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AgeLine      BU-px
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Annual Reviews      BU-px
ANNUAL REVIEWS provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in a number of fields of science through critical authoritative reviews. The comprehensive critical review not only summarizes a topic but also roots out errors of fact or concept and provokes discussion that will lead to new research activity. The critical review is an essential part of the scientific method. Please note: there are some guidelines for use: those using Annual Reviews online may view, reproduce or store copies of articles comprising the series provided that the articles are used only for their personal, noncommercial use. Uses beyond the Fair Use Copyright limitations require permission of the publisher. Any uses and or copies of this publication in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation, including author attribution, date, article title, Annual Reviews Online, and the URL and MUST include a copy of the copyright notice.

Child Development & Adolescent Studies      BU-px
CHILD DEVELOPMENT & ADOLESCENT STUDIES is a database containing "references to the current and historical literature related to the growth and development of children through the age of 21. Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide. Over 10,000 new records added each year. " Coverage is from 1927 to the present.

Criminal Justice Abstracts      BU-px
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Criminal Justice Periodicals Index      BU-px
Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (CJPI) provides detailed abstracts and indexing for U.S. and international journals in law enforcement, social work, drug rehabilitation, criminal and family law, industrial security and other criminal justice fields. More than 50 titles are available full-text, with abstracts and indexing for a further 140 titles. Coverage is from 1981 to the present.

Criminology: A Sage Full Text Collection      BU-px
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Ethnic NewsWatch   1990+   BU-px
ETHNIC NEWSWATCH is a full-text database of the newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. The database contains more than 1.1 million articles from more than 260 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, it includes more than 237,000 articles in Spanish. Coverage is from 1990 to the present.

FRANCIS (International social sciences & humanities)      ChRiv-px
FRANCIS includes multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences and economics. The database is strong in religion, the history of art and literature with emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Coverage is from 1984 to date.

Hispanic American Periodicals Index      ChRiv-px
HISPANIC AMERICAN PERIODICALS INDEX is a source for U.S.-Hispanic and Latin American topics. Cited articles are from more than 500 scholarly journals published worldwide. Citations link to some full text. Coverage is from 1970 to date.

Humanities and Social Science Retrospective   1907 - 1984   BU-px
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JSTOR (Journal Storage)      BU-px
JSTOR is a full-text collection of back issues (from volume 1 to approximately five years ago) of core scholarly journals. Includes journals in African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, classics, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics.

LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts)      BU-px
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Project Muse   Alternative Link   BU-px
PROJECT MUSE provides access to the full text of over 330 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Coverage varies for each journal.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection      BU-px
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ScienceDirect      BU-px
SCIENCE DIRECT is a Web-based information source for scientific, technical, and medical research offering access to more than 1100 full text electronic journals from 1995/96+ across 16 fields of science, including the social sciences.

Social Sciences Citation Index   1973+   BU-px
WEB OF SCIENCE is the Web interface to the citation databases from the Institute of Scientific Information. Coverage is from 1978-. The databases include: Science Citation Index Expanded. covers 5300 journals (2000 more titles than the print version) and is updated with 16,000 new records every week; Social Sciences Citation Index covers 1700 journals and is updated with 2800 new records every week; Arts & Humanities Citation Index. covers 1100 journals and is updated with 2200 new records every week. Data extracted from the Web of Science should give the following attribution to ISI: The above data are extracted from the Science Citation Index Expanded., Social Sciences Citation Index. and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Databases of the Institute for Scientific Information., Inc., ISI., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Copyright) 199_.

Social Sciences Full Text   1995+ (abstracts 1983+)   BU-px
SOCIAL SCIENCES FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 415 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, plus the full text of over 115 of those periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Indexing coverage begins with periodicals published in February 1983. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Social Sciences Full Text (Law)   1995+ (abstracts 1983+)   BUSL
SOCIAL SCIENCES FULL TEXT is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from more than 415 English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, plus the full text of over 115 of those periodicals. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Indexing coverage begins with periodicals published in February 1983. Full text coverage begins in January 1995.

Social Services Abstracts   1979+   BU-px
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Sociological Abstracts   1952+   BU-px
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Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts      ChRiv
STUDIES ON WOMEN AND GENDER ABSTRACTS includes citations and abstracts for journal articles and books on women's studies and gender studies. Coverage is from 1995 onward.

Women's Studies International   1972+   BU-px
WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL is a database (citations or citations/abstracts) of over 548,000 records combining ten women's studies resources, including Women Studies Abstracts (1972-), Women's Studies Bibliography Database, Women's Studies Database (1972-), MEDLINE Subset on Women (1964-) Women of Color and Southern Women: A Bibliography of Social Science Research (1975-1995), Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography (1995) and four files from Women's Studies Librarian.

WorldCat      BU-px
WORLDCAT is the OCLC Online Union Catalog in a user friendly version. It contains more than 61 million records of items owned by libraries around the world, as well as the Boston University Libraries. Every item in the catalog has a listing of libraries which own it. It contains records for books, journals, electronic books and journals, musical scores, audio and video recordings, computer programs and much more. (It does not include records for individual articles or stories in journals, magazines, newspapers or book chapters.) New records are added daily.







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