The list below contains online indexes in the UC Berkeley Library that are most relevant to social work research. Other library system indexes may apply, depending on your research topic. Be sure to consult the complete list of online indexes and abstracts.
Most of the indexes below are available only to users affiliated with the university. UC Only denotes indexes available to users affiliated with any UC campus. UCB Only denotes indexes available only to users affiliated with UC Berkeley. If you are not connected to the web via the campus computing system -- for instance, if you have a private internet service provider -- you must use the library proxy service to have access to these indexes. Indexes without an affiliation note are available to all users without restriction.
Please
see the Library's Conditions
of Use policy regarding use of online resources.
ABI/Inform
Global -
UC
Only
Coverage: 1971-
The ABI/Inform Global database (ABI) contains citations to articles
in over 1,000 journals in business, management, finance, and
economics. All citations include abstracts, and full text is
available for 600 journals. Check this index for material on
administration, management, supervision, and volunteerism and
nonprofits agencies. Also check other indexes on the Business
Library page.
African
American Theses and Dissertations
This bibliography lists over 400 theses and dissertations on
African American topics completed at the University of California,
Berkeley from 1907 to 1997.
Alternative
Press Index Online - UCB Only
Coverage: 1991-
The Alternative Press Index (API), a leading guide to the alternative
press in North America, draws citations from some 380 alternative,
radical, and left publications which report and analyze issues
of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Amongst
periodicals included are Cineaste, Environmental Action, Socialist
Review, and Women's Review of Books; 90% of publications included
herein are not indexed elsewhere. API indexes editorials, regular
columns, essays, fiction; speeches, interviews, statistics,
reprints; bibliographies, biographies, obituaries, memoirs;
and reviews.
AltPress
Watch - UCB Only
Coverage: 1995-
AltPress Watch is a full text resource that covers newspapers,
magazines, and
journals of the alternative and independent press. Topics are
far ranging including
politics and government, policy and culture, international issues,
education,
environment as well as reviews of theater, movies and books.
Coverage begins as far back as 1995. East Bay Express is included
with coverage starting 6/01.
America:
History and Life -
UC
Only
America: History and Life is bibliographic database containing
citations to articles on the history of the United States and
Canada from prehistory to the present. The database comprises
almost 400,000 bibliographic entries and covers over 2,000 journals
published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language
historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes
selected historical journals from major countries, state and
local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds
of journals in the social sciences and humanities.
America's
Newspapers
- UCB Only
Complete full-text content of local and regional news from over
300 US newspapers. Includes regional California titles, such
as Contra Costa Times, Sacramento Bee, Santa Rosa Press Democrat,
San Jose Mercury News and more.
ArticleFirst
[via FirstSearch/OCLC] - UC
Only
Coverage: 1990-
The ArticleFirst database provides citations from the table
of contents pages of over 11,000 journals in the areas of engineering,
technology, general interest, social sciences, business, the
humanities, and popular culture.
Black
Studies Database -
UC
Only
Coverage: 1948-1986
Black Studies Database (BSD) includes more than 170,000 citations
drawn
from more than 150 significant and influential journals, magazines,
newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets and reports relevant to the
Black experience and the African Diaspora. This valuable resource,
created by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture,
covers events critical to the study of Black life and culture
outside of Africa including notable figures in Black history,
culture, and sports; the Civil Rights Movement, the growth of
the NAACP and the National Urban League; the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference; jazz and soul music; and much more.
California
History
Coverage: 1922-
The California Historical Society makes available via its web
site an online index to California History.
Catalog
of U.S. Government Publications [CGP]
Coverage: 1994-
Use the CGP database to retrieve records for government documents
cataloged by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Items cataloged
include hearings of
Congressional committees, congressional debates and records,
judiciary
material, documents issued by executive departments such as
Defense, State,
and Labor, and documents issued by the Office of the President.
CatchWord
-
UC
Only
CatchWord provides full text access to domestic and international
scholarly and
academic publications, in a wide range of subject areas. Full
text articles are available only for journals for which U.C.
Berkeley has paper subscriptions.
Chicano
Database -
UC
Only
Use the Chicano Database (@RLG) to retrieve records for all
types of materials in the areas of Mexican-American topics,
and since 1992, materials on other Latino cultures, e.g., Puerto
Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants. Subject
coverage includes art, language, sociology, public policy, economics,
history, literature, politics, and law. The database is produced
by the Chicano Studies Library, University of California.
Chicano/LatinoNet
(CLNET)
The Chicano/LatinoNet database (CLNET) contains information
on Chicano/Latino-related courses being taught at various institutions;
library catalogs; research guides, bibliographies, brochures,
and archival inventories; information on conferences, scholarships,
funding agencies, and jobs; research information and resources;
statistics.
Cochrane
Library - UCB Only
Indexes journal articles, reviews, and bibliographies which
provide evidence-based effects of health care, as well as a
register of published economic evaluations of health care interventions
and information on healthcare technology assessment from seven
databases such as The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews,
Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and the Database of Abstracts
of Reviews of Effectiveness.
Congressional
Indexes, 1789-1972 -
UC
Only
The Congressional Indexes 1789-1972 provide citations to the
following:
a) U.S. Serial Set: {House and Senate legislative and investigative
reports and documents; Annual reports and statistical publications
from Federal agencies; Journals of the House of Representatives
and Senate; Administrative reports of both chambers of Congress}.
b)Senate Executive Documents and Reports. c)U.S. Congressional
Committee Hearings. d)Unpublished Hearings from the Committees
of the House and Senate (1823-1972). e)U.S. Congressional Committee
Prints.
Congressional
Information via Lexis-Nexis -
UC
Only
The Lexis-Nexis Congressional database contains bill tracking
services back to
1989, indexing and abstracts of congressional publications back
to 1789, a "hot
topics" section, and full text of many congressional committee
reports and testimony (1994- ), regulations in the Code of Federal
Regulations and Federal Register, the Congressional Record and
the National Journal.
Contemporary
Women's Issues - UCB Only
Coverage: 1992-
Contemporary Women's Issues provides full text access to journals,
hard-to-find
newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides
regarding a broad array of gender-related issues (e.g., violence,
economic development, health, the military, education, human
rights, law). This database covers sources published by organizations
around the world.
CQ
Researcher - UCB Only
Coverage: 1991-
The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need
a place to begin
research on current topics. This weekly publication covers the
most current and
controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight
into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users
may browse through articles in the current issue or search for
past articles using words, dates or other criteria.
CQ
Supreme Court Collection - UCB
Only
Combines
historical analysis with updates and commentary of US Supreme
Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme
Court institutional history and the US Constitution. Also includes
background and commentary on constitutions from over 100 countries.
CQ
Weekly - UCB Only
Coverage: 1983-
The CQ Weekly is known as the pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers
who need nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. The CQ Weekly
on the Web includes access to the full text of all articles
published since 1983. A user may browse through articles in
the current issue or search for past articles by words, dates,
subjects or other criteria. The Web service also provides users
with access to some CQ Weekly articles prior to when they appear
in print.
ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses - UCB
Only
Indexes graduate dissertations from over 1,000 North American,
and selected European, graduate schools and universities. Dissertations
published since 1980, and master's theses since 1988, include
brief abstracts written by the authors. UC dissertations since
1996 are free for downloading. Other titles can be borrowed
through interlibrary loan or purchased online in a variety of
formats. Note: This index does not include masters' theses or
group papers submitted in the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare.
For directions on how to find those items, see
the guide to dissertations,
theses and group research projects in the Social Welfare Library.
See also additional
dissertation indexes in the UC Berkeley library.
ERIC
-
UC
Only
Coverage: 1966-
ERIC contains citations with abstracts from journals, conference
proceedings, curricula, and research reports in the fields of
education and related social sciences. Corresponds to two printed
journals: Resources in Education (RIE) and Current Index to
Journals in Education (CIJE). Coverage includes 1966 to the
present.
Ethnic
NewsWatch -
UC
Only
The Ethnic NewsWatch database contains news, culture and history
from 200 publications of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Nearly 500,000 full text articles dating back to 1990 are available,
along with archival material dating back to the mid 1980's.
More than 7,500 new articles are added each month. Ethnic NewsWatch
is searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both
languages; more than 100,000 articles are in Spanish.
Expanded
Academic ASAP -
UC
Only
Coverage: 1980-
The database contains records for articles from popular magazines,
general interest journals, scholarly journals and newspapers
in the humanities, social sciences, and general sciences. The
complete text of articles (including some full-text images)
are available for many of the journals covered in the database.
FirstSearch
Electronic Collections Online (ECO) - UCB
Only
OCLC FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online (ECO) includes
the full text of scholarly journals in a variety of subject
areas. OCLC/ECO includes all of the original content, images,
and bibliographic information for all journals.
Family
& Society Studies Worldwide -
UC
Only
Family & Society Studies Worldwide (FSSW) formerly produced
by the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), has been
expanded by NISC. FSSW contains all the citations of the discontinued
print version, Inventory of Marriage & Family Literature,
plus abstracts that were never available in print. It also incorporates
Australian Family & Society Abstracts, commonly known as
FAMILY, produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
FirstSearch
-
UC
Only
Several OCLC databases: WorldCat (over 27 million monograph
and serials titles), ArticleFirst (article and table of contents
records from over 11,000 journals in all fields), ERIC (education
citations), GPO Monthly Catalog (government citations), PapersFirst,
and ProceedingsFirst. Coverage varies by database.
GenderWatch
- UCB Only
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus
on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
Publications include magazines, academic journals, newspapers,
newsletters, books, pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government
reports. Coverage extends in some cases back to the 1970s.
Global
Newsbank - UCB
Only
Coverage begins with 1996. Provides comprehensive full text
coverage of news summaries, broadcasts and transcripts from
hundreds of international sources. All sources are in English.
Government
Periodicals via Lexis-Nexis - UCB
Only
Provides detailed subject and author indexing to articles from
over 170 periodicals published by agencies of the U.S. Government
and is updated quarterly (March, June, Sept, and December).
Each update covers more than 2,000 articles of research value.
HAPI
(Hispanic American Periodicals Index) -
UC
Only
HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information
about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin,
the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the
United States.
Historical
Abstracts -
UC
Only
Historical Abstracts is a bibliographic database containing
citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450
to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which
are covered in the bibliographic database America: History and
Life). The database comprises over half a million bibliographic
entries and covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide.
All abstracts are written in English. In addition to including
the key historical journals from virtually every major country,
Historical Abstracts includes a targeted selection of hundreds
of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Historical
Abstracts includes approximately 3,000 citations to historical
book reviews and citations to abstracts of dissertations worldwide.
Historical
Newspapers (Proquest) - UCB
Only
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times & Wall
Street Journal, LA Times. To search all of the newspapers, on
the ProQuest home page click on the Database: Multiple databases...
menu list down arrow. Then select from the menu list the newspaper
you wish to search.
Historical
Newspapers Online - UCB
Only
Historical Newspapers Online contains four major historical
resources: Palmer's Index to the Times which covers the period
from 1790 to 1905 in The Times; The Official Index to the Times
which takes the coverage forward from 1906 to 1980; The Historical
Index to the New York Times which covers The New York Times
from 1851-September 1922 (The current release of the The Historical
Index to The New York Times contains data from the years 1863
to 1905.); Palmer's Full Text Online 1785-1870, providing access
to the full text articles referenced in Palmer's index to the
Times. These resources are starting points for students and
scholars of all aspects of British life and world affairs in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They are constantly
used by researchers in the fields of history, politics, economics,
business, the arts, and entertainment, even sports.
Index
to Current Urban Documents - UCB
Only
The key national resource for local government publications
of the United States. Contains citations to and the full text
(PDF format) of local government publications from approximately
500 selected cities and counties in the United States and Canada.
At the core of the collection are fiscal and planning documents,
including budgets and financial reports, and city, county and
regional plans. The Index is also a good source of locally generated
socioeconomic statistics, public health and social service planning,
and business and physical infrastructure information. Print
edition: vol. 1, 1971/72 - present (index & full text documents
on microfiche in Institute
of Governmental Studies Library; index in Environmental
Design Library & the East Reading Room, 2nd floor Doe
Library). Use Netscape Communicator for your browser; search
results may not display properly using Internet Explorer. Web
coverage: vol. 29, 2000 - present.
Ingenta
Select - UCB Only
Ingenta Select provides full text access to domestic and international
scholarly and academic publications, in a wide range of subject
areas. For more comprehensive searching and document delivery
service use Ingenta.com.
International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) - UCB
Only
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is compiled
by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of
the London School of Economics & Political Science. This
database contains bibliographic information from an international
selection of publications (including over 2600 journals) in
the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
International coverage means that about 30 percent of records
in the database are published in languages other than English.
Records come from more than 100 countries and 70 languages.
Most articles and books not in English are provided with an
English title translation. This database provides citations
of journals, books, book reviews, and chapters when multiple
authors have worked on a book. About 100,000 citations per year
are added to the database. Coverage includes 1981 to the present.
International
Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP) - UCB
Only
IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective (dating back
as far as 1910)
bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly
and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United
States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full text coverage of
25 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward). See the title
list for periodicals included. Most IIBP Full Text records in
the current coverage (1998 forward) contain an abstract, and
additionally many IIBP Full Text records contain the corresponding
full text of the original article; some records contain the
table of contents of the journal. Coverage is international
in scope and multidisciplinary--spanning cultural, economic,
historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital
importance to the Black Studies discipline. IIBP Full Text covers
a wide array of humanities-related disciplines including art,
cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language
and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology
among others.
JSTOR
- UCB Only
JSTOR is a full text archive of interdisciplinary scholarly
journal literature. A list
of included journals by discipline is available.
Left
Index - UCB Only
Coverage: 1982-
Left Index provides access to leftist and radical media from
around the world with a primary emphasis on political, economic,
social, and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside
academia, including citations and abstracts and some full text
from journals, books, book reviews, newsletters, and links to
internet documents.
Legal
Information Institute (LII) and Hermes
The Legal Information Institute offers the full text of Supreme
Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's
electronic dissemination project.
LegalTrac
- UCB Only
Coverage: 1980-
Use this database to research: Case Studies, Government Regulations,
Practice of Law, Statutes, Taxation and International Law. Access
all major law reviews, and specialty law and bar association
journals. Use LegalTrac to identify the journal articles that
you'd like to read. Then check Lexis-Nexis Academic to see if
the articles are available there.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic - UCB Only
Lexis-Nexis Academic is one of the single largest web-based
databases for current worldwide news and information. Lexis-Nexis
Academic supports a broad range of interdisciplinary research.
The database contains full text and abstracts of news, business,
and legal information and provides full-text access to nearly
6,000 individual titles. Users can search foreign and domestic
newspapers and wire services; radio and television transcripts;
and business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines,
journals, and newsletters. There is wide geographic coverage
and a translations from foreign-language sources, as well as
news services like Reuters, Associated Press, Agence France
Press, and Xinhua (New China) News Agency. The database is updated
daily for most newspapers and even hourly for some wire services
and media transcripts.
NewsBank
NewsFile
- UCB Only
Coverage begins with 1991. Provides selected full text news
articles from regional, national, and international sources.
Northern
California Newspapers
- UCB Only
Access to the full text of the following newspapers: Contra
Costa Times 1995-, Fresno Bee 1986-, Press Democrat (Santa Rosa)
1994-, Sacramento Bee 2000-, San Francisco Chronicle 1989-,
San Jose Mercury News 1985-. Click on the link to NewsBank Full-Text
Newspapers to search all six of the newspapers.
PAIS
International -
UC
Only
Coverage: 1972-
The PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
database provides
international coverage of materials in government, international
relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related
areas.
PapersFirst
(Conference PapersFirst) [via FirstSearch/OCLC] -
UC
Only
Coverage: 1993-
Use the OCLC PapersFirst database to retrieve records for papers
presented at
worldwide conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, workshops,
and
congresses. The papers cover a wide variety of disciplines,
including the Arts,
Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical and Life Sciences. The
PapersFirst database is of medium size and covers published
information received from the British Library Document Supply
Center in English and other languages.
PolicyFile
- UCB Only
PolicyFile indexes research and publication abstracts addressing
the complete range of public policy research. Access to home
pages, electronic mail addresses and selected full text are
made available within the individual abstracts.
Pro
and Con Online
- UCB Only
Provides full text access to the print publications: Congressional
Digest, Supreme Court Debates, and International Debates. Pro
and con viewpoints are presented on topics ranging from civil
rights, economy, environmental policy, politics and government,
and foreign policy. Coverage includes 1998-present.
Proceedings
(Conference Proceedings) [via Firstsearch/OCLC] -
UC
Only
Use the OCLC Proceedings database to retrieve records for worldwide
conferences, symposia, meetings, expositions, and congresses.
The proceedings cover a wide variety of disciplines, including
the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Physical and Life
Sciences. Each proceedings provides a list of papers presented.
Individual records for each paper may be found in the PapersFirst
database. The Proceedings database is of medium size and contains
citations to proceedings in English and other languages indexed
from 1993 to the present. The database covers published proceedings
received by the British Library Document Supply Center.
PsycARTICLES
-
UC
Only
Full-text articles from 51 of the most heavily used psychology journals it the field, including journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. All journals covered in PsycARTICLES are indexed in the PsycINFO database (but not vice-versa). Coverage generally begins with 1987.
PsycINFO
-
UC
Only
Coverage: 1887-
Use the PsycINFO database to retrieve citations to articles
in over 1,300 professional journals, conference proceedings,
books, reports, and dissertations in psychology and related
disciplines. Most citations include abstracts.
Public
Health - article indexes
Compiled by a librarian at the U.C. Berkeley Public Health Library,
this page
contains an annotated list of electronic article indexes in
public health.
PubMed
Coverage: 1966-
PubMed provides access to bibliographic information which includes
MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, as well as additional life science journals.
A quick
guide to PubMed is available.
Research
Library (ProQuest) - UCB Only
Research Library (ProQuest) indexes more than 1,000 magazines
and journals on art, business, humanities, health, social sciences,
and sciences. Includes some full text. Coverage includes 1975
to the present.
Sexual
Diversity Studies -
UC
Only
Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS) offers a balanced, objective,
and thorough
review of scholarly as well as popular print, electronic, and
internet publications of the GLBT press. Most topics of interest
to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gender communities
are covered in depth. Of paramount importance is the coverage
of history, culture, social issues, interests, and concerns
of the GLBT community. SDS is an essential guide to the ongoing
intellectual and scholarly discussions of subjects which reflect
the diversity of the GLBT community.
Social
Sciences Citation Index - UCB
Only
Coverage: 1970 -
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database,
with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature
of the social sciences. It indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50
disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant
items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and
technical journals. See the guide to
using the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Social
Services Abstracts - UCB Only
Coverage: 1980-
Produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, the database abstracts
and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts
of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book
reviews. Subject areas include social work, human services,
and related areas, including social welfare, social policy,
and community development.
Social
Work Abstracts
- UCB Only
Coverage: 1977-
The database is produced by the National Association of Social
Workers, Inc. and contains more than 45,000 records, spanning
1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals
on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare,
aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization,
and more. This is the electronic version of Social Work
Abstracts (HV30.A12N2.A2, Social Welfare Library)
Statistical
information via Lexis-Nexis -
UCB
Only
Lexis-Nexis Statistical includes all index and abstract records
from: American Statistics Index (ASI) [1973-present], Statistics
Reference Index (SRI) [1980-present], and Index to International
Statistics (IIS) [1983-present]. ASI links to many full-text
documents published during 1994- and stored on LEXIS-NEXIS and
links to 2,000 publications on federal agency web sites. Materials
abstracted in ASI and IIS are available on microfiche in the
East Reading Room, 2nd Floor Doe Library. Most of the materials
abstracted in SRI are available on microfiche in the Business
Library. (See
also other online
statistical sources.)
U.S.
News Archives on the Web
Newspaper Archives on the Web provides links to Web versions
of dozens of U.S. newspapers and their full text, online back
files.
Women
and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States brings
together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries,
and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of womens reform
activities. Organized around the history of women in social
movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, it seeks to advance
scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it
makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers
and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.
Women's
Studies International - UCB Only
Women's Studies International is a comprehensive source consisting
of ten women's studies databases including Women's Studies Abstracts.
It provides references to books, articles, reports, media, etc.
that are concerned with women and women's issues. Coverage includes
1972 - present, with semi-annual updates.
WorldCat
[via FirstSearch/OCLC] -
UC
Only
The WorldCat database includes citations for books, journals,
manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer
files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, etc., in a variety of
languages in the subject areas of arts and humanities, social
sciences, engineering and technology, history, biological and
medical sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary and
ethnic studies. Via this version of the database, it is possible
to search by publisher.
WorldCat
Dissertations and Theses
- UCB Only
Lists
over 5 million dissertations and master's theses found in the
WorldCat database. Also lists some published materials based
on dissertations or theses. Coverage includes some items published
prior to 1861.
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