CSA Social SciencesandArts & Humanities Databases

Laura KarvesOctober 2006

CSA has 4 subject areas

• Social Sciences

• Arts & Humanities

• Natural Sciences

• Technology

Social Sciences

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

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.

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• Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology.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.

Sociological Abstracts +Social Services Abstracts

• CSA:s 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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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!

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 only—very

international in scope• >15 million cited references

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.

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.

SAGE Full-text journals

Communication Studies17 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

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

Arts & Humanities

Arts

• ArtBibliographies Modern• DAAI: Design and Applied

Arts Index• BHA: Bibliography of the

History of Arts• Avery Index to Architectural

Periodicals

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

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.

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.

Philosopher’s 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.

Too Much, Too Fast?

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