Scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines,
This database, updated daily, includes thousands of full-text and bibliographic entries for scholarly business journals, trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, country reports, company reports, and monographs.
EconLit indexes and abstracts more than 300 scholarly English language journals, dissertations, working papers, and books in the field of economics. Updated monthly, with approximately 30,000 new records added per year.
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PAIS Index includes databases with quarterly updated records from journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, and web content with indexed materials from 1914 to present, published in English as well as other languages.
PsycINFO is a database produced by the American Psychological Association and contains citations and summaries from the 19th century to the present, of peer reviewed literature as well as journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, having to do with psychology.
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WPSA provides citations, abstracts, dissertations, books, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields.
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