Research Guides: Global Cities: GUS 0831: Database Articles

Databases

America: History & Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Note: This is an upgrade from America: History & Life.
America: History & Life with Full Text contains bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada It includes historical, social sciences and humanities journals. In addition to articles, each year America: History and Life includes citations of books and media reviews from a selection of journals in US and Canadian history and related fields, as well as citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Note: This is an upgrade from Historical Abstracts.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes journals in the social and humanities sciences, covering 1953-present.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Econlit contains indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
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PAIS covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts provides coverage of the world's literature on sociology and applied aspects of sociology.
ProQuest Sociology This link opens in a new window
Proquest Sociology contains full text of journals in sociology and related fields.

Multi-Disciplinary Databases

ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Social Science Premium Collection contains international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database providing full text scholarly/peer-reviewed publications and full text journals for academic areas of study

Periodical Archives Online
A major archive that makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles. The database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages.

Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Journals Online is a collection of academic and research journals that cover Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences, Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law.
Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Cambridge Journals Online contains full text online journals from Cambridge University Press on a wide range of subjects, including Geography
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Sage Journals Online provides access to journals in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences from Sage Publications.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
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Project Muse provides access to full-text journals, as well as ebooks from university presses. Temple does not have access to all available ebooks.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides page images of back issues of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to current publication.

Newspapers

Newspapers at Temple University Libraries. TU Libraries provides full text online access to a large number of local, national, international, and topical newspapers, both current and historical.

Another great resource for newspaper articles is the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC). It maintains a large number of clipping files on a variety of topics, with clippings going back to 1900, from the old Philadelphia Bulletin and other publications.

Business Resources

Business Insights: Global
Business Insights: Global is an online resource on international business. To generate a list of the most important businesses in a city, select the tab for Companies, then select Company Finder and click it. From the menu that appears, select City, then enter the name of the city you are working with.
Business Search Complete
Business Source Complete contains full text journals and business periodicals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business. Use it to find peer-reviewed journal articles about business topics.

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