Brings together online versions of 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books such as the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Dictionary of Political Biography, Dictionary of the Social Sciences, Concise Dictionary of World Religions, Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

Publisher: St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1999. 
Location: Social Science Ready Reference (SSRC). Firestone 
Call Number: KF156 .B53 1999 

Publisher: Oxford, UK; New York: B. Blackwell, 1987.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone 
Call Number: JA61 .B57 1987 

Publisher: New York: Scribner, 1988.
Location: General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone
Call Number: BL2525 .E53 1988

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1995.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JC423 .E53 1995

Publisher: New York: Routledge, 2001.
Location: General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone
Call Number: BJ63.E45 2001

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1998.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: BL65.P7 E53 1998

Publisher: Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 1998.
Location: General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone
Call Number: BL60.E53 1998

Publisher: Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JF511 .W67 1998

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This international and interdisciplinary database indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change in the humanities and social sciences. Covers nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines with selected abstracts from research journals from 1991 to present.

Interdisciplinary full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Indexes over 170 titles from 1970 to present, providing viewpoints and perspectives that complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.

This database is a comprehensive bibliography of articles published from 1955 to present on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to today.

This database provides a collection of major religious and theology full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups. Coverage in this collection dates back to 1949.

Provides full text access to news, culture, and history from over 240 publications of ethnic, minority and native press from 1960 to present offering additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

GenderWatch is a repository of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With archival material dating back to 1970, it provides an important historical perspective on the evolution of both the women's movement and major changes in gender roles.

This database has long been recognized as the leading bibliography providing unmatched coverage of world history (excluding North America) dealing with time periods from 1450 to the present. It covers approximately 2,000 journals, as well as books and dissertations published worldwide since the mid 1950s in history and related areas, including anthropology, genealogy, multicultural studies, political science, and sociology.

This index includes citations to U.S. law review articles and selected United Kingdom and Australian law journals going back to early 1980 (print version covers articles back to circa 1900).

Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science, this database provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2,600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. Indexing covers material published from 1951 to present.

Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals. Topics covered include political science method and theory, political thinkers and ideas, governmental and administrative institutions, political process, international relations, and national and area studies. Index covers material published from 1989 to present.

Provides indexing and abstracts of books and journals from 1940 to present in philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.

Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2,500 journals, as well as books, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Coverage of this database goes back to 1963.

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, including international relations, law and public policy. Indexing covers material from 1975 to present. Also provides references to reliable web resources.

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Provides full text access to news from across the U.S. and around the world. Coverage of most newspapers goes back to the mid 1980s, but varies widely. Also provides access to business, legal, and medical journals, as well as corporate financial information.

Provides indexing and full text of the Wall Street Journal (1984- ) and Barron's (1988- ), and abstracts only of the New York Times and USA Today (1989- ). After you click on the link above, pull down the database menu and select "News- ProQuest Newspapers" to search these titles.

Provides retrospective coverage of the New York Times going back to the first issue (1851-2001) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Provides retrospective coverage of the Wall Street Journal going back to the first issue (1889-1986) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Provides retrospective coverage of the Washington Post going back to the first issue (1877-1987) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

URL: http://www.wfn.org/
WFN is a full text database of official news releases, documents, and policy statements from the news offices of national and world faith groups. This database indexes more than 18,000 documents, including posts in French, Spanish and German. Administered by the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., it is open to all worldwide and national faith group organizations.

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URL: http://www.arda.tm/
The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations) in the U.S., with links to related sites in other countries.

Publisher: New York: Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2001. 
Location: Donald E. Stokes Library (SPR). Wallace Hall 
Call Number: BL2525 .A542 2001a 
Electronic Access: http://www.gc.cuny.edu/studies/aris.pdf 
Follow up report to the National Survey of Religious Identification, 1989-90, which was the most extensive survey of religious identification in the later half of 20th-century America was conducted under the auspices of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the ICPSR provides member colleges and universities with access to an extensive data archive, as well as training facilities for social scientists conducting quantitative analysis. Search by their data holdings by keyword or browse by thematic categories.

This database consists of polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world. Each record provides one poll question and the responses. Search by subject, publication year, and universe of respondents. Other information provided includes source name and contact information, sample size and notes on the sample population.

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URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~rbivens/philosophy/

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~rbivens/religion/

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~sbwhite/sociwebb.html

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URL: http://are.as.wvu.edu/
A collaborative effort involving the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Louisiana State University, and West Virginia University. The project offers students of American religion and culture a publication forum for their academic projects. They encourage development and publication of American religion manuscripts and images on the web, accepting manuscript submissions from instructors, students, and avocational scholars that inform the understanding and appreciation of American religions.

URL: http://staging.denison.edu/~djupe/relpol/
The Religion and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association encourages the study of religion and politics by political scientists with a diverse set of interests, including issues of church and state, morality and social justice, political behavior, and public policy.

URL: http://www.beliefnet.com/
A multi-faith e-community that seeks to help members meet their own religious and spiritual needs in an interesting and engaging way. Not affiliated with a particular religion or spiritual movement, a deep respect for a wide variety of faiths and traditions is fundamental to their mission.

URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~pluralsm/
The project is sponsored by the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University to study and document the growing religious diversity of the United States, with a special view to its new immigrant religious communities.

URL: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/programs/prpes/
Hosted by the Weatherhead Institute at Harvard University, this is an interdisciplinary project that focuses on cross-country research on religion and the social sciences, exploring the role of religion in the economic, political, and social development of individuals and nations.

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