United States Studies Databases
See also Databases for United States History
Key databases for United States Studies | News databases | Legal & Government | Statistical Sources |
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| PAIS : Public Affairs Information Service (1972 - present) References articles, conference papers, books and web resources in current affairs, political science and other disciplines within the social sciences. Useful for locating peer reviewed journal articles in social & sciences. |
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| Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 - present) Built on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts and ABC Pol Sci, this database provides abstracts of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy. |
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| America : History and Life via Ebsco (1990 - present) References to the articles, books and reviews on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. |
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| Proquest Central (formerly Proquest 5000) Multiple partial full text databases covering disciplines within the Social Sciences, including full text of many North American dissertations & theses. |
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| ProQuest Social Science Journals Search a collection of full text journals covering the social sciences. |
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| JSTOR Full-text for major journals in Sociology, Political Science, Language and Literature, Film Studies and related disciplines. Includes key journals in American Studies. The latest five years are not available in this database. |
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| Expanded Academic Index ASAP Abstracts journals including the full-text of 520 journals indexed (last 3 years). Topics covered include humanities, communication studies, social science, science and technology, women studies, sociology, environment, and public affairs. |
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| Google Scholar Searches academic information on the internet. May also allow access to publications to which the University of Sydney Library subscribes. |
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America’s Historical Newspapers, (Early American Newspapers 1690-1876) Search, or browse hundreds of hundreds of historical newspapers via a timeline-based interface. Includes the complete contents of every newspaper. Key title list A companion to Early American Imprints |
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| Factiva Full-text news, commentary, pictures and media transcripts from over 8,000 overseas and Australian news media sources. 15 concurrent users only. Also use Proquest Newsstand databases for international & recent Australian news coverage. |
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| Proquest Newsstand databases Search a wide range of international and Australian newspapers in ANZ Newsstand, Canadian Newsstand, and Proquest Newsstand. ANZ Newsstand covers Australian and New Zealand newspapers published by Fairfax Australia and News Ltd, AAP newswires and ABC transcripts. Key titles included: The Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Australian (2001- ), Canberra Times (21/5/2007 -), Courier Mail (Feb 2001 -), Sun Herald (1/9/1996 - ), Sunday Age (1/9/1996 - ), The Sydney Morning Herald (1/8/1996). Content list. Use Factiva for access to ANZ titles prior to these dates.  |
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| World News Connection United States Foreign Broadcasting Information Service (FBIS) compiled from non-U.S. media sources. Includes newspaper articles and television and radio transcripts. Material is translated and either an extract or the full article is available from the database. |
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| Proquest Historical Newspaper Collection Contains full text and full image articles from major American newspapers: Chicago Tribune (April 23, 1849-Dec. 31, 1986); The New York Times (Sept 18, 1851-Dec. 31, 2004); The Wall Street Journal (July 8, 1889-Dec. 31, 1990). Select required newspaper from drop down database menu. |
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| TVNews via Informit Online (September 2007 - present) An index of Australian television news, current affairs programs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks and links to the video files. Provides an Australian perspective on US domestic and foreign affairs. (The local nightly news programmes currently included are broadcast from Melbourne) |
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| Westlaw Westlaw on-campus Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia) |
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| LII : Legal Information Institute Compiled and maintained by the Cornell Law School LII provides access to US statutes and court opinions. Legal information is also arranged by topic. |
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| LexisNexis Comprehensive full-text collection of legal material including reported and unreported, statutes, regulations, news and journal articles. Access problems? |
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| ParlinfoWeb Freely available Australian parliamentary documents including debates (Hansard), media releases,legislation, bills, second readings, explanatory memorandum, senate and house committee transcripts, background papers and research notes. Follow debates that reflect relations beween Australia and the United States. |
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| United Nations Law Collection via HeinOnline Includes the United Nations Treaty Series, International Court of Justice, Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders, and Reports of International Arbitral Awards. |
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| US Statistical Abstract : National Data book The Statistical abstract provides access to an authoritative summary of statistical data on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Data is sources from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other Federal agencies and also non-governmental organizations. |
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| ASSDA : Australian Social Sciences Data Archive (1977 - present) Over 2,000 data sets from Australian and non-Australian Studies. Data is available for research includes opinion polls, electoral studies, education, youth studies, social welfare and social attitudes. Access information is available from the ASSDA website. |
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| OECD iLibrary Full-text for all OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) publications, including documents, periodicals and statistical databases. |
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| American Memory : Historical collections for the National Digital Library Freely available, full text primary source materials on American history and culture in the Library of Congress. |
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Asia-Studies Full-text currently unavailable Full-text reports and articles on social, economic, environmental, political and development issues in Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and the Pacific islands. Many reports include graphs, tables and statistics. References articles on US and Asia-Pacific Relations. |
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| Business Source Premier via Ebsco (1922 - present) Aggregation of business & economics journals, indexes and abstracts. Includes many full text scholarly journals. Provides company profiles for the world's 5,000 largest companies |
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| CIAO : Columbia International Affairs Online (1991 - present) Published research on international affairs from university research institutes, NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, books, articles and policy briefs. |
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| Digital National Security Archive De-classified U.S. government documents organised into collections covering world events and U.S policy from WWII onwards. The Library has full text access to these collections only: China and the US from hostility to engagement, 1960-1998 Terrorism and US policy, 1968-2002 United States and the Two Koreas: 1969 - 2000 CIA Family Jewels Indexed |
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| Early American Imprints Series 1, Digital Evans (1639-1800) Full text of 37,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides published in America between 1639-1800. |
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| European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750 A bibliographic index which is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. |
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| Film and Television Literature Index via Ebsco References articles, reviews, magazines, reports, books and other research material on film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography and the technical aspects. |
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| FIAF : International Film Archive Database (1972 - present) References articles from academic and popular film journals. |
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| HeinOnline You may not download or print more than 200 pages per session Full-text legal journals and other legal documents predominantly US, also includes major international publications, U.S. Presidential Library, Pentagon Papers |
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| Libraries Australia Searches the combined catalogues of Australian libraries and also includes access to other major catalogues and repositories. |
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Library of Congress Library of Congress is a gateway to historical contemporary sources on American history and life. Access to primary documents, photographic material and images relevant to many aspects of US studies. |
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| Nineteenth Century in Print : Books and Periodicals Freely available; a selection of full text books and magazines published in the United States during the nineteenth century, primarily during the second half of the century. |
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| Scopus Scopus is a large multidisciplinary database covering published material in the humanities and sciences. It also provides citation analysis of authors and subject areas. |
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| Sociological Abstracts (1952 - present) References articles, conference papers, books and web resources on sociology and other related social science disciplines. Useful for locating peer reviewed journal articles in Sociology. |
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| Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge Contains Science Citation Index Expanded 1900-, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956-, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975. It allows the identification of key articles in a discipline and to search by cited reference, that is to trace references that refer to a particular work or author. |
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| The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut is "the largest library of public opinion data in the world." |