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This guide is to help GSEHD students as they navigate their dissertation research.
Last update: Jul 08th, 2009 URL: http://libguides.gwu.edu/ABD  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Refining your search

When searching any of the databases listed to the right, always limit to peer-reviewed journals to obtain authoritative sources. Depending on your topic, you may also want to include qualifiers such as:

  • Empirical study
  • Case study
  • Qualitative OR quantitative
  • Research OR study OR methodology
  • Data OR findings OR results

If you're not sure how to do this, please contact me!

 
 

Multi-disciplinary / Retrospective Databases

  • Web of Science Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)  
    * The most comprehensive database in ALADIN, covering all social science disciplines
    * Great for interdisciplinary research
    * Includes search feature for finding newer works that cite an older work ("Cited Ref Search")
    * Ideal for discovering seminal articles or books and for finding related works
  • JSTOR  
    * Full-text electronic archive of older scholarly journal content in multiple disciplines (issues published in the last 3-5 years are excluded)
  • PsycINFO (via EBSCO)  
    * The premier psychology database, from the APA
    * Includes psychology, both theoretical and applied, and related behavioral science disciplines
    * Can be searched concurrently with other EBSCO databases, such as the education database, ERIC, and the business database, Business Source Premier
  • Sociological Abstracts (via CSA)  
    * Covers international literature in sociology and related social sciences
    * Great resource for literature searches on social issues, organizational culture, organizational change, and related topics
    * Can be searched concurrently with CSA version of ERIC
  • Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI)  
    * Historical coverage of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
    * Includes journals in business/management, education, psychology, sociology and general social sciences
    * Retrospective coverage goes back to 1665 for some journals
  • Humanities and Social Science Retrospective  
    * Citations to articles in important scholarly journals and specialized magazines in the humanities and social sciences
    * Covers 1907-1984
 

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