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When searching the databases listed to the right, always limit to peer-reviewed journals to access 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
  

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

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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, including education (issues published in the last 3-5 years are excluded)

PAIS International

• Covers journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other literature on the full range of political, social, and public policy issues
• Coverage since 1915
  

Sociological Abstracts

• Covers international literature in sociology and related social sciences
• Great resource for literature searches on social and equity issues
  

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly PCI)

• Historical coverage of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences
• Includes journals in business/management, education, 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

Dissertations & Theses Online

• Includes citations, abstracts and full-text, when available, of dissertations from students in North American and European schools (since 1861, when the first U.S. dissertation was accepted)