Research Guides: Heller PhD: Books & Journal Literature

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If you hit a Pay Wall, that is (a page that asks you to pay a fee to access a journal or article) NEVER PAY! You will often have access through Brandeis or Inter-Library Loan. Contact Aimee or Maric!

Social Sciences Librarian

Aimee Slater

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781-736-4673

Subjects: American Studies, Health Policy, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, International & Global Studies, Journalism, Legal Studies, Politics, Public Policy

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General Search

Need help narrowing down your topic? Try searching a general database with keywords to help you focus your research. Once you've collected a few key terms, try searchihng a more politics-specific database. UNet login required.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Wide variety of scholarly literature, newspapers, magazines, and more covering topics from a wide variety of disciplines. A great place to start searching for sources on your subject!
Google Scholar
Uses Google's powerful search to find scholarly literature. This link to Google Scholar authenticates you as a Brandeis user and provides the Brandeis Access link next to many of your search results, allowing you to more easily find the full text of the articles.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information from major newspapers and magazines.

Journal Literature

APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports in psychology. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business and law. Coverage 1887 to present, includes 1,700+ international sources in over 35 languages.
Cochrane Library (Wiley)
Find high-quality evidence to inform healthcare decision-making. Included databases are the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL); and Cochrane Clinical Answers.
EconLit (EBSCO)
Extensive database of economic literature from 1886-present. Produced by the American Economic Association.
ERIC (ProQuest)
Database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education that provides access to scholarly journals, curriculum and teaching guides, research reports, and other materials related to the field of education.
Health Reference Center Academic (Gale)
Up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. Sources include full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries. Designed for healthcare students, professionals, and researchers.
HeinOnline
Includes full text law journals, US government documents, the Federal Register, U.S. Treaties, official Supreme Court opinions and more. Definitive database for legal research and policy work.
LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)
Provides full-text access to scholarly journals, newspapers, books, and other materials on lesbian, bisexual, gay, and trans (LGBT) topics. Database includes a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
MEDLINE (ProQuest)
Bibliographic database for biomedical and health journals, curated by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Entries from thousands of journals that have been approved by the advisory committee as high quality, with coverage back to 1966.
PAIS Index
Public policy papers and grey literature from over 120 countries, 1915-present.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997.
Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970
Documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more.
PubMed
More than 27 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites. Produced by the National Library of Medicine and the NIH, includes full text of all research funded by the NIH since 2008.
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic publications. Search across all content, limit to a single title, or choose by subject subsets.
Scopus
An abstract and citation database of scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Social Science Premium Collection
This collection searches across multiple social sciences databases, including IBSS, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest)
Search journals of social work, social welfare, social policy and community development, 1979 to present.