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Subject Databases

CQ Researcher
CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, education, the environment, technology, the U.S. economy, and international affairs. View Tutorial:
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Contains comprehensive coverage of over 630 international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines, with coverage from 1968 to present.
ERIC (Education Resource Information Center)
Indexes and abstracts over 1.4 million records, links to over 337,000 full-text documents of educational literature and resources.

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full text coverage of numerous publications in the areas of business, government, law, medicine, and U.S. and international news. Also provides full text coverage of the New York Times from 1980 to present.

PsycARTICLES
Full-text database containing more than 178,000 peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles from over 100 journals covering psychology-related subjects.

Statistical Resources

American FactFinder
From the U.S. Census Bureau: population, housing, economic, and geographic data .
Center for Disease Control and Prevention Statistics
Uniform Crime Reporting
Statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Downloadable public-use data sets from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research that can be used with SPSS or Excel for statistical analysis. You can create an account from on-campus using your carthage.edu e-mail as the contact info.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete
Indexes and abstracts over 18,000 journals in science and technology, psychology, religion and philosophy, etc. Over 4,800 journals are peer-reviewed and full text.
Academic OneFile
Includes more than 14,000 titles, with over 9,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 6,000 in full text. Contains the full text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present. View Tutorial:

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Full Text Finder

Full Text Finder is not an article database, it is a portal to journal availability within the library database and serials collections.