LibGuides: Social Sciences: Articles and Databases

Recommended Databases

These databases are great places to look to find information about social sciences and sociology.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database offering full-text access to thousands of peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including social science, humanities, computer science, engineering, physics, chemistry, and more. A good place to begin researching a topic.
Business Source Ultimate
Business Source Ultimate is IIT's largest business database, offering full-text access to thousands of scholarly journals, trade publications, and industry reports on a wide range of business-related topics including management, economics, finance, accounting, and marketing. Includes company profiles, case studies, SWOT analyses, and market research reports. An invaluable resource for researchers seeking current and historical business information.
APA PsycINFO
APA PsycINFO is a specialized database focusing on behavioral and social sciences, providing access to a vast collection of psychological literature and research in the form of journal articles, books, dissertations, and technical reports. An essential resource for researchers in psychology and related fields.
JSTOR
JSTOR offers access to a large collection of academic journals, books, images, and primary sources across multiple disciplines. It provides researchers, students, and scholars with full-text access to archival and current content from various fields including humanities, social sciences, and sciences, making it a crucial resource for literature reviews and historical research.
SAGE Journals Online
SAGE Journals Online provides access to a collection of peer-reviewed journals published by SAGE across a wide range of academic and professional disciplines, including health sciences, life & biomedical sciences, materials sciences, engineering, and social sciences & humanities.

SSRN - Social Science Research Network
A large, mostly free public website with abstracts for over 230,900 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and more than 189,300 downloadable full text documents in all areas of social and political science.

Set Up Google Scholar

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Open the sidebar menu by clicking on the three lines in the upper left corner

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Click on "Settings" from the right sidebar menu

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Navigate to your "Library Links" page

Select "Library Links" from the right sidebar menu, and search "Illinois Institute of Technology" in the search bar in the middle of the page.

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Add Illinois Tech's library links

Check the boxes next to "Illinois Institute of Technology - Find Full Text -> IIT" and "ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - MAIN CAMPUS - ProQuest Fulltext" and hit "Save"

Search for articles

Now when you search for articles, you should see "Find Full Text -> IIT" to the right of some of your results. Click on it to be redirected to the Illinois Tech catalog to access the article.