Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
- ASSIA is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information.
Bath Information and Data Services (BIDS) -
BIDS is a UK-based bibliographic service that provides access to
the Ingenta Journals full text service, both directly and also through
links from database search results.
Current Index to Statistics -
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability,
and related fields. This site is available to all machines in the
ox.ac.uk domain.
International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences (IBSS) via OxLip+ - This database contains bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
OxLIP+ - a list of further bibliographic databases from Oxford University’s extensive online collections. Resources are generally restricted to bona fide members of the university..
Social Science
Research Network (SSRN) - SSRN is a world-wide collaborative of over 800 leading scholars that is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research.
Web of Science via OxLip+
- provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index, with bibliographic references to significant items from over 1,400 journals in the behavioural and social sciences
Worldcat via OxLip+ - OCLC's catalogue of books, web resources, and other material worldwide, containing millions of bibliographic records.
Zetoc - access a database of tables of contents, produced by the British Library, which covers 20,000 research journals including those in politics, economics and sociology. See our blog post for details on how to use search, alerts and RSS.
EconLit via
OxLip+ - The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography indexes
more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world,
including journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume
articles, working papers and dissertations.
EconPapers - provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.
Ideas - claims to be the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics with over 925,000 items of research that can be browsed or searched and over 800,000 items that can be downloaded in full text.
PAIS via OxLip+ - The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.
Sociological
Abstracts - CSA's database draws information from an international selection of over 1800 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations.