Support for Social Sciences
You can find information about how to contact us at Support from UWS Library.
Contact us if you would like advice on:
- finding information for your assignments
- choosing keywords and setting limits
- choosing resources to search
- assessing credibility of sources
- compiling a search strategy for a literature review
- reference management
Resources
Cambridge Core: access to peer-reviewed journals covering the humanities, social sciences and medicine
GALE OneFile News: full-text newspaper resource that provides access to more than 2,300 major world newspapers, and includes thousands of images, radio and TV broadcasts and transcripts.
Ingenta Connect: access to a range of scholarly publications
PsycBOOKS: includes over 38,000 chapters in PDF from over 2,500 books, published by the American Psychological Association and other publishers, and includes digitized content of historical significance from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection
PsycARTICLES: full text articles covering psychiatry and psychology
Psychology and Behavioral Science Collection: the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals
SAGE Journals Online: full text journal articles in health sciences, social sciences, material sciences & engineering, and life and biomedical sciences
ScienceDirect: full text journals and e-books on a range of subjects (free registration may be required)
Scopus: combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines
Social Care Online: UK’s largest database of information and research on all aspects of social care and social work
SocINDEX: full text social sciences resources
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP): online reference resource where each entry is maintained and kept up-to-date by an expert or group of experts in the field
Statista: a wide variety of statistics, industry data and analysis from the UK, Europe and around the world. Enhance your presentations with the downloadable tables, charts and infographics.
Taylor & Francis Journals: full text access to a wide number of journals and e-books in education, the social sciences and humanities
UK Network of Sex Work Projects: UWS collection covering the health, safety, civil and human rights of sex workers
UK Data Service: UK survey data including census data between 1971-2011
Web of Science: scientific journal article and e-book citation indexing service that also provides full text links to other databases
Wiley Online Library: full text articles covering science, social science and the humanities