R&R - Social Sciences & Issues
Key:  Home use requires a valid EPL card
ArchiveGrid  In Library Use Use at home!
Descriptions of nearly a million archival collections owned by libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide. Useful for search for historical documents, personal papers and family histories.
CultureGrams In Library Use Use at home!
Find information on 190 countries or investigate the 50 states of the USA. You can find information from politics, religion and language to cultural recipes and photographs.
Diversity Studies Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Explore cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community. Includes 150 full-text journals and articles.
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Covers environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
ERIC In Library Use Use at home!
Journal articles and reports in education
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Provides access to hundreds of thousands of articles with balanced coverage on such topics as gender studies, sexual
behavior surveys, family and marital issues, conversion therapy, gay and lesbian rights,
homophobia, health aspects and many more.
Green File In Library Use Use at home!
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Lands and Peoples In Library Use Use at home!
Lands and Peoples is published by Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc., from the Lands and Peoples database, a 1.1-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial and technical staffs.
OAIster In Library UseUse at home!
OAIster is a catalog of more than 19 million digital resources organized by the Open Archives Initiative. These resources include Digitized books and articles, "born-digital" texts, Audio files, images, movies, datasets (downloadable statistical files).
Opposing Viewpoints in Context In Library Use Use at home!
Covers social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. Includes pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, etc.
Psychology Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Brings together information found in nearly
500 journals, with a strong emphasis on fulltext
titles cited in PsycINFO.
Reference Books Online In Library Use Use at home!
Gale Virtual Reference Library - use reference books in the library or from home 24/7. This database contains a wide variety of books including such diverse sources as: the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance, Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion and U*X*L Encyclopedia of Science. Find authoritative information on a large number of topics. It's like having a tall stack of reference books at your fingertips!
Religion & Philosophy Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Covers such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
SIRS Researcher In Library Use only
Provides thousands of full-text articles on a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, political and global issues. Articles are selected from around 1500 newspapers, magazines, journals and government publications. Includes news information, maps, and almanac information.
War and Terrorism Collection In Library Use Use at home!
Contains more than 1.7 million
articles about war and terrorism covering conflicts, their
causes, impact and perception on a global scale.
Social Issues from Multnomah County Library for middle and high school students researching current social issues from multiple perspectives. |
