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African American History and Culture	Database
(FactsOnFile) - an electronic encyclopedia covering African-American history, from African beginnings through the slave trade, civil rights movement to the present, organized by category: biography, primary sources, subject, timeline, images, and maps and charts.
Alternative Press Index	Database
(Firstsearch) - Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines, for in-depth coverage in the humanities and social sciences. This database is no longer available by remote access. You must be on campus at Garden City, Hauppauge or Manhattan Center in order to use it.
America: History and Life	Database
(ABC-CLIO) - citations for publications related to U.S. and Canadian history
Contemporary Women's Issues	Database
(Firstsearch)- provides full-text international coverage of critical issues influencing women, particularly in the social sciences, political science, psychology and health, from 1992 - present.
CQ Electronic Library	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - includes CQ Researcher (1991- present), CQ Weekly (1983- present), CQ Public Affairs (1930's - present) and CQ Encyclopedia of American Government.
CQ Encyclopedia of American Government	Full-text database
(CQ Press)- provides concise, up-to-date explanations of the who, how, and why of American democracy.
CQ Public Affairs Collection	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - (1930's - present) includes primary source documents, statistical overviews, and contact information as well as in-depth reporting on current affairs.
CQ Researcher	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - (1991- present), includes original, comprehensive, and unbiased reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
CQ Weekly	Full-text database
(CQ Press) - (1983- present), covers issues related to the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
Early American Newspapers	Full-text database
(Readex) - a full text searchable archive of 460 historic American newspapers.
Historical Abstracts	Database
(ABC-CLIO) - citations and abstracts for publications related to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
JSTOR	Full-text database
a searchable scholarly archive providing the full text of journal articles in business, economics, history, political science, literature, sociology, as well as other key fields in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. Coverage of each journal begins with its first volume (going back to the 1880s, in some cases), and usually excludes the most recent 2-5 years.
LexisNexis Academic Universe	Full-text database
provides full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
LexisNexis Congressional	Full-text database
covers a broad range of Congressional information including House and Senate documents, committee reports, bill tracking and bill texts and campaign finance information. Provides the full text of the National Journal, as well as a searchable CIS/Index, the primary indexing & abstracting source for legislative information since 1970. The Statutes at Large includes both full text and synopses of public laws back to 1789.
LexisNexis Environmental	Full-text database
covers a wide range of environmental issues, with abstracts from 1975 to the present. Source types include journals, newspapers, federal and state codes and regulations, law reviews, and regulatory agency decisions.
Pais Archive	Database
(CSA) - provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies, including references to articles, books, and more, from 1937 - 1976.
Pais International	Database
(CSA) - index to articles, books, conference proceedings, etc. about public affairs.
Project Muse	Full-text database
provides the full text of scholarly journals in fields including literature, history, visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics. Years of coverage vary by title with selected titles beginning as early as 1993. **Note: if you receive any gateway errors when using the link above, use this alternate URL: http://0-muse.uq.edu.au.alicat.adelphi.edu/
Social Sciences Full Text	Full-text database
(Wilson) - includes citations and abstracts, 1983 to the present, with some full text articles, 1995 to the present, in applied and theoretical aspects of sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science and law.
Sociological Abstracts	Database
(CSA)- provides bibliographic information from 1963 - present in the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. Coverage includes journal articles, book reviews, books, and book chapters.
World News Digest	Database
(FactsOnFile)- covers major political, social, and economic events since November 1940.