Social Studies Research Guide: Social Studies Research

6 Social studies databases that consist of primary and secondary resources.

Find information on the world's most influential people.

International viewpoints on global issues, topics, and current events. Rich multimedia includes podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.

This resource presents great printed references about a wide range of topics and subjects in a database format. A selection of reference books available as searchable eBooks.

Information on today's hottest social issues. Great for debates! Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics,images and podcasts, and links to Websites.

Information on a broad range of topics, people, places, and events. Full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

This database will search ALL of our databases. It is a wonderful place to start your research. Remember to narrow down your options using the limiters!

Cultural reports for countries and territories and states. Each include categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance, greetings, gestures, family, diet, holidays, economy, education, health, and events and trends.

Full text from books, periodicals, historical documents, biographies, historical photos, maps, and video.

Includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select scholarly books and other materials valuable for academic work.

Access all Proquest databases here, including: Arts & Humanities, Business, Education & Careers, General Research, Health Sciences & Nursing, History, Literature, News & Issues, Science & Technology, and Social Sciences.

Updated daily, SIRS Knowledge Source provides relevant, credible information on social issues, science, history, government, and the arts and humanities.

Contains every article from the 22-volume encyclopedia plus more. Includes multimedia and editor-reviewed Web sites.

Seven decades of news from the renowned Facts on File World News Digest . Trace an event throughout history from the day it happened to events effecting it today.