Social Science & Public Policy Library Guide

A collection of ProQuest databases in the Social Sciences subject area for King's users. The content includes full-text newspapers, government documents, magazines, journals, video, ebooks, industry standard A&I databases and more. These collections cover such subjects as sociology, political science, anthropology, gender studies, religion, philosophy, criminology, library and information science, education and linguistics.

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Global Health available via Ovid is the bibliographic and full-text database dedicated specifically to public health research and practice. The database’s open serials policy and inclusion of international and grey literature allow for unique coverage. 

It provides an alternative, complementary point of reference with a broad analysis of foreign language journals, books, research reports, patents and standards, dissertations, conference proceedings, annual reports, public health, developing country information, and other difficult to obtain material. The database covers the following aspects of human health and disease:

• communicable diseases (including HIV/AIDS)
• tropical diseases, i.e. diseases in the tropics (including field and experimental studies)
• parasitic diseases and parasitology - medical entomology
• human nutrition (including food composition, food poisoning, effects of diet on health, nutritional disorders, and experimental aspects)
• community and public health (including chronic diseases, occupational health, health status indicators, the impact of agriculture on health, and cancer epidemiology)
• medicinal and poisonous plants (including pharmacology, tissue culture, animal studies, plant composition, allergens, and toxins)

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Social Policy and Practice represents an important source for applied social science policy-makers and practitioners working within human resources, public safety, social services, social administration, economic and social development, social work, social work education and care management. Coverage is broad and includes: 

• Public & social policy
• Public health
• Social care
• Community development
• Mental and community health
• Homelessness
• Housing
• Crime
• Equalities
• Law and order
• Children and families
• Older People 
   

The database comprises over 320,000 bibliographic records to reports, surveys and statistics.
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The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics is the most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field, with around 3,000 articles, 1,500 figures and supplementary audio, video and text files. There are approximately 700 biographical entries and 200 language maps, and the online edition features extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases to make navigation flexible and easy.

Covers folklore, languages, linguistics and literature. Provides citations for items from journals and series published worldwide from 1926 to date. Indexes books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Available via EBSCOhost.

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Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries, reference books and Encyclopedias, into a single cross-searchable web database. The Premium Collection offers all of these, plus added functionality and more detailed information from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 

ORO provides integrated, consistent coverage of a broad range of subjects: everything from General Reference, Language and Quotations to Science and Medicine, and from Humanities and Social Sciences to Business and Professional.

The Churchill Archive is a digital library of modern international history that includes over 800,000 pages of original documents. Spanning 1874-1965, sources include Churchill’s personal correspondence as well as his official exchanges with kings, presidents, politicians, and military leaders.

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Documents on British Policy Overseas offers researchers the opportunity to see beneath the surface of the major events of the twentieth century. Users can access contemporary accounts and follow the detailed exchanges that shaped British foreign policy from the origins of the First World War and beyond. 

It is based on three distinct print series which form a record of British peacetime diplomacy since the end of the nineteenth century: British Documents on the Origins of the War 1898-1914, Documents on British Foreign Policy 1918-1939 and Documents on British Policy Overseas.

Electronic online resource covering international security, including defence and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history, and terrorism. The extensive full‐text library is made up of more than 600 titles under the Praeger imprint, along with more than 1,000 primary source documents and short commissioned essays by experts and scholars in the field of contemporary security studies.

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Online access to selected titles from the Cambridge Journals Online service. It is possible to limit browsing and searching to titles for which King’s has full text access. King's coverage now includes also large part of the CUP journals archive. Please note that King's does not subscribe to all journals.

JSTOR offers academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Via JSTOR books, King's currently has access to over 54,000 titles from over 42 publishers.

King’s subscribes to the following collections within JSTOR:
 

• 19th Century British Pamphlets
• Arts & Sciences I-XV Collection
• Business I Collection
• Business II Collection
• Ireland Collection
• Jewish Studies
• Language & Literature Collection
• Life Sciences Collection
• Music Collection
• Political Science
• Film Studies
• Language and Literature
• Philosophy
• Religion
• Sociology
• Business and Economics

Wiley Online Library is a collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science and the humanities. King's coverage includes access to some of the subject collections of the Wiley journals backfile.

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The Encyclopedia of Political Science (TEPS) offers a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the central ideas, ideologies, and frameworks underlying the study of politics, and highlights the intersections of politics with philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, religion, psychology, history, and economics. Prepared with the assistance of the American Political Science Association (APSA), the TEPS brings together a distinguished editorial board and more than 600 established and rising scholars to chronicle twenty-first-century trends and assess the core issues that have long concerned students of politics. 

This unique reference reflects a wide range of concepts and frameworks, both Western and non-Western, and is national and international in scope. An authoritative survey of the state of politics and political science, this five-volume work contains more than 1,500 signed entries, including 500 core or interpretive essays, by contributors from nearly 40 countries.

Hansard is a substantially verbatim report of what is said in Parliament. Members’ words are recorded and then edited to remove repetitions and obvious mistakes, albeit without taking away from the meaning. Hansard also sets out details of Divisions and reports decisions taken during a sitting.

A “rolling” version of Hansard is published online in instalments during sitting days, with the printed record (daily part) of a day’s sitting becoming available the next morning, alongside an online version. Each House of Parliament has separate publications. Commons Hansard includes proceedings in the Commons Chamber and Westminster Hall, as well as written ministerial statements, petitions and ministerial corrections, while Lords Hansard details proceedings in the Lords Chamber and Grand Committee. Separate reports are produced of proceedings in Commons General and Public Bill Committees.

Hansard Online is a prototype of a new way to present content on the web. It is a joint project involving Hansard in the Commons and Lords and the Parliamentary Digital Service, with development led by Parliament’s Rapid Apps Team

New features on the site include a much-improved search function, the bringing together of all Hansard records into one easy interface, and the ability to link to particular contributions. The project team would welcome feedback on these or other features, which can be submitted through the feedback tool on the website.

As the Hansard Online project develops, we aim to bring together the “rolling” version of Hansard with reports of previous dates, and also to allow easy navigation between Hansard and the audio-visual record. In partnership with the data.parliament initiative, the project also seeks to streamline the publication process.

This site has been produced from digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. This was part of a project led by the Commons and Lords libraries. There is  the Hansard text itself by volume, Lords sittings, Commons sittings and Westminster Hall sittings as well as Written Answers, Written Statements, Lords reports and Grand Committee reports. This site also includes extracted lists of People who are recorded as having spoken, Constituencies, Offices, Acts, Bills, and Divisions.

A collection of ProQuest databases in the Social Sciences subject area for King's users. The content includes full-text newspapers, government documents, magazines, journals, video, ebooks, industry standard A&I databases and more. These collections cover such subjects as sociology, political science, anthropology, gender studies, religion, philosophy, criminology, library and information science, education and linguistics.

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HAPI is your source for authoritative, worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, Brazil, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. HAPI Online combines current information about Latin America with in-depth coverage spanning more than thirty years.

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PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas) is a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Offering key titles indexed in the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), a highly respected database produced by the Latin American Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, PRISMA features

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The CNKI China Academic Journals database is the largest full-text Chinese journals database in the world. Offered via the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) platform, CAJ covers all academic journals published in mainland China, with comprehensive access to an impressive range of content in all disciplines, including medicine & Public Health, information science and economics and management. 
 

Search worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more.

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Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

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The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750. It covers the history of European exploration as well as portrayals of native American peoples. A wide range of subject areas are covered; from natural disasters to disease outbreaks and slavery.

An essential resource for the study of slavery, the African American experience and world history spanning over five centuries.

Designed for teaching and research, this resource brings together documents and collections from libraries and archives across the Atlantic world, covering an extensive time period from 1490. Topics covered include the varieties of slavery, the legacy of slavery, the social justice perspective and the continued existence of slavery today. 
The resource offers in-depth case studies in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and Cuba along with important material examining European, Islamic and African involvement in the slave trade.

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