LibGuides: Appalachian Studies: Articles / Databases

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Databases for finding journal articles (Appalachian Studies)

Other Useful Databases for Appalachian Studies

Biography Reference Bank This link opens in a new window
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Cites biographical material appearing in periodicals, current books of individual and collective biography, and incidental biographical material in otherwise non-biographical books. Biographical subjects indexed range from antiquity to the present and represent all fields and nationalities.
Subject Coverage:
biographical information
Dates of Coverage:
July 1984 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 500,000 people
more than 36,000 images
Book Review Digest This link opens in a new window
Cites and excerpts reviews appearing in periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. which cover English-language fiction and non-fiction. Children's books are included, but excluded are: textbooks, government publications, and technical books in law and the sciences.
Subject Coverage:
thousands of subjects
Dates of Coverage:
January 1983 to present
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 600,000 records
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Indexes doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited U.S. institutions since 1861. It selectively covers Master's Theses, Canadian dissertations, and British and other European dissertations going back to 1637. Nearly half of the records link to the full-text document.
Subject Coverage:
covers the complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions
Dates of Coverage:
1637 to present (for selected British and European dissertations)
1861 to present (for indexing of U.S. dissertations)
July 1980 to present (for dissertations with abstracts)
January 1988 to present (for Master's Theses with abstracts)
1997 to present (for the full-text of most dissertations)
2013 to present (for indexing and full-text of theses produced at Morehead State University)
Update Frequency:
monthly
Size:
more than 3,800,000 records
more than 1.700.000 full-text documents
European Views of the Americas This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.
Subject Coverage:
botany, the Catholic Church, commerce, economics, fisheries, geography, Indians, Jesuits, law, mineral resources, navigation, pirates, shipping, slave-trade, tobacco
Dates of Coverage:
1493-1750
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
more than 32,000 records
Facts On File: World News Digest This link opens in a new window
Brings together and enhances more than seven decades of domestic and international news.
Subject Coverage:
political, social, and economic news events
Dates of Coverage:
October 1940 to present
Update Frequency:
weekly
Size:
more than 92,000 records
GPO govinfo This link opens in a new window
Contains the full-text of many government documents. It updates and replaces GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) website.
Subject Coverage:
covers numerous subject areas
Dates of Coverage:
1994 to present
Kentucky Digital Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Is a digital archive of historic Kentucky newspapers.
Subject Coverage:
local news events
Dates of Coverage:
1787 to 2018
Update Frequency:
daily
Size:
more than 86,000 items
Kentucky Research Commons This link opens in a new window
This is a statewide portal site for all libraries in Kentucky that use the Digital Commons platform for their institutional repository.
Kentucky Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
Offers full-text access to hundreds of academic monographs from the University Press of Kentucky.
Subject Coverage:

humanities, social sciences, film, television and radio, history, military studies, and political science
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
whenever updates are purchased
Size:
more than 100 books
SAGE Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
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Offers comprehensive information on research methodology primarily in the social sciences (but in other disciplines as well) taken from hundreds of publications by SAGE.
Subject Coverage:
research methodology
Dates of Coverage:
unknown
Update Frequency:
annually (in December)
Size:
more than 100,000 pages of content
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to historical U.S. Census data. It includes reporting and mapping tools.
Subject Coverage:
demography
Dates of Coverage:
1790 to present
Update Frequency:
unknown
Size:
unknown

Tutorial:
https://socialexplorer.libguides.com/socialexplorer
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and abstracts articles in 1,500 journals in sociology, social work, and other social and behavioral sciences.
Subject Coverage:
abuse and neglect, aging, anthropology, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, development policy, education, law and penology, race relations, social psychology, sociology, urban development, urban studies, and violence
Dates of Coverage:
1963 to present
1974 to present (for records with abstracts)
Update Frequency:
monthly (approximately 2,500 new records added per update)
Size:
more than 660,000 records