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HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is the world’s largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world’s constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase.

Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Legal, news, and business-related research

Nexis UNI This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Personalization features include Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.

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Taylor & Francis Social Science & Humanities Journals This link opens in a new window Over 1,400 online journals from ca. 1997 - present.

Sage Journals This link opens in a new window Contains more than 1,000 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Sociological Abstracts covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers. Coverage: 1952 - current.

Cambridge Journals (Humanities and Social Sciences) This link opens in a new window From Cambridge Core, Trinity's access to a collection of journals from Cambridge University Press. Current subscription is to the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection. Note: not all items are full-text.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window Archive of past issues of scholarly journals from all areas of study. Includes full runs of covered journals, excluding content from the past 2-5 years. Includes full runs of covered journals. NOTE: Internet Explorer is no longer supported by JSTOR. See 'More Info' re: browser troubleshooting.
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SpringerLink This link opens in a new window The Library subscribes to a current collection of Springer e-journals. We also own the Springer journal archive, Springer e-books current + archive (English), and Palgrave e-books current + archive. For e-books, you may purchase your own softcover version for $39.99 via the 'MyCopy' link on the book landing page.

GenderWatch This link opens in a new window Focuses on the evolution of the women's movement, LGBTQIA community, and changes in gender roles over time. More broadly, resources encompass the impact of gender across disciplines and subject areas. Publications include academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and more. Includes coverage from 1970.

Project MUSE (Journals and E-Books) This link opens in a new window Full text of all journals of the John Hopkins University Press as well as some other selected university publishers. An important academic resource for the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Coverage generally from 1990s forward. Trinity also has full-text access to select eBooks from Project MUSE.

Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews. Coverage: 1979 - current

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in more than 45 scientific disciplines. Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature, identifying the principal contributions in a given field.

NCJRS Virtual Library and Abstracts Database The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library contains bibliographic information and abstracts of more than 230,000 collection resources and over 80,000 online materials, including all known Office of Justice Programs' works. Use the search filters and sorting options below to narrow down your results from the Abstracts Database.

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google's search engine for scholarly material. When on campus articles available through Trinity Library resources are indicated by an Online- Trinity College link to the right of the article title. To view these indications when off campus open Google Scholar Settings and in the Library Links page search for Trinity College. Select Trinity College – Online- Trinity College and save your selection.

ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center This link opens in a new window Provides access to education literature and research. The database also contains information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.