Social Sciences

Ontario has a rich history of black publishing. Three significant publications are available through the Abolitionist Newspapers of the 1850s portal: The Voice of the Fugitive; The Provincial Freeman, and The True Royalist and Weekly Intelligencer (pro-abolitionist, white newspaper).

 

• This is a secure environment that conforms to industry best practices for maintaining data integrity and longevity.
• Data owners can retain complete control over who can access their data. Specific datasets can be made freely available, available only on request, or restricted to only certain IPs, to an individual account(s) or to specific groups.
• Borealis is widely used by academic institutions in Canada and the U.S. and datasets are indexed and searchable across institutions.
• Borealis is most suited for datasets up to 2GB.

Reference material that guides users through the research process. From a quick dictionary definition, a case study example from a researcher in the field, a downloadable teaching dataset, a full-text title from the Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences series, or a video tutorial showing research in action, this is a comprehensive reference source on methods for anyone planning or conducting a research project.

Access thousands of digitized theses and dissertations from the University of Windsor, with new materials being added each semester.

The University of Windsor is a comprehensive university with 54 Masters and Doctoral programs in Arts and Social Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Human Kinetics, Nursing, and Science. The materials in this collection span the years 1954 to the present.

<odesi> is a digital repository for social science data, including polling data. It is a web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool that uses the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social science data standard. <odesi> provides researchers the ability to search for survey questions (variables) across thousands of datasets. There are both microdata and aggregate data available, in a range of formats.

It includes datasets from Statistics Canada, Gallup Canada and other polling companies, and public-domain files such as the Canadian National Election Surveys and selected files from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).

A libguide is available for help with using odesi.

For comprehensive data resources visit the Academic Data Centre.

ProQuest Ebook Central is a platform that hosts some of the ebooks that the Leddy Library purchases. Browse ebooks from all disciplines.

An interdisciplinary resource of indexed and full-text research in the humanities and social sciences.

Covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields under the umbrella of humanities and social sciences, this resource provides access to both well-known and specialized journals spanning from 1907-1984. Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Full-text available.