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).

 

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.

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.

Access to reference eBooks across a broad range of disciplines including history, law, medicine, and more.

Gale Virtual Reference Library provides an electronic collection of premier reference eBooks across a multitude of disciplines. Available electronic resources include encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. The following subjects are covered by the collection: biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, medicine, nation and world, science, and social science.

A multi-disciplinary resource containing full-text scholarly literature in every academic discipline.

Scholars Portal Journals is a database supported by the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) that provides full-text access to over 40 million scholarly articles in every academic discipline. This resource also includes select Open Access (OA) journals.