Social Sciences

Library Search: Advanced Search
To search the University's e-journal collections effectively, use 'Advanced Search'. From here you can construct impactful keyword searches and filter your results to make them more manageable and more relevant. For advice and training on how to search effectively, please contact your school's Librarian. 

Cambridge Core
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of high-quality academic content across Cambridge Core, including leading journals.

EBSCO
EBSCO contains thousands of full-text journal articles across lots of subject areas. You can search all of the EBSCO collections at once, or limit to individual databases, such as:

• Academic Search Complete: multi-disciplinary collections with access to lots of full-text journals.
• British Education Index: All aspects of educational policy and administration, evaluation and assessment, technology and special educational needs.
• ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources.
• MEDLINE: Useful for researching philosophy and medical ethics.
• Philosopher's Index with full text: Books and journals in philosophy and related fields.
• PsycINFO: Access to abstracts in the fields of psychology, behavioural and social sciences. EBSCO video tutorials

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre) 
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature. (ProQuest) help page

HeinOnline
A journal database containing full-text international and US journals titles primarily regarding law and legal history.

JSTOR
Full-text access to the archive of many important journals, including several key titles for social sciences. JSTOR also provides access to a small collection of ebooks and archive material.

Lexis+ UK
A legal database containing journals, case reports and UK legislation.

Oxford Academic Journals
A collection of more than 250 electronic journal titles from Oxford University Press with full-text access from 1996 to the latest issue for all titles.

Philosopher's Index
Produced by the Philosopher’s Information Center, this current and comprehensive bibliographic database covers scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. (EBSCO) video tutorials

Philpapers
Philpapers is a website that aims to be a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers.

ProQuest
Access to many different resources, including the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA), the full-text Sociology Collection, Politics Collection, Education Collection, and Criminology Collection. ProQuest video tutorials

Sage Journals
A collection of over 600 full-text international peer-reviewed journals titles, dating back to 1999 for most titles.

ScienceDirect
An e-journals collection which contains the full-text of more than 1000 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A dynamic online reference work for philosophy.

Taylor & Francis Online
A collection of over 1500 journals from Taylor & Francis Online with full-text access from 1997 onwards for most titles.

Web of Science - Clarivate
Includes the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings, access to Journal Citation Reports and Book Citation Index. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science support page

Westlaw UK
A full-text legal database including UK and EU legislation, case law, and journal articles. If you are asked to Sign in, choose the bottom option: 'Access through academic institution'. Registration for a OnePass account will be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Westlaw login help guide. Westlaw UK help pages.

Wiley Online Library
A collection of over 1400 journals from Wiley's Online Library with full-text access from 1997 onwards for most titles.

VLeBooks
One of our core ebook collections with many titles relevant for criminology, education, international relations, philosophy, politics and sociology.

ProQuest Ebook Central
This ebook platform is another of our core ebook collections.

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.

The Times Digital Archive
Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2011. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is a TV and radio recording service and is freely available to all staff and students at Keele. Record and catch-up on programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels that have been broadcast in the last 30 days. You will need your Keele username and password to sign-in.

British Library EThOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on Settings and type 'keele' into the Library Links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on Save Preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Sociology Collection. Kanopy's Education Collection. Kanopy's Political Science Collection. Kanopy's Global Studies Collection. Kanopy's Religion & Philosophy Collection. 

Keele Research Repository
A digital archive of research and enterprise output produced by Keele University staff.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
A dynamic online reference work for philosophy.

UK Parliamentary Papers - ProQuest
Search and access parliamentary Papers from the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries. Parliamentary Papers are the key source for UK official publishing. These include goverment papers, public inquiries and annual reports presented to Parliament (Command Papers), House of Commons Papers and Hansard reports of parliamentary debates.

UK Data Service
Explore the UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources.

If you need help using any Library Resources, or have questions you’d like to ask you can always contact us: library.help@keele.ac.uk, or start live chat.

The Liaison Librarian for Social, Political and Global Studies is Jane Shaw. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills you can contact Jane and ask for an appointment: j.shaw2@keele.ac.uk

You can also come along to our ‘…In a Nutshell’ training sessions. These workshops introduce key academic skills in bitesize, 45 minute, practical sessions.

There’s also guides and tutorials linked below that should help you get started:

• Try our new online tutorial and learn how to use Library Search effectively
• If you’re just getting started using the Library you can view our Library tour video and Welcome to your Library.

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.