Social Sciences Reference Sources

Business and Economics | Education | Geography | History | Interdisciplinary Resources | Law | Library and Information Science | Political Science | Psychology | Sociology

Business and Economics

• American Economic Association Directory of Members (unrestricted access)
  
• Collins Dictionary of Business, Third revised edition, 2005
  
• Collins Dictionary of Economics, Fourth edition, 2005
  
• A Dictionary of Accounting, Oxford, Third edition, 2005
  
• A Dictionary of Business and Management, Oxford, Fourth edition, 2006
  
• Dictionary of Business, Peter Collin Publishing, 2001
  
• A Dictionary of Economics, Oxford, Second edition, 2002
  
• Dictionary of Economics, Wiley, 1995
  
• A Dictionary of Finance and Banking, 3rd edition, Oxford, 2005
  
• Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms Barron's Educational Series, Inc, 2003
  
• Dictionary of Human Resource Management Oxford, 2001
  
• Dictionary of Human Resources & Personnel Management, A & C Black Publishers Ltd 2006
  
• Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism A & C Black Publishers Ltd 2006
  
• Dictionary of Statistics, Oxford, 2nd edition, 2006
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Bouckaert & De Geest, 1996-2000 (unrestricted access)
  
• Handbook of International Financial Terms Oxford, 2005
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003
  
• The Penguin Business Dictionary, 1999
  
• The Penguin Dictionary of Economics, 1998
  
• The Penguin International Dictionary of Finance, 1999
  
• The Ultimate Business Library, Wiley, 2003
  
• Wall Street Words, Houghton Mifflin, 2003

For additional resources , see also the Business and Economics Resource Center page.

Education

• Educator's Reference Desk (unrestricted)
  
• Encyclopedia of Education 2nd edition, Macmillan Reference USA, 2002
  
• Learning and Memory Macmillan Reference USA, 2004
  
• World Education Encyclopedia 2nd edition, Gale Group, 2001

For additional resources, see also the Education subject page.

Geography

• Collins World Atlas Gazetteer, 2003
• The Columbia Gazetteer of North America, Columbia University Press, 2000 (unrestricted access)
  
• A Dictionary of British Place-Names, Oxford, 2003
  
• A Dictionary of Geography, 3rd edition, Oxford, 2004
  
• The Dictionary of Human Geography, Blackwell, 2000
  
• The Dictionary of Physical Geography, Blackwell, 2000
  
• The Houghton Mifflin Dictionary of Geography, 1997
  
• Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary 2001
  
• Penguin Encyclopedia of Places, 1999
  
• Philip's World Geo-Factbook, 2001

For additional resources, see also the Geography subject page.

History

World History | Ancient | Africa | Western Europe | Great Britain/Commonwealth | Americas/United States | Military History | Naval History

World History

• Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History, 2001
• Chambers Dictionary of World History, 2005
• Concise Atlas of World History, Andromeda, 2002
• A Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the Present, Blackwell, 1999
• Dictionary of Contemporary World History: From 1900 to the Present Day, 2nd edition, Oxford, 2003
• A Dictionary of World History, 2nd edition, Oxford, 2006
• Dynasties of the World, Oxford, 2002
• The Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 6th edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2001
• Hutchinson Chronology of World History, Helicon, 2006
• New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Houghton Mifflin, 2002
• Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, 2003
• The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, 2007
• Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, 2008
• Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History, Routledge, 2001
  
  

Ancient

• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, 2002
• Guide to the Ancient World: A Dictionary of Classical Place Names, H.W. Wilson, 1986
• Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd rev. edition, 2003
• Oxford Companion to Archaeology, 1996
• Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, 1998
• Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, 1991
• Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World, 2005
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, 2001
• Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge, 1999
• Who's Who in the Classical World, Oxford, 2000
• Who's Who in The Roman World, Routledge, 2001
  
  

Africa

• Encyclopedia of African History Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005
• New Encyclopedia of Africa Thompson Gale, 2008

Western Europe

• Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford, 2002, 2005
• Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Oxford, 2001
• The Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance, Market House Books, 1988
• Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, 2003
• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation, 1996
• Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance, 2006
  
  

Great Britain/Commonwealth

• The Companion to British History, Routledge, 2001
• Dictionary of British History, Market House Books, 1997
• A Dictionary of British History, Oxford, 2004
• The Kings and Queens of Britain, Oxford, 2001
• Macquarie Encyclopedia of Australian Events, 1997
• Oxford Companion to Australian History, revised edition, Oxford, 2001
• Oxford Companion to Canadian History, 2004
• Oxford Companion to Black British History, 2007
• Oxford Companion to British History, Oxford, 2002, 2003
• Oxford Companion to Irish History, 2002
• Oxford Companion to Scottish History, 2001
• The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, Oxford, 1997
• Reader's Guide to British History, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003

Americas/United States

• Black Firsts Detroit: Visible Ink, 2003
• Encyclopedia of North American Indians, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996
• Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century, Gale Group, 2007
• Great American History Fact Finder, 2nd edition, Houghton-Mifflin, 2004
• Oxford Companion to United States History, Oxford, 2001
• Oxford Companion to Canadian History, 2004
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, 2005
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 2001
• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government, Oxford, 2001
• Reader's Companion to American History, Houghton Mifflin, 1991
• Reader's Companion to the American Presidency, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
• Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History, Houghton Mifflin, 1998

Military History

• Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford, 2000
• Oxford Companion to Military History, 2001
• Oxford Companion to World War II, 1995
• The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military, Oxford, 2001
• Reader's Companion to Military History, Houghton Mifflin, 1996

Naval History

• The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, 2nd edition, 2005
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History, 2007
• Ships of the World, Houghton Mifflin, 1997

For additional resources, see also the History subject page.

Interdisciplinary Resources

• Dictionary of the Social Sciences, Oxford, 2002
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Elsevier Science, 2001.

Law

• Collins Dictionary of Law, 2006
  
• Dictionary of Law, Peter Collin Publishing, 2000
  
• Dictionary of Spanish Law Peter Collins, 1999
  
• Encyclopedia of Law and Economics, Bouckaert & De Geest, 1996-2000 (unrestricted access)
  
• Great American Court Cases Gale, 1999
  
• Martindale Hubbell Law Directory
  
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law 1996
  
• Dictionary of Law Enforcement, Oxford, 2007
• Oxford Companion to American Law Oxford, 2002
• Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, 2001
• Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2005
  
• Oxford Dictionary of Law, Oxford, Sixth edition, 2006
• The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions, Oxford, 1999
  
• World of Criminal Justice, Gale, 2002
• Your Nation's Courts Online, WANT Publishing Co., 2002

For additional resources, see also the D'Angelo Law Library page.

Library and Information Science

• Dictionary of Information and Library Management, A & C Black Publishers Ltd 2006
  
• Dictionary of Publishing and Printing, A & C Black Publishers Ltd 2006

Political Science

• Almanac of American Politics, National Journal, 2006 (earlier editions also available)
  
• The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science, 1999
  
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Oxford, 2nd edition, 2003
  
• Country Watch, CountryWatch.com,
  
• CQ's Electronic Library, Congressional Quarterly
  
• Dictionary of Conflict Resolution. Wiley, 2002
  
• A Dictionary of Contemporary World History, Oxford, Second edition, 2003
  
• Dictionary of Politics and Government, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2004
  
• A Dictionary of Political Biography, Oxford, 1998
  
• Encyclopedia of the European Union, Lynne Reiner Publishers, 2000
  
• Eurojargon, European Information Association, 2004
  
• Facts on File World News Digest, 1940-
  
• Guide to Countries of the World, Oxford, 2007
• Keesing's World News Archive, 1960-
  
• Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Politics Macquarie University, NSW, 1988
  
• Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, 2007
• Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World Oxford, 2001
  
• Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2005
  
• Oxford Guide to Countries of the World Oxford, secord edition revised, 2007
  
• The Oxford Guide to the United States Government, Oxford, 2002
  
• Science, Technology, and Society, Oxford, 2005
• Statesman's Yearbook Online Palgrave Macmillan, current edition
• World News Connection, Thomson, 2007
  

For additional resources, see also the Political Science subject page.

Psychology

• APAStyle.org (unrestricted access)
  
• Child Development Macmillan
  
• Concise Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science, Wiley, 2004
  
• A Dictionary of Psychology, Oxford, 2001
  
• International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005.
  
• Learning and Memory Macmillan Reference USA, 2004
  
• Mental Measurements Yearbook Ovid, 9th to 16th Yearbooks
  
• Oxford Companion to the Mind Second edition, 2004
  
• The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology, 1996
  

For additional resources, see also the Psychology subject page.

Sociology

• The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, 2000
  
• Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, 2006
• Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 2000
  
• A Dictionary of Sociology, Oxford, Second edition, 2005
  
• Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, 1995
  
• World of Sociology, Gale, 2002

For additional resources, see also the Sociology subject page.