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Business/Retailing/Economics
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI Inform)* Covers business trade magazines and scholarly journals.
- Econlit* Leading scholarly index for economics literature.
Consumer Behavior / Marketing
- ProQuest One Business (formerly ABI Inform)* Covers business trade magazines and scholarly journals
- PsycINFO* Covers psychology and related subjects.
- Mintel Reports* Covers US & UK consumers intelligence reports which analyze market sizes and trends, market segmentation, as well as consumer attitudes and purchasing habits.
Education
- ERIC* Oldest and largest education-related database. It covers journal articles and ERIC Documents.
Health/Medical
- Health Source: Consumer Edition* Covers consumer health including nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol, and much more.
- CINAHL* Covers nursing and allied health literature.
- PubMed* Premiere medical literature database covering all aspects of medicine and health care.
Law
- Index to Legal Periodicals* Covers all areas of law from the United States and Commonwealth countries and indexes legal periodicals, court decisions, legislation and more.
- LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe* Composed of approximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources, most full text.
Newspapers and Popular Magazines
- Alternative Press IndexIndexes approximately 300 alternative, radical, and left publications that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change.
- LEXIS/NEXIS Academic UniverseApproximately 5,000 legal, news, reference, and business sources including news sources, magazines, wire services, newsletters, trade journals, company and industry analyst reports, and broadcast transcripts.
- Readers' Guidegeneral interest periodicals covering news and current events in politics, business, science, education, religion, the arts, foreign affairs, sports and hobbies, fashion, food and cooking, and health and nutrition.
- Left IndexProvides indexing to "the diversity of literature on the left, with a primary emphasis on politically and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside the academy and a secondary emphasis on significant but little known sources of news and ideas."
Public Policy
- PAIS International* Covers public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts* Covers political science and related fields including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy.
- National Journal Group's Policy Central* Advertised as "the academic community's policy source", Policy Central offers several databases covering various aspects of U.S. government, public policy, and business.
Social Sciences
- SocINDEXCovers all sub-disciplines of sociology including demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory and more.
- Sociological AbstractsCovers international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Sustainable Consumption
- GreenFILEGreenFILE offers well-researched but accessible information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimize negative impact. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
- Sustainable Science AbstractsCovers all aspects of sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management and conservation of natural resources. In addition to journal articles, the index icludes papers, reports, books, conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature.
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