Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984

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Introducing a valuable new resource—search a wealth of retrospective data!

Now for the first time, Wilson offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907—in the convenient electronic format users prefer! Combine this valuable new resource with Humanities Full Text and/or Social Sciences Full Text for a century of research in hundreds of journals. With its astounding breadth and depth, Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 makes important periodicals in your collection more accessible—and valuable—to researchers.

High-quality Wilson indexing of nearly 1,200 periodicals, as far back as 1907!
Citations to more than 1,300,000 articles, including over 240,000 book reviews, and many peer-reviewed articles.
Visit our Journal Directory for a searchable list of the journals covered.
Comprises the most important scholarly journals published throughout the 20th century in North America and Europe.
In addition to coverage of the entire range of the humanities and social sciences for nearly a century, the database covers many important scientific journals through the 1950's.
Saves time, effort, and shelf-space: search the equivalent of 46 print cumulations, in the electronic format patrons prefer.
Updated, uniform subject headings allow you to search using familiar, contemporary terms–over 850,000 subject tems have been updated.
Original subject headings are also shown, reflecting the way the issues of the day were framed. See: Historic and Contemporary Subject Headings.
Reconciliation of variant forms for nearly 500,000 personal and corporate names insures that users will find all the information on a particular individual or institution.
WilsonLink SFX-powered technology links citations with full text on any of your OpenURL compliant databases—at no additional charge.
Built-in inks make ordering articles easier.
Link to your OPAC with our library holdings indicator to let users know if they’ll find cited articles on your shelves.
Wilson quality indexing—done by professionals—guarantees user satisfaction with search results.
And—you have the option to subscribe to the combined Social Sciences and Humanities retrospective database, or to individual Social Sciences and Humanities retrospective products (details).

Depth of coverage

The new Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 allows instant searching of the equivalent of 46 printed volumes:

International Index: 18 volumes, 1907 - March 1965
Social Sciences & Humanities Index: 9 volumes April 1965 – March 1974
Humanities Index: 10 volumes: April 1974 – March 1984
Social Sciences Index: 9 volumes April 1974 – March 1983

Broad subject coverage

Social Sciences
Addiction Studies • Anthropology • Area Studies • Communications & Mass Media • Community Health & Medical Care • Corrections • Criminal Justice • Criminology • Economics • Environmental Studies • Ethics • Family Studies • Gender Studies • Geography • Gerontology • International Relations • Law • Minority Studies • Planning & Public Administration • Policy Sciences • Political Science • Psychiatry • Psychology • Public Welfare • Social Work • Sociology • Urban Studies

Humanities
Archaeology • Area Studies • Art • Classical Studies • Communications • Dance • Film • Folklore • Gender Studies • History • Journalism • Linguistics • Literary & Social Criticism • Literature • Music • Performing Arts • Philosophy • Religion & Theology

Updated Plus Original Subject Headings—All Searchable

Historical Heading

Contemporary Heading

Automobile accidents/Street accidents Traffic accidents

Child placing Foster home care

Children, Abnormal and backward Mentally handicapped children

Girls, Delinquent Juvenile delinquents and delinquency

Literary quarrels Literary feuds

Mothers, Unmarried Single mothers

Oriental studies Asian studies

Orphans and orphan asylums Orphans and orphanages

Self respect Self-esteem

And many more . . .

Now Featuring WilsonLink SFX-Powered Technology

When you search Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective:
1907-1984 on WilsonWeb, you get seamless links to full text articles on any of your library’s reference databases that are OpenURL compliant—at no additional charge.

Just click a special WilsonLink icon for automatic links to your other databases—no matter what the vendor. You don’t need additional hardware—WilsonWeb integrates your electronic collection with a supplemental search of all OpenURL compliant resources. In addition, WilsonLink provides extended services including an Internet search and document delivery options.

Or Choose One of These Individual Databases

To suit individual library needs, Wilson also offers the Social Sciences and Humanities retrospective coverage as two separate databases. Note the overlap between the two up through 1974.

Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1983
This database indexes some 1,000,000 articles, including book reviews. It offers coverage of these indexes in convenient electronic form:

International Index: 18 volumes, 1907 - March 1965
Social Sciences & Humanities Index: 9 volumes April 1965 – March 1974
Social Sciences Index: 9 volumes April 1974 – March 1983

Humanities Index Retrospective: 1907-1984
This database indexes some 800,000 articles, including books reviews. It offers coverage of these indexes in convenient electronic form:

International Index: 18 volumes, 1907 - March 1965
Social Sciences & Humanities Index: 9 volumes April 1965 – March 1974
Humanities Index: 10 volumes: April 1974 – March 1984

Also Available

Social Sciences Full Text
Enjoy fast access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the U.S. and elsewhere with full text and page images from scores of key publications, plus abstracting and indexing of hundreds of others. Updated daily on WilsonWeb; monthly on WilsonDisc.

Social Sciences Abstracts
This database delivers the same indexing and abstracts offered in Social Sciences Full Text, but without links to full text articles. The same journals are covered. Social Sciences Abstracts is updated weekly on WilsonWeb, monthly on WilsonDisc.

Social Sciences Index
This database delivers the same indexing offered in Social Sciences Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles. Social Sciences Index is updated monthly on WilsonWeb and WilsonDisc. Also available in print.

Humanities Full Text
The most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Updated daily on WilsonWeb; monthly on WilsonDisc.

Humanities Abstracts
This database delivers the same indexing and abstracts offered in Humanities Full Text, but without links to full text articles. The same journals are covered. Humanities Abstracts is updated weekly on WilsonWeb, monthly on WilsonDisc

Humanities Index
This database delivers the same indexing offered in Humanities Full Text, but without the abstracts or the links to full text articles. Humanities Index is updated monthly on WilsonWeb and WilsonDisc. Also available in print.