Library Guides: Information Studies: Articles & eBooks

Technology article databases

ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of every article ever published by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and bibliographic citations from major publishers in computing. [1954 - present]
Provides full-text access to journals, magazines, transactions, conference proceedings and newsletters published by the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). Includes most historical and all current publications.
Artech House Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Artech House is a book publisher that specializes in books related to electrical and electronics engineering. Their books cover topics ranging from antennas, applied photonics, and electromagnetics to mobile communications, power engineering, and radar. UCB and LBNL have access to the full backfile of nearly 700 ebooks back to 1999.
CiteSeerX This link opens in a new window
A scientific literature digital library and search engine focused on the literature in computer and information science. [dates vary]
Indexes full-text computer science articles, papers, and technical reports that are freely available on the web.
DBLP Computer Science Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Citations for journal articles and conference papers in computer science.
Provides bibliographic information on major computer science journals and proceedings. Initially focused on database systems and logic programming, it is gradually being expanded toward other fields of computer science.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Journal and magazine articles, conference papers, and standards published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [1872 - present]
Indexes IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE standards. It also includes IEE publications for the same time period (IEE is the
INSPEC This link opens in a new window
Access to this resource will be discontinued effective 12/31/24 due to library budget cuts. Please use Scopus as an alternative resource. Search citations for research literature in the fields of electronics, computer science, physics, and electrical, control, production, and mechanical engineering. [1898 - present].
Indexes scholarly journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, and information technology.
LearnTechLib
Access to this resource has been discontinued effective 12/31/2023 due to library budget cuts. Journal articles, conference papers, dissertations and multimedia content on educational technology, information technology, and e-learning. [1997 - present]
Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
SAGE Research Methods is the essential online resource for anyone doing research or learning how to do research. With more than 800 books, reference works, and journal articles from SAGE’s world-renowned research methods list, SAGE Research Methods provides information on writing a research question, conducting a literature review, choosing a research method, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up the findings.
SAGE Research Methods’ coverage spans the full range of research methods used in the social and behavioral sciences, plus a wide range of methods commonly used in science, technology, medicine, and the humanities.

Science & Technology Collections in CRL
CRL includes rare newspapers, journals, documents, and archives from around the globe. Some collections are available digitally, and microform collections are available to UC Berkeley scholars via interlibrary loan.

Information and library studies article databases

Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
Access to this resource will be discontinued effective 6/30/24 due to library budget cuts. Index of publications in the fields of library and information science, information technology and publishing. [1969 - present]
Indexes abstracts over 550 periodicals, conference proceedings, and research reports from more than 60 countries and in over 20 different languages in the fields of librarianship, information science, and publishing, and specific applications of information technology in fields such as medicine and agriculture.
Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) This link opens in a new window
Index of hundreds of publications related to library and information science, online information retrieval, bibliometrics, cataloging and more. [1960s - present]
Indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subjects include librarianship, classification, cataloing, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Library Literature and Information Full Text
Access to this resource will be discontinued effective 8/31/23 due to library budget cuts. Full text database of publications related to library and information science, covering topics such as automation, cataloging, classification, copyright, preservation and more.
Indexes over 200 journals, books, chapters in collected works, conference proceedings, theses, and pamphlets related to library and information science.

Business and management article databases

FitchConnect This link opens in a new window
Macroeconomic, financial, industry, and company news and analysis on emerging and key global markets. [2011 - present]
Note: This resource requires you to login with your CalNet.
Provides quarterly, updated market forecast reports on 14 industry sectors in 55 countries. Industries covered include: Automotives, Chemicals, Banking, Defence and Security, Retail Food and Drink, Freight Transport, IT, Infrastructure, Insurance, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Telecommunications and Media, and Tourism. There is also a database of 65,000 multinational company subsidiaries and company profiles.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text for more than 7000 scholarly journals and other sources, including nearly 1100 peer-reviewed business publications. Offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, and accounting. [1965 - present]
Indexing, abstracts, and (in many cases) the full text of articles for the most important scholarly business journals as well as popular and trade magazines and newsletters.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
Indexing and abstracting for international economic journal articles, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. [1969 - present]
The most comprehensive index to scholarly journal articles in economics. It also lists books and dissertations, and indexes articles within 'collective works' (books consisting of collections of essays or individual papers). Most citations include a searchable abstract.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Text mining of this database is prohibited. Access limited to 49 simultaneous users Provides general and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires.
Includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal (1979-present), the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and Bureau van Dijk company profiles.

Legal, policy and social sciences article databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and general interest journals, books, and reports. [1865 - present]
Articles from broad array of peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines and news sources for nearly all areas of study; available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Search across many disciplines and sources including articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.
Lists journal articles, books, preprints, and technical reports in many subject areas (though more specialized article databases may cover any given field more completely). Can be used with "Get it at UC" to access the full text of many articles.
Hein Online This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive legal research tool including access to the pdf full-text of complete runs of many legal journals, US statutes, codes, and congressional and executive documents, Supreme Court Library, state session laws and state statutes, the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, and many historical and international legal resources. The database is continually adding resources and expanding existing resources. Courtesy of Berkeley Law Library.
Provides full text to the early issues of many legal journals and law reviews, the Federal Register (1936-six months ago), US Supreme Court Library (1754-present) and treaties and agreements.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Access to this resource has been discontinued effective 6/30/24 due to library budget cuts.

Index of publications in the fields of economics, political science, sociology and anthropology from over 100 countries. [1981 - present]
More than 70 languages are represented, with 30% percent of records published in languages other than English.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 1000 scholarly journals, including more than 2 million articles, from a wide range of disciplines. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR. [dates vary].
For more sophisticated search capabilities, go directly to JSTOR advanced search.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window
Indexes major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, international legal journals. (Legal Trac) [1980 - present]
Also indexes law-related articles from hundreds of business and general interest titles.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to international, national, local newspapers, and wire services, as well as radio and television transcripts. Database also includes business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters. Also includes laws from the U.S., all 50 states, and law reviews. Wide geographic coverage and translations from foreign-language sources, as well as news services like the Associated Press, Agence France Press, El Pai.
Nexis Uni allows users to set up personal accounts to personalize your research experience. Nexis Uni has replaced LexiNexis Academic. [dates vary]
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Indexes books, journals, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and web sources related to public policy, politics, economics, and social issues worldwide. (Public Affairs Information Service) [1915 - present]
Includes publications from over 120 countries. Some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The Archive covers English-language material only.
PolicyFile This link opens in a new window
Index to U.S. foreign and domestic public policy reports. (Policy File) [1990 - present]
Covers the areas of economics, politics, the environment, and social issues, taken from reports from a wide range of think tanks, Non-governmental organizations, international governmental organizations, and other institutions worldwide.
ProQuest Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
Search social sciences indexes on the ProQuest platform.
An interdisciplinary metasearch through 22 of the the social sciences indexes on the ProQuest platform. Includes EconLit, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, PAIS, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and more.

Social Science Research Network
The SSRN eLibrary includes abstracts of over 650,000 scholarly working papers and a full text collection currently containing over 550,000 papers in the social sciences. Includes publications of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard).

News article databases

Factiva This link opens in a new window
Text mining of this database is prohibited. Access limited to 49 simultaneous users Provides general and business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires.
Includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal (1979-present), the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and Bureau van Dijk company profiles.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to international, national, local newspapers, and wire services, as well as radio and television transcripts. Database also includes business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters. Also includes laws from the U.S., all 50 states, and law reviews. Wide geographic coverage and translations from foreign-language sources, as well as news services like the Associated Press, Agence France Press, El Pai.
Nexis Uni allows users to set up personal accounts to personalize your research experience. Nexis Uni has replaced LexiNexis Academic. [dates vary]
ProQuest Major Daily Newspapers (Historic & Current) This link opens in a new window
Access to national and regional newspapers from across the U.S.
Includes New York Times (full text, Historical, 1881-1985, with Index, 1851-1993 + 1980-current). Los Angeles Times (full text, Historical, 1881-2010 + 1985-current). Wall Street Journal (full text, Historical, 1889-1995 + 1984-current). Chicago Tribune (full text, Historical 1849-2010 + 1895- current). The Washington Post (full text, Historical, 1877-2002, 1987-current). Also indexes the New York Times Magazine (indexed from 1986-current, full text from 1997), the New York Times Book Review (indexed from 1986-current, full text from 1997), and the WSJ: the Wall Street Journal Magazine (full text from 2011-present).

eBook collections - Info studies

MIT Press eBooks Library This link opens in a new window
e-Books in the fields of computer science and engineering technologies. [1943-]
Also covers artificial intelligence, information theory, computer programming, information technology, and electrical engineering.
O'Reilly for Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Online collection of over 40,000 ebooks, computer manuals, videos, case studies, and learning paths from O'Reilly and other technical book publishers
Note: Berkeley users may access this resource by selecting our institution "University of California, Berkeley" and logging in with CalNet. Members of the public (walk-in users) should ask the Reference Desk; a staff member will need to sign in for them. (Note to staff: instructions are on the Password Protected Resources page on the Staff Web)
Includes content from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, HarperCollins, Manning, New Riders, Pearson, Prentice Hall, and other technical and business publishers. Includes over 30,000 hours of instructional video content.
Social Theory This link opens in a new window
Work by major theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Emile Durkheim, and many others.
Features 48,300 pages of content by such major theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Ulrich Beck, Howard Becker, Nancy Chodorow, Emile Durkheim, Norbert Elias, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erving Goffman, Karl Marx, Robert Merton, and Talcott Parsons, Mary Wollstonecraft and others. An advanced search interface allows sophisticated textual analyses of the included text.
Synthesis: the Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This link opens in a new window
Online collection of 75-125 page "lectures," or ebooks, that synthesize current research areas in computer science and engineering, written by experts in the field
UC Berkeley has access to Collections 1-8, with access to hundreds of lectures.

eBook collections - multidisciplinary

ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
More than 77,000 complete e-books covering 16 key subject areas.
A database of more than 77,000 complete e-books covering 16 key subject areas including: business and economics, computers and IT, literature and linguistics, history, political science, and more. These ebooks are also listed in the library catalog.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Millions of digital books scanned from UC and other major research libraries, including those digitized by Google and the Internet Archive.
Pronounced "hah-tee", this cooperative system contains millions of books scanned from UC and other major research libraries, including those digitized by Google and the Internet Archive. Search on information about the book (such as author or title), or words in the text. Full text is available for items that are not protected by copyright. Anyone can view public domain materials but to download a .pdf to a laptop or flash-drive, users need a login/password which is their CalnetID/password. Items in the HathiTrust catalog can be grouped into collections and shared online. For details, see the FAQ page.
Humanities E-Book Project (formerly History E-Books Project) This link opens in a new window
Access to the full-text of important and frequently-cited books in humanties.
Access to the full-text of important and frequently-cited books in humanities. (These e-books are also listed in UC Library Search.
Internet Archive: Text Archive This link opens in a new window
Searches and displays the full text of books and other texts on many subjects, mostly published before 1923.
Searches and displays the full text of books and other texts on many subjects. This archive was created in part by the Open Content Alliance, which includes the University of California. All materials are in the public domain. Close to 10,000 volumes from UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library book and serials collection is available through the Internet Archive: The Bancroft Library portal.
Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
A cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 750 books in the areas of Biology,Business and Management, Economics and Finance, Neuroscience Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health and Epidemiology, and Religion and Theology.
A cross-searchable library containing the full text of over 750 books and at least 200 new and recently-published books are added each year. [Please note: There are several other modules to this resource; the Library subscribes only to modules listed above.]
UC Press E-Books Collection (eScholarship Editions) This link opens in a new window
1400 online titles from the University of California Press covering a wide range of subjects.
1400 online titles from the University of California Press covering a wide range of subjects. About 30% of the UC Press books, both in print and out-of-print are represented in this collection. Click on By Subject, for a title list by subject. Note that titles are viewable online but cannot be downloaded.
Wiley Online Library Ebook Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes 950 books with a 2011 publication date. The collection includes books in the life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Exclusions to the collection are textbooks and major reference works.

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Business and management article databases

Legal, policy and social sciences article databases

News article databases

eBook collections - Info studies

eBook collections - multidisciplinary

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