LibGuides: Social Justice: Social Justice Articles

Finding Social Justice Articles

Because social justice is a topic that spans many disciplines, you can use the articles by subject list from our home page to select subject-specific databases. The ones selected below are likely to have many articles relating to issues of social justice. Try searching for "social justice" in the search boxes. Add additional keywords related to your topic to narrow the results.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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This is a database for topics in education. Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) - Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966. (provided via EBSCO)
When provided by ERIC, there are links to the ERIC full text or links to other sources such as publisher websites or DOIs.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals. It includes full text of articles from journals dating as far back as 1995 and indexing and abstracts of periodicals dating as far back as 1983, which includes peer-reviewed resources covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and much more.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations as well as citations to book reviews.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
GenderWatch™ provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Combining hundreds of academic, gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with hundreds of thousands of articles on wide-ranging topics.
Subjects covered include: sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
A current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.
The complete collection includes the module Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection.

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