Review essays can be invaluable tools for students writing literature reviews for theses and dissertations as you get a sense of trends in the literature. A number of journals have sections for review essays (as opposed to book reviews), and Annual Reviews for different disciplines (including many in the social sciences) are invaluable.
Find Articles, Citations, Reviews, and more in these Indexes and Databases:
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The ProQuest Social Sciences Database cluster allows users to simultaneously perform a search in any or all of the following databases:
For more information on the individual databases, see their respective entries in the Databases list.
To search only Social Sciences Citation Index, select:
Note that some fields (e.g. psychology and history, may overlap with the sciences and/or humanities.)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is a combination of the former Political Science Abstracts and ABC POLI SCI databases.
UCSB E-Journal Titles: