The most comprehensive ABI/INFORM database, this comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The database features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
Scopus is an excellent tool for chasing forward an older paper or finding similar papers to what you are working on. You can find out what future papers cited the paper you just finished reading. Google Scholar has a similar function, but Scopus is usually better.
Multidisciplinary scholarly search engine. Covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, and other scholarly organizations. Includes links to USU resources when on campus.
Use Article Linker to search for full-text across all databases. If the article isn't available, choose Request via ILLiad or use interlibrary services to request a copy from another library.
A data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. ICPSR hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
ICPSR supports research in sociology, economics, political science, population studies, criminal justice, health care, education and more. Includes data sets from privately and publicly funded research, governmental and non-governmental agencies, opinion polls and other studies. As institutional members of ICPSR, USU faculty and students may use the archive of social science data. To download data, users need to create their own account to login. Once downloaded data can be analyzed with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
General quantitative data on an easy-to-use searchable platform. Covers thousands of sources and topics, with infographics that are easy to share or embed on a webpage.
Current and historical census data and demographic information for the United States with tools to create thematic maps, interactive maps, and customized reports.