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The article presents an update of issues related to the social sciences and humanities online information services in the U.S. as of May 2004. The American Psychological Association will license from EBSCO the content contained in the former e-psyche database. Approximately 15,000 records from newsletters and other similar materials will enter PsycEXTRA, the association's new gray literature database. Other PsycEXTRA documents include research reports not submitted to scholarly journals, convention papers and abstracts, policy papers, newsletters, magazines, popular books, consumer brochures, curricula, and fact sheets. ProQuest Information and Learning announced the third release of the online collection American Drama, covering more than 1,100 dramatic works from the Colonial period to the beginning of the 20th century. David Belasco, Joaquin Miller, Clyde Fitch, and James Herne are among the leading post-Civil War playwrights added to American Drama 1714-1915. ProQuest also announced the first release of Twentieth Century Drama. When complete, the new database will contain 2,500 plays in English, the history of modern drama from the 1890s to the present day, all in searchable full text. H.W. Wilson released its updated Humanities& Social Sciences Index Retrospective 1907-1984, which features cover to cover indexing of some 1,200 scholarly journals with 1,300,000 articles.

The article presents a comparison of databases for sociology studies, including SocINDEX from EBSCO and Sociological Abstracts from CSA.

The article offers news briefs on social sciences and humanities. H.W. Wilson announced the addition of more than 62,000 images to its Art Museum Image Gallery database. ProQuest Information and Learning's digital House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900 is made available to all 2-year colleges and 4-year universities in Great Britain through funding from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and ProQuest.

The article features SAGE Publications and its distribution strategy as of November 2011. It notes that SAGE pulled hundreds of its journal titles from EBSCOhost and ProQuest in favor of a direct distribution platform with Cambridge Scientific Abstracts in 2002. It describes its new strategy involving Web 2.0 technologies that embrace social media and the open web with a Sage Insight blog, open access publication SAGE Open, and online communities such as social science space among others.

This section offers news briefs in the social sciences and humanities-related information industry including Alexander Street Press' release of Classical Scores Library: Volume II and Anthropology Online collections, and move of ProQuest to release the digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

This section offers news briefs related to social sciences and humanities. Online Computer Library Catalog (OCLC) integrated 12 databases, formerly part of the RLG Eureka service, into the OCLC FirstSearch service. ProQuest announced the availability of the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), offering access to formerly secret documents underlying of U.S. military and foreign policy. AccessibleArchives, Inc. made significant updates to "The Liberator" and "African-American Newspapers: the 19th Century."

Presents information on various social science online services- related newsbriefs. Reference to the USA Today Online service and other launch article archives; Details on the Statistical Universe Web site; Indication that the reports of the Educational Resources Information Centre went online.