Sociology Databases

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Sociological Abstracts Proquest/CSA 1952-
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. An excellent resource for any sociology related topic.

Sage Online Journals* Sage years vary-
A full-text, multidisciplinary database covering more than 520 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.

Social Science Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.

Scopus Elsevier 1966-
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Scopus is an abstracts database covering the following fields: chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, psychology, economics, and environmental sciences.

Social Services Abstracts Proquest/CSA 1979-
Covers of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Annual Reviews* 1996-
A major source of top tier scholarly literature in numerous disciplines. Limit to the Annual Review of Sociology by selecing "sociology" for the journal in a search.

ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains a digitl, data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, demographics and other social related fields.

SPORTDiscus with Full Text EBSCOhost 1985-
Searches a mixture of peer reviewed journals and popular publications, such as magazines, in the areas of sport, recreation, sports medicine, coaching, physical fitness, history and sociology of sport, and training.

Oxford Bibliographies Online
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a research tool for the social sciences and humanities that helps researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them to the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research area. It has excellent bibliographies in criminal justice and social work areas.

Streaming Video Databases

Films on Demand Films Media Group
Contains thousands of streaming documentaries in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. For sociology, it contains films in the areas of ethnic studies, social justice, women's studies and other related areas.

American History in Video Alexander Street Press
American History in Video features commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries in American history ranging from 1492-2000. Browse the Subject Index to find videos related to social issues.

Area Studies

Asia Studies*
This databases bring together full-text reports on modern Asia and the Pacific covering a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

Ethnic NewsWatch ProQuest 1990-
Features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Ethnic NewsWatch: A History ProQuest 1960-1989
Includes newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press.

Criminology

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index ProQuest 1981-
A comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. Great for searching in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security.

NCJRS Abstracts Database National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A free database containing summaries of the more than 195,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.

Gender Studies

Defining Gender 1450-1910 Adam Matthew
Defining Gender provides access to a vast body of original source material from a wide range of original sources including ephemera, pamphlets, commonplace books, diaries, periodicals, letters, ledgers, manuscript journals, poetry, receipt books and conduct and advice literature. Topics covered include conduct and politeness, domesticity and the family, consumption and leisure, education and sensibility and the body.

Social Psychology

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments) Ebscohost
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Identifies measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.

PsycINFO EBSCOhost 1872-
PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. The database includes information from empirical studies, case studies, surveys, bibliographies, literature reviews, discussion articles, conference reports and dissertations. PsycINFO is the world's most comprehensive source for bibliographic coverage of psychology and behavioral sciences literature.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

CQ Global Researcher CQ Press 2007-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance at the international level. Topics range from social issues such as environment, health, education and science and technology. Just like the original CQ Researcher, each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

CQ Researcher CQ Press 1923-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

JSTOR*
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

LexisNexis Academic* LexisNexis years vary
Click on the Legal link near the top of the page to search for laws and court cases. Also contains news sources, such as the New York Times, a great resource for general searching.

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)* EBSCOhost 1982-
This general database includes articles that cover a wide range of topics in education, general science, humanities, and the social sciences. Formerly known as WilsonWeb, OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition contains the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.