Sociology Guide
This guide has been created to provide some access to resources in the field of Sociology,including but not limited to information on searching for books and articles and information on publishing. Please feel free to either contact me or refer to the Sociology department if you have any questions.
Sociology Databases
Best Bets
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Academic Search CompleteThis multidisciplinary database covers magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers and is a good place to start for any subject.
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Sociological AbstractsProvides international coverage of the literature of sociology and related fields.
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Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social ResearchArchive of political and social research data. Includes leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
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Social Sciences Citation IndexMultidisciplinary section of Web of Science covering scholarly literature in the social sciences from 1900 to present.
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Humanities & Social Sciences Index RetrospectiveIndexes a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences from 1907 to 1984.
Other Important Databases
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Uniform Crime Reporting ProgramStatistics on crime in the United States as contributed by state and local law enforcement agencies. Includes the FBI's Crime Data Explorer, Hate Crime Statistics, and more.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full TextFull-text for many important journals and magazines related to criminal justice and criminology.
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Ethnic NewswatchFull-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press of the United States.
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National Criminal Justice Reference ServiceContains summaries of criminal justice articles and reports.
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Women's Studies InternationalA bibliographic database for women’s studies and feminist research. Coverage from 1881 to current.
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Women and Social Movements in the United StatesOrganized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000. Includes projects and archives with reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.
Multidisciplinary Databases
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JSTORMultidisciplinary collection of selected scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources in humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
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SAGE JournalsCollection of SAGE journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.
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Web of ScienceA multidisciplinary citation index covering journal articles and conference proceedings in sciences, social sciences, and humanities from 1900 to current. Provides cited reference searching and journal impact factors.
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Nexis UniProvides content from US and international magazines, journals, newspapers, television and radio broadcasts dating back mostly from the 1990s with some content from the 1970s. Also includes legal research sources and business information for US and international companies.
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CQ Researcher (1923-present)Contains reports about current and controversial issues. Excellent for finding overviews, pros/cons and lists of key resources.