Suggested Resources for Sociology

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alternative Press Index		Indexes 250 alternative, radical, and left publications
	Alternative Press Watch		Full text from alternative and independent publications.
	American Factfinder		Data from 1990 and 2000 censuses, American Community Surveys, and Economic Census 1997
	Anthropology Plus		Indexes articles in anthropology, archaeology and related disciplines.
	AnthroSource		Online fulltext journals and other serial publications of the American Anthropology Association
	Census		Information on how to find data from Census 2000 and earlier censuses
	Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO)		Indexes and abstracts articles on criminal justice topics.
	EconLit		EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1,010,900 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
	ERIC (Proquest)		Index to educational materials.
	FDsys (formerly GPO Access)		Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government
	Gallup Brain		Public opinion results to more than 136,000 questions, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.
	Google Scholar -- Public Version		Locate and access peer-reviewed journal articles and other scholarly sources. This version ONLY provides full text access to e-journals subscribed to by UMD Library WHEN ON CAMPUS.
	JSTOR		Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines.
	LexisNexis Academic		Articles in newspapers from world, United States, regional, and local presses
	LexisNexis Legal Research		Full-text federal and state case law and legislative codes and federal regulatory law
	NCJRS Abstracts (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)		Indexes articles and book chapters on criminal justice
	New York Times (Historical Online Archive)		Full page images of the New York Times, from its first issue in 1851 to 2000. Includes digital images of every page from every issue, cover to cover, including the New York Times Book Review.
	New York Times (NewsStand)		Access articles from the New York Times, 1999 - present. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	NewsStand		Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Oxford English Dictionary Online		The Oxford Engish Dictionary, containing more than 2.5 million quotations illustrates how words are used and their origins
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	Proquest Congressional Publications		Guide to locating congressional publications, bills, testimony, public laws
	Psychology Journals (Proquest CSA)		Full-text of nearly 300 academic journals in psychology and related fields.
	PsycINFO		Indexes more than 1,400 journals on psychology, psychiatry, sociology, education, linguistics and physiology.
	RefWorks		An online bibliographic management tool
	SAGE Premier		Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
	Science Direct (Elsevier)		Full text of selected journals and selected reference books published by Elsevier. Full text indexing available for all Elsevier journals from v. 1, issue 1.
	Social Sciences Citation Index		Social Sciences Citation Index for the years 1997- to the present is now available via the internet through a product called Web of Science. The paper version of Social Sciences Citation Index is available in the General Index Area of the library under the call number H1 .A3 S67x and covers the years 1970-1998.
	Social Services Abstracts		Indexes current research articles focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
	Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)		Indexes articles in the social work profession and areas of service.
	Web of Science		Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).
	Women's Studies International		Provides access to Women's Studies core disciplines and to the latest studies in feminist research.
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Gabriel Gardner, Reference Librarian

Email:gardnerg@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-6609

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