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 magazines and academic periodicals.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to magazines and academic journals ; provides full text for over 3400 titles..
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Alt-Press Watch		Index and Fulltext access to articles from alternative and independent publications.
	Alternative Press Index		Indexes 250 alternative, radical, and left 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 (Proquest CSA)		Indexes and abstracts articles on criminology and criminal justice topics
	EconLit		Index to articles on economic theory, financial economics, international economics, economic history.
	Education Full Text		Index to articles on all aspects of education.
	ERIC (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)		Index to educational materials.
	Family and Society Studies Worldwide		NEW
	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 journal articles and other scholarly sources.
	GPO Access		Several databases providing access to major publications of the U.S. government
	JSTOR		A full text archive of over 100 journals; often date from first issue; usually don't include most recent 3-5 years.
	LexisNexis Academic		Articles in newspapers from world, United States, regional, and local presses
	LexisNexis Academic -- Legal Research		Full-text federal and state case law and legislative codes and federal regulatory law
	LexisNexis Congressional		Guide to locating congressional publications, bills, testimony, public laws
	LexisNexis Statistical		Indexes statistical publications from federal and state governments and international agencies
	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
	NewsStand		Online access to over 250 national and international newspapers
	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		Full-text articles in art,, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	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
	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		Index to current research articles focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development
	Sociological Abstracts		Indexes articles in sociology and social policy
	Web of Science		Online versions of ISI's citation indexes-- Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Social Sciences Citation Index can also be searched by topic.
	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		Catalog to over 4,000,0000 books, microforms, and av publications

 

 

Web Sites

 

DVDs/Videos on Criminal Justice Topics (UMD)

List of dvds and videos available at the UMD Library on topics related to criminology and criminal justice.

DVDs/Videos on Sociology Topics (UMD Library)

DVDs and Videos available at the UMD Library on sociology topics and social issues.

 

Research Help

 

  

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

Rory Litwin, Reference Librarian

Email:rlitwin@d.umn.edu

Phone:218 726-7896

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