Sociology
Sociological
Abstracts (1963-present)
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature
in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book
reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides
abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts
of journal articles.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and and education. Contains over 312,000 records from 650 journals in 16 different countries.
Academic Search Premier
Fulltext articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts
and humanities, and sciences. Also includes about 1,000 titles that are
indexed but not fulltext . Dates of journals vary, some go back to the
1920's, others are current issues only.
Expanded
Academic ASAP (1980present)
Partially full text. Database includes information on sociology.
Alternative
Press Index (1991-present)
Indexes nearly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers
and magazines that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural,
economic, political and social change; via FirstSearch.
Contemporary
Women's Issues (1992present)
Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters,
research reports from non-profit groups, government and international
agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information
on women in over 150 countries is compiled in a single collection bringing
together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education
and human rights. Produced by Responsive Database Services; via FirstSearch.
ERIC
(1966-present)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research
and Improvement (OERI). ERIC covers research documents, journal articles,
technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and curricular
materials in the field of education.
Ethnic
NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full text collection of the newspapers, magazines
and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Free text searching
and complete indexing of articles, columns and reviews. English and Spanish
searching option available.
GenderWatch
(some back to 1970'spresent)
GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the
impact ofgender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) (1951-
present)
Includes nearly two million bibliographic references to journal articles
and books. Over 2,700 journals are indexed and some 7,000 books included
each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles
and full text availability is increasing. Particularly strong in political
science, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, law and economics.
Project
CORK
The CORK database includes over 69,000 items on substance abuse, indexed
by over 400 terms. The database is updated quarterly.
Statistical Universe
Index to over 100,000 U.S., International, and Intergovernmental statistical
publications. Some are also available fulltext. (AC)
Web of Science (on campus only) (1984-present) Online version of Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, interdisciplinary databases to journal articles in the sciences and social sciences. Tracks cited references to locate more recent articles. For cited reference searching for older articles, please contact us.
Women's Studies International (1972- present)
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies and the latest scholarship in feminist research. Includes sociology. Over 2,000 periodical sources are represented.

