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Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Sociology:
Which Indexes and Databases should I select? An annotated guide.
Try these for Sociology and related Social Sciences Topics
Full-text or Bibliographic Journal Articles
- Academic Search Premier
- - A popular starting point for searching across over 4000 scholarly journals with nearly 3000 titles in full-text,
related to the Social Sciences. Print, Email or Dowload html or pdf files and connect with a hot link to the IRIS
library catalog for holding information.
- Alcohol History Database
- - Ranging from 1700 to 1960's this searchable database contains bibliographic records about temperance and prohibition
movements.
- Alcohol Studies Database
- - Search over 55,000 records starting from 1986 onwards, collected from books, chapters,
journals, and other materials about biomedical, psychosocial aspects of alcohol use and in general drug/alcohol
use.
- America: History and Life
- - Covers history of United States and Canada, prehistory to the present. The database starts
in 1964 and covers more than 2000 journals.
- ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- - Contains citations and abstracts of
journals from 16 different countries (including the U.S. and U.K.) Major areas of
coverage start from 1987 onwards and include health, social services, psychology,
sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
- Chicano Database
- - This database can be searched for bibliographic records 1960 onwards from Chicano Studies
Collection at the University of California at Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library.
- Contemporary Women's Issues
- - Search this database for full-text information on women's issues from 1900 sources across 190 countries.
- ComAbstracts
- - Search electronic databases and textual and research resources provided by the
Communication Institute for Online Scholarship. Coverage varies with individual journals.
- CountryWatch
- - Check out current reviews, news and color maps of more than 191 countries.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts
- - Search abstracts on criminal justice, criminology and related areas from 1968 to present.
- ERIC - Education-related materials abstracts
- - Provides citations from world's largest collection of education materials available from 1966 onwards.
- Ethnic NewsWatch
- - Over 200 newspapers, journals and magazines from ethnic, minority, and native press are available full-text from 1960 onwards.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments
- - Information about measurement tools such as questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests for health, social sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science is available 1985 onwards.
- IngentaConnect
- - Rutgers IngentaConnect Gateway provides access to more than 25000 publications, many of them available full-text to Rutgers registered users.
- JSTOR
- - About a 100 journal titles are available full-text from the "birth" of the journal to 2-5 years back
(the most current 2-5 years are not available).
- Left Index
- - An important source of information - political, economic, social and cultural from the leftist and radical media available from 1982 onwards.
- LexisNexis Academic
- - A full-text database providing General, business, medical and reference information from newspapers, magazines and journals, newsletters, newswires, etc.
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries: Colonial Times to 1950
- - Provides full-text access to unique information about personal and public lives of women from colonial times to 1950.
- PBS VIDEOindex Online
- - Search selected PBS produced video titles of over 2200 video chapters and 36000 video segments. Rutgers University Libraries owns all these titles.
- PopLine
- - Provides an search index for publications in the fields of population, family planning, and health related issues from 1827 onwards. Many items are available full-text for a fee. However, please check Rutgers University Libraries collections first since many of these titles might already be available.
- PsycINFO
- - Covers academic and professional article information for psychology, sociology, medicine, physiology, etc.
- Social Services Abstracts
- - Provides bibliographic coverage from 1980 onwards of current research focused on social work, human
services, and related areas, including community development, gerontology,
homelessness, social policy, and social welfare.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
- - Search more than 300 datasets covering Aids/STD, Disability, the American Family, Adolescent pregnancy, Aging, and Maternal drug abuse.
- Social Work Abstracts
- - Search for social work related topics from 1977 to present.
- Sociological Abstracts
- Wilson Social Sciences Full Text
- - Subject coverage begins in 1983 and includes: anthropology, area studies, community
health and medical care, economics, geography, gerontology, international relations,
law and criminology, planning and public administration, police science and
corrections, politics and policy, psychiatry and psychology, social work and public
welfare, sociology, urban studies, and other related areas.
- Women's Resources International
- - Search for womens studies resources available from 1972 to present.
- Women Writers Online
- - Search more than 200 pre-victorian women's texts from 1400 to 1850.
Statistical Data, Tables, Figures, etc.
- AccessUN
- - Search United Nations documents and publications from 1966 onwards.
- LexisNexis Statistical
- - Search the American Statistics Index, the Statistical Reference Index, and the Index to International Statistics with links to full-text as well as tables.
- Social Sciences and Humanities Data Center
- Numeric and GIS Data Guide
- Social Science Electronic Data Library
- - Search over 300 data sets on Aids/STD, Disability, the American Family, Adolescent pregnancy, Aging, and Maternal drug abuse.
- SourceOECD
- - Information on economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, ageing society, communication and information technologies, energy, development, and science and innovation can be found via 20 studies and 19 online journals. Print copies of these journals are also available. Please check IRIS library catalog.
- UNdata
- - Search over 300 statistics on various economic and social subject areas.
- Economics Statistics see Economic Data and Text Resources
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