Sociology Databases

ABI/INFORM Global--Most scholarly and comprehensive way to explore and understand business research topics. Search nearly 3000 worldwide business periodicals for in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and more. Expanded international coverage. Fast access to information on 60,000 + companies with business and executive profiles. Now includes The Wall Street Journal. 

Census Data: An online database offered by the U.S. Bureau of Census, the database provides statistical information about census data.

CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating Census 2000 data and U.S. demographic trends.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. The database provides access to a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutions, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

EconLit is the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world. EconLit contains abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals. It abstracts books and indexes articles in books, working papers series, and dissertations. EconLit also provides the full-text of Journal of Economic Literature book reviews.

Emerald  provides comprehensive coverage of over 100 management journals--complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts to 1989.  Click here for journals available.

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

Ethnic NewsWatch -- Ethnic NewsWatch™ (ENW) features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. With titles dating from 1990, ENW presents a comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 1.8 million articles from more than 315 publications offering both national and regional coverage. While the content may mirror mainstream media coverage, the viewpoints are decidedly unique.

FACTS offers users the depth of a 20-year news backfile and the timeliness of weekly updates (with hourly newswire feeds).

GPO provides free electronic access to vast information products produced by the Federal Government, included Federal databases (Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations), Congressional Records and Congressional Bills, Commerce Business Daily (CBD Net), Catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT), The Sales Product Catalog (SPC) and Government Information Locator Service (GILS). Federal Bulletin Board provides access to Federal information in electronic form.

GenderWatch -- GenderWatch enhances gender and women's studies, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research by providing authoritative perspectives from 1970 to present. This well-established and highly reviewed resource offers over 260 titles, with more than 240 in full-text, from an array of academic, radical, community and independent presses. Researchers and teachers may access more than 219,000 full articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, healthcare, and the workplace.

General OneFile  (Help Guide) is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

International Index to Black Periodicals: International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text brings together 150 of the most respected scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies.

JSTOR  provides back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Printing from the JSTOR database requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  For a current list of journals available, see Journals Currently Available.

Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

MIT Press currently publishes journals  in the fields of architecture, the arts, social sciences, environmental studies, life sciences, medicine and technology. Each journal has been approved by the Editorial Board that governs The MIT Press imprint and are published in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as with other institutions, including Harvard University, New York University, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

PsycBOOKS is a database of more than 16,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2005. It also includes 100 out-of-print books and a total of more than 400 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.

ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for more than 720 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. SocINDEX offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. In addition, SocINDEX features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus. All author profiles are updated on a routine basis as new information about each author becomes available. Moreover, profiles continue to be added for additional authors within the database on an ongoing basis.

Sociological Abstracts 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.

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies). 

Statistical Abstract of the United States contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.  Selected international data are also included.

Tennessee State Data Center is a state/Census Bureau cooperative program that disseminates census and other data to the public through a network of over 1,800 state and local agencies, libraries, universities, chambers of commerce, and others. Since 1978, the U.S. Bureau of the Census has provided state data centers with a wide range of census information and with technical assistance and training necessary to access the data. 

Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection covers such subjects as Anthropology, Economic Development, Economics, Education, Environmental Science, Planning Pedagogy, Planning Practice, Planning Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Regional Science, Residential and Community Development, Social Dynamics, Spatial Dynamics, Cultural Dynamics, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Culture, Urban Geography, Urban Policy, Urban Politics, and Welfare Economics. This database includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, encompassing over 10,500 articles and up to 43 years of backfiles.

Wiley InterScience provides full text information of over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals, plus major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and even the full text of select Wiley print books online.   Click on the Journal Finder tab  to scan and browse the list of journals OR -  click on the 'Search Wiley InterScience' tab to conduct actual searches against the content.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000  - This Worldwide Web site is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.