Sociology

Description: A core resource providing the most comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. FSSW covers popular issues and meets the requirements of professionals in all fields of Social Work, Social Science and Family Practice. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1970 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Social Sciences Citation Index, accessed via Web of Science, is a multidisciplinary database that covers the journal literature from 2,474 of the world's leading social science journals across 50 disciplines. The database provides access to the bibliographic and citation information that researchers, students, and faculy need to find scholarly information, analyze trends and compile research. Researchers may discover a papers influence by linking to other papers that have cited it.

Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, political science, history, public health, industrial relations, social issues, information science, social work, law, sociology, linguistics, substance abuse, philosophy, urban studies, psychology, women's studies, and psychiatry. (source: Vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1988 - date
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Creator: Institute for Scientific Research (ISI)
Vendor: Thomson Reuters

Dexcription: Social Services Abstracts indexes and abstracts over 1,300 current journals and other periodicals, covering articles, dissertations, and book reviews in the disciplines of social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.

Date Coverage 1979 - date
Vendor: ProQuest

Description: This databases abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews and also includes abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.

Date Coverage: 1952 - date
Vendor: ProQuest

Description: Academic Search Complete features thousands of full-text journals. This scholarly collection offers coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study including: anthropology, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: full-text, 1975 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Child Development & Adolescent Studies is a source for references to the current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 - 2001 previously published by the Society for Research in Child Development, plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. (Source: vendor website)

Date Coverage: 1927 - date
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Communication & Mass Media Complete provides access to a large collection of information in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State University) to provide a research resource in communication, mass media and other closely related fields of study. CMMC content includes cover to cover indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, selected coverage for 200 additional journals and full text for over 450 journals.

Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government. Includes the Congressional Record, Federal register, public papers of the President, agency reports and much more.

Website: U.S. Government Printing Office

Description: JSTOR provides image and full text online access to important scholarly journal literature in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other humanities and social sciences disciplines. The collection provides the complete backfiles of many scholarly journals, starting with the first issues. JSTOR uses a "moving wall" of 3-5 years which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.

Creator: JSTOR

Description: ProQuest Social Sciences allows you to search Social Services Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences together or separately.

Vendor: ProQuest

Description: This database is the most comprehensive international database devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains more than 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports. This database also contains information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education, technology, pharmacology, anthropology, business, law, and others. Journal coverage includes international material selected from around 2,500 journals in dozens of languages.

Date Coverage: 1887 - date
Creator: American Psychological Association (APA)
Vendor: EBSCOhost

Description: Credo is an online reference service with access to over 500 titles. Credo includes subject-specific dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from many different publishers.

Vendor: Credo Publishing

Description: The Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects data on the age, race, and sex of persons arrested for all crimes except traffic violations.