Sociological Abstracts
Provides access to the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Coverage : 1963 - present. CU

 

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. CU

 

AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive
Provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. Student comprehension and recall skills will improve with visually stimulating imagery meant for use in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations. Access is for one concurrent user. CU

 

Alternative Press Index
Citations for API are drawn from roughly 250 alternative, radical, and left publications, that report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change. Indexed articles include regular columns, editorials, fiction, interviews, bibliographies, biographies, and reviews. Topics include African-American studies, ethnic and racial studies, feminism, gay/lesbian studies, community organizing, ecology, labor studies, social theory, socialism, alternative organizations, anarchism, prisons, indigenous people's rights, and internationalism.
Coverage: 1991 - present. Updated quarterly. CU

 

American FactFinder
U.S. Census Bureau source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

 

Annual Review of Sociology
Comprehensive collections of critical reviews written by leaders in the field of sociology. CU

 

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online

A reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field of sociology. This project brings together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of scholars and teachers. Over 1800 entries. CU

 

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor.

 

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database
Information on the maltreatment, safety, permanency,and well-being of children. The citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, papers, reports of federally-funded grants, and descriptions of programs and treatments.
Coverage : 1965 - present. CU

 

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, coverage of books, and access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.CU

 

Criminal Justice Periodical Index
Topics include corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.
Coverage: 1981 - present. CU

 

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Includes the full-text of 23 journals, some journals going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article.
Coverage: varies. CU

 

eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
A multi-cultural database for disciplines with an interest in cultural diversity. For each culture included, eHRAF contains ethnographic information on all aspects of cultural and social life with diverse topics ranging from religious beliefs, bringing up children, causes and cures of diseases, to economic and political behavior. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that in every paragraph of the full-text source (book, article, dissertation) is subject-indexed for precise retrieval of information. Cultures range from ethnic groups in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, to indigenous and immigrant groups in North and South America. CU

 

Expanded Academic ASAP
Access to scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers across all academic disciplines.
Coverage: 1980 - present. CU

 

Health and Psychosocial Abstracts (HAPI)
Provides access to information on measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests) in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI assists researchers, practitioners, educators, administrators, and evaluators, including students, to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, class papers/projects, theses/dissertations, and program evaluation.
Coverage: 1985 - present.CU

 

Left Index
Provides a guide to the literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship. A secondary emphasis is on significant but little known sources of news and ideas. Other topics covered include labor, ecology and environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory, sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and
globalization. Historically significant early Left publications such as The People (est. NY 1891), and The Class Struggle (1931-1937) along with classic texts by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and others, written in the formative years of the Left, also are covered. Over 98,000 citations & abstracts, some with full text, cover a diversity of literature including journal articles, books, book reviews, book chapters, theses, dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and numerous other sources on the left.
Coverage: 1982 - present. CU

 

LexisNexis Statistical
An index to statistics published by states, the U.S. government, international organizations, research centers, trade groups, and others.
Coverage: varies. CU

 

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the criminal justice publications housed in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Library collection. The holdings are from the early 1970s to the present, containing more than 185,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.

 

PsycINFO
Produced and copyrighted by the American Psychological Association. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Now includes cited references.
Coverage: 1800s - present. CU

 

Risk Abstracts
Source for interdisciplinary perspectives on the identification and alleviation of risk in today's world. Risk Abstracts encompasses risk arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment and management of risk.
Coverage:1990 - present. CU

 

Social Sciences Abstracts/Full Text
Abstracts and some full text of articles in the social sciences.
Full text from 1994 - present. Abstracts from 1984 - present. CU

 

Social Sciences Citation Index : Web of Science
Provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references in the social sciences.
Coverage is from 1965 to the present. CU

 

Social Services Abstracts
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,500 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Major areas of coverage include: Community and mental health services; crisis intervention; the family and social welfare; gerontology; poverty and homelessness; professionsl issues in social work; social and health policy; social services in addiction; social work education; social work practice; supportgroups/networks; violence,abuse,neglect; welfare services.
Coverage is from 1974 to the present. CU

 

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Includes the full-text of 33 journals, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 12,700 articles. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article.

Coverage: Varies. CU

 

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. CU

 

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Provides access to data sets on various social and political issues. CU

 

UCB Libraries Subject Guide for Sociology

 

WorldCat
Contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries.CU