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Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and provides abstracts for 350 international journals covering various areas of sociology.

Social Services Index
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 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of relevant dissertations and citations to book reviews.

Social Sciences Citation Index
The Social Sciences Citation Index provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. Please log out when you are finished.

JSTOR (Full Text)
Collection of full-text scholarly journals in many fields including sociology, and population studies.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center (Full Text) Discus
Database of contemporary social issues with content structured to promote critical-thinking skills and information literacy. The database contains more than 400 reference book titles and over than 8,700 pro and con viewpoint articles. The resource also contains periodicals, podcasts, reviewed Web links, images, statistical tables, charts and graphs.

eHRAF World Cultures (Full Text)
For the study of human culture, society and behavior. A collection of ethnographic and other texts indexed by culture and subject.

Gender Watch(Full Text)
With archival material dating back to 1970, GenderWatch provides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Combining more than 200 , gray, and popular literature titles, GenderWatch provides researchers with more than 100,000 articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace.

CIS Congressional Universe (Full Text)
Provides the full text of material by and about the U.S. Congress. Includes hearings, committee reports, bills, public laws, biographical information, voting records, and the text of the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and the National Journal.

CQ Electronic Library (Full Text)
Includes CQ Researcher, a source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day, CQ Weekly, a source for expert coverrage of the U.S. Congress such as status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government.

GalleryWatch CRS Reports (Full Text)
Includes abstracts and the PDF full text for more than 25,000 CRS Reports and is updated daily, Content spans from 1993 to the present and covers a range of subject areas including economics, the environment, foreign affairs, immigration, medicine, civil rights, national security, terrorism, and more. Current and archived versions of each report are included, providing comprehensive coverage of edits and amendments.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text)  Discus

A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index) (Full Text)
Index to articles from 1802 to 1995 in the humanities and social sciences. Includes full-text to approximately 140 journals.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text
The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database includes over 2 million master's theses and dissertations, with over 60,000 titles added every year. It's a great resource for researchers in a wide variety of fields.

Popline
POPLINE provides worldwide coverage of population, family planning and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy.

Population Index
An annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other material on population topics. Covers 1986 to the present. Updated quarterly.

SIRS Knowledge Source (Full Text)
Full-text access to thousands of articles from magazines, journals and newspapers. Subjects covered include arts, business, government, humanities, health, social sciences, science and technology.

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Print and Electronic Resources

The African American Experience
A collection of resources on African American life covering such topics as history, biography, literature, arts, education, civil rights, politics, folklore, etc.

Daily Life Through History
Daily Life Through History gives a detailed portrayal of what life was like for ordinary people in different cultures throughout history. At the heart of this database are the 27 volumes of the Daily Life Through History series from Greenwood Press and the six volume Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life.
Also included in this online database are related books from Praeger Press, related reference works from Greenwood Press, and related primary source documents.

Gale Virtual Reference Library(Full Text)
Includes searchable full-text online versions of Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, Encyclopedia of Population, Encyclopedia of Sociology, and Social Trends and Indicators USA.

Oxford African American Studies Center (Full Text)
Includes the complete texts of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, The Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, African American National Biography, and The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature.

Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States
Over 900 A-to-Z articles written by academics, scholars, writers, artists, and journalists, address such broad topics as identity, art, politics, religion, education, health, and history.

Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare in America
REF HV 27 B57 1986

A Dictionary of Sociology
REF HM 17 .C66 1998

Encyclopedia of Aging
REF HQ 1061 E53 1995

Encyclopedia of American Social History
REF HN 57 E58 1993

Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family
REFHQ 9 E52 1995

Encyclopedia of Religion and Society
REF BL 60 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of Sociology
REF HM 17 E5 1992

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Social Work Almanac
REF HV 90 G53 1995

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Internet Resources

American Sociological Association

Electronic Sociology journals
From Yahoo, this list of electronic journals likes to the Annual Review of Sociology, the Canadian Journal of Sociology, the Electronic Journal of Sociology, and more.

SocioSite
University of Amsterdam Web site. Access to academic sociology worldwide.

Social Science Data Archives
Links to the resources of many different research institutions and other data gathering concerns.

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology
Collection of links to organizations, resource directories and discussion lists relating to sociology.

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