Sociology

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8,000 journals with many available in full-text.

Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) includes bibliographic citations for dissertations and theses worldwide, from 1861 to the present, with full-text access available for the newer titles, and abstracts available for the older titles.

*Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

*Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale Cengage Learning) is a resource that utilizes many different sources to provide information on both sides of controversial topics.

Subject Databases

ERIC (EBSCO) provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. The database contains more than 1,194,000 records, and links to more than 100,000 full-text documents from ERIC.

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) covers emotional and behavioral health, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. The world's largest full-text psychology database offering full-text coverage for nearly 560 journals.

PsycINFO (EBSCO) indexes and abstracts books and book chapters in English, and 1,300+ journals, in over 20 languages, in the field of psychology. Includes the full-text articles from PsycARTICLES.

SocINDEX with Full-text (EBSCO) features more than 2,100,000 records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. It also contains full-text for more than 820 journals dating back to 1908, and full-text for more than 830 books, monographs, and 14,636 conference papers.

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eBooks

Ebrary is an electronic collection of full-text, searchable academic books customized for Steen Library.  Users can add and remove books from a personalized bookshelf after creating an individual account.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere.

Americans at war: society, culture, and the homefront

Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History

Encyclopedia of Aging

Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion

Encyclopedia of food and culture

Online Books: Sociology

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Websites

American Sociological Association
The Association aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology, now and in the future.

Economic Indicators
Provides easy access to current Federal economic indicators. Also, provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies.

Economics Policy Institute
Is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.

Intute: Social Sciences
Provides a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.

International Institute of Social History
Is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history. Located in the Netherlands.

O*NET
The Nation's primary source of occupation, which contains comprehensive information on job requirements and worker competencies

Statistical Sources

The Quarterly Wage and Employment Series
Is a current, detailed analysis of wage and employment trends in the Current Populations Survey, released quarterly as data becomes available.

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