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Sociology Indexes and Databases
Cross Disciplinary Indexes and Databases
Subdisciplinary Indexes and Databases
Reference Sources
Statistical Information
Sociology Indexes and
Databases:
Sociological
Abstracts: Covers sociology and related disciplines. Citations
and abstracts only.
Cross Disciplinary Indexes
and Databases (disciplines across the human sciences):
Academic
Universe: Access to a wide range of current events, news, magazines,
business, legal, medical, and reference information. Full text coverage.
Ebsco
Host : Access to social sciences, humanities, general science, education,
multicultural journal literature; newspapers, and reference sources. Citations,
abstracts; partial full text coverage.
First
Search Databases: Web interfaces to a group of 20
online databases, including ArticleFirst, Book Review Digest, ContentsFirst,
NetFirst, and WorldCat.
Global NewsBank:
Contains comprehensive coverage of news summaries, broadcasts and
transcripts from hundreds of international sources. Full text coverage.
JSTOR: Provides
image and text access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in
history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other
fields of the humanities and social sciences. Full text coverage.
Monthly
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (also GPO Monthly Catalog): Access
to United States government documents.
Periodicals Contents
Index: Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities
and social sciences, from their first issues to 1991. Citations only.
Project
MUSE: Access to scholarly journals in politics from the
John Hopkins University press. Full text coverage.
ProQuest
Newspapers : coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers.
Ninety days of full text articles to the New York Times and Wall Street
Journal are included.
ProQuest
Digital Dissertations: Access to the first 24 pages of dissertations
that have been published since 1997. Full text access to University of
Utah Dissertations published from 1997 and forward, and citations only
to dissertations before that date.
SIRS Government Reporter
(part of SIRS Knowledge Source): Documents and graphics concerning a wide
variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics,
foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry. Full text coverage.
SIRS Researcher
(part of SIRS Knowledge Source): Contains articles relating to social,
political, global, scientific, health, historical, economic, and business
issues. Full text coverage.
Subdisciplinary
Indexes and Databases (related disciplines in the social sciences
and humanities):
ABI/INFORM
Global: Includes business periodicals and company information. Partial
full text coverage.
Ageline:
Includes aging topics in both academic and general publications. Citations
and abstracts only.
Child
Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database (formerly called Child
Abuse and Neglect Database): Includes references to books, journals, government
reports, conference papers, state annual reports, curricula, and unpublished
papers. Citations and abstracts only.
Criminal Justice Abstracts: Coverage of criminology and related fields from
journals, books, and government publications. Citations and abstracts
only.
Chicano
Database: Identifies all types of material on Mexican-Americans,
Chicanos, and the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans,
Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
EconLit:
Access to literature in economics. Citations and abstracts only.
Education
Full Text: Covers 400 periodicals, yearbooks and monographs in numerous
areas of education. Partial full text coverage.
ERIC (Ebsco):
Journal articles and reports in education. Citations and abstracts only.
Ethnic
Newswatch
:
Collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority
and native press. Full text coverage.
Family
and Society Studies Worldwide Research, policy, and practice literature
in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, and Human Development.
Citations and abstracts only.
GenderWatch:
Collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional
publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's
and gender issues. Full text coverage.
International
Political Science Abstracts: Access to literature in political science,
political thought, government and public administration, government process,
international relations, and area studies. Citations and abstracts only.
PAIS
International: Indexes public and social policy materials in journal
articles, books, government documents, and most other forms of printed
literature from all over the world. Citations and notes only.
PyscINFO:
Access to serial and book literature in psychology and psychological aspects
of related disciplines. Citations and abstracts only.
Social
Work Abstracts: Social work and other related journals on topics such
as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse,
legislation, community organization, and more. Citations and abstracts
only.
 Reference
Sources:
Facts
on File:
Content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about
events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years, and also delivers
in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year
Facts On File archive. The seven databases are: Facts On File World News
Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials
On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service,
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
Oxford English
Dictionary:The
Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering
the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show
not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development
through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are
illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources
from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.
Polling the Nations:
A comprehensive collection of information gathered by polls and surveys
from 1986 through 1996, reporting more than 60,000 questions and the responses,
on more than 2,000 topics.
Statistical Information:
ICPSR:
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is a unique
selection of social science and demographic data available to those affiliated
with the University of Utah.
Statistical
Universe: Statistical
information from over 100,000 US government publications from 1973, state
and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international
organizations from 1983. Full text or web links provided for some citations;
mainly citations and abstracts.
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