Databases for Sociology
Best Bets
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| Ageline |
Covers 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos focusing on the subject of aging and middle-aged and older adults. |
1978-present (selected coverage 1966-1977) |
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| Anthropology Plus |
Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. |
19th century-present |
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| Gender Studies Database |
Includes professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. |
1972-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| LGBT Life with Full Text |
LGBT provides full text access to over 130 journals, indexing for 200 more, as well as access to more than 170 full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Sci |
1990s-present |
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| Social Sciences Citation Index |
Part of Web of Science, the Social Sciences Citation Index provides indexing for more than 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. |
1900-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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Even More
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| Credo Reference |
Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. |
2000-present |
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| Gallup Brain |
Searchable database of more than 70 years of public opinion, including questionnaires, which are the surveys Gallup uses to collect data from respondents, and documents, which include Gallup Poll, |
1935-present |
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| ICPSR |
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. |
1940-present |
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| Roper Center for Public Opinion Research |
The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. |
1935-present |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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