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Databases for Sociology

April 8, 2026 • 11:56 am

Sociology – Best Bets

  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • Social Science Database (ProQuest)
    Provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text, across a wide range of social science disciplines. More info
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications. More info
  • Sociology Database (ProQuest)
    Provides access to the full text of more than 310 journals in sociology and social work. More info

Sociology – Also Useful

  • Annual Reviews
    Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field. More info
  • Anthropology Plus
    Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. More info
  • Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)‎
    ASSIA is designed to serve the information needs of the caring professions, including practitioners, researchers, and students in healthcare, social services, education, and related areas. More info
  • Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle (NAACP Papers)
    Internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the NAACP. More info
  • Credo Reference
    Provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers. More info
  • Exploring Race in Society
    Covers important issues related to race in society today. More info
  • Gender Studies Database
    Covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship; includes journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, dissertations, and other sources. More info
  • ICPSR
    ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. More info
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
    Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and books dating back to 1951, primarily covering anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. More info
  • LGBTQ+ Source
    Full text access to over 130 journals, indexing for 200 more, as well as access to more than 170 full-text monographs/books on LGBTQ+ topics. More info
  • ProQuest Central
    Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers. More info
  • Roper iPoll
    Archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • WorldCat (FirstSearch)
    Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings. More info

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Jackie Eagleson
Jackie Eagleson