Databases for Sociology

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Core scholarly journals, ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.

1800s-present (2-5 yr embargo)
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Social Science Database  provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text.

1980-present
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Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines.

1952-present
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Sociology Database provides access to the full-text of more than 310 journals in sociology and social work.

1985-present
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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, including more than 7,300 peer reviewed titles. Indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 12,500 journals.

1980-present
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Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field.

2007-present
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Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays.

1800s-present
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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

1987-present
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ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have teamed up to digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civi

1909-1972
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Credo Reference provides access to hundreds of reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations) from over 70 academic publishers.

2000-present
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Covers important issues related to race in society today.

1939-present
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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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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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The IBSS includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

1951-present
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LGBTQ+ Source (formerly LGBT Life with Full Text) provides full text access to over 130 journals, indexing for 200 more, as well as access to more than 170 full-text monographs/book

1990s-present
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Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers.

1905-present
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Roper iPoll archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples.

1935-present
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Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 200 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks.

1994-present
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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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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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