Full Text Databases	Journal Indexes and Abstracts
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries	Internet Websites

• Cambridge Journals Online.  CJO indexes includes over 125 specialized journals from renowned research societies and associations in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.  Several sociology journals are included.  Each journal in CJO has its own home page with links to the current and back volumes, as well as brief description of the journal's purpose, format, and content.

• CQ Researcher. Presents full-text articles on current social, political, economic, and international issues.

• CQ Weekly Report. Offers in-depth full-text articles on U.S. Congressional legislation, actions, and developments.

• Ethnic Newswatch. Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. A rich collection of articles,editorials, columns, reviews, etc. provide a broad diversity of perspectives and  viewpoints -- the other sides of the stories. Free text searching and complete indexing makes Ethnic NewsWatch easy to search. 

• InfoTrac OneFile. A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sociology. sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles many with images. Updated daily.

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and other sources, covering a wide range of subjects.

• Oxford University Press Online Journals. The Oxford University Press is well-known for its excellence in research, scholarship, and education. The publisher is widely recognized as a premier publisher of journals. This database provides online access to 134 periodical titles in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Several full-text sociology journals are available.

• Project Muse.  Project Muse provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.

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• Criminal Justice Abstracts. This database contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice. This information is indispensible for academic institutions and government agencies and departments where researchers are studying criminal justice, sociology, social work, law, and education.

• Social Work Abstracts. Social Work Abstracts Plus from the National Association of Social Workers, is the definitive social work database. Social Work Abstracts contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present. The database provides exceptional coverage of more than 450 journals in all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. Practitioners and researchers in areas such as social sciences, gerontology, welfare, public health, criminology, and education as well as all areas of human services, will benefit from using this database.

• Sociological Abstracts. CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non evaluative abstracts of journal articles.Many records from key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite that reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles.

• Statistical Universe. Full-text database to U.S. statistical data and some international statistics. Features include searching the Power Tables for finding fast answers, searching summaries of statistical publications for comprehensive overview of documents or selecting links to other websites with information about statistics.

• Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists. by George Ritzer. Blackwell, 2000. 
Provides essays on leading social theorists.  LOCATION: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF HM478 B583.
 
• Encyclopedia of American Social History. by Mary Kupiec Cayton. Maxwell Macmillian Canada, 1993, 3 vols. 

Excellent essays on American social history. LOCATION:  Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF HN57 E58.
 
• Encyclopedia of Sociology.  by Edgar F. Borgatta. Maxwell Macmillian Canada, 1991, 4 vols.
In-depth articles of importance to sociologists including social stratification, race and ethnic studies, gender, medical sociology and aging.  Location:  Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF HN17 E5.
 
• Penguim Dictionary of Sociology.  by Nicholas Abercrombie. Penguim, 1988.
The unifying theme of this dictionary is the editor's conviction that sociology is an autonomous, elaborated and vital discipline within the social science corpus.  The aim has been to seek precision within the conflicting range of perspectives that constitute modern sociology.  Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number: REF HM17 A23.
 
• Protest, Power, and Change: an Encyclopedia of nonviolent Action From ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage.  by Roger S. Powers. Garland Pub.. 1997. The central purpose of this encyclopedia is to provide a standard reference work for an important domain of human behavior that has been well studied but incompletely identified.  The focus is empirically on the human experience-and therefore the great diversity-of applying non-violent methods of action in social and political conflicts.  Location: Reference Collection, First Floor, Call Number:  HM 278 P76.

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Internet Websites

• Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science: Spatial Resources for the Social Sciences. The CSISS Mission recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research. It seeks to develop unrestricted access to tools and prespectives that will advance the spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throuthout the social sciences. CSISS is funded by the National Science Foundation.

• Data Resources for Sociologists. Produced by the American Sociological Association, Data Resources for Sociologists gives information first offered at the Data Resources Poster Session held at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Association.  It is a very useful selection of publicly available data sets for primary and secondary analysis.The sources provide statistical information on a number of topics of interest to the sociologist, particularly on demography, employment, education and health.

• Dead Sociologists Society.  From Addams to Marx to Spencer to Veblen, excellent information on the lives and works of key sociologists.

• Dictionary of Sociology. Short definitions of sociological terms are provided.

• Princeton University Survey Research Center.  The intent of this website is to provide everything useful on the web for the practice of survey research.  Provides survey methods applied to the study of social issuses, consumer research, and policy analysis.

• Social Research & Statistical Links.  Mega site that includes such topics as Statistical Computer Programs, Ethics in Social Research, Confidence Intervals, and many more.

• Social Science Data Resources.  Excellent site for useful research tools needed to conduct sociological research.  Provides good descriptive information about each tool.

• Social Science Hub. This database provides links to social-science organizations, databases, search tools, publications and forums.

• Social Science Information Gateway: Sociology. The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences.

• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace.  Links, commentary, essays and graphics on the sociology of death and dying, time, mass media, race and ethnicity, and family.

• The SocioWeb. The SocioWeb is an independent guide to the Sociological resources available on the Internet and is founded in the belief that the Internet can help to unite the sociological community in ways never before possible.  The site is divided into twelve sections, including "Journals & Zines," "Surveys and Statistics," "Topical Research," etc.

• Statistical Resources on the Web: Sociology.  Organizes statistical sources into over 20 categories, including "Adoption," "Aging." "Divorce," "Home," "Poverty," "Race," and "Wealth