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Databases & Indexes: Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work


Indexes

  • SocINDEX with Full Text    A comprehensive index to the literature of sociology including journals, books, and conference papers. Many of the items are in full text.
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  • Social Work Abstracts
    • Abstracts of books and articles and the Register of Clinical Social Workers.
     
  • ProQuest Social Science Journals
    • A resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. It includes hundreds of titles, with most available in full text.
     
  • Anthrosource
    • Full text of journals in anthropology.
     
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
    •    Indexes to hundreds of journals in the social sciences since 1998.
     
  • PEP WEB
    • Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing contains the full text of 18 journals in psychoanalysis plus writings of well-known psychoanalysts.
     
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook
    • Critical evaluations of over 2,000 commercially available tests in education, psychology, business, and intelligence.
     
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
    • Index of chapters and articles from over 7,000 books and 2,700 international journals in economics as well as sociology and political science since 1951.
     
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts
    • Abstracts of journal articles, books, reports, dissertations on a wide range of topics in criminal justice since 1968.
     
  • U.S. Government Printing Office
    • Online access to government publications.
     
  • CQ Research
    • Online access to Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and Congressional Quarterly Researcher.
     
  • Anthropological Index of the Royal Anthropological Institute
    • Index to books and journal articles.
     
  • Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption
    • Index to books and journals from 1965 to the present.
     

    Encyclopedias

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

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  • Credo Reference - Social Sciences
    •    Online encyclopedias and dictionaries of the social sciences.
     
  • Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
    •    Over 1,800 entries ranging from brief definitions to long articles.
     
  • Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th ed   

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    Statistics

  • U.S. Census Bureau
    • Statistical and demographic data and maps including the U.S. Gazetteer.
     
  • Gallup Poll   Gallup polls going back to 1930.
     
  • Childstats.gov
    • Statistics and reports on children and families including population, economics, health, behavior, social environment and education.
     
  • Censtats Databases
    • Nine databases based on U.S. Census information.
     
  • Quick Facts from the 2000 Census
    • Quick and easy access to facts about people, business, and geography.
     
  • Population Reference Bureau
    • Reports from all over the world on population trends.
     
  • Polling the Nations
    • Reports of polls on hundreds of topics.
     
  • Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe
    • Access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
     
  • ICPSR
    • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to a vast archive of social science data files.
     
  • Social Science Electronic Data Library
    • Over 300 data sets on AIDS, Disability, American Family, Adolescent Pregnancy, Aging, and Maternal Drug Abuse.
     
  • United Nations Population Fund
    • Full text of UNFPA's publications and reports on population, migration, health and development.
     
  • InfoNation
    • Statistics from all U.N. countries.

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