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Databases & Indexes: Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work


Indexes and other

  • 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.
     
  • SCOPUS 
    • Abstract and citation database covering thousands of titles in Science, Social sciences and Arts & Humanities.
     
  • Anthrosource
    •   Full text of journals in anthropology.
     
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video
    •   Collection of video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling   
     
  • Left Index
    •    Index to left-wing literature in politics, economics, social sciences and humanities. 1982 and earlier to present.
     
  • PEP WEB
    • Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing contains the full text of 18 journals in psychoanalysis plus writings of well-known psychoanalysts.
     
  • Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print
    • Critical evaluations of over 2,000 commercially available tests in education, psychology, business, and intelligence; comprehensive list of available tests in English.
     
  • 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.

    Encyclopedias

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
    •   Online edition of 26-volume encyclopedia.
     
  • 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    Contains 400 subject entries and 200 brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work.
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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.
     
  • Population Reference Bureau
    • Reports from all over the world on population trends.
     
  • Polling the Nations
    • Reports of polls on hundreds of topics.
     
  • ICPSR
    • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is the world's largest archive of digital social science data.
     
  • Social Science Electronic Data Library
    • Over 300 data sets on AIDS, Disability, American Family, Adolescent Pregnancy, Aging, and Maternal Drug Abuse.
     
  • UN data  Statistics from all UN countries.

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