Research, Citation, & Class Guides: Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology: Sociology

Research Databases

SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology research, including closely related areas of study. Full-text journal articles, plus abstracts for core journals back to 1895.
Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
JSTOR
An archival full-text multi-disciplinary journal database, covering over 60 academic disciplines in more than 2400 scholarly journals.
Coverage varies by publication but typically begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 3 to 5 years of the most current issue.

Partial funding for Collections V and VI from the Russell Moratz estate. Partial funding for Collection VII provided by Student Technology Fees.
Ethnic Sources
Newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, covering 1982-present.
Part of Access World News subscription.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database with citations to thousands of journals, books, and published proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
This resource also tracks how many times an article has been cited since publication, finds relevant items which share one or more cited references, reviews cited references that link to a full record display, and searches all cited authors.

Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
Women's Studies International
Citations for 800 essential sources from 1972-present, including journals, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, reports, theses, dissertations, and grey literature.
Project Muse
Full text of over 600 scholarly journals and over 30,000 books in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.
GenderWatch
Scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books and NGO, government, and special reports that focus on how gender affects a broad array of subject areas.
Its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, is a repository of historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community and the changes in gender roles over the years.
CQ Researcher
In-depth, authoritative, informative & persuasive reports on a full range of political and social-policy issues extending back to 1923.
Each report is footnoted and includes an overview, background section, chronology, bibliography, and debate-style pro-con feature, plus tools to study the evolution of the topic over time.
Academic Search Complete
Full-text access to articles from over 7,000 journals (including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals), magazines, and reference sources.
Partial funding provided by Student Technology Fees.
ERIC (via EBSCOhost)
The world's largest source of education information. More than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice, some linking out to full text.
Access provided by Wisconsin DPI via Badgerlink.
APA PsycInfo
Citations and abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology and related disciplines.
Partial funding provided by UW System Shared Electronic Collection.

Websites

This is a list of recommended websites about the field of sociology and sociolgical research.

American Sociological Association
The ASA is a national association founded in 1905.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
(Institute for Social Research: University of Michigan)
Freely Available Research Resources for the Social Sciences
Library guide from the University of California Berkeley Library.
Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
(Trinity College)
SocioSite
(University of Amsterdam)
Explore Government Documents
An extensive collection of information of interest to social researchers from the University of Michigan Documents Center
United States Census Bureau
The Urban Institute