Library Databases for Sociology

The Library subscribes to over 160 databases containing citations, abstracts and full-text of evaluated resources (books, articles, government documents, conference proceedings ...)

Search here before spending hours on the web--where you will not have access to most of the information provided in databases.

Where to start?

Here are some databases that all students of Sociology should use. Keep them in mind. We will only use one of them (Sociological Abstracts) in our actual search on the next screen.

• PsycINFO is the comprehensive database for psychology. It covers thousands of journals and it can be searched in a variety of ways. Although some articles are in full-text, most results provide only the citation and the abstract.
• PsycArticles contains the full-text of articles in the 28 journals of the American Psychological Association published since 1998, plus full-text articles from a few other journals.
• Sociological Abstracts indexes over 1,000 sociology journals and displays citations and abstracts. No full-text.
• Expanded Academic ASAP indexes hundreds of scholarly journals. The full-text is available for some articles while only the citation and abstract is available for other articles.
• JSTOR is a full-text online collection of over 150 core scholarly journals from their first issue to between two and five years prior to the present.
• Statistical Universe is a database of statistical information of all kinds gathered by governmental agencies and private organizations provided in a tabular form.

• PAIS is the Public Affairs Information Service. It covers material in the social sciences. It includes citations to journal articles, books, government documents, Internet sites, statistical compilations, directories and reports of public and private organizations, 1972 to present. No full-text.

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