Sociology

Best Database Choices for Sociology

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All Sociology Databases

ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials   

Lists articles on all aspects of religious studies from journals in many disciplines. Includes citations to book chapters and to book reviews. ATLASerials adds the full text of many journals.

General Social Survey   

"The GSS is widely regarded as the single best source of data on societal trends."

ICPSR

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Users may view documentation, download raw data, and search a bibliography of data-related literature.

InfoTrac OneFile   1980-present

Large general database of articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals covering a wide range of topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

iPoll

iPOLL contains nearly a half-million questions from surveys conducted since 1935 by academic, commercial, and media survey organizations, including CNN, Gallup, AP, the Wall Street Journal, and many others.

JSTOR Journal Storage Project   1985-present

Full-text backfiles of many important scholarly journals. Coverage is usually from the first issue to 3-5 years before the present. Humanities and social science articles are also listed in Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) Full Text which has more articles from similar journals.

PAIS International   1915-present

International database covering public and social policy. Includes journal articles, books, government documents, statistics, and reports from organizations and abstracts from 1985. Newer book entries include tables of contents. Use this link to search only the more recent years.

Polling the Nations

Text of and responses to over 35,000 survey questions from over 14,000 polls taken in the US and 80 other countries since 1986.

PsycINFO   1887-present

Covers journal articles in more than 30 languages and books in English about psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education.

Sage Journals 1999-present

Full-text of more than 460 Sage journals. Journals cover sociology, education, psychology, health, medicine. Articles earlier thank 1999 may be indexed, but not available in full-text.

Social Explorer

Interactive Maps and Reports provide easy access to demographic information about the United States. Data comes from the Census beginning in 1940 and from the Religious Congregations and Membership Study beginning in 1980.

Sociological Abstracts   1963-present

Sociology and related fields. All languages. 2600 scholarly journals. Includes book, book chapter, and conference paper abstracts and book reviews. Updated quarterly.

Web of Knowledege / Web of Science   1981-present

Includes Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index which can be searched together or separately. Lists articles from over 5,700 science and engineering journals, 1,700 social sciences journals, and 1,100 arts and humanities journals. Frequent updates make it a good source for very recent information.

Women and Social Movements

A large collection of primary sources, journal articles, and other instructional materials for the history of women in social movements in the U.S.