SOCIOLOGY DATABASES
Type of access:    Free to the public        Faculty, staff, and students only


Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebscohost] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

AidsLine - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1973-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
This database is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface.

AfricaBib - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1974 - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: IEA Research Library] 
This database provides bibliographic access to Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature. This database also has a comprehensive bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa.

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1960-present | Updates: monthly | Provider: AARP] 
This database covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. This database also contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies.

Anthropological Index Online - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1970-present | Updates: monthly | Provider: British Museum]
This database provides basic bibliographic references to over 700 periodicals in the British Museum's Museum of Mankind Library (incorporating the former Royal Anthropological Institute Library). A browsable list of journal titles and abbreviations is also available.

APA's Frequently Asked Questions  - on psychological tests--American Psychological Association.

Architectural Publications Index - [Contents: citations | Coverage: 1980 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Royal Institute of British Architects]
This database provides an index to over 300 of the world's most respected architectural periodicals as well as a catalogue of the books and audio visual materials held in the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Library.

Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts- [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Getty Museum] 
AATA Online: Abstracts of International Conservation Literature is a free database that contains more than 100,000 abstracts from over 470 journals relevant to the international conservation field that are abstracted annually.

Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.

 Black Women in America - [Contents: full-text reference | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This second edition reference publication is a digital collection that contains 600 entries of achievements and contributions of African-American Women.

Bibliography of Native North Americans - [Contents: citations | Coverage: varies | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebscohost]

This database covers Native American history, culture and life to include archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 122,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.


Chicano Database - [Contents: citations only | Coverage: 1967 - present | Updates: quarterly | Provider: OCLC] 
This database identifies materials across the disciplines (esp., literature, education, sociology, psychology, the arts) pertaining to Mexican-Americans. Since 1992, scope expanded to include the broader Latino experience.

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1994 - 1997 | Updates: regularly | Provider: Haverford College] 
This database covers over 350 international journals as well as book reviews and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages (450 C.E. to 1500 C.E.). Subject coverage for gender and sexuality.

Google Scholar - [Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

HeritageQuest Online - [Contents: citations & full-text | Coverage: 1790-1930 | Updates: regularly | Provider: ProQuest] 
This database contains a collection of research materials for tracing family history and American culture, including a collection of over 25,000 family and local histories and the complete U.S. Federal Census, 1790-1930.

ISI Web of Knowledge[Contents:index, citations, some full-text | Coverage: 1950 - Present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This research platform searches Social Science Citation Index and Medline database simultaneously.

JSTOR - [Contents: full-text & citations | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: JSTOR] 
This database contains an interdisciplinary archive of scholarly academic publications that includes journals, manuscripts, and pamphlets. Users have access to the Arts and Sciences I and III Collection, along with the Life Sciences Collection. Topics range from economics, sociology, and political science, to language and literature, and biological, health, and general science journals.
Note: The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available.

Social Science Citation Index - [Contents: index & citations | Coverage: 1980 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This multidisciplinary database indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social science disciplines. Some of the areas covered include psychology and psychiatry, sociology, social work and public health, law, history, philosophy and polital science.

SocINDEX with Full-Text - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: 1908 - current | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebscohost]
This database contains full-text articles, books, author profiles, and conference papers about sociology. Topics include abortion, criminology, demography, gender studies, political sociology, social development, and more.

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