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Indexes & Databases by Subject: Sociology

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M = Most – no less than 50 % full-text or linked full text articles available
S = Some – less than 50% full-text or linked full text articles available

Use JAKE to determine where a specific journal is indexed and if it is available full-text.

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. 
Alternative Press Index
Index of journals (1991 - present) covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969 - 1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
Communication Abstracts
Indexes and provides abstracts for articles in about 50 core journals in the field of Communications (dates of coverage vary)
Contemporary Women's Issues
International index to 1500 journals, newsletters and reports (1992-present)
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CQ Researcher Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
Dissertation Abstracts
An index to theses and dissertations (1861- )
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JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic archive of selected journals in various disciplines. It attempts to maintain complete journal holdings from the first volume, but current volumes (from the past three to six years) are not included.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides information from news,business, legal, medical and general reference sources
PAIS (Public Affairs Info Service)
PAIS International, produced by the OCLC Public Affairs Information Service, provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, with an emphasis on issues in the public debate. It includes references to more than 530,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, gray literature, research reports, policy papers, Internet documents, conference reports and other sources from more than 120 countries. Topics covered include: affirmative action, AIDS, climate change, ethnicity, environmental degradation, political persecution, women’s rights, war and conflict, etc.
PAIS Archive
PAIS Archive, a retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970's, is now available on the OCLC FirstSearch service. The PAIS Archive currently contains more than 350,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1957 - 1976.
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Project Muse
This collection of electronic journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more. Coverage for individual titles varies but is generally from the late 1990's to the present.
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PsycARTICLES PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 100,000 articles from 59 journals - 48 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
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PsycInfo
PsycINFO contains more than 1.8 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology. Journal coverage, which dates back to the 1800s, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 30 languages. More than 60,000 records are added each year.
Social Science Citation Index
This database is the electronic version of the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. It includes indexing and abstracting from 8600 journals in all disciplines, covering 1975-present. The sources (footnotes) are included as part of each record, and can also be searched.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. This product also contains informative abstracts for 640 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 530 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 1,420 "selective" coverage journals. Further, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other content sources is included. Searchable cited references are also provided. In addition, SocINDEX with Full Text features over 5,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
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Women and Social Movements This website is intended to serve as a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history. Organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000, the website seeks to advance scholarly debates and understanding at the same time that it makes the insights of women's history accessible to teachers and students at universities, colleges, and high schools.  It currently includes 79 document projects with more than 2,400 documents, more than 32,000 pages of additional full-text documents, and more than 1,700 primary authors. It also includes book, film and website reviews, notes from the archives, and teaching tools.

Women’s Studies International
(Limited to 1 simultaneous user)
Women’s Studies International covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature.
WorldCat
This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

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