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Sociology

Subject Databases
E-Text
Websites

Librarian - Carol Scamman

Email: cscamman@sfasu.edu
Phone: (936) 468-1710
Office: 202e
Appointments Available

General Databases

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Google Scholar provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Databases

ERIC (IES) is a digital library of education-related resources, including journal and non-journal literature with some available in full text format.

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Life & Issues Collection aims to provide balanced coverage on a variety of topics such as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and more.

Historical Abstracts (Ebsco) covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This authoritative database provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955, and full-text of more than 300 journals and more than 150 books.

Pop Culture Collection useful information from a collection of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.

PsycINFO (Ebsco) indexes and abstracts books and book chapters in English, and 1,300+ journals in over 20 languages in the field of psychology.

SocINDEX with Full Text (Ebsco) contains full text articles in the social sciences for over 400journals, full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for over 6,000 conference papers, along with over 10,000 Author profiles.

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E-Text

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere.
Encyclopedia of Aging

Americans at war : society, culture, and the homefront
Encyclopedia of clothing and fashion
Encyclopedia of food and culture

Online Books: Sociology

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Websites

American Sociological Association
The Association aims to articulate policy and implement programs likely to have the broadest possible impact for sociology now and in the future.

Economic Indicators
Provides easy access to current Federal economic indicators. Also provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies.

Economics Policy Institute
Is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.

Intute: Social Sciences
Provides a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.

International Institute of Social History
Is one of the world's largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history located in the Netherlands.

O*NET
The Nation's primary source of occupation which contains comprehensive information on job requirements and worker competencies

Statistical Sources

The Quarterly Wage and Employment Series
Is a current, detailed analysis of wage and employment trends in the Current Populations Survey, released quarterly as data becomes available.

 

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