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Searches scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports.
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Data & Statistics Databases
ICPSRThis link opens in a new windowVast archive of social science data. Can use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, & Stata. Thematic categories include census data, community & urban studies, conflict, aggression, economic behavior, education, leadership, geography, health care, legal systems, mass political behavior, and organizational behavior.
Data sets from 1962 to present.
SimplyAnalytics *** previously SimplyMap****This link opens in a new windowExtensive demographic, business and marketing data from sources such as census data from 2000 and 2010,Current Estimates, Five Year Projections, the Experian SimmonsLOCAL® and Nielsen Claritas PRIZM® Data Packages. Coverage: 2000-present.
Data Citation IndexThis link opens in a new windowIndexes a significant number of the world's leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets. 1900-present.
Pew Research Center Data SetsThis link opens in a new windowNonpartisan organization that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Data is released approximately 2 years after reports are published.
Users must create an account to access data sets and have experience working with SPSS, SAS, Stata or R.
NCES Data ToolsThis link opens in a new windowNCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
Dissertations & Theses
Dissertations can be very useful for research. Search this database to find relevant dissertations and theses:
Dissertations & Theses GlobalThis link opens in a new windowMulti-subject. World's largest collection of full text theses and dissertations. Contains 1.7 million full-text graduate works and 3.8 million abstracted or indexed records along with the ability to cross-search with other ProQuest resources. Coverage: 1861 to present
OpenDissertationsThis link opens in a new windowFull text dissertations from universities between 1933 and 1955, plus additional indexing to more recent dissertations.
Sociology Databases
All databases come from the SociologyDatabases by Subject page.
Anthropology, community health and medicine, economics, environmental sciences, geography, international relations, law and criminology, police science, planning & public administration, psychology, psychiatry, political science, sociology, & social work.
Comprehensive scholarship on sociology and related fields (anthropology, criminology, etchnic studies, gender studies, social psychology, substance abuse, urban studies). 1895-present.
The Index is international and interdisciplinary, spanning the social sciences and humanities, with its central focus on the practice and theory of socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. Subject index to over 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals.
Coverage: 1969 to present
Criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Coverage: 1981-present
Multicultural and Gender Studies. Archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community.
Primary Source Databases
African American ExperienceThis link opens in a new windowAfrican American history & culture from its African origins to the present day. It encompasses the myriad contributions of individuals from the African American community who have achieved prominence in the arts, entertainment, the sciences, business, the military, and politics as well as nameless others who endured the travails of slavery and institutionalized discrimination. Contains over 8,000 primary documents, including slave narratives, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, 1,500 photographs, maps, and other images.
Coverage: Late 1700s to present
American Indian ExperienceThis link opens in a new windowThesis-driven, peer-reviewed scholarly essays on American Indian history, culture and politics from precontact to the colonial era into the 21st century, and from the Inuit of Alaska to the Seminole of Florida. Content includes hundreds of primary documents and media, including treaties, speeches, captivity narratives, traditional storytelling, maps, photographs, and video.
Coverage: Prehistory - present
Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940, Part IThis link opens in a new windowCovers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis and provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women's Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.
Coverage: 1940 to 2014, with the bulk from 1950 to 1990
Defining Gender, 1450-1910This link opens in a new windowBritish culture and society. History, literature, sociology and education from a gendered and perspective. Key topics include conduct and politeness, domesticity & the family, consumption & leisure, education & sensibility, and the body.
Latin American Open Archives PortalThis link opens in a new windowScholarly Latin American cultural, historical and social research published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers. The portal is from the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project - LARRP, in collaboration with the Latin American Network Information Center - LANIC, to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America.
Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975This link opens in a new windowSociology. Rock and roll, counterculture, peace and protest, fashion, civil rights, Vietnam, student activism, underground publications.
Race Relations in AmericaThis link opens in a new windowThe Race Relations Department and its annual Institute, based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict. This is a collection of their work which documents three pivotal decades in the fight for civil rights in America through the eyes and work of sociologists, activists, psychologists, teachers, ministers, students and housewives. 1928-1976.
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974This link opens in a new windowHistory, society, culture, and politics of the U.S.A. in the 1960s. Diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary provide insight to the issues of the time - Civil Rights; Counter-Culture; Environmental Movement; Gay and Lesbian Rights; Law and Government; Mass Media; New Left and Emerging Neo-Conservative Movement; Science and Technology; Student Activism; Vietnam War; and Women’s Movement.