Databases/Article Indexes for Anthropology and Sociology


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Ageline
1978-current

Open Access
AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy, and the health sciences.
 
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
 
History of the United States and Canada, comprised of over 490,000 citations in over 2,000 journals dating back to 1964. Also available from ABC-Clio
 
American Memory
1450-current

Open Access
Library of Congress historical collections online, comprised of written and audio-visual materials, with roughly 120 collections in all subject areas.
 
Annual Reviews
Dates vary
Annual Reviews volumes, published each year in approximately 30 focused disciplines within the biological, medical, physical, and social sciences, are thorough and timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists and academicians.
 
AP Images
1826 - Current

formerly AccuNet/Associated Press Multimedia Archive 1 user maximum
an International photo archive (1826-present), a Graphics Database which contains graphics, maps, illustrations and logos, and an AP Audio Database which contains searchable audio clips dating back to the 1920s.
 
Blackwell Synergy
1997-current
The Blackwell Publishing Full Collection comprises 803 journals from across Science, Technology, Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
 
Indexes books, journals, reports, etc. about women's health and human rights issues.
 
Provides coverage of over 1,700 journal titles published worldwide and serves as a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Also available from ABC-Clio
 
HLAS Online
1936-current

Open Access
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
 
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.
 
In The First Person
Dates vary

Open Access
In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
Recommended resource
iPoll
1935-current

Users must fill out a one-time registration and agree to Terms of Use before using this resource.
iPOLL is and up-to-date source for US nationwide public opinion polls. It is full-text retrieval system organized at the question-level, and includes nearly a half million questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935. The data is updated daily.
 
JSTOR
Dates vary
Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Left Index
1982-current

2 concurrent users maximum
Guide to literature of leftist and radical media, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
 
Includes tables, abstracts, and links to statistical information from State, US, and International sources through LexisNexis. The American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, Index to International Statistics.
 
The NGS Publications Index includes broad subject indexing to magazines, books, films and videos, educational products, map products, interactive features, and newsletters produced by the Society.
 
NCJRS Abstracts Database
1970-current

Open Access
Contains summaries of more than 160,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
 
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Current

2 concurrent users maximum
An online library of current event topics: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center's unique features include Viewpoint articles and access to statistics and government data placed in context.
 
PAIS International
1972-current
Covers articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, hearings and statistical directories about public affairs, including public policy and social issues.
 
Project Muse
Dates vary
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
 
PsycBooks
1806 - present
a full-text database of over 1100 books and chapters in the American Psychological Associations array of electronic ebooks.
 
full-text reviews of books, popular films, videos, and software relevant to psychology. Weekly releases may also include a review of a popular first-run film or a comparative review of several current trade books. Reviews focus on current media, with most being from the current year.
 
PsycINFO
1872-current
Indexes and abstracts books, dissertations and journal articles in the psychological and behavioral sciences, including the creative arts therapies.
 
ScienceDirect
1995-current
ScienceDirect is a search platform which provides access to more than 1000 full-text journals in a wide range of subject areas.
 
SimplyMap

5 concurrent users maximum. Free personal registration is required for access.
a web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using United States demographic, business, and marketing data. Data sources include the U.S. Census and Census projections.
Recommended resource
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI)
1980-current

41 concurrent users maximum
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
 
Social Sciences Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Social Sciences subject area
Full Text access to artcles indexed in the Social Sciences Index. Indexing begins at 1982, Abstracting begins at 1984, and fulltext coverage begins in 1994.
 
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Recommended resource
Sociological Abstracts indexes and abstracts the literature in socology (and related disciplines) from an international selection of journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations.
 
Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.

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