Sociology

Sociological Abstracts covers the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It provides abstracting and indexing of articles and book reviews drawn from thousands of serials publications, plus books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers.

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts on the Web is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. ASSIA currently contains over 375,000 records from over 500 journals published in 16 different countries, including the UK and US.

1956-present. Provides indexing of the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the social sciences, and navigation of the full citation network. All cited references for all covered publications are fully indexed and searchable by topic, cited reference searching, or related reference searching. Create your own free account to track citation activity with Citation Alerts, and more. Also provides access to indexing and open access journals articles in Spanish and Portuguese (via SciELO), Russian, or Korean. Please select the respective databases from the databases drop-down menu on the search page.

Reviews the scholarship and research in sociology. Extensive bibliographic references provide a literature review of the topics discussed. Use the html version of a review article to have interactive access to the Literature Cited menu which includes links to the Web of Science citation network, and more.

The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.

Social Theory is an online collection designed to provide comprehensive coverage for students and scholars in the humanities and social sciences. The database combines an extensive range of influential writings in the more than 150,000 pages of searchable content from seminal works by major social thinkers.

Project Muse offers full text articles in scholarly journals primarily in the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on the most recent years.

JStor offers access to the full text of scholarly journal articles in the humanities and social sciences with a strong back file, going as far back as 1800.