Subject Specific Databases:

Ethnic News Watch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

Hispanic American Periodical Index (HAPI) has over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribeean, Mexico, Brazil and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States.

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. ICPSR acquires, preserves, and distributes original research data and provides training in its analysis.

International Index to Black Periodicals - IIBP includes full text as well as current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 31 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).

ISI Web of Science is the combined Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation index from 1981 to the present.

LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973-present) provides abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide; citations to dissertations, books and book reviews are included.

NCJRS Abstracts (Criminal Justice) The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

Population Index (1990-present) The Index covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations. monographs, journal articles, other serial publications, working papers, doctoral dissertations, and machine-readable data files are indexed.

SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, gerontology, marriage & family, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse, violence and many others. Ebsco features more than 1,660,000 records with full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.

General or Related Databases:

America History and Life. Bibliographic citations on U.S. and Canadian history, covering over 2000 journals and indexing and abstracting articles since 1964. Excellent coverage of American minority groups. Select references to books, media and dissertations are also included. Book reviews in the journals are indexed.

Anthropological Literature. Bibliography of articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies going back to the 19th century.

Article First Indexes complied from the tables of contents from 12,500 journals 1990 to the present.

Ebscohost. A collection of general reference and subject-specific research databases offering indexing and abstracting for periodical and newspaper articles; some full-text.

PsycINFO indexes and abstracts more than 1500 scholarly psychology journals, books, chapters inbooks, and dissertations. Links to journal articles that are full text in EBSCO Academic.

WorldCat is a union catalog of thousands of libraries around the world containing over 41 million records of books, journals, manuscripts, videos, music scores and recordings.

Print Materials

Subject Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of American Social History [Reference] HN57 .E58 1993 v. 1-3 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior [Reference] HV6017 .E53 2001 v.1-4 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol [Reference] HV5804 .E53 1995 v. 1-4 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Lesbian,Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America [Reference] HQ 76.3 .U5 E53 2004 V. 1-3 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family [Reference] HQ9 .E52 1995 v. 1-2 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Sociology [Reference] HM17 .E5 1992 v. 1-4 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences [Reference] QA276.14 .E5 v. 1-9 catalog record

Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures [Reference] HT108.5 E53 2002 V. 1-4 catalog record

International Encyclopedia of Population [Reference] HB849.2 .I55 1982 v. 1-2 catalog record

International Encyclopedia of Statistics [Reference] HA17 .I63 v. 1-2 catalog record

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences [Main Library] H41 .I5 v.1-18 catalog record

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. 2nd ed. [Reference] H40 .A2 I5 2008 v. 1-9 catalog record

Handbooks

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences [Main Library] HQ1061 .H336 2006 catalog record

Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods [Main Library] H62 .H24534 1998 catalog record

Handbook of Death & Dying [Reference] HQ1073 .H36 2003 v.1-2 catalog record

Handbook of Qualitative Research [Main Library] H62 .H2455 2000 catalog record

Handbook of Statistical Modeling for the Social and Behavioral Sciences [Main Library] HA29 .H2487 2000 catalog record

Violence in America: An Encyclopedia [Reference] HN90 .V5 V5474 1999 v. 1-3 catalog record

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Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace

Sourcebook on Criminal Justice Statistics

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