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I’ve always been interested in how things work and how I can make things more efficient.
Sociology Resources
General Research Indexes:
- Academic Search Complete
Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study - EJC - Electronic Journal Center
Full text of 6000+ research journals - Films on Demand
Over 8200 full-length streaming video programs from academic and commercial publishers including PBS, BBC, CNBC, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Bill Moyers Journal, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer - Image Quick View (searches Academic Search Complete)
- ISI Web of Knowledge
Portal to Web of Science, providing high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities - JSTOR
Full text scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Business, Language and Literature - Lexis Nexis Academic
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information - OhioLINK Digital Videos
Education and Instructional Videos
- Scopus
With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers a to support research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, in the arts and humanities - VAST: Academic Video Online
A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video which will include access to 20,000 videos in 2013.
Sociology Research Indexes:
- African-American History Online
- America: History and Life
Bibliographic reference to history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present; the index has been published since 1964 - American History Online
- American Indian History Online
- American Women's History Online
- Ancient and Medieval History Online
- Annual Reviews
Full text 1996 - present, Tables of Contents only 1984-1995 - DRC: Digital Resource Commons
- Gender Studies Database
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
- LGBT Life with Full Text
- Modern World History Online
- NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database
- Oxford African American Studies Center
- Proquest Statistical Data Sets
- The Roper Center
"data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, to the present; most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented" - SocINDEX with Full Text
Index, abstracts, and full text covering sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure - Sociological Collection
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Information from over 600 sources which presents system characteristics, public opinion, offenses known, arrests, judicial processing, and corrections - Statistical Abstract US (Proquest)
- United States Courts, from the Federal Judiciary
- WestlawNext Campus Research
WestlawNext simplifies your starting point for legal research – this platform replaces the current Westlaw which will be phased out the end of the year - Women's Studies International
