Databases
Book Review InformationDatabases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials. For more choices than those listed below, go to the Jackson Library home page, then click on Databases.
Humanities
and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews.
SocIndex
with Full Text (SIFT) (EBSCO)
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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, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
- Covers articles from over 4,000 journals and the full text of more than 700 books and thousands of conference papers
- Abstracts of some of the core journals date as far back as 1895.
Sociological
Abstracts
- Abstracts for over 2,000 journals, plus books, conference papers, and other materials in sociology, social psychology, social work, community development, criminal justice, demography and feminist studies.
- International in scope. Many foreign language titles.
- Major journals in these fields available in Jackson library.
- Includes book reviews.
- 1963 to present
- More info
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- Indexes approximately 650 journals in social work, psychology, sociology, political science, and health, including some peer-reviewed journals.
- Covers such topics as family studies, criminology, geriatrics, unemployment, immigration and race relations.
- Covers 1987 to the present.
- More info
- Provides the complete digitized text of about thirty sociology titles and another nine population studies journals
- Coverage begins with the first issue and does not include the last 3-5 years
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- One of the largest of the full-text databases, Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) includes citations, abstracts and some full-text for over 9000 English-language general periodicals and scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas including education, psychology, sociology, social work, and family studies.
- Most materials available in UNCG library.
- 1980 to date
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Dates of coverage vary by title; full text from about 1990 to date
- More info
- Mix of 2,500 scholarly and popular journals, many full-text, from a variety of disciplines including sociology, and family studies.
- 1971 to present; full text coverage varies by title
- More info
- Full text articles from over 7500 journals, magazines, transcripts, newspapers, newsletters, and other sources.
- International in scope
- Dates of coverage vary by title; full text
- More info
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
- Provides summaries of Federal, state, and local government reports and transcripts, books, research reports, training materials, program descriptions, statistics, journal articles, audiovisual products, and unpublished research.
- Covers corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, hate crimes, school safety, ex-offender programs, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime.
- The NCJRS Virtual Library is a separate collection of over 7,000 full text publications from the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. This full text database must be searched separately from the main database.
- 1970 to date
PsycINFO
- Provides abstracts for over 1300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as sociology and psychiatry
- Large number of foreign language titles.
- Jackson library owns many of the core, English-language titles.
- 1872 to present
- More info
- Full text of about 50 journals from the Amer. Psychological Assn, Canadian Psychological Assn, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
- Covers all aspects of psychology. Includes related areas such as forensics, criminal behavior, social processes, and social issues
- Mainly 1988 to present but varies by title
- More info
Social
Work Abstracts
- Contains thousands of abstracts of periodical articles and dissertations on social work and related disciplines such as child and family welfare, sociology, crime and delinquency, and community health. International in scope.
- Some foreign language materials.
- Major journals in these fields available in Jackson library.
- 1977 to present
- More info
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- News, culture and history from several hundred U.S. publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
- Full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
- Dates vary by title with most beginning full text coverage in the 1990s. A few date as far back as the 1960s.
- Over 180,000 bibliographic records and abstracts drawn from over 1,000 professional journals as well as books, popular literature, conference papers, and government reports. Includes research, policy and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology and human development.
- Considerable Australian material. Limited amount of these materials available in Jackson library.
- 1970 to present
- More info
- Indexes more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references.
- The citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms. A cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find other, later works that cite it.
- In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, source title, and address.
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more
- Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index.
- 1985 to date
Book Review Information
- Provides indexing of reviews of current, English-language fiction and non-fiction books.
- Indexes book reviews from thousands of journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Coverage: 1965 to date
- Largest of the full text databases and one of the best places to start to look for book reviews
- See additional description above.
- Guide to electronic and print book review sources including those available through various periodical indexes
Sociology Resources
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Nancy Ryckman
Sociology Librarian
