Selected Sociology Databases
Academic Search Premier
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text:
1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering
the social sciences, humanities, education and more. |
Anthropological Index Online
(1970-current). Citations to
publications in the field of anthropology with search engine. |
Articles First
Indexes journals in science,
technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities,
and popular culture. |
Blackwell Synergy
459,037 articles from 780 leading
journals |
Britannica Online
The complete encyclopedia, with
related Internet sites and more. Encyclopedia Britannica. |
Cabell's
Information about scholarly
journals from the perspective of the author "…the professor's
guide to success" |
CQ Researcher Online
Comprehensive, non-biased reporting
and analysis on issues shaping our world. |
CQ Weekly
Fully archived to 1983 on the Web,
CQ Weekly looks forward and back. Readers get in-depth reports
on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete
wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills
in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor
activity, debates and all roll-call votes. |
CREDO Reference
CREDO Reference, formerly
Xreferplus, is a digital reference library, which contains all
types of reference books (currently 169 titles) that you'd want
to see in any library: dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri,
and books of quotations, not to mention a host of
subject-specific titles covering: art, bilinguals, biography,
business, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias, food,
geography, history, language law, literature, medicine, music,
philosophy & psychology, quotations, religion, science, social
sciences, technology. Features include a concept mapping search
interface. |
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers
crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile
delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and
sentencing. |
Criminal Justice Periodicals
A comprehensive collection of U.S.
and international criminal justice journals including
information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections
administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law,
and industrial security. |
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Full-text of 23 journals published
by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23
years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects
as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice,
Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family
and Domestic Violence. |
Dissertation Abstracts
(Indexing: 1861+, Abstracting
Dissertations: 1980+, Abstracting Theses: 1988+). The complete
range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted
at accredited institutions. |
Early Encounters in North America
This release of Early Encounters in
North America contains 1,482 authors and over 100,000 pages of
letters, diaries, memoirs and accounts of early encounters. |
Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Provides access to full-text of
many of FSU's online journal subscriptions and also EJS Journals
via pay per view. Includes searching in article titles, journal
titles, abstracts, full-text and title list browsing. |
Ebscohost
Search up to 24 of FSU's databases
simultaneously |
ECO
(Electronic Collection Online). An
OCLC collection of scholarly journals. |
Enciclopedia Universal en Español
|
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Current). This resource features
over 25,000 informative segments to meet the research needs of
elementary, middle, and high schools students. |
Gale Ready Reference Shelf
Integrates 14 of Gale's reference
directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings for
associations, research centers, publishers, publications,
databases, television and radio stations, and more. |
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of E-Book reference
titles. |
JSTOR
STOR is a not-for-profit
organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a
trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide
access to these journals as widely as possible. |
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of
news, business, legal and reference information. |
Master File Premier
Provides full text for over 1,770
general reference, business, consumer health, general science,
and multi-cultural periodicals. |

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros
Institute at the University of Nebraska, this database provides
users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary
testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from
novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY
series contains information essential for a complete evaluation
of test products within such diverse areas as psychology,
education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K.
Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable
judgments and informed selection decisions about the
increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage
from Volume 9 to the present. |
NCLIVE
A core group of reference and
research materials online in the form of full-text electronic
information and indexes. |
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
North American Immigrant Letters,
Diaries, and Oral Histories provides a unique and personal view
of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. Contains
more than 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including
letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral
histories. |
North American Indian Biographical Database
This fourth release of the North
American Indian Biographical Database contains over 62,000 pages
of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies,
personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral
histories. |
North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
Over 150,000 pages of published
letters and diaries plus 4,000 pages of previously unpublished
materials depicting the personal experiences of hundreds of
women. Remote access coming soon. Contains materials from
Colonial times to 1950. |
Opposing Viewpoints
Draws on the acclaimed social
issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core
reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA
sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on
social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews,
statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text
magazine and newspaper articles. |
PAIS International
(1972-current). Citations to public
policy literature of economics, government, law, international
business, political science, public administration, and other
social sciences. |
Periodical Abstracts
(1987-current). Abstracts from
general and academic journals, covering business, current
affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's
studies, and others. |
Proceedings First
(1993+). An index of conference
publications. |
Project Muse
Currently, Project MUSE® offers
nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers.
As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals
resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and
criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural
studies, education, political science, gender studies,
economics, and many others. |
ProQuest Direct
Search up to a dozen Proquest
databases simultaneously |
Proquest Dissertations and Theses- Full Text
More than two million dissertation
and theses from 1861 to the present, many of them full text. |
ProQuest Psychology Journals
Over 400 journals and related
publications in psychology. |
PsychInfo
1887-current). Indexes and
abstracts journal articles and book chapters in psychology and
behavioral sciences. |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
The Psychology & Behavioral
Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database providing nearly
575 full text publications, including 550 peer-reviewed
journals. The database covers topics such as emotional and
behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental
processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental
methods. |
PyscARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a definitive source
of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific
articles in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general
psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and
theoretical research. The database contains more than 40,000
articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American
Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied
organizations. |
Reader’s Guide
(Indexing: 1983+, Abstracting:
1984+). Abstracts of articles from popular magazines. |
Serials Directory
(Indexing: current). Information
includes journal price, e-mail and Internet address. |
SIRS Researcher
(Indexing: 1988+, Summaries:
1994+). Thousands of full-text articles exploring social,
scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. |
Social Work Abstract
The Social Work Abstracts database
contains more than 45,000 records, from 1977 - present, from
social work and related journals on topics such as homelessness,
AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse,
legislation, and more. |
SocINDEX
SocINDEX with Full Text offers
comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all
sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These
include abortion, 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. In addition, SocINDEX with
Full Text features over 5,000 Author Profiles. |
Union Lists of Periodicals
(Current). Journal bibliographic
information and Library holdings. |
Web of Science
Covers over 8,000 international
journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and
humanities. |
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
With Full text of articles from
over 1,750 publications and Article abstracts and indexing from
over 3,500 publications, Wilson OmniFile is especially
convenient for users with inquiries in areas that cross
disciplines—ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, and more.
Wilson OmniFile is even helpful to those who are unsure which
specialty to search for their topic of interest. |
Wilson Select Plus
(1994-current). Contains indexed
and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full
text online. |
Women and Social Movements
"Currently includes 61 document
projects with 1,645 documents, and at least 21,000 pages of
additional full-text documents. It includes as well book, film
and website reviews." |
World Almanac
The World Almanacs - fundamental
reference resources. |
World Cat
Union catalog of materials held in
libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly. |
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