Sociology Databases

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African American Studies include:

• Major federal legislation concerning slave trade, colonization, reconstruction, civil rights, affirmative action, and issues related to race relations, 1792–1994.
• U.S. Supreme Court decisions on constitutional issues raised by slavery, reconstruction programs, Jim Crow laws, school segregation, job and housing discrimination, and affirmative action programs, 1806–1999.
• Autobiographies of prominent African Americans, including Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Walter F. White, and James Forman.
• Manuscript materials on the crusade to ban the movie Birth of a Nation, NAACP legal campaigns against segregated education and "white primaries," work of the "Black Cabinet" during the New Deal, and the surge of civil rights activities in the 1960s as seen from inside the Kennedy and Johnson White House.
• Reference articles on major African American figures and key events and court decisions in the civil rights movement.
• Scholarly articles from academic journals and anthologies on the African American experience.
• Photographs depicting famous persons, events, and institutions in African American history, including Carl Van Vechten portrait images of famous writers, scholars, and artists; Hampton University photos of the early experience in industrial education; and images from the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation. The Bethune Foundation images include depictions of student life at Bethune-Cookman College and its predecessor institutions as well as photos documenting the 
  political career of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Census Data: An online database offered by the U.S. Bureau of Census, the database provides statistical information about census data.

CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating Census 2000 data and U.S. demographic trends.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. The database provides access to a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutions, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

EconLit is the American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economics literature throughout the world. EconLit contains abstracts, indexing, and links to full-text articles in economics journals. It abstracts books and indexes articles in books, working papers series, and dissertations. EconLit also provides the full-text of Journal of Economic Literature book reviews.

Emerald provides comprehensive coverage of over 100 management journals--complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts to 1989.  Click here for journals available.

ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.

FACTS offers users the depth of a 20-year news backfile and the timeliness of weekly updates (with hourly newswire feeds).

GPO provides free electronic access to vast information products produced by the Federal Government, included Federal databases (Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations), Congressional Records and Congressional Bills, Commerce Business Daily (CBD Net), Catalog of US Government Publications (MOCAT), The Sales Product Catalog (SPC) and Government Information Locator Service (GILS). Federal Bulletin Board provides access to Federal information in electronic form.

General OneFile (Help Guide) is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.

International Index to Black Periodicals: International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text brings together 150 of the most respected scholarly and popular periodicals in Black Studies.

JSTOR provides back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Printing from the JSTOR database requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.  For a current list of journals available, see Journals Currently Available.

Lexis-Nexis provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

MIT Press currently publishes journals in the fields of architecture, the arts, social sciences, environmental studies, life sciences, medicine and technology. Each journal has been approved by the Editorial Board that governs The MIT Press imprint and are published in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as with other institutions, including Harvard University, New York University, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

PsycBOOKS is a database of more than 16,000 chapters in PDF from over 1,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. The database includes most scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2005. It also includes 100 out-of-print books and a total of more than 400 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology.

ScienceDirect offers access to the Elsevier Science journal collection (over 1,200 titles), along with journals from a host of prestigious societies and STM publishers. The full text collection of over 1 million articles from 1995 to present covers a wide variety of subject areas and disciplines, including: Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Business & Management Science, Chemistry, Clinical Medicine, Earth Sciences, Economics, Engineering & Technology, Environmental Science, Materials Science, Mathematics & Computer science, Microbiology & Immunology, Neurosciences, Pharmacology & Toxicology, Physics, and Social Sciences.

Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection covers such subjects as Childhood, Contemporary Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Consumer Culture, Classical Sociology, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Leisure Studies, Social Theory, Sociology of Sport, and Sociology of Work and Employment (Labor Studies).