• Boreham Online Catalog and the World Catalog
• Sociology Reference Books in Boreham Library
• Sociology Research Databases
• Other Specialized Sociology Databases
• Journals in Sociology
• Sociology Internet Links

Boreham Online Catalog and the World Catalog

Use the Boreham Library Online Catalog to locate books and media in Boreham Library. The Library of Congress Subject Headings provide the authoritative subject headings to use when searching by subject.

Use the World Catalog to locate books and media in other libraries. This database is searchable by author, title, subject, and keyword.

Sociology Reference Books in Boreham Library

American Reformers	Ref 361.92 Am35
Book Review Index	Ref 050 B6442
Critical Dictionary of Sociology	Ref 301.03 En19
Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology	Ref 301.59503 V
Encyclopedia of Bioethics	Ref 174.2 En19
Encyclopedia of crime and Justice	Ref 354.0321 En19
Encyclopedia of Sociology	Ref 301.03 En19
Encyclopedia of World Cultures	Ref 305 En103wc
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America	Ref 305.8 G131
Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups	Ref 973.04 H261
Information Plus Series	Ref 317.3 In3
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences	Ref 303.3 In8

Sociology Research Databases

Access to online databases is available both on and off campus to UA Fort Smith students, faculty, administration, and staff.

• SocINDEX with Full Text
  

Full text for 253 "core" journals from 1895 plus 72 "priority" journals.

• Academic Search Premier
  

A very important general database.

• PsycINFO
  
• PsycARTICLES
  

Topics Covered: Psychology and related areas including sociology
Full text journals from American Psychological Association

• Lexis Nexis
  

Current News, Statistics, Laws and Legislation, Medicine
Publication Years: Varies with file accessed

• ERIC
  

All aspects of education and related fields—some citations to articles and research reports from 1966-Present

• Mental Measurements Yearbook Online 10th Edition to current
  

Descriptive information and critical reviews of more than 2,000 commercially-available standardized English-language tests.

• GPO (Government Publications Online)
  

Publications of the Federal Government indexed from 1976-Present

• World Catalog
  

References to books and media in other libraries from 11th century to present

• JSTOR [Full Text]
  

Provides full-text articles from over 600 scholarly journals. JSTOR is an initiative to store the full-text of important arts, humanities and social sciences journals in a secure environment. Issues for the current 3-5 years are not available.

• New York Times Historical: 1851 up to but not including current 4 years [Full-Text]
  

Provides full-text and images from the first issue of The New York Times through 2001.

Other Specialized Sociology Databases

Other databases are searchable though online services for a search fee. Examples of these databases include the following:

• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• Dissertation Abstracts
• Family Studies Abstracts
• Human Resources Abstracts
• Race Relations Abstracts
• Social SciSearch
• Social Work Research and Abstracts
• Urban Studies Abstracts

Journals in Sociology

A Subject List of sociology magazines, journals, and newspapers is available. Search the Journal Locator to determine the availability of individual titles. Following are some of the more important journals for sociology:

• American Journal of Sociology
• American Sociological Review
• Contemporary Sociology
• Demography
• Journal of Marriage and the Family
• Sex Roles
• Society
• Teaching Sociology
• World & I

Sociology Internet Links

• American Fact Finder (Census)
  

http://factfinder.census.gov/

• American Sociological Association
  

http://www.asanet.org/

• Center for the Study of Group Processes
  

http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc

• Durkheim Pages
  

http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim

• Hate Crimes Research Network
  

http://www.hatecrime.net/

• Internet Public Library-International Newspapers online
  

http://www.ipl.org/reading/news

• National Opinion Research Center
  

http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/

• Institute for Research on Poverty
  

http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/

• Princeton University:Sociology Links
  

http://www.sociolog.com/

• Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
  

http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl

• Socioweb—independent guide to sociological resources on the web
  

http://www.socioweb.com/~markbl/socioweb

• Verstehen: Max Weber's home Page
  

http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Weber/Whome.htm

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Last revised on September 30, 2005
Currently maintained by Carolyn Filippelli

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