Library: Sociology 101: Library databases

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Library databases

Gale eBooks
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Reports published from 1991 to present.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Easy to access reference resources from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations and more.
Films on Demand
A comprehensive, curriculum-focused video subscription providing unlimited access to thousands of videos in 30+ subjects, including the humanities, science, business, literature, health, and more.
Gale In Context: Global Issues
Hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental health and cultural issues.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
Why search here?
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

What is included?
The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
Social Science Database
Why search here?
Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines.

What is included?
Subjects including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

Social Sciences
These databases are related to research in the following subject categories: Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Early Childhood Education, Education, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.

Reference eBooks

Gale eBooks
A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Easy to access reference resources from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations and more.

Core Concepts in Sociology
Core Concepts in Sociology is a comprehensive guide to the essential concepts relevant to the current study of the discipline and wider social science.
Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society
This 3-vol. set presents the social and cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present. Children and Childhood examines this history through articles on education, parenting, child labor, economics, images of childhood, children's literature, play, toys and games, health, physiology, law, the criminal justice system and social welfare.
Encyclopedia of World Poverty
The three volumes of this encyclopedia contain over 800 original articles written by more than 125 renowned scholars. The entries contributing to this work explore poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty, along with its causes and effects.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd. ed.
Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences
Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Dictionary of Race, Ethnicity & Culture
From Credo Reference
Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945
Entries cover major issues, incidents and violations, concepts and terms, activists, organizations, and human rights instruments. Entries on more than fifty nations from Afghanistan to Yugoslavia were selected based on the incidence of major human rights in those nations. Comprehensive cross-references in each entry make it easy to research a topic and its related entries easily.

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