Sociology: Articles/Research Databases

Indexes the international literature of sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

PsycINFO provides abstracts and full text of thousands of journals from the 1800s to the present. Includes books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports about psychology and related disciplines, including psychiatry, education, linguistics, neurosciences, pharmacology, and social work.

Full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. Includes content from the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. 1894 - present.

Includes searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full-text coverage for older graduate works.

A social sciences database produced by Web of Science searchable by subject, author, or cited reference. 1965 - present.

Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, and articles.

Thomson Reuters Westlaw provides full-text access to cases from the courts of all 50 states and federal courts, statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated, American Jurisprudence 2d Legal Encyclopedia, federal regulations, law reviews and legal periodicals. Also offers business and news resources.

Access to over 600 international journals, including 320 full-text journals and magazines. Covers criminology and criminal justice topics including forensic sciences, corrections, criminal law & investigation, and policing.

Full text collection of articles covering women's and gender topics.

Index and abstracts on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare and community development. 1980 - present.

Sponsored by: Nevada Statewide Licensed Databases, through the IMLS
The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) is the world's most widely used index to education literature. It is supported by the U.S. Department of Education and contains over 1.5 million records of journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books.

A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Child Welfare Information Gateway provides information and resources related to the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.

Comprehensive database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments, pulled from hundreds of health sciences and psychosocial science journals.

This multidisciplinary database indexes over 6,000+ scholarly journals, with full text for almost 3,100 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1975 - present for selected titles.