Sociology Databases

Abstracts and indexes from over 1,300 journals and dissertations, and citations to book reviews as well as full text from 140 journals covering sociology and social work.
Coverage: 1979-Current

CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. 124 of the 140 full-text journals are refereed, including of the 129 ISI rated journals in sociology and social work. Deep archiving dates as far back as the 1920s for some titles.

Comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Coverage: 1895 to present

SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,910,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus, including full text for 397 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1908, and 150 "priority" coverage journals, more than 720 books and monographs, and 6,743 conference papers. It also contains informative abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. In addition, it features over 10,000 Author Profiles covering the most prolific, most cited, and most frequently searched for authors in the database. Each author profile includes biographical data and bibliographic information, which together allow users to quickly ascertain an author's areas of expertise and academic/professional focus.

Full text from 140 journals covering sociology and social work plus abstracts and indexes for articles from over 1,800 international serials along with books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Coverage: 1952-Current

Over 40% of titles in CSA's Sociological Abstracts are published outside North America with over 20% of content published in languages other than English. 124 of the 140 full-text journals are refereed, including of the 129 ISI rated journals in sociology and social work. Deep archiving dates as far back as the 1920s for some titles.

Citations and abstracts from more than 600 journals, books, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos addressing aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

Produced by AARP, AgeLine focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging. It includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy. AgeLine also includes information for professionals working in aging-related fields and for consumers. AARP generates original abstracts for every citation, with index terms drawn from AgeLine's Thesaurus of Aging Terminology. AgeLine indexes over 600 journals, books, book chapters, reports, dissertations, consumer guides, and educational videos. Designed for researchers, professionals, students, and general consumers, this database addresses aging issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.

A full text database comprised of more than 190 newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Coverage: 1970 - current

Alt-PressWatch features over 502,000 articles from alternative newsweeklies like Eugene Weekly, Missoula Independent, and The Village Voice as well as over 190 other grassroots newspapers, magazines, and journals. Click here for a complete title list.

A comprehensive collection of almost 400,000 bibliographic entries about the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Coverage: 1955 - current

America: History & Life is an excellent resource for a variety of disciplines including American History, Canadian History, Popular Culture, American Studies, Literature/Folklore, Genealogy, Women's Studies/Gender Studies, Multicultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History of Science, Economics, Business, Education, Music, Art, and Law.
CLIO Notes is included in this resource and contains overviews of historical periods and detailed chronologies for major events and issues of each period.

Authoritative, analytic reviews in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Coverage: 1996 - current

Annual Reviews synthesizes the vast amount of primary research literature and identifying the principal contributions in 32 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences. Editorial committees comprised of distinguished scholars in the discipline critically review, synthesize, and filter the vast amount of primary research in specific disciplines. Each AR article is written by authors who are recognized experts in the field. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic. These AR publications are among the highest cited publications by impact factor according to the Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI).

Citations and abstracts of research on on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and well-being of children.
Coverage: 1965 - current

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption is now a free database that requires registration to attain username and password access. Citations and abstracts cover books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished paper, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies. Primarily English-language, U.S. based.

Provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
Coverage: 1991 - current

CQ Researcher, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc., contains single-themed, 12,000-word reports researched and written by seasoned journalists. Each report provides an introductory overview; background and chronology on the topic; an assessment of the current situation; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources. Reports are browsable by topic or date or searchable by keyword.

Full text for more than 2,300 journals, including more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles, covering all aspects of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics.
Coverage: 1969 - current

the American Economic Association’s electronic database, EconLit, provides links to full text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more. It also includes abstracts of books, journal articles, and working papers published by the Cambridge University Press. These sources bring the total records available in the database to more than 785,000.

Full text of 2,200 digests, plus full text, citations and abstracts of 1000+ journals, books, proceedings, reports, and Department of Education publications.
Coverage: 1966 - current

An interdisciplinary and bilingual (English and Spanish) full text database of nearly 300 newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses from throughout the U.S.
Coverage: 1960 - current

Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History together span over 40 years with nearly 1.2 million full-text, fully indexed articles. The Historic backfile covers 39 of the nearly 300 titles in Ethnic NewsWatch. Publications cover regional news about African American, Native American, Hispanic, Jewish, Muslim, and other ethnic groups. Click here for a title list for Ethnic NewsWatch and here for a title list of Ethnic NewsWatch: A History.

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. ERIC provides coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. It also offers users access to many of the ERIC documents no longer available online in the UML ERIC microfiche from 1972 to 2003.

Full text database of over 230 publications that focus on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women. Sources include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.
Coverage: 1970 - current

GenderWatch supports gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies; family studies; gender studies, and women’s studies with a unique interdisciplinary approach. It contains more than 125,000 full-text articles on wide-ranging topics like sexuality, religion, societal roles, feminism, masculinity, eating disorders, day care, and the workplace. Click here for a complete GenderWatch title list.

Full-text access to 19 journals covering sociology, health, education, engineering, and more.
Coverage: varies (mostly from 2001) - current.

Full-text access to 144 core scholarly journals covering diverse subject areas in the liberal arts and sciences.
Coverage: 1863 - 2005

UML has access to these two JSTOR collections:
Arts & Sciences I includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines. It includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Arts & Sciences IIcontains 125 titles covering economics, history, and Asian studies. It also offers core journals in several new disciplines, such as archaeology, classics, and African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies.

Full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including the Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and The Washington Post (dating back to 1977);

LexisNexis Academic is divided into four catagories that can searched individually or in combination:
"News" provides full-text access to more than 350 newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, including the Financial Times (dating back to 1982), The New York Times (dating back to 1980) and The Washington Post (dating back to 1977); over 300 major magazines and journals; and broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks.
"Legal" includes primary source material such as case law, statutes and regulations along with legal news and law reviews for background or analysis of a legal topic.
"Business" provides U.S. and international company financial information, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. Search features permit comparison of companies based on criteria such as sales, income and number of employees.
"People" offers biographies and obituaries of people in the news, government, and industry.

Full text of selected congressional publications and legislative research, in some cases dating back 25 years or more.

The basic subscription includes: abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; and the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. A metadata record is provided for each publication. The content of these records varies by publication type, but always includes full bibliographic information and indexing. The availability of full text varies. Available full text may be accessed from the metadata records.

Bibliographic citations and abstracts from more than 1300 journals as well as books, book chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology and as well as business, education, law, social work, linguistics, and medicine.
Coverage: 1887 to present

From the American Psychological Association (APA), PsycINFO contains nearly 2.3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans 1887 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,100 periodicals in more than 25 languages.

Search the UMass Lowell Library catalog for books, journals and non-print materials.

Complete, full-text access to more than 4,100 ebooks covering all major subject areas, including over 280 titles related to Psychology.
Coverage: Publication dates 1963 - 2006

NetLibrary eBook titles are searchable by using up to four criteria including title, author, keyword, ISBN, or publisher plus limiting by publication year and language. Individual titles can then be read online in the Online Reader, browsed by table or contents, or keyword searched. Up to four books can be held in the Reader simultaneously. Books cannot be read offline, downloaded, or "checked out." The Reader is cleared at the end of each session. By creating a free account, access is available from anywhere using your personal login and titles can then be saved to your Favorites list.

Spans an international range of terms, methods, and concepts and includes biographies of key figures.
Coverage: third edition 2005

Collecting anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism in one volume, the Dictionary presents concise, clearly written definitions of more than 1,500 important terms.
Coverage: Publication date 2002

Guidance on best resources for research about ethnic groups chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.

Guidance on best resources for researching your home town chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.

Guidance on best resources for Social Welfare research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.

Guidance on best resources for Sociology research chosen and categorized by a UML subject specialist reference librarian.