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Core Sociology Literature Databases

These are the core databases for the sociological research literature. SocINDEX is listed first; the remainder of the databases are listed alphabetically.

SocINDEX
This is the primary index to the sociological literature. The database also features "cited references" searching and searching for images and profiles for over 25, 000 authors.

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SocINDEX with Full Text provides comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. The database includes over 2 million records and provides cover to cover indexing for over 450 priority and selective indexing for over 2,900 journals. SocINDEX also indexes books, conference papers and non-periodical content. FULL TEXT is provided for over 860 journals, over 830 books and over 16,800 conference papers.
Record Date: 7/1/2015
Annual Review of Sociology
The Annual Review of Sociology indexes and contains the full text of literature review articles in sociology and related areas.

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Coverage is from 1975 to the present.
Record Date: 4/23/2012
Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database (FSSW)
FSSW covers a broad spectrum of the sociological literature, but includes an emphasis on family studies.

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The Family & Society Studies Worldwide Database(FSSW) includes the discontinued Inventory of Marriage and Family (produced by the National Council on Family Relations), the Australian Family & Society Abstracts, U.S. Military Family Resource Center Documents Database, and National Clearinghouse on Family Violence, Health Canada. Coverage spans from 1970 to the present indexing publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources.
Family studies absracts
A relatively small database with an emphasis on family studies

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Family Studies Abstracts (formerly Sage family studies abstracts) provides abstracts for articles, reports, books, and other materials to the current literature in the field of family studies, including coverage of adolescent problems and treatment, adulthood, aging, child care, death and dying, development and socialization, domestic abuse and violence, education, employment, ethnic and minority relations, family law, family life cycles, gender roles and comparisons, home schooling, homosexuality and bisexuality, infancy and toddler hood, marital happiness and quality, mate selection, parental influence, pregnancy loss, sexually transmitted diseases, and social work. Coverage is from 1979 to the present.
Record Date: 4/23/2012
POPLINE
Most articles and books indexed in POPLINE can be found by looking up the citations in the UC Libraries' Catalog.

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POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) contains citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the K4Health Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. (USAID).
Record date: 6/11/2012
Scopus
This is another large database for the science and social science literature, covering over 15,000 peer reviewed journals.

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Scopus provides indexing, abstracting and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus includes over 19,500 peer reviewed titles from 5,000 publishers, providing access to over 46 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005. Coverage also includes over 500 million quality web sites, over 20 million patents and 200 book series.
Record Date: 8/6/2012
Sociological Collection
This database provides indexing for over 500 full text journals, most refereed.

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This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Record Date: 10/24/2013
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Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.

Additional Databases Relevant to the Sociology Research Literature

The following research literature databases are not singularly focused on the discipline of sociology. However, they frequently contain relevant literature for the discipline of sociology, and frequenty the articles on sociologically related topics in these databases are NOT covered in the "core" sociology databases.

For a complete list of the UC Libraries' databases, please see the A-Z List of Databases.

Academic Search Complete
Annual review of psychology
Communication abstracts
CQ Researcher
eHRAF World Cultures Access: UC Only
Ethnic NewsWatch
Expanded academic ASAP
Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac)
Genders Studies Database
GenderWatch
GPO Monthly Catalog
MEDLINE
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition (H.W. Wilson)
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
PAIS International Database
Population Index (JSTOR)
Population Index on the Web
ProQuest Research Library
Psychology & behavioral sciences collection
PsycINFO
Women's studies international

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