Research Guides: Sociology Research Guide: Articles

Databases for Journal Articles

Sociology is the study of human society, organizations, and institutions. Looks for research articles on sociological topics in the databases listed here, especially SocINDEX and Academic Search Premier.

Favorite Sociology Databases

SocINDEX with Full Text
A comprehensive sociology database with strong coverage of social work, anthropology, and education.
A comprehensive social sciences research database with full text for more than 1,700 journals dating back to 1908. It also provides full text for more than 830 books and 14,000 conference papers. Subject indexing is based on a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database that is a good starting point for many topics.
Covers 1975 to the present.

Sociology - More databases to try

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995
A collection of more than 170 periodicals by and about African Americans published between 1825 and 1995.
Immigrations, Migrations and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941-1996
A collection of news reports and transcripts from media sources outside the United States focusing on refugees and migration.
Reports from Foreign Broadcast Information Services (FBIS) looking at the refugee flows during World War ll through 1996.
JSTOR
An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
The JSTOR archive holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

JSTOR includes various collections, and the St. Kate's Library has purchased the Arts and Sciences Collections I-VII and the Biological Sciences Collection. These collections include subsets for ecology & botany, language & literature, and music.

JSTOR's agreements with publishers often include a "moving wall," which means that the most recent years (typically 3-5 years) are not available.
Women's Studies International
A Women's Studies database with articles in areas of sociology, history, education, and more.
WSI combines ten files, including Women Studies Abstracts; Women's Studies Bibliography and Database; Women's Studies Database; Women Studies Librarian; MEDLINE Subset on Women; Women of Color and Southern Women; and Women's Health and Development: An Annotated Bibliography for a total of over 400,000 records.