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The following journal databases are available to PC students, faculty, and staff from on- and off-campus locations.  Search using terms dealing with your topic.

  Academic Search Premier--Social Sciences [EBSCOhost]
A subset of the Academic Search Premier database, ASP-Social Sciences provides indexing for all but a modest number of titles indexed in Social Sciences Abstracts database. Includes a large number of full-text articles and linked full-text articles.

Academic OneFile [Thomson Gale]
Journal database covering a wide range of disciplines, including behavioral sciences.  Includes indexing with abstracts, full-text articles and linked full-text articles.

CountryWatch
A world leader in providing country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the countries of the world with demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information in the form of Country ReviewsTM, daily news coverage from several regional news services for every country, CountryWatch Data, the CountryWatch Map Gallery, the weekly Political Intelligence Briefing and the associated Intelligence Wire.

JSTOR
Archival database of full-text articles from scholarly journals including behavioral science titles, as well as other disciplines.

Project MUSE Basic Undergraduate Collection
Full-text articles from scholarly journals. Provides coverage of journals in the behavioral sciences as well as other disciplines.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection [EBSCOhost]
Covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry, psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO [EBSCOhost]
Citations and abstracts of resources for research in psychology and related disciplines. Includes social psychology titles.

PsycARTICLES [EBSCOhost]
Full-text articles, primarily from the American Psychological Association’s journals.  Includes some social psychology titles.

 American Journal of Sociology View online & print availability  
Presents work on the theory, methods, practice, and history of sociology. Also publishes articles on the application of perspectives from other social sciences: psychology, anthropology, statistics, economics, education, history, and political science.

American Sociological Review View online & print availability
The flagship journal of the American Sociological Association publishes works of interest to the discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations. All areas of sociology are represented.

Annual Review of Sociology   View online & print availability     
Each volume of this series contains articles in essay form which trace the progress of research inthat field during a given year.    

International journal of public opinion research View online availability 
A source of informed analysis and comment for professionals and academics, this refereed journal is a comparative, multidisciplinary forum serving the international community, including original articles, review articles, surveys of recent developments in the field, book reviews and notes section, and journal abstracts, from the World Association for Public Opinion.

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion View online & print availability
Spanning religion, sociology, political science, and psychology, this quarterly publication of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion offers research on national and international issues.

Journal of Marriage and the Family View online & print availability
Features original research and theory, research interpretation and reviews, and critical discussion concerning all aspects of marriage, other forms of close relationships, and families.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology View online & print availability
Papers on the nature and dynamics of interactions and social relationships, including interpersonal attraction, communication, emotion, and relationship development, and on group and organizational processes such as social influence, group decision making and task performance, intergroup relations, and aggression, pro-social behavior and other types of social behavior.

The Journal of Social Psychology View online & print availability
Articles on experimental, empirical and field studies of groups, cultural effects, cross-national problems, language and ethnicity, cross-cultural notes and briefly reported replications and refinements.

Population and Development Review  View online & print availability
Population and Development Review is essential reading to keep abreast of population studies, research on the interrelationships between population and socioeconomic change, and related thinking on public policy. Its interests span both developed and developing countries, theoretical advances as well as empirical analyses and case studies, a broad range of disciplinary approaches, and concern with historical as well as present-day problems.

Public Opinion Quarterly  View online & print availability
Publishes important theoretical contributions to opinion and communication research, analyses of current public opinion, and investigations of methodological issues involved in survey validity, including questionnaire construction, interviewing and interviewers, sampling strategy, and mode of administration.

Rural Sociology View online & print availabilityA forum for cutting edge research exploring inter-disciplinary approaches to emerging issues, new approaches to older questions and material, and policy relevant discussions of rural development, environmental impacts, the structure of food and agricultural production, rural-urban linkages, community revitalization, and rural demographic changes.

Sex Roles: A Journal of Research   View online & print availabilty  
Original research articles and theoretical papers concerned with gender role socialization, perceptions, and attitudes while presenting recent developments in developmental, cognitive, and social-personality factors in childhood; acquisition, maintenance, and impact of stereotypes; social contexts; personal and interpersonal relationships; sexual preference; and research methodological issues.

Social Forces View online & print availability
A journal of social research highlighting sociological inquiry but also exploring realms shared with social psychology, anthropology, political science, history, and economics. The journal's intended academic readers include sociologists, social psychologists, criminologists, economists, political scientists, anthropologists, and students of urban studies, race/ethnic relations, and religious studies

Social Policy View online availability  
Includes articles on topics such as labor unions, women's issues, social welfare, urban planning, economic policy, education & the media, gay & lesbian issues, and management.

Social Problems View online & print availability  
Published by the Society for the Study of Social Problems to promote research on, and serious examination of, problems of social life.

Social Psychology Quarterly View online & print availability  
Publishes theoretical and empirical papers on the link between the individual and society, including the study of the relations of individuals to one another, as well as to groups and institutions. It also includes the study of intra-individual processes insofar as they substantially influence or are influenced by social structure and process.

Social Research  View online availability
Articles and review articles in all areas of social research, and occasional issues on a common theme, published by the New School for Social Research.

Social Science Quarterly View online & print availability
Publishes current research on a broad range of topics including political science, sociology, economics, history, social work, geography, international studies, and women's studies.

Society  View online availability  
Attempts to further the understanding and use of social sciences through significant research, informative commentaries and analyses of controversial problems in American society.

Sociological Forum  View online & print availability
Sociological Forum is the flagship journal of the Eastern Sociological Society. The journal is peer reviewed and committed to publishing high quality, cutting edge research on substantive issues of fundamental importance to the study of society. The journal's mission is broad in scope, encompassing empirical works (both quantitative and qualitative in nature), as well as works that develop theories, concepts, and methodological strategies. All areas of sociology and related fields are welcomed in Sociological Forum, as the journal strives to create a site of learning and exchange for scholars and students of the social sciences.

Sociological Inquiry View online & print availability 
Sociological Inquiry (SI) is committed to the exploration of the human condition in all of its social and cultural complexity.Itspapers challenge us to look anew at traditional areas or identify novel areas for investigation.SI publishes boththeoretical and empirical work as are the varied research methods in the study of social and cultural life.

Sociological Methods & Research View online & print availability  
Each quarterly issue brings you empirically based articles from a variety of perspectives, exploring research methods that are applicable to a wide range of fields, including: anthropology, criminology, demography, economics, education, management, political science, psychology, sociology. 

Sociological Quarterly  View online & print availability  
Covers a wide range of topics in the field of sociology, including new theoretical developments, results of research that advance fundamental understanding of social processes, and methodological innovation. Published by the Midwest Sociological Society.

Sociological Spectrum View online & print availability  
A refereed interdisciplinary social science journal that publishes theoretical, methodological, quantitative, qualitative substantive research in the areas of sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and political science. Published by the Mid-South Sociological Association.

Sociology  (A journal of the British Sociological Association) View online & print availability
The oldest sociological journal in Great Britain, publishing theoretical research and empirical studies in the fields of sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, and social policy.

Sociology and Social Research   View print availability
Library has print volumes for 1964-1992 only (title ceased publication in 1992).

Sociology of Education  View online & print availability
Research examining all stages and all types of education at the individual, institutional, and organizational levels.

County & City Data Book, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 13th ed., 2000.
Main Level, Reference: R 317.3 Un3C2 2000.  Provides demographic data on population, personal income/earnings, crime, housing, educational attainment, poverty, etc. at the county level and city level (pop.25,000 or above).
Also available online at County & City Data Book. Choose the online publication or previous edition.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, GPO, 1997-current issue.
Main Level, Ready Reference: R 317.3 Un3
Published by the U.S. Census Bureau, provides a summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Also available online at Statistical Abstract of the United States. Browse sections of the Abstract on the left or use search box on the right.

ARDA (Association for Religion Data Archives)  [Social Science Research Institute, Penn State University]
The ARDA Data Archive is a collection of surveys, polls, & other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA. There are nearly 400 data files included in the ARDA collection. You can browse files by category, alphabetically, view by newest, most popular categories, or search for a file. Once you select a file you can preview the results, read about how the data were collected, review the survey questions asked, save selected survey questions to your own file, and/or download the data file

Bureau of Justice Statistics  [U.S. Department of Justice]
Categories include Crime & Victims, Law Enforcement, Criminal Offenders, Courts and Sentencing, Corrections, and Special Topics.

The Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science [University of California, Santa Barbara]
The CSISS mission recognizes the growing significance of space, spatiality, location, and place in social science research. It seeks to develop unrestricted access to tools and perspectives that will advance the spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social science

FedStats [U.S. Government]  
Statistics at state, county, and national levels from over 100 federal agencies.

General Social Survey (GSS) [National Science Foundation]
The GSS is the largest project funded by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation. Except for the U.S.Census, the GSS is the most frequently analyzed source of information in the social sciences.

ICPSR [University of Michigan]
The world's largest archive of digital social science data. The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research member institutions work to acquire and preserve social science data, provide open-access to these data, and promote effective data use.

Institute for Research in Social Science Public Opinion Questionaire Database [University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]
A variety of national and statewide public opinion poll data which is available through their Data Holdings Catalog. Included is the exclusive national depository for all survey data collected since 1965 by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. The Harris Polls, together with the seven additional public opinion surveys that make up the collection, are all organized into IRSS's Public Opinion Questionaire Database which allows any researcher connected to the Internet to view questions and frequency distributions of state and national polls, as well as to perform a complete keyword search of the entire Index.

International Data Base [U.S. Census Bureau]
The IDB is a searchable data bank containing statistical tables of demographic data for countries of the world.

Internet Crossroads in Social Science Data [Data and Information Services Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison]
DISC collection includes major surveys from a variety of distributors, U.S. government data, and locally produced archival datasets. The collection is cross-disciplinary, reflecting research interests in the social sciences. Longitudinal surveys, macroeconomic indicators, election studies, population studies, socialization patterns, poverty measures, labor force participation, public opinion polls, education and health data, and local/national/international governmental statistics are among the subjects represented.

Intute: Social Sciences – Research Methods [Resource Discovery Network]
Created by a network of UK universities and partners, web resources are organized in categories that reflect current research interests in British sociology. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in this database and write high quality descriptions of the resources.

National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) [Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor] Detailed information about the labor market experiences and other aspects of the lives of six groups of men and women. Over the years, a variety of other government agencies, such as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Education, the Department of Justice, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the National School to Work Office, have funded components of the surveys that provided data relevant to their missions.

National Center for Educational Statistics [U.S. Department of Education]
A series of related educational data sets including elementary, secondary, postsecondary, longitudinal studies, library surveys, educational assessments, international comparisons, and program areas.

POPLINE [INFO Project, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication]
The world's largest database on reproductive health, containing citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE contains nearly 360,000 records and has been maintained since 1973 by the INFO Project (formerly Population Information Program). The majority of items are published from 1970 to the present, however, there are selected citations dating back to 1827. Includes the POPLINE Thesaurus, a controlled vocabulary of 2,400+ terms used to index documents in the database. POPLINE's special features include links to free, fulltext documents; the ability to limit your search to peer-reviewed journal articles.

PRB Datafinder [Population Reference Bureau]
PRB’s DataFinder allows users to search for population and data, selecting from a number of variables including education, employment, environmental conditions, etc.

New! Research Randomizer [Geoffrey C. Urbaniak and Scott Plous]
An online random number generator for use in math, statistics and research design. Customizable features let you determine how many numbers to generate, the range of values, whether or not to allow duplicate numbers, etc.

Social Science Data Laboratory [University of Colorado-Boulder]
Extensive list of available datasets and methods resources online.

Social Statistics Briefing Room  [U.S. Government Agencies]
Federal statistics covering four major categories: Crime, Demography, Education, Health.

Sociological Research Links [Larry Ridener, Dept. of Sociology, Pfeiffer University]

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online [U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics]
Brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables. Currently this site presents Sourcebook 2003, the 31st edition. The site is updated as new statistics become available.

South Carolina Statistical Abstract [South Carolina Budget and Control Board, Office of Research and Statistics]  
This state publication is a comprehensive reference source for demographic and economic data pertinent to South Carolina.

Statistical Abstract of the United States [U.S. Census Bureau]
A summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Also available Main Level, Ready Reference: R 317.3 Un3

Statistical Resources on the Web—Sociology [University of Michigan Documents Center]
A comprehensive portal to sociological statistics on the web from the University of Michigan Documents Center.  Frames version provides an alphabetical index of topics in the left side frame.

Uniform Crime Reports  [Federal Bureau of Investigation]
Includes: Crime in the United States, Hate Crime Statistics, and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted. 

American Sociological Association
ASA homepage includes information on the Association, including its Code of Ethics, and information on careers, graduate schools, publications, etc.
Eastern Sociological Society
Midwest Sociological Society
Society for Personality and Social Psychology
Society for the Study of Social Problems