LibGuides: Databases by Subject: Sociology and Anthropology

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 10,506 journals, including full text for 3,229 non-open access peer-reviewed titles.
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Credo Academic Core This link opens in a new window
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Formerly Credo General Reference. Credo Reference is an online,cross searchable, full text suite of of encyclopedias, dictionaries, guides, companions, atlases, chronologies, Who's whos, and other reference resources.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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This database, focused on human culture and behavior, contains more than 1,800 documentary films and over 100,000 pages of full-text material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.
Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
Covering many subjects, Opposing Viewpoints in Context offers research and tools including pro/con viewpoint essays, biographies, statistics, topic and court case overviews and more.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines, including for journal articles, book reviews, conference papers, etc. These articles can then be found with 360 Link or requested through ILLiad.

Annual Review of Anthropology This link opens in a new window
The Annual Review of Anthropology covers significant developments in the subfields of Anthropology, including archaeology, biological anthropology, linguistics and communicative practices and more.
Annual Review of Law and Social Science This link opens in a new window
The Annual Review of Law and Social Science covers the complex connections between law, culture, social structure, and society by focusing on social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors.
Annual Review of Sociology This link opens in a new window
The Annual Review of Sociology covers the significant developments in the field of Sociology, including major theoretical and methodological developments as well as current research in the major subfields.
The Annual Review of Sociology covers the significant developments in the field of Sociology, include major theoretical and methodological developments as well as current research in the major subfields. Review chapters typically cover social processes, institutions and culture, organizations, political and economic sociology, stratification, demography, urban sociology, social policy, historical sociology, and major developments in sociology in other regions of the world.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World This link opens in a new window
Ethnologue is an encyclopedic reference work cataloging all 6,909 known living languages of the world.
Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
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New name: Gale eBooks. Virtual Reference Library electronically provides complete encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs and more in many areas of study. Categories include arts, biography, business, education, environment, general reference, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, nation and world, religion, science, social science, and technology.
Virtual Reference Library electronically provides complete encyclopedias, dictionaries, almanacs and more in many areas of study.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters involving the social sciences dating back to 1951. It includes international material from multiple languages and countries.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, books, and primary sources.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences.
This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
The Met Collection This link opens in a new window
This online database from the Metropolitan Museum of Art provides online access to photographs and information on hundreds of thousands of items in its collection. Around half of the images in this collection have been made available by The Met for public domain.
Migration to New Worlds This link opens in a new window
Migration to New Worlds showcases unique primary source material recounting the many and varied personal experiences of 350 years of migration. Includes office files on emigration, diaries and travel journals, ship logs and plans, and other documents.
National Geographic Virtual Library This link opens in a new window
This collection brings together a complete archive of National Geographic magazine — every page of every issue — along with a cross-searchable collection of National Geographic books, maps, images and videos.
Oxford Scholarship Online Sociology This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) provides online access to books published by Oxford University Press. This link focuses on the sociology subject area of the collection.
ProQuest Databases This link opens in a new window
An inclusive, federated search engine of all ProQuest databases simultaneously, as a resource for finding academic articles.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text provides access and indexing for over 625 social science periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
Social Theory This link opens in a new window
Social Theory offers an extensive selection of documents that explore the complexities and interpret the nature of social behavior and organization.
Studs Terkel Radio Archive This link opens in a new window
The Studs Terkel Radio Archive provides the audio of Studs' radio interviews during his career at WFMT in Chicago between 1952 and 1997. His program covered music, health care, labor studies, diversity issues including history and culture, and a wide range of additional topics.

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