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Subject Specific Databases:

 

Ethnic News Watch

Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

 

International Index to Black Periodicals - IIBP

Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 31 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).

 

LLBA : Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (1973-present)

Provides abstracts of articles from approximately 2,000 serials published worldwide; citations to dissertations, books and book reviews are included.

 

NCJRS Abstracts (Criminal Justice)

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

 

Population Index (1990-present)

The Index covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations. Monographs, journal articles, other serial publications, working papers, doctoral dissertations, and machine-readable data files are indexed.

  

SocINDEX with Full Text

Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, gerontology, marriage & family, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse, violence and many others. Ebsco features more than 1,660,000 records with full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.

General or Related Databases:

America History and Life

Bibliographic citations on U.S. and Canadian history, covering over 2000 journals and indexing and abstracting articles since 1964. Excellent coverage of American minority groups. Select references to books, media and dissertations are also included. Book reviews in the journals are indexed.

 

Anthropological Literature

Bibliography of articles and essays on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, psychology, and religious studies going back to the 19th century.

 

Article First

Indexes complied from the tables of contents from 12,500 journals 1990 to the present.

 

Ebscohost

A collection of general reference and subject-specific research databases offering indexing and abstracting for periodical and newspaper articles; some full-text.

 

PsycINFO

Indexes and abstracts more than 1500 scholarly psychology journals, books, chapters inbooks, and dissertations. Links to journal articles that are full text in EBSCO Academic.

 

WorldCat

Union catalog of thousands of libraries around the world containing over 41 million records of books, journals, manuscripts, videos, music scores and recordings.

Electronic Journals

Electronic journals are available through many of the databases listed above.
They can also be found by searching the UM library catalog. Check Journal Finder for a list of electronic journals.

Print Materials

General and Subject Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol

[Reference] HV5804 .E53 1995 v. 1-4 catalog record

 

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior

[Reference] HV6017 .E53 2001 v.1-4 catalog record

 

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

[Reference] H41 .I5 v.1-18 catalog record

 

Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family

[Reference] HQ9 .E52 1995 v. 1-2 catalog record

 

Encyclopedia of Sociology

[Reference] HM17 .E5 1992 v. 1-4 catalog record

 

Encyclopedia of American Social History

[Reference] HN57 .E58 1993 v. 1-3 catalog record

 

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences

[Reference] QA276.14 .E5 v. 1-9 catalog record

 

International Encyclopedia of Population

[Reference] HB849.2 .I55 1982 v. 1-2 catalog record

 

International Encyclopedia of Statistics

[Reference] HA17 .I63 v. 1-2 catalog record

Handbooks

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences

[Main Library] HQ1061 .H336 1996 catalog record

 

Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods

[Main Library] H62 .H24534 1998 catalog record

 

Handbook of Qualitative Research

[Main Library] H62 .H2455 1994 catalog record

 

Handbook of Statistical Modeling for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

[Main Library] HA29 .H2487 2000 catalog record

 

Violence in America: An Encyclopedia

[Reference] HN90 .V5 V5474 1999 v. 1-3 catalog record

Free Internet Resources

Data on the Net - UCSD

Geographic Information Systems

Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace

Sourcebook on Criminal Justice Statistics

University of Wisconsin-Madison. Center for Demography and Ecology. Data Resources